Tennis: Enjoying the last throes of the grass court season

[kazzaD66]

Elina Svitolina won the bronze today- which is a nice end to her 'honeymoon' in japan . Unfortunately, Gael lost in the first round of the men's singles, so we'll gloss over that .

Djok is such a dickhead. Poor Nina Stojanovic. Well done Pablo!

Is the final being shown anywhere?

BT Sport is annoying. The final was interrupted (rain I presume - had to do shopping which seemed to take forever) and now they are just not showing it

The Austrian final just to clarify

The UK Pro League is on BT3 which I didn't even know we had! It looks like it's being played in a community centre and the noise from an adjacent match is so loud. They are just separated by curtains

I saw the scores for Casper's match earlier, and that it had been suspended. By the look of things, it still is.

Djok has serious issues. He looks almost demonic when he gets angry- it really is quite scary.

Raahh I saw I picture of Djok and the word demonic came to mind - it was scary!

Tennis was on the BBC red button today Jane so I’m hoping it will be tomorrow as well - there’s a doubles match at 7am before the men’s final I think

I have just turned on the tennis final.

To a discussion,again, about Djok and golden slams etc. That really annoys me. Focus on the players who are there.

Anyway- it's Sascha and Karen Hemsworth. I like the colour of Karen's shorts.

The tennis players don't appear to have played in specific 'team' colours. Unless Karen has started playing footie for West Ham.

Morning

We've been away for a couple of weeks - so I haven't seen any of the tennis at all Got back last night - just in time to catch up with the thread before the men's final

There are some extra eurosport Olympics channels and it's on there at the moment - 983 on Sky if that helps anyone.

Morning Private! Hope you had a good break.

It's been an eventful week. Seeing Djok ousted - not just from the semi final, but in the broze medal match- was just brilliant.

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*bronze

I was so pleased for PCB yesterday, he was so emotional. Almost made up for the lack of Rafa (well, at least he's Spanish).

Bloody BBC red button have just switched from the tennis to the bloody gymnastics! That seems to be all they ever show.

Is it possible to watch the tennis anywhere for free now or is that it? I don’t have Sky.

Morning Spidey - thank you I’ve just managed to find the tennis on that Sky channel

Sorry TheOnly - not sure where else it’s being shown

Sascha has just won the first set

He's running away with this really, Sascha.

At least Karen avoided a bagel.

Sascha serving for the match.

And Sascha has won. Well done him. Deserved it really for his impressive perfomance against He Who Shall Not Be Named.

Yes well done Sascha! The gold medal will go well with his other medallions - hope he doesn’t try to wear it when he plays

After his really good semi final at RG, and now this, I expect Sascha will be feeling confident going forward- and he got to the final in the US last year, so who knows.

And hopefully HWSNBN will follow through with his threat of maybe be not playing the US Open- since apparently he played this week with 'abnormal pain'. .

Can you imagine he will get quite a shiner if he tries playing wearing his medal Fizzy.

Like to see him try though! preferably against Djok to wind him up.

Yes that would be funny Raahh - I want to see the medal ceremony - not sure if they will do it straight away? I didn’t even know that these extra Eurosport channels existed

I think this will give Sascha a lot of confidence going into the us open. Djok and his ‘abnormal pain’ - hope he does us all a favour and swerves the us Open!

It looks as if the medals are out so hopefully the ceremony will be soon

It looks like the medals are coming out- maybe someone had to go and wake up PCB?

The organisation is a bit slow- at Wimbledon they've finished the final, whipped away the net, lined up the ball kis and presented the trophy by now.
This is all far too sombre for a medal ceremony- where's the bloody Mascot???!

Or fish head man. We need fish head man.

*ball kids

Even with his mask, PCB looks chuffed.

It took me half the week, to realise those bunches of flowers were not just flowers, but a small mascot toy with a flowery head.

I love the German national anthem. We used to sing a hymn to this tune.
I'm a heathen now, and forget with one. .