TENNIS: Bienvenue à Roland-Garros

[JaneJeffer]

Just realised the tennis ball emoji is missing from the app. Merde. Off to complain!

Thanks for the thread Jane !

Damn!! it doesn't even work doing it 'the old way'

Grr

It took a fair amount of lobbying to get the tennis ball- and I remember people complaining

I'm really cross now.

I've put in a request. They'll love that

So, Lorenzo has pulled this back.

I'm more bothered about the lack of balls at the moment

If I'm on my phone, I can waste time finding a 'proper' tennis ball emoji. But that one is usually green. I don't like it.

Jane
I tried a few of the other 'old' emojis I remember - dragon, bicycle. They don't seem to work either.

Apostolos is muttering

I was going to say that's one hell of a crucifix Lorenzo is wearing but that seems inappropriate.

Got him the first set though.
God is on his side, Jane

(for now)
fickle tennis fan , God

We all know where I'm going.

Stef has a plethora of Greek gods and goddesses on his side though.
I feel a Harry Hill fight coming on

Foot fault

oh yes. They are hard the Greek gods.

Even with the scoreline, I'm not convinced Stef will lose.
I'm still sad that Lorenzo ended up losing to Djok last year. That could have changed history < she says dramatically>

Poor Stef has embarrassing parents.

Ok, so the scoreline is looking more for Lorenzo now.

But he was 2 sets up last year against Djok <sob>

Yes Stef is capable of turning it around.

Thanks for the new thread Jane - it’s already made me laugh 💩about the tennis emoji - hope Mumsnet sort it out!

Just switched on and a bit surprised about the score line - was it last year when Musetti retired from his match against Djok ‘for the fans’? (Still don’t really understand that!)

Stef’s parents are embarrassing - he just seems to shrug if he gets a warning for coaching as if he doesn’t really know who they are!

i think Rafa would probably prefer to play in the afternoon but yes the weather hasn’t been great in Paris anyway so hopefully won’t be too much of an issue (hopefully!)

For some reason it seems to take me ages to do a post on the new site

I've just been reading up on it Fizzy because I couldn't remember what happened in the end. Apparently afterwards he said he wasn't injured and that the crowd was against him

DS has bought himself a Discovery + trial, just so he can watch The French Open and has installed it on my phone aswell! God, I love him so much

Watched the last 3 games of J-W's match. Poor Jo-Wilfried, you couldn't make it up! I was in bits at the end of the whole shebang! I luvs Jo-Willy

I'ma bit emotional at the moment anyway because my dear old dad passed away on Sunday, so I'm all over the place whilst trying to juggle a to do list as long as my arm, with keeping the good ship Kazza afloat at the same time. Plus poor DS took his first A Level exam yesterday! Bless him!

And thanks for the new thread Jane

Sorry about your dad kazza you've got a lot going on

The following conversation took place here during Rome
DS2 to DS1: you need to stop paying for Prime there's too much tennis on
DS1: I'm going to keep paying so that if I do something wrong I'll still be in the good books
DS2: what are you planning to do?

Oh kazza I’m so sorry to hear the sad news about your dear Dad

Well done to your DS for sorting out your tennis watching and good luck for his A levels

I was very emotional watching the Jo Willy thing this afternoon - I can’t really remember seeing anything like that for a player before (apart from Andy Murray’s premature farewell at the AO)

I can’t stay up and watch all of this match if it goes to 5 sets - I’ve watched way too much tennis today!

Poor Tim gets a lot of ribbing - asking him if he got Wolf whistles when he changed his shirt