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!

Yes, he is!

Bloody hell - didn't see that coming.

He's fractured his knee again, but this time it needs surgery. I would say you wonder how often he can keep coming back like this, but I don't even want to go there

And Stan is out, but I do like Mahut.

It's been solid for Stan, though, considering he doesn't like grass.

Mahut is great to watch at times, mainly because of his doubles skills.

He is lovely.

No moobs here...

Stan! Boo. Well it’s not good to be seeded in this tournament. I can’t watch so you ladies are keeping me updated.

Jane

I'm dying to see the documentary about Mac.

Don't want to see Delpo.

So very, very sad.

That's got to be it? Shut up AC.

AC "well that's got to be it" for Delpo is he serious??? How can he just so flippantly say that when he probably doesn't know the first thing about it?!?

I'm sorry to be a) obsessing about delpo (what's new) and b) not posting about the actual tennis (Mahut was brill) but I just cannot right now!!

Raahh great minds

I take no notice when they write players off. I mean they basically had a memorial service for Andy Murray and look at him now.

Thank you Jane that is an excellent point.

And to be fair, anything AC says can be written off as shite, so in that sense what he said is actually positive for Delpo

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Jane

no moobs here.....

No clothes either, by the looks of things. A good swing, though....

It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing

Can't see Roger doing anything like that. Don't think Mirka would approve (or Anna).

Did Mannarino withdraw then? I just saw that against his match with Dick, it says 'cancelled'.

Bollocks. So Kyrgios didn't even have to play.

Federer is very hairy. When he changed his shirt on court at RG, he was no Rafa. .

Best keep that well covered - in his UPS kit.

(I have seen no less than 3 UPS vans today!).

He played a Spaniard instead and now I think is due on court for the second round vs Felix AA.

Just got in and seen than Stan is out . I’m surprised that Mahut is 6’ 3”.

Also seen that Tsitsipas has lost the first set - come on Stefanos.

So sad about Delpo - he’s had such bad luck with injuries. Glad I didn’t have to listen to AC writing him off - insensitive tosser.

Apparently, in his earlier match, unbelievably he received a code violation for unsportmanship behaviour

Sorry, we I'm talking about Dick, obviously