Tennis Thread: Countdown to the Return of Delpo at a Very Specific Time

[JaneJeffer]

New thread for February. Happy St. Brigid's Day everyone

Aw I missed the shaggy rap - might need to google it! Football has taken over here now - boo.

I’m also a sewing bee fan - will watch it on catch up.

I just watched the rap on twitter he forgot the words and had to look them up on his phone! Something about a wolf?! Not sure but it was quite sweet really although that probably wasn't the effect he was going for!

Grrr.
The shot clock stuff annoys me.

Well done Rafa!

I know, it's so annoying. They are just looking for something to make a "controversy" out of. Rafa absolutely dominated that match, they just wanted something to say!!

I wish Stan v Rog was on now, but it doesn't start until about 1am...

And it looks like an upset in the making in the Halep match. But upsets happen to her more often than they should, really.

Here come Djok and Kohlschreiber (sp?!) in a golf cart!

Not sure wtf they are showing on Prime! They have got cameras on Kohlschreiber waiting to go on court, but he's next to some plants and he was just inspecting one of the plant pots! Not sure he knows the cameras are on him?! Rafa has just walked past him. It's quite entertaining.

Sounds very entertaining. I'm trying to find something to watch that isn't about Brexit!

The only thing that made me laugh was the sight of all the EU flags at Westminster with a Welsh flag randomly plonked in the middle of them.

Oh, Djok lost to Kohlshreiber.

Must have been whatever he put in the plant pots .

I like Phil, very underrated as a player and in any other era , he would probably have racked up a few good results.

Shame man Stan couldn't do the same.

I wonder if Djok is regretting playing doubles now? ( that looked like a tough match).

I saw the last few games of the Djok match - Phil was broken when serving for the match the first time but then he got it together.

He played really well - it reminded me of Rafa a bit, how he played - loads of high shots landing right on the line. Good tactics against Djok I think.

Djok looked a bit off it as well, like he was lacking energy or something. Good result though. Shame about Stan, I didn't see any of that one. I wonder if bears were involved?!

I have got a feeling (don't laugh) that Monfils could win the title! He plays Phil next, but then the next most "dangerous" player (in theory) before the final would be Raonic in that half.

Or maybe not!!

Oh also there were some videos of Novak running around in the pouring rain the night before that match, probably not a great idea you'd think?!

Also, I see Osaka lost to Bencic. The women's matches sound like they've been good, shame I haven't been able to see any!

Shame about Osaka, I was hoping she would win, but I think ( not sure) she's had a couple of injury niggles lately.

Monfils has had his 'means business' head on, lately, hadn't he? Would actually be a brilliant result if he won at IW, but I really want Rafa to win it. Of course, he has to get past Fed. No guarantees either will get that far, though.

Well Rafa was looking sharp yesterday. Haven't seen much of Fed - might try and watch the Stan match on catch up - after I've watched the Sewing Bee of course!!

Are you home today Raahh? Hope so

Rafa's on first today, hurray. Also this is a good tweet about today's schedule (read to the end).

Private there has been some , ahem, movement, so I'm hoping we will get to go home. But at the same time, she is still very impacted, and the consultant yesterday kept mumbling 'Saturday' which sounded ominous, an she can't leave until things are running green. (tmi[ grin].

I love that tweet.

Gimelstob is an utterly sleazy man.

Oh that sounds miserable for you and your DD! Hope you make it out before Saturday!!

I can't understand why Djok is aligning himself with Gimelstob, he should just say what he is trying to achieve by it. There was an ATP press release that I thought made Fed etc sound as though they were kicking up a fuss over nothing and the ATP board couldn't work out why it was all getting so much attention etc. It's all a bit odd.

Delpo will decide this week whether to have knee surgery, according to Argentinian press. Say it ain't so!!

The exact translation was:

"Decisive hours for the colt: injured in the knee, evaluates to operate".

Poor Delpo.

Good start for Rafa. Saw some of it before prime went wonky. I'm hoping it gets working later, as dd's meds are going to be going through the night, and we will probably be awake for most of it

I could use the distraction. Even if it's Federer. Come on Kyle!

Yes Rafa looks like he's picking up where he left off in the last round.

At least the time difference will come in handy for overnight tennis Raahh

Yay! Good result.

Just checking in with the scores, what's happened to Muguruza?!

I know, what a scoreline! This Andreescu is supposed to be having an amazing tournament - I've never seen her play I must say. But her results look amazing this week.