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!

magi

as dreams go, that is definitely an odd one

magi

That’s going to be added to my list of things that really happened

Fizzy

Fizzy

I'm sick of the weather now. It's really warm here now. It was freezing when I got up. It is impossible to know what to wear.

It looks like the weather should be better at Queen's. They will have a problem if it gets disrupted again.

I suppose at a push, they will have to move to the indoor courts.

Considering there was no play yesterday, I'm amazed the place isn't full, at the start of the match! It's not all corporate seating, surely?!

complaining about the fact 'Box office' Dick, has been 'shoved out onto court 1'.

Poor thing. .

Allez! Mannarino is all I have to say to that (and Adrian has just won at s-Hertogonbosch, on grass, so he's in good form).

Delpo is playing very well at the moment.

Shaggy is struggling a bit- looking likely to be a second successive 1st round loss. (he was Struff-ed in Stuttgart).

Flipping heck.

They are obsessed with Kyrgios. Inverdale is now saying he should have been on centre instead of Delpo.

Get lost.

He is way down the rankings. Allez! Adrian .

NO, Sue.

Not everyone wants to see him.

Not everyone cares about him at all.

And now AC has said 'Box office'.

Grrrrrr.
I'm almost wishing it was raining.

Come on Stan!!

Come on Stan!

Ah, Stan.

He is one of the only players who makes wearing all white look a bit scruffy .

Well done Delpo - saw a few games in my lunch hour. Allez Stan! I’ll next watch when DC are swimming.......
Grrrr! Great matches today....

He looks so neat. Let's see how long he can keep that up. I may have to go out soon. My hip is killing me - it's definitely grass season!

Jane

Excellent start for Stan.

Oh dear. I'm no Dan fan, but that looked like a bad fall. Not how Stan will want to win the match .

Oh dear - nowhere near Wimbledon yet and already Castle's sycophancy is grating on me. His comment about Dan Evans not blaming his friends for his cocaine use and that being the mark of a man

Set a pretty low bar there for what makes a man, Andrew. For me, more of a man if he hadn't shoved his salary up his nose at all but...

I agree TheOnly- but they have always made excuses for him. All the way through his career.

I'm not a fan.

And yes, AC is getting on my nerves. I enjoyed the first match- he wasn't commentating on it .

And AC can't say Tsitsipas. , and thinks it's hilarious.

Idiot.

Stefanos still has lovely hair .

Well, I went on the school run , hoping the tennis would have come back on.

Instead, we have the Hairy Bikers making gravalax.