Tennis thread: Australian Open finals and beyond!

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All tennis chat welcome here

Fizzy hope your trip goes well.

It was great when Andy beat Fed in London - although I wanted delpo to win in Rio because he'd had such a great tournament and was on (yet another comeback). That was an amazing match as well.

Fizzy safe travels, hope you have a nice time.

Have a lovely time in Portugal fizzy

Have a great time, Fizzy.

Thanks all - just on our way to the airport - a bit nervous but hopefully everything will be ok.

Loving all the best finals chat - Rafa v Roger at Wimbledon has got to be my favourite - I think I drank a (mini) bottle of champagne when Rafa won . Goran winning Wimbledon (On a Monday) is also up there!

This will probably be unpopular but Ivan Lendl winning his first US Open is also one of my favourites. Also Andy Murray’s first Wimbledon - a bit like Lendl it seemed that he would never do it and then he did (although Lendl never won Wimbledon )

Have fun Fizzy. It'll be lovely I bet.

I forgot you were a not so secret Lendl fan! Who did he beat in that US Open final - was it Mac??

Eat lots of those lovely custard tarts for me, please Fizzy.

(And drink lots of lovely wine, but that goes without saying!).

Of course Magi

I was trying to remember who Lendl beat in the us open final Private - I may need to google it. I remember staying up late and watching it (must have been on bbc then)

It was Mac, I just looked it up. I thought so as that was in my days of reading the World of Tennis yearbook (by John Barrett) over and over again - basically just a book of match stats and black and white photos!

Eee I was easily pleased back then!!

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Ahh, it's back to memories of watching the tennis results scroll around on the sports pages of Ceefax.

Raahh that topic always rolls around eventually.

A bit like Ceefax itself

They should bring back Ceefax. I can't imagine what my tech savvy dc would.

I mean- they wouldn't get the appeal at all. .

*think of it

I know. I'm sure my DS would scarper long before it ha d got to the bit he wanted! It would be a bit of a novelty though.

I see football has now been postponed as well

Andy Murray portrait goes on show @ National Portrait Gallery (one of my all time fave places).

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/12/andy-murray-portrait-by-maggi-hambling-to-go-on-show-in-london

It's great isn't it magi - the gallery and the painting.

Nice cafe there as well iirc...

I love the gallery. I remember the first time I ever went - some 40+ years ago & being amazed to see portraits of all sorts of famous people, from Charles Kingsley to Louis Pasteur. It was well before internet days & so many of these people I'd never seen an image of. Some looked just as I had imagined them, others a total shock! A wonderful place to while away a few hours.

Oh, I love Maggi! She used to be on an art programme with George Melly - was that called Gallery? A real character.

Dh texted me to tell me about the football (I had already had an alert from the news on my phone)- bless him, now he knows how I feel.

That portrait is reminiscent of the Shirley Hughes books which I love.

I am watching the Sport relief, crazy golf Andy Murray thing.

So far, quite funny.

I like Ramesh more than Andy. Shoot me

I forgot that was on!!

Jane I can see what you mean. I love Shirley Hughes. My favourite was An Evening at Alfie's

Oh great news...

Well that makes up for the news that Wimbledon may be affected by the ban on big gatherings. I mean- it's not til the very end of June