Tennis thread: Wimbledon chat this way!

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Happy Wimbledon Eve* everyone!

With thanks to magi*

kazza

I'd love Barty to win both doubles and singles actually. Wouldn't be too unhappy with that. But I'd like Halep to do well.

If I was Jay Clarke, I'd be a bit miffed that I was being shoved on to No1 Court, esp given Norrie /Nishikori.

Rafa is on Centre Court because of his opponent, obviously

Boris wants the crowd to pick up a bit.

Clearly Kyle matches do not excite the spectators. Though I do love watching Verdasco- another one who was in Dick's firing line for being 'salty'.

He's box office, don't you know

Yes everyone wants to watch Kyrgios kazza

German lesson s with Boris now

kazza well, of course. They'd have found a reason to put him on court 3, if he'd been playing Thompson.

Aww poor Feli. I like Karen too though.

And Karen is through.

I like Karen. I do like Lopez, but am not that unhappy with that result.

Yikes Feli looked pretty pissed off there - he couldn't get off the court quickly enough.

Sad to see him go out

Another one bites the dust. I know that's not an upset on paper, but I would've thought he'd win that - think he probably did too by his expression!

I reckon Keith v Norrie could be a bit of a snooze fest tbh and it'll probably go on for ages. Keith will spin it out into one of his standard five set marathon wins. It's definitely not popcorn. Or box office. Or any of the rest of it.

I'm watching FAA v Moutet. Quite good... So far...

Yes, I've a feeling the Keith match will be dull. But I'm not really a fan of Keith.

Can't have it going on too long though. I don't want any dodgy delays to the Rafa match. No excuses to put the roof on. (as they did for the Vekic match last night).

Verdasco lost from 2 sets up to Murray in 2013. I was gutted by that, I really wanted Fernando to win.

Oh god I hadn't even thought of that!!

Sorry that last post was about the roof

Moutet has just won the second set - one set all.

It would just about make the Wimbledon conspiracy against him complete, if Rafa had to play tomorrow with the roof.

Oh blimey- if Felix AA loses, that pretty much wipes out the Next Gen. Sue- Voice of Doom - has been pinning her hopes on him (since they switched allegiance from Tsitsipas, sometime during Queen's).

Nooooo, don't be out, Lopez. Khachanov is just - meh.

There's not going to be many left that I'm that excited about watching at this rate! Nadal, Federer and...nope, I'm done.

Oh, apart from the box office draw that is Kyrgios, of course.

(Although Moutet is Next Gen too, in theory- just not one of the 'big' ones).

Private yes I was thinking that about nishikori - he likes to spin it out. Don’t want Rafa to come on too late and then have to play under the roof - my nerves are in shreds already! Gin might be in order.

What is Boris waffling about - the fat lady sings the blues??

Sorry that was a very delayed reply about the roof and I see that you’ve already considered that possibility

Fizzy since everything else seems to be stacked against him, it was the first thing I thought of!

the fat lady sings the blues

Sounds like Boris is mixing his metaphors