TENNIS THREAD- The Clay season continues- onwards to Paris, via Madrid and Rome...

[Raahh]

and a few smaller tournaments in between....

The big question at the moment is- will Medvedev ever win a match on clay??

I wonder if Tim Puetz is annoyed that Sascha did so well in the singles?

Jane I did wonder that- and (with all his Monte Carlo millions) I hope he compensates him, for the money he's lost out! .

I did muse earlier if this would be a match too far for Casper.
He is good at getting to semi finals- he needs to cross the final hurdle. Literally.

I've been reading about Foxtenn because I remember some discussion before about how Hawkeye wouldn't work on clay and found this from 2019 it sounds like a disease!

It does sound sinister, Jane

They have just mentioned the curfew- the fact they have that, makes the late start of this match even more odd.

Jane

I don't understand it but maybe it's making allowances for Spanish dinner time?

Jane maybe

Not Casper's day today- but he has had a very good week up to this.

Berrettini serves like he's about to pirouette around the court.

Well done Casper!

Berrettini loves a little chat with himself.

Yes he did well to hold serve there.

He has played very well- but he is just a player I keep forgetting about. I'm not excited by him(though he's not bad to look at ).

He reminds me of players who stick around the top 20 for ages - but you can't remember them ever winning anything, or how they are still there. (I know he's still only young).

Which is probably very unfair of me, because I actually quite like him.

Casper I mean.

That's Matteo, by the way.

Obviously my devotion to the most famous Norwegian since Solskjær is well documented.

(Yes, I did copy and paste Ole's name).

Love the 'forgot to mention the player' xposts .

Raahh

Well Fizzy's prediction was correct anyway

Well, well done Casper.

All the 'Ruud is going to win it' pre-amble didn't help my Casper. .

Did Annabel say croquet?

Wtf did Matteo draw on the camera?

A hammer

Annabel is vair posh.

She probably plays croquet.

It was a shit hammer .

Greg knows a hammer when he sees one. Must be from hanging out with Tim the builder.