TENNIS: Madrid, Rome and on to Paris

[JaneJeffer]

Who's going to get the last quarter final place?

I missed the end because I was walking the dog- lucky escape for Felix, just saw the speech, and nice comment about Uncle Toni and Rafa winning 13 times

And his first win at RG.

Not going well for ADF.

And Muguruza is out She is one of my favourite players, I love watching her, but she has been so inconsistent over the years- it seemed she was getting back into some form around the US Open, but it all went off the boil again.

You know in films/ tv shows where they show big walk in wardrobes, and the characters have rails of identical suits?

I think Tim has a whole wardrobe full of identical, perfectly ironed, blue shirts.

ADF is out, with his odd sock, which is a shame.

Looking forward to seeing Carlos start his campaign in a bit, but I have things to do, so I'm not sure how much I will get to see (the Sakkari match is still going though).

Sascha seems to be going good.

Footie very stressful!

Just in time to see set point for Carlos.

I was half watching (whilst discussing GCSE revision with DD1) Londero was not doing badly, and then Carlos got the necessary break.

It's a noisy match, this.

This match is hella noisy!

He's getting into it more now, Carlos.

I do agree that Londero (on first set form) doesn't really deserve the bagel- I think Carlos ( in true Rafa fashion ) took time to get into the match .

Vamos Carlitos!

Well done Carlos - finally managed to watch some tennis!

Oh it’s Tim and Babs in the cube without grumpy Mats to tell them off

Tim’s non existent aura

I have missed this morning, and just got in to see it's raining in Paris (not good for Rafa, will be playing under the roof, if he gets to play this afternoon).
Good to see that Iga is through- and Kvitova, which is nice. Osaka is out though.

The Djokovic match, I see, is quite late, now that they have night sessions in Paris.

Stan was due on after Osaka, but that is now delayed due to the rain, sadly.

I am watching, but only on Eurosport so restricted to the matches they’re showing. I can apparently get a free 7 day trial of Discovery Plus so am considering that - trying to decide if it’s better to do it this week or next! Obviously more choice this week but I might then get tempted into keeping it on for next week. Anyone else got it and is it worth it?

I only have the normal Eurosport channels Chessie. Sky Ireland seem to add them and take them away whenever they feel like it so I'm glad they're included for now!

Sit down!!

I only have the normal channels- to be honest, I get used to it with RG (and then get used to having more choice with the other slams ).

i got distracted filling in a lengthy form, and one minute Barbora looked like she was well on her way to winning, and the next, Parry had won a set!

The crowd are really annoying- and also, hypocrites. All the time it took some of them to argue overseats and sit down- they had no right to start booing Krejcikova when she came back from getting changed a bit late.

Oh dear, Barbora is looking like she is in trouble.

Aww Barbora. Well done Diane.

Parry in Paris is a bit confusing

I've got sandals like Marion's but I doubt hers are from Tesco.

You never know Jane

Just finished the ironing in time for Rafa - they’ve opened the roof - hurrah! Mats dissing the English weather!

The women players aren’t having a very good time of it - quite a few of the top contenders have gone already

I've had to come out to pick up dd2. Not good timing. I'm hoping Rafa gets off to a good start.

Looking at the scores- Stan has won his first set - good for him.

The weather here is awful. No sandals for me. mine are from Sainsburys