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!

Sorry for spamming the thread

Eek tough draw there for Rafa.

Hi, does anyone know why there doesn't seem to be men's tennis on at the moment?
Apart from Andy's doubles at Queen's.

God Rafa's had bad luck with the draw

Federer meanwhile...

Federer meanwhile...

Ha typical..

Praying Federer goes out early.

Had men's Eastbourne tennis is on Amazon prime. BBC is showing the women's side (while talking about Murray, of course).

Serena could play Kerber in the QFs

That top bit of the women's draw is really tough

Right I have to go out. Sorry again for all the posts, catch you later!

Amazon Prime? Bugger!

Oh bloody hell, I've just seen the draw.

Hopefully Kyrgios will do something stupid and get himself banned in the first round.

I am currently sitting a cafe waiting for the groomer to ring and let me know she has finished with the dog. The draw has put me off my tea cake.

It's enough to put anyone off their teacake Raahh

Except Roger of course

I feel sorry for Kohlshreiber- he draws Djok early a lot -it's happened at Wimbledon before, when he was ranked something like 34 in the world, so just outside the seedings- and he got Djok in the first round.

He beat him in Indian Wells though! (and gave him a bit of a scare in Monte Carlo- so it might be a potential for an upset).

As for Federer, well

And I've just switched on the tv and a random channel is showing the peloton advert.

grrrr.

SADDLE!!!

Hello everyone! So excited for Wimbledon 2019.... I follow all the Slams and some of the others too but this is the BIG one for me
I’m old enough to remember Borg v McEnroe and have loved tennis ever since
Gutted to see Rafa’s draw this am, hope he channels it all into his game
(I like to think I’ve moved on from #roofgate but.....)
Big Fed fan too, but have no time for Djokovic.

And now the news is telling me all about a rare butterfly. It's like AC is in my house.

It's called the Chequered skipper, apparently.

In case you are desperate to know .

Cilantro I may never move on from roofgate .

Yes Raahh the butterfly was on the news last night and in the paper this morning. Apparently, it was extinct in the UK 40 years ago. A new one for AC to waffle on about

Right, so I had to go out.

I am back now. To find there is no tennis, just the Hairy flipping Bikers.

I take it Jabeur had to withdraw from he semi final ? Very bad luck with her ankle injury, she's done so well this week.

Jabeur could hardly walk this morning, apparently.

Such a shame.

Pliskova played amazingly against Kiki - I reckon she's a strong contendor for Wimbledon, but it's a long way off to the finals there & so much can get upset.

Magi I'm not surprised, she couldn't even walk up to where Inverdale was meant to interview her yesterday.

Upsets seem to happen a lot more in the women's than the men's really, which is a shame.

There are a couple of of upsets I would love to see happen in the early rounds of the men's draw .

Eek not liking the sound of Rafa’s draw - especially possibility of Kyrgios in the second round. Here’s hoping that he behaves so badly in the first round and gets banned from tennis forever.

Apparently Rafa is selling his yacht - he might want to keep it for a bit longer as he might have some time on his hands in the next few weeks.

He is playing fellow Aussie Jordan Thompson in the first round- I quite like him (he beat Murray the other year at Queen's). Hopefully he is robust enough not to fall for Dick's antics.

He has just made the semi final in Antalya- where he lost, but at least he has had some grass practice.

Yea hopefully he'll be used to it! The grass and the antics. I wonder how keen Kyrgios will be to get through and play Rafa?? (Or Sugita, of course!) V interesting.

Sam Querrey is through to the Eastbourne final - so that could be a bit of a banana skin for Thiem in the first round couldn't it?

I can't see Fed losing before the quarters. He doesn't face any big servers until then when he could possibly face Isner. Whereas Rafa has a few dangerous players all along the way. Sigh.