TENNIS thread - We wave goodbye to SW19, and look forward to the hardcourt season.

[Raahh]

Before we run out .

By be Wimbledon

No booze nowadays so they are all better behaved

I do indeed have a December birthday.

I'll get stocking up on racquets. I already have a beard.

You make yourself sound so attractive Raahh

Delpo seems to have met a bunch of Mumsnetters at the pool.

I don't know why you is in bold but whatever!

Why doesn’t Delpo ever just turn up at my pool? He does look slightly alarmed about being surrounded by all those women

Delpo does look slightly startled.

Yes come on Delpo! Why aren't you at Family Splash sessions at our pool eh?!

Life is so unfair

Those women look quite pleased with how things have turned out though - can't say I blame them.

On closer inspection Delpo looks to have some weird mutton-chop sideburns going on?! Or is it just the shadow?

One woman has a sneaky arm on his shoulder - I think magi is somewhere in this photo

I think magi took the photo

Delpo should get a top hat to go with the mutton chops

He does have a bit of a weird beard/sideburns thing going on Private but is still handsome

Fizzy it'd be irresistible though wouldn't it or is that just me

I did think of magi - perhaps she's given up on the sea swimming for a bit and journeyed to Buenos Aires??!

It’s not just you Private

I swam to Buenos Aires, just to take that picture for you lot.

Knew it. Thanks magi for your excellent work.

knew it was you magi

Aha!

Just don't ask me to climb mountains for Stan!!

Sascha is killing me with these tiebreaks!

Oh no he's out

The Murrays are playing Mahut and E R-V next week in Washington first round.

I was just looking at that impossible - what a draw!

I also noticed Tsitsipas/Kyrgios are playing Farah/Cabal

It's comes to something when the doubles draws look more interesting than the singles.

Doesn't look like the Kyrgios/Tsitsipas partnership will last long then (at least I don't think so).

And depending on how much they've recovered mentally from losing at Wimbledon, Mahut and ERV could be a difficult one for the Murrays.

But doubles are the new singles, post Murrina