Tennis: waltzing into winter

[JaneJeffer]

8th February has been announced as start of the Australian Open.

Oh that's late. I've got Gaelic to keep me going until Christmas. I will just have to booze my way through January. Good to "see" you magi

Why does my full stop after January look so big? Or is it just my new glasses?

No, it's not your glasses Jane

It does look big - that is a long time to wait for tennis magi. I wonder if they’ll still have to quarantine for 14 days before? Can’t imagine Roger and Rafa being happy about being holed up in a hotel for 14 days

I think I’ll be with you on the boozing the time away Jane! I don’t even like any other sports - just tennis!

Benoit has posted about quarantining for 14 days and he's not happy.

Naughty Benoit! It does sound like a bit of a nightmare especially if they’re not allowed to train in the quarantine period. John Millman said that he could feel his fitness levels going down - not good preparation for a Grand Slam

Look at you all chatting away - I've been missing out!

Del Boy that made me laugh.

And why is that full stop so big!!

8 Feb eh, that feels like ages away. I wonder if they'll put some warm-up/exhibition things on in the run up to it.

I listened to the Podcast as well Fizzy - I felt so sorry for Milkman!! 14 days with no fresh air ! He should be out by now I think from what he said? Hopefully he's had that breakfast he was describing

Evening all!

Massive full stops

I am having to find other things to do, now the tennis has stopped again.
Crap Christmas films it is .

I've been looking at the ATP site awards- Rafa is (not surprisingly) nominated for the Edberg sportmanship award.

Djok is not on this list, funnily enough .

Ah that's ok because he's bound to win fans favourite player

Benoit can just do one. His attitude to the pandemic precautions has been shit all the way through, including at the US Open.
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Fuck off and hit a tennis ball against your garage if you can’t respect the massive effort being put in by Tennis Australia and the Victoria State authorities to allow you to earn a bloody fortune! 😡

I predict Djokovic will NEVER win Fans’ Favourite, even after Roger and then Rafa retire. He has a very jingoistic, rabid, Serbian fan base, where Roger and Rafa are popular the world over.

And they never needed to invent a special ‘love hug’ to the audience to get there.

Where can I vote Jane

PS. Re the Sportsmanship Award, I wish they would tell us if it is for all round Sportsmanship or whether there were specific instances or indeed both.
I can see with Rafa his nomination would be of the generalist nature, but I just can’t remember what Millman and/or Schwartzmann did. That’s not doubting them by the way, my brain just can’t recall.

This is the blurb

"The player who, throughout the year, conducted himself at the highest level of professionalism and integrity, who competed with his fellow players with the utmost spirit of fairness and who promoted the game through his off-court activities."

Poor Benoit has already had the virus so it must be awful to be stuck in a hotel room for a fortnight for basically no reason. I would moan too.

I’m sure they can make up a special award for Djok

I'm still not over his 'most stylish' award.

Yes that was a weird one - double denim - or Djok wearing anything really! I bet Roger was miffed at missing out on the most stylish award!

I think Benoit would win most stylish for me- with his beard and turned up collars.

I don't get Fed at all .

Rafa is looking very stylish on his Instagram page - he has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Mayo (whatever that is!)

I still don’t know how to do photos and can’t be bothered to ask DS1!

I have also seen that tickets for Turin are already on sale.

AC will not be happy. . I think he was hoping if he went on about it often enough, maybe the ATP would change their mind, and stay in London. .

So you think he's still locked in the 02?

Fizzy- I saw that! And did wonder what the Order of Mayo was (nice big badge, though! ).

He brushed his hair over very carefully. I saw it on FB- and loved the mask/no mask pictures. .

Hopefully!

Sorry that was about AC still being locked in the O2!

Rafa’s hair was arranged very carefully!

Here he is