Tennis - It's ugly trophy time

[JaneJeffer]

Sorry!

Poor Rafa! His English is certainly much better than it was. At first, he couldn't say much more than "thank you very much!", in a very heavy accent

I think the problem for the Spanish and French is that they literally only speak to each other and their teams on tour. The Paire 11 situation is actually a good example of the French player social circle!

Poor Rafa
YY kazza I remember when he was first coming up on the tour, he could barely speak any English at all. Most of the interviews were in Spanish.

Bit crap that Pironkova is being made to wait here.

Why is she?

I'm not sure, Jourdain when I turned the match on, she was was waiting to go on, and they were discussing it in the studio. I'm guessing it was something to do with Serena.

But Pironkova has the early break, so, that's fine by me.

bugger. I have to go out.

Well, I'm back, good to see Pironkova has the first set. And Sascha is watching in the crowd. He has a top on.

This is interesting isn't it... Serena seems to be coming back into it in this set a bit.

Pironkova broke at the start of set 2, as well!

I have just read that Serena has a dog called

Christopher Chip Rafael Nadal. .

@Raahh

I have just read that Serena has a dog called

Christopher Chip Rafael Nadal. .

love it!!

I haven't watched the end of the match, my Prime went off for a bitt, it seemed kind of inevitable that Serena was going to come back.

I'm looking forward to the Rublev/Medvedev match though. Not sure how much of it I will see though.

I'd forgotten how much I like watching Medvedev.

He always looks knackered at the start of the match .

Medevedev has very skinny ankles. It might be the optical illusion-black socks/neon shoes.

He always looks knackered at the start of the match

He does! Remember last year, with every round we were saying surely he's too shattered to win this time! And he just kept on winning. Even in the final, I know he didn't win obviously, but he still staged that comeback. Impressive!

There is a major power outage at the stadium. Not sure why that stops play.

Private I know- he just looks half dead most of the time

And I'm not sure I've ever 'seen' Nick Lester before. He looked nothing like his voice.

"Electronic malfunction" eh? I wondered what was going on

Benoit Paire cut the power.

I don't know, obviously.

Aw PCB there. I kind of want him to win the whole thing!