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

[JaneJeffer]

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

Where we see Stan magi sees Satan

Satan Superfan

PS here's a funny picture from the players meeting the Prince (? I think) of Monte Carlo from the MC tournament website - Rafa doing his best catalogue model pose

The tennis version of Reservoir Dogs

I love that picture, Rafa Is indeed Mr Gray, clay assassin. .

David Goffin is thinking why didn't they tell me we weren't doing ties.

It really is begging for a caption competition .

there are some more pics on the website - incl Sascha in his glasses!

I don't think any of the others were wearing ties!

Keith looks very cool in his civvies.

Goffin can leave his boots under my bed - antime.

anYtime - fat fingers!

Good win for Stan yesterday (don't you agree magi?!) beating Pouille. Grigor won as well.

Have been watching Shaggy just for a few minutes but I'm afraid he's 3-0 down in the third...

Well this is quite a novelty and a treat: watching tennis in the same time zone (almost) as the one I'm in myself

Am watching Edmund v Schwartzman. This looked like a bad draw for Kyle but he's looking good at the mo.

Tomorrow includes:
Stan v Chickenato
Djok v Kohlschreiber
Cilic v Pella (nightmare flashbacks for Cilic maybe?)
Verdasco v PierreH H
JWT is also playing someone - not sure who!

Oops sorry Kyle. One set all.

I can't help but feel a bit responsible for that result! I think I jinxed Kyle. He was a set and 3-0 up though to be fair!

Good win for El Peque though

I am enjoying reading your commentary Private.

Wish I could watch!

the match itself wasn't very good - a bit scrappy

Play has now finished for the day but I'll be back tomorrow with more random updates, terrible predictions, etc!

Careful Private or you'll do Petch out of a job!

PierreHH after beating Verdasco

Decided to brave amazon prime to watch some tennis - I love the Monte Carlo tournament although it’s looking a bit cloudy there.

Poor cilic’s season doesn’t seem to be improving and Tsonga is also out - he retired so assume he was injured?

Djokovic is on now looking pretty comfortable against kohlshreiber - apparently Djokovic was playing doubles with his brother earlier - they didn’t win. I didn’t even know that Djokovic had a brother!

Looking forward to seeing Rafa later in the week - I enjoyed the suit pictures.

Stan against chickenato soon - bring on the . I quite like Stan - he always looks a bit rumpled (sorry Magi )

Private I think you might have jinxed poor Marin as well - please don’t make any predictions about Rafa

Fizzy I will definitely keep any Rafa predictions to myself!! I don't know what is going on with Cilic. Apparently he's 80th in the race so far this year!

This Djok match is a bit mad isn't it - they just keep breaking each others serves Phil needs to hold on but I think he's missed too many chances (let's see if the reverse psychology works!)

Petch was getting on my nerves before, saying that Djok had "set the trend for eating dates"
Whatever Petch - I've been having dates on my porridge since Novak was in nappies!!

It is a bit of a mad match - Novak had the trainer on earlier - looked like he had a nasty blister on his hand. He’s also smashed a racquet and thrown one which nearly went into the crowd. Petch was trying to justify it by saying that he was showing passion - hmm not sure that I agree.

I missed the date discussion though

There are some great matches on tomorrow but I won’t be able to watch . Looking forward to watching it over the weekend. Rafa, Tsitsipas and Thiem are all in action tomorrow.