Tennis thread: looking forward to the new season

[PrivateSpidey]

While we dream up our Australian Open advent calendar, the chat continues!

Oh Pants.

VAMOS!!!

It's all going a bit wrong for Spain now

Poop

I’m just score watching but it’s not going well for Spain

I wonder if Rafa wishes he had played?

Well, looks like Serbia have it, really, doesn't it?

We will be treated to Djoks boob celebration again.

Well, there you go.

Hopefully Djok will have burnt himself out for Melbourne.

And Rafa will get a second wind .

We can but hope Raahh

Well that was a bit of a turn up - I thought Spain would win the doubles. Tbh I just assumed they would, probably not set wise when Djok is involved.

I hope Rafa hasn't knackered himself out this week - he's gone from one extreme to the other with his lack of matches last year/too many this year!

Djok was irritatingly fresh as a daisy wasn't he?!

Anyway, only seven doors left to open on our virtual advent calendar/Melbourne countdown! Yay!

Have already put my Frosted Wheats in my online shopping basket in preparation for all my tennis breakfasts

Yay I'll finally get to watch some tennis then even if it means sitting in my freezing kitchen.

Glad you’ve got your Australian Open breakfasts sorted out already Spidey

Is the AO on Eurosport Jane? It is rubbish for anyone without Prime. It’s coverage does seem to have improved since the early days but it’s still something extra to pay for.

The timings at the AO always confuse me but at least it is just one timezone.

Djokovic did look worryingly fresh

I’ve just been reading about Andy Murray’s hamster disappearing down his sink plug hole when he was 10 (it’s in The Sunday Times) - we also had several Houdini hamsters!

at the hamsters - I thought at first this was a recent thing! Love Andy's stories, I find him v funny.

It's so true Fizzy about prime - I usually cancel it after Xmas but I haven't this time - but I should, as I don't really need it for the next month or so. Until Delray Beach, obviously

This Disney Plus service comes out soon, and DS has been harping on about getting it, but we can't get that as well - something's got to give!

Ideally I would get rid of sky and just have prime/Netflix, but Sky shows the NZ rugby so that's that

It is ion Eurosport Fizzy which means I have to put up with Petch and Peloton. I don't know which is worse.

On!

Oh ffs!
Serena's tournament win is a headline at the top of the BBC ten o'clock news!
She's not British and you can't get much further away than NZ, so why?
No doubt we'll know the reason when we get to the news item.
Something to do with being a mother perhaps......

I wonder if there will be a new Incredible India ad this year?!

I've put the news on just to see what they have to say kazza

Jane
Hope you thought it was worth it

It was the top sports story, even knocking football off the top spot!
Although the newsreader tried her best to cock it up in her excitement

The sports reporter was dressed for a saloon in the Wild West.

And what's with Serena's cape over a hoodie?

sports reporter

And how many photos of her daughter did they shoe horn into that report?

She's a mum.
We know.
We get it.
We really do.

I couldn't really see it properly but it might have been a Korowhai - a Maori traditional cape/cloak. It looked like it had feathers/tassles which they do, but I don't know if it was Serena's (she has worn her own cape before iirc?!) or if it was part of the trophy ceremony.

Great preparation for Australia!! I really want her to win it.

Ah it could have been a Maori cloak. I thought it was one of her interesting designs!

I was just Googling it, and saw a photo from a different angle where it did look a bit more "ceremonial" with quite a bit of gold on it etc. But you never know!

Fangirl alert Rafa to wear sleeveless kit in Melbourne! I repeat: Rafa to wear sleeveless kit in Melbourne.

6 days to go!

Ooh, sleeveless is good.
It will cool him down.
Maybe that's where he went wrong at the ATP cup. he kept his shirt on

Not long now.