Tennis Thread: it's been a Seine-sational first week in Paris! Now who will lift the trophies? The French Open continues...

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Sorry, that was the best I could do!

It was lovely.

I'm glad it's stopped raining for this. There must be some tired Australian who have stayed up to watch.

You know, forever more, when I see a ceremony like this, I will reminded about how awful the US open was for Osaka.

Marketa is showing how to be gracious in defeat.

oh Djok was bad tempered in his press conference.

What was he saying Raahh ?

kazza basically, not much.

And all of it in a very abrupt fashion.

They were the worst conditions he had ever seen/had to play in, apparently.

I am sticking with my theory, that he had wanted yesterday postponed wholesale, start to finish, to today.

And we would be looking at a different result

Vondrousova, on the other hand, is lovely though. She has used the experience very positively, and seems like a really nice woman.

And here is Yorkshire man!

Argh I missed the whole women's final! So pleased for Ash, love her. I heard she sidestepped mentioning Margaret Court in her speech - beauty

Might try and watch a replay. unless they're still replaying Jo's match

Wasn’t Vondrousova a sweetheart? Djok a grumpy bugger. Spoilt his plan but hey, not too much sympathy here. No doubt he’ll win something else soon...
Barty is lovely.

Barty was lovely too. I liked her earrings ..

Be nice if Djok could go in a strop and skip Wimbledon, like threatened to do last year. We can but hope.

He isn't going to Queen's.

Mind you, there is time for a Wild Card to Eastbourne, I suppose. He's done that before. Highest current ranked player there, is Pella. They'd bite his hand off!

Remember last year when they had Andy Murray and Stan at Eastbourne?? Seems like a lifetime ago.

Private oh yes.

Sam Smith was getting cross,on her commentary, because the women's coverage was getting overshadowed by talk of the men's matches (which Amazon had the rights to).

Oh yes that's right - they kept trying to shoehorn Murray chat into the conversation and Sam had to keep putting her foot down! Quite right too

Grany magi logging in to say: "Djo ck the cock, off you fock".

Having a great time with gc but knackered. Coming home for a holiday.

Glad you've had a good holiday magi.

Djok has not covered himself in glory (does he ever?)

Although I must admit, some twit on twitter, after Djok's rant at the umpire , posted something about how Serena got defaulted for far less. And it's all sexist blah blah.

Erm..no. She was caught being coached, she smashed a racquet, and then called Carlos a thief and a liar. For starters.

I might not like Djok, but half of that. .

*he didn't do..

magi good to hear from you

Hi magi so Djok didn't win you over with his semi final performance then?!

Djok's rant was a bit weird I thought - why was he saying the umpire had "made a name for himself" or something?? It's not really an insult is it, I wasn't sure where he was going with it! Maybe he wasn't either?!

Good to see you back magi - I’ve missed your insults

private I didn't understand that rant.
And I'm none the wiser about who the umpire is.

Now, Lahyani, after his pep talk with Kyrgios for example.

People will remember him. If he wasn't well known already.

But today's bloke, who called a score a few seconds earlier than Djok thought he should?

Nope.

Disappointingly, Google doesn't seem to have taken note of the umpire either.

At least, not from what I can see.

So, you are safe mate. Despite what Djok says, obscurity is still yours.

Jaume Campistol was the umpire - I’ve never heard of him before. Djok asked him if he’d ever played tennis - didn’t realise you had to play tennis to be an umpire. Djok the cock indeed!

No, I didn't think it was a requirement.

Djok was clearly annoyed, but he was just spouting nonsense.

I've not heard of him, and I recognise most of them. Suppose they've got to start somewhere.

( he's been a full time umpire year apparently some are obviously more noticeable than others).

It's probably a good thing to be a bit anonymous.

*years