Tennis thread: Australian Open finals and beyond!

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All tennis chat welcome here

No mention of Jelena.

pointing at things and ranting to himself
not too sorry I missed that!

I went straight after match point too. The corporate stuff annoys me too.

I’ve not seen Jelena for a while Jane - I don’t think she was at Wimbledon either - if anything is going on it doesn’t seem to be affecting his game

Ah well he is back at Number One again now. Where is his wife?

What's happened to Thiems hair? How could he do that ewww

Bugger!
Was out at the local farmers market this morning and score watching when I got back. Don't know if I can be arsed to watch the highlights back.

DH currently watching the rugby and that's going tits up aswell.
I do love Nigel Owens though, although he hasn't needed to come out with some of his brilliant gems yet

Boo! Hiss! Just finished watching the highlights & I had such great hopes for Dom.

I think the umpire was right re the time violation. WTF is the point of having a clock if it is ignored? And John Lloyd said umpires get into trouble now if they don't give a warning when the clock reads 0.

Would love to know where Djock's wife has vanished to.

Looking forward to the French Open now - am assuming that C4 still have it?

Just watched the speeches on the BBC highlights programme - Djok seemed in quite a sombre and reflective mood. He talked about the bush fires, Kobe Bryant and how we all need to come together.

I’ve definitely fallen out with AC - he’s already predicting Thiem to beat Rafa at the French in five sets - I think it’s usually on ITV4 magi but then we have to put up with John Inverdale

The umpires at the AO seem to have been pretty consistent with the time rule - which I suppose is how it should be although there are some times when the crowds are very noisy or there’s been a long rally where the rule doesn’t seem particularly fair.

DH is still not back from watching rugby at the pub - should I be worried?

Pfftt. If AC predicts it, the opposite should happen!!

They are just saying on the Tennis Podcast that US Open is the least predictable this year because the Olympics is right before it (and Thiem said he's not playing in Tokyo iirc?).

Anyway. That's a little while off plenty more tennis to be played before then etc etc.

What does AC know? If he had anything to with the French Open, all he would care about would be the walnut seats.

By the US open, they will have played so much- it's not surprising it will be hard to predict. I wonder what Federer will do, schedule wise, if he plans to go to Tokyo? The summer is going to be a packed one, that's for sure.

I wonder why Dom wouldn't want to go to Tokyo? But- in a way I can understand it. I love watching tennis- any tennis- but for players, it is not the same as is it is for the 100 metre runners who have trained for this, and it is the pinnacle of their sport. The Olympics (tennis wise) is a small field- it is not a slam, and maybe some players feel they need to draw the line somewhere.

Yes and Thiem usually plays so many tournaments anyway, perhaps he thinks the Olympics is a stretch too far?

I agree Raahh, obviously I love and watch most tennis that's on, but there are definitely too many tournaments.

I'm sure Fed will be there, won't he? And Djok, surely both of them will be keen to add singles gold to their GOAT credentials

How was Nigel Owens kazza? My DH didn't watch, as he's already watched about 5 rugby matches this weekend. We ended up watching "Richie Rich" instead

all he would care about would be the walnut seats
he can spend hours musing on them

I remember taking my little cousin to see that in the cinema back in the day Private!

I think I would rather watch Richie Rich instead of rugby Spidey (just about!) Tennis is the only sport that I watch.

I’d forgotten about the walnut seats at RG - I wonder if they’ve aged at all - they did look a bit light (AC would know )

Nigel wasn't given too many opportunities to roll out some of his gems private

Such as....."Can I introduce myself. I'm the referee."
And..."If you want to act like that, go and play football. This is rugby. Now behave. "

Sport is all that's been on here today; tennis, hurling, rugby, football! I will watch any sport except golf or snooker.

I forgot about AC's seat obsession. Why does he talk about such random stuff that is literally irrelevant to anyone watching on TV?!

It does give us a laugh I suppose

Richie Rich had the most ridiculous ending which I'd forgotten about, where the Rich family escape by climbing down a Mt Rushmore style cliff featuring their own faces

I'll stop now, I'm getting as bad as AC (surely not)!!

kazza

Love it.

He talks about random stuff private because he knows bugger all about tennis and is a prat.

And he doesn't make me laugh.

He makes me want to throw something at the television.
But that's my problem

John Inverdale is 10 x worse than Ac:

Discuss!

Magi

You have probably got a point. He has an aversion to calling Nadal by name, preferring to refer to him as 'The Spaniard' All.The.Time. This annoys me a lot, as I find it very rude.

But he is very rude.

Anyway, I hope everyone has had a good day, with no tennis. I would like to say I was productive. Apart from the fact the fact the dog got a decent walk earlier than he has done of late- I didn't do much .

And dh worked from home. Which got on my nerves. .

magi you sound so enthusiastic about a discussion of those two beloved commentators!! You definitely have a point though.

kazza I should have clarified that our discussion of AC's commentary makes me laugh, rather than the commentary itself

I feel a bit treacherous saying this, but I haven't missed the tennis as much as I thought I would today. I don't know why. Probably because of Djok winning the men's yet again (even though I expected it 100% even before the tournament started ).

I may have watched one or two Delpo rehab videos to make up for it.

Btw did anyone see the photos of Kenin's dress in her trophy photoshoot? It was amazing