Tennis Thread: the grass court season is here! Who will rule Birmingham? Be the King of Queen's? All your Wimbledon build-up chat this way!...

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Best few weeks of the year starts here!

mentionitis - yes AC has definitely got it

I'm really looking forward to Tsitsipas v FAA. I think Stefanos will win it (and probably the whole tournament) but it should be good.

FAA is a lovely player to watch - well, they both are. But I love his style especially. I need a new fave while Delpo makes his comeback (yes AC, that's comeback) so maybe it'll be him, but then I'll probably jinx him!

I watched a bit of Dick and Félix AA and felt so sorry for Félix. Dick is, well a dick and some. Bored, contemptuous, he is an A grade arsehole. He is bad for tennis. Can’t believe he’s going to Hurlingham for exhibition matches next week. Bet Rafa will do his utmost to avoid him in the locker room! Think those matches are not for mere mortals - dont even want to find out what they cost.

Yes Felix is good. Should be a great match and looking forward to Mahut/Simon as well.

Some good matches in Halle today if anyone can watch! I hate you Sky Sports

I see Andy wants to play mixed doubles at Wimbledon but Ash Barty turned him down Did I read that he's playing mens x there with P-H Herbert, or am I just making that up

Poor Felix will potentially have to play 3 matches today, as he still has his first round doubles vs Evans to play. Winner of that plays Deliciano and Andy. And Felix isn't even the first match on court! Still, he's young and should have plenty of energy

There's a picture of Stan in today's paper helping a tearful ball girl after she was whacked in the face by a ball from Mahut. As I said yesterday, he's a bit of a Florence Nightingale Wonder if he sent her a

That's right about Andy and PierreH H. I wonder what Mahut thinks of that - I thought PHH broke up their partnership so he could concentrate on singles?? Anyway. Mahut seems to be doing quite well out of it!

I think Andy is taking this doubles business pretty seriously, and PHH must be too - as he's obviously won GS doubles titles himself, he must think they're in with a shout.

Would have absolutely loved to see Andy and Ash Barty, but to be fair she'd expect to go far in singles and women's doubles, so adding mixed as well could be too much. I'm sure he'll find someone good though.

Look how lovely Stan is magi! Love the idea of him as Florence Nightingale

Queens made a funny video of players asking Murray to play doubles with them and Stan said "don't pick me, I'm no good on grass" or something like that

He was lovely to her kazza. I don't think Mahut even asked if she was ok! He did get a warning from the umpire for it though.

It was a funny video, but Jamie was a bit defensive and poker faced - wonder if he's been getting pressure to play with Andy and finding it hard to justify why not? I'm not sure why he's dumped Bruno for Skupski actually when presumably he could have attracted a higher calibre partner such as Andy?

Private I was about to post the same thing re- PHH and his wish to concentrate on singles!

I'm surprised the Hurlingham Club will let Dick in. I keep saying it, but what is is about him that has so many fawning all over him? In terms of talent, well, he's falling behind now because since he started (and failed to do anything other than cause trouble)there are a lot of younger players who have over taken him. Look at Tsitsipas, for example.

Stan and the ball girl was lovely.

Just switched on the red button to see Diego and Medvedev are due to start.

How tall is Schwartzman again?

Wish I'd seen that video private
I saw an interview with Stan after his win over Evans, where he said he was pleased to come through it because Dan had won more matches on grass in the last two weeks than he (Stan) had in his whole career He seems to poke fun at himself, which is never a bad trait and one that certain other players could learn from

They are still going on about his height, I see.

0-40 is not virtually a break AC, if you'd care to look at the stats. In men's it's a break about 15% of the time.

Sigh

Raahh

Good old Jess!

Going back a few posts, I think Mahut did go up to the ball girl yesterday, although I didn't see what actually happened to her?

Ok AC the Jess thing is wearing thin.

I'm getting to quite like Medvedev. I always thought he acted a bit petulantly etc, but then I saw him being interviewed and he was lovely.

Yes he seems nice. He just has one of those sulky faces

Right come on Diego. If only to prove AC wrong.

He's only 5' 7"

Is he really?? Why didn't anyone say so?!

Just turned tv on and, I kid you not, the very first words I hear are "he's only 5ft 7". Who could AC be talking about

I think she took a ball to the face, Private she looked very upset when they took her off court.

I have always thought Medvedev looked like a live action version of Shaggy from Scooby Doo. I think his reputation for petulance probably comes from the incident acouple (?) of years back, when he chucked coins at the umpire's chair after a match. I think that was at Queen's? Or was it Wimbledon?

"That's a proper tennis match......well, this one is too but..."

Wtf AC!!

(Answers own question- it was Wimbledon )

kazza this is nearly as bad as yesterday. The commentary during the Cilic match was down right rude.

I get that the whole day was just a pre-amble to Murray's great comeback (for the commentators, I mean), but they didn't need to be so bloody blatant about how bored they were to be commentating on the match.

kazza AC is getting too distracting, I've had to mute the TV.

Raahh yes I remember the coins incident, and wasn't there another similar thing as well (that I can't remember now).