Tennis Thread:- The players are all on holiday, 2018 is coming to an end, but 2019 is around the corner and there will be lots to look forward to!

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Although I can't think about January yet...

I'm still in denial it's nearly December- which means ds will be 16 , and I will be 47 and another year will be over.

Oh, I hope so, Private .

He's a big talent, for a'small' player.

(say's the 4ft 8 woman )

The post-match interview Eurosport didn't show! My two faves.

I like Diego but diddy means boob round here

does it?! Well I never!!

Thanks for the interview link Jane - I don't think I've seen Mac doing an on court interview before. Liked the water bottle question - and the answer!!

Here's another nice clip of lovely Rafa being nice to a ballboy.

I always feel sorry for the ball boys/girls having to wipe up sweat, deal with manky towels, tissues, etc. They should be kitted out like this!

I know, it's rank. At least Rafa thanks them for it!!

I saw the last half hour or so of Milos v Stan. Milos is looking really good (as is Goran ). That's two really good wins for him. Stan, in a bright yellow shirt, looked none too impressed with the defeat... It was close.

Been catching up with the over night scores, I expected the Stan/Milos match to be close, but not that close! I wish they hadn't had to play each other. Stan must be back to a much better level to have pushed Raonic that far.

might not get to see much this morning as have to go and see my mum, and though she will probably have the tennis on, I probably won't watch.

Saw there was a rain delay. Are they under the roof now?

it's very cold here now, after all the rain yesterday.

Stan played really well. Milos' serve probably made the difference but he won a lot of net points as well from what I saw. That's such a good tactic for him imo. Hopefully Stan can get his ranking back to top 10/20. He's 34 soon so he'd better get on with it!

We've had a bit of snow here this morning

Morning all
Poor Stan, such a shame he had to meet Mills so early. Looks like it was a good match though.
This morning is the last tennis I'll be able to watch for a few days so going to make the most of it.
Looking forward to Jo's match,fingers crossed he can do something great against Djokovic.

Yay for Milos!! Was his hair still fluffy?

Thiem appears to be struggling again, this time against this gangly looking Aussie, who seems a lot happier with the indoor conditions than Dom is ( understandably).

Blimey this is one long night of tennis I didn't realise Serena was on before Djok! I might watch JoKo...

Gilles Simon is great to watch isn't he? In a fourth set tiebreak against an Aussie, Alex Bolt...

The Aussie Fanatics are in full voice...

Ahhh Bolt won the tiebreak, Gilles had 4 match points! This is really good - but they're probably going to switch to Serena now...

Some awesome tennis there from chardy

mama yes, wasn't it?? Great shot on break point as well. Zverev looks up for it though doesn't he? I thought this would be a good one...

I think Gilles is a break down in the 5th, he will be kicking himself if he loses.

I am sooo not interested in Serena v Bouchard. Yawnsville. Mark Woodforde described them both as "madams" on the radio earlier!!

Great win for Halep today as well. Plays Venus next, that should be good.

Looking good for Sascha now.

Yes - it's been close though - but he will probably get through this one now...

Omg - fantastic stuff

Ooh - allez Jim!

Back from my mum's - might watch a bit of Jo Willy, but really need to take the dog out.

We had the Serena match on. We don't like either player .

Busy morning, so just catching up on stuff now. Great Rafa interview, although he looked like he was wishing Mac would stop waffling, so he could get off court!
Below that video on YouTube was one of Murray's last game and then the interviews, so watched that and am now feeling a bit emotional Jamie looked like he was crying aswell!
Saw that Thiem retired, anyone know why?
Shame about Stan, see Foggy and Shaggy are through.
Some good GB doubles results.
Just seen a photo of Serena on BBC website - wtf is she wearing? It looks like a romper suit from the photo

This Zverev match is great. I had every intention of watching Djok v JWT but I can't bring myself to leave this one...

Kazza it did look like a romper suit, (in fact that was how it was described the other day). My mum said she looked like Kermit, it was a hideous colour. She didn't appear to be wearing the fishnet tights she was wearing the other day .

Thiem had the physio out at one point, in the second set, and then by the time I got to my mum's had lost the set and had retired. I'm not sure what the actual problem was.

I don't know what Mac's obsession with Rafa and his bottles is- or why, after all these years he feels it is still worthy of comment. I'm glad Rafa had a good response- but he was probably thinking he was an idiot to ask!

I cannot believe there is still a match to be played after the Zverev match- the scheduling is stupid.

And the reason is obviously to do with tv scheduling- in the US.