Tennis Thread: US Open final weekend, and all your autumnal tennis chat this way!

[PrivateSpidey]

Welcome one and all!

He can't possibly have his protected ranking for much longer- and I'm sure it only covers a certain number of tournaments too? I think he moves up to the 280s after this week.

I can't believe how close to the end of the year we are getting!

kazza Prime is £7.99 a month (for the full Prime package, which is what we have ) for just Prime video, I think it could be £5.99, but I'm not sure.

I do think it's wrong that all the tournaments are split across so many platforms. If you get them all, it would cost a fortune!

We don't have Sky. All we had previously was Netflix, which I think we got for The Crown (although I've only seen the first series!) and that costs £5.99 a month. PV would be better value for me if they keep up the tennis coverage because Netflix doesn't have sport.

Hi lovely MN tennis pals - back from hols and catching up on everything.

Raahh glad to see you're keeping up your commitment to Christmas films!! I'd expect no less! I did actually buy a Christmas decoration while were away (it was a Spider-Man bauble "for DS").

Good to catch up on all your posts. I see lovely John Millman is in the Tokyo final (v Djok? I'm guessing) - am really pleased for him. He had a really tough draw in NYC getting Rafa in the first round, so he must have lost loads of points after his good run there last year... So well done Milkman! Hope he keeps delivering and beats Djok in the final.

For Ds

Of course it was

I have now watched a few films. I think I might have seen one of them before. But since they all have the same plot it's had to tell .

I really want Djok to lose tomorrow- so come on Milkman!!

you know me too well Raahh. Who could resist a ceramic festive Spidey?! Certainly not me.

A bit worrying about Rafa btw, hopefully it's just precautionary. Would love it if he made it to the WTFs. When is his wedding anyway - it hasn't been and gone has it??

Yes come on Milkman!! Bring it on!

Rafa's wedding is the 19th. He doing the right thing. I just wish that Djok's injury had been more than just a niggle. I really want Rafa to get back to number 1. If only to make it to 200 weeks. I don't think it matters to him- but I mind that Djok deprived him of it.

there's nothing like a good grudge, is there?!

Thanks for the wedding update. Might reserve my copy of Hola! in advance.

Thiem/Tsitsipas final in Beijing should be good for anyone who can watch!

they're all at it!!

Nice Jo Willy

Maybe it's a code?

or Stan has shrunk?

Love this photo of Roberto and doggies

Aww, that's lovely.

Thought I'd put AP on to see if they have Shanghai on. They do! I can't get used to seeing tennis on a weekly basis

Murray vs Foggy. Looks like a good game. I might have to watch for a bit.

I really should be cleaning the loos and basins but......

Loos and basins when there's tennis to watch?! Never!!

I'm watching as well. It's been a close one so far. I still can't get used to Murray wearing red.

Btw Raahh the Doctors thread just popped up on Active threads, I noticed the title referred to Geoffrey (RIP)

I think Foggy threw that set at the end so he could save himself for the final set and serve first. Hopefully, I'm wrong and he really is playing worse /Andy is playing better

All together now....
Let's go Andy, let's go!

I looked at that thread private and saw that Raahh is posting on it.
She's lost to us for the time being, at least

Ugh Amazon keeps freezing. Now it's telling me my bandwidth is low (rude).

I can't believe how sparse the crowd (if you can call it that ) is!
This is the no.10 seed against the former world no.1 and barely anyone is there.

Incredibly rude private

I know, the crowd's pretty poor isn't it? Is it really late at night or something? It looks cold as well (or am I just projecting!?).

Fergus doesn't want to come off.
But then, he's not the one running around with a new hip.

They do look wrapped up!
Looking at the courtside clock, it's 9.20pm, so not massively late. I can't believe China is only 7 hours ahead of us. It's the other side of the world!

kazza China is odd. It covers 5 time zones, iirc, but it has the same time, across the whole country. Ds went to Nanjing/Shanghai when he was in year 6 with school - it was a school exchange thing- and we found the time difference weird. Especially as it took 26 hours to get there!