Tennis Thread: it may be nearing the end of the season but no negative face! Still plenty to look forward to...

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Couldn't resist!

Happy wedding day Rafa and Maria/Xisca!

Ah lovely pictures . They look so happy and sweet.

Jane I've only just seen the Midsomer thread!!! Made up for it with multiple posts

Thanks for the bat signal

Our ESP is a bit slow but I suppose it does have to travel across the Irish Sea

It's either that or my low bandwidth

I could have @ but that's no fun!

Yes - I had to do some detective work to find it

My tivo box is still recording about 3 episodes a day of Midsomer. They are back up for when I have nothing else to watch. There are only so many times I can watch Criminal Minds.

I watched Murder She Wrote the other night and was laughing at Jessica's niece freaking out about her special recipe turning up on the menu of the cruise ship they were on. It was just like something off Airplane and then who should turn up as Ship's captain but Leslie Nielsen! I couldn't take anything seriously after that

for when I have nothing else to watch
Raahh!! How can you say such a thing?! Surely Midsomer should be at the top of the watch list!!

Jane that sounds hilarious

Well, the problem is I have soooo many rubbish tv programmes to get through, I rarely run run out .

In case anyone thinks they've accidentally strayed onto a murder mystery thread I see Keith has had elbow surgery and finished his season. I don't know if he was in the running for London or not... But Zverev is in 8th spot now with Berrettini, RBA and Goffin not far behind...

Is Rafa on honeymoon? Do you think we will get any more wedding pictures??

Oh dear- I just seen that Zverev lost to Fritz- no negative face, now Sascha!

Raahh I'm the same. Our recorder only ever has about 5% space left - the Sky engineer bloke told me off for that as apparently it doesn't work properly without 15% space. What does he expect me to do, delete all my Miss Marples?! I don't think so!!

Oh Sascha!! His wtf place could be in jeopardy...

I'm not sure if he is having much of a honeymoon. Maybe a few days on his massive yacht They went to the Bahamas for a few days before the wedding, so maybe that was the pre 'honeymoon' That was last month though. He is due to play Paris , so cutting it fine to go too far away (although Forget held out for 2 days last year to let Federer to make a decision about whether he would play after Basel). So he could get some breathing space.

Zverev was next in line for 02 qualification, so he is going to have to do well in Paris, as Berrettini, RBA and Goffin are hot on his heels, and all still in action this week.

Oh I hope Sascha makes it.

I am delighted to see Kyrgios has taken the cowards way out and is not playing Paris. Assuming his 'probabtion' has kicked in, it's a lot easier to avoid conflict, if you dont play .

However, he is playing Davis Cup- because the probation period doesn't cover that, only ATP event. Convenient, huh?

He posted the video from Wimbledon of him aiming a ball at Rafa- the day of his wedding.

Dick.

He's so maddening.

Dick indeed - don’t care if I never see him again!

I’m not sure if Rafa is on honeymoon - I think there was talk of him trying to get fit for the rest of the season so maybe the Bahamas was it.

I’m still hoping that the wedding pictures will be in Hello - I know they don’t need the money and they are a very private but I really want to see more pictures!

It would be a turn up for the books if Sascha doesn’t make the wtfs as defending champion.

My guilty crap tv pleasure is Love in the Countryside - DH said they’re all weird and wouldn’t find love even if they didn’t live in the countryside - he’s just mean!

And Bake off is on tonight as well.

I can't believe that - well actually, I can. Pathetic.

Yep that's a bit dicey for Sascha. I know Berrettini won in Basel, not sure about the others (or if they've even played yet).

Oh so Kyrgios is playing Davis Cup eh? I saw they are going to have to give Keith (and Fed for that matter) some kind of special exemption for the Olympics as you're supposed to have played Davis Cup to get in. Or something.

Keith couldn't not play Tokyo he got bronze last time didn't he? It'd be great if he won it on home soil. Am quite fond of Keith these days (after cheering him v Fed at Wimbledon (lone voice in the crowd ))

Fizzy I would just like to clarify, the start of my last post was referring to Kyrgios, not your viewing choices!!

If Sascha soen't make it, it will be the 3rd year running the defending champion hasn't been there, Murray, Dimitrov- possibly Sascha.

That's got to be quite unusual.

Spidey thay' true, you have to have played for your country in the two years prior- I think. Fed has refused to play Davis cup for ages- maybe he was banking on a couple of Hopman cup matches being enough.

I don't agree with bending the rules.

I would have thought that Kei will be able to quaify based on it being on home turf- I'm sure I've seen things like that before.

Excuse my typing- I have a new laptop, I'm finding it quite hard to use.