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

[Raahh]

Before we run out .

By be Wimbledon

*hair

Thought you’d gone all Cilla on us there Raahh

Fizzy

oh dear. That's not good, for a Manc. .

I know!

Well, I'm here- with Prime kind of working. (keeps freezing a bit).

I might make it to the end of the match, if Rafa doesn't decide to make it difficult.

Barnardes is umpiring. Rafa will get a time violation before the end of the first game, probably.

Medvedev has been playing very well. So this could be a tricky match.

And that first point just proves how well Medvedev has been playing.

But it's too soon to panic.

I’ve not got any commentary on my Amazon Prime - not sure if it’s just me? (Or if it’s a bad thing!)

No, now you mention it, Fizzy neither do I!

Hadn't noticed.

Makes you realise how unnecessary it really is (Although I do appreciate learning about nature, and the wooden chair and all that stuff)

But this first game had better be just Rafa being a bit slow to get going- or I will get anxious, very quickly!

It’s actually making me concentrate on the the tennis . I do quite like a bit of background rambling though - I wonder what’s happened?

I'm not sure - it's a bit strange.

I have commentary but the buffering is crap so it goes all fuzzy - on Rafa a lot rather annoyingly.

You’ve missed “ Medvedev is not a fan of unforced errors” - what everyone else is?

Ok so maybe I’m not missing the commentary that much Adelie just not sure why I’ve not got it - I can hear the crowd and the umpire - it is a bit strange.

Adelie that is filed in the AC school of 'no shit Sherlock' commentating, I think.

I remember this commentary being an issue during the US open- but I'm too scared to switch it off/on again to see if it resolves it .

Wow! Great last shot.

I'm glad that first game was not indicative of how the rest of the set went!

I'm leaving it - lovely and peaceful

Speaking of meaningless commentary, it's the Big Butterfly Count tomorrow!! Hope AC's got his pencil and notebook ready.

Oh- I hear the Dj.

Theme is Canadians tonight, I think .

Vamos! Time to get a G&T there. I need it.

Private I have seen loads of cabbage whites this year. Every one I see, I christen Andrew.

reminds me of a few years back- sooooo many butterflies that year.

DS1 has sorted it out for me - apparently commentary is on the highlights bit not the live bit that you would assume it would be on ( please don’t ask me for further details as I’m not sure I really understood )

Looking fairly straightforward for Rafa so far (fingers crossed)

Andrew the Butterfly - love it.

Private There are a lot of them about..

Maybe between them, they can decide on nicknames, to avoid confusion. .

Ooh the big butterfly count - we’ve had lots of cabbage whites in our garden - I think they might have been munching on some of my leaves though!

I wish they'd get together and eat the grass. I need a goat. it's been far too wet to mow the lawn. It's getting back to forest conditions.