Tennis: Heading into the clay swing - Monte Carlo, Rome, Paris, don’t forget the altitude in Madrid

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New thread!

Talking of hating clay- Bublik won.
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I didn't get to see any today. I missed the beautiful Maxime but well done Stan

I've put Benoit on. There's a right rowdy gang watching him.

The sound is not great on the Benoit match.

But the crowds are definitely up for it

Beardy Benoit makes me laugh - he just looks like he hates tennis

He’ll not be happy if he wins this match!

The sound is pretty bad - not sure if it’s the umpire’s microphone - he sounds like he’s underground!

Bublik v Rune should be interesting!

Benoit kinda gave up I think.

What's up with Our Fabio?

Kyle Edmund is playing Domi this morning. I'd pretty much forgotten about Kyle! At least Nike have let him wear a plain white shirt. He's been lumbered with some very unflattering kits over the years.

Andrey gave his Nike stuff to Ivan Gakhov when he got his own range of clothing because Gakhov didn't have a sponsor. I'm wondering how he can wear Nike but Dan wasn't allowed to.

Pretty easy win for Domi.

Meanwhile, Kvitova lost a very close first set against Niemeier- but could be about to go 0-4 down in the second.

Sakkari has just gone through- a few words towards the end over a line call, but a straightforward win against Rus.

Watching Lorenzo get Struffed

Me too

If it was me I would take one look at Struff and run away!

I didn't realise Carlos has a little brother of 11 who also plays.

Aww, a mini Carlos Spain probably need some new blood on their side.

I’m always surprised that Struff’s ranking isn’t higher as he always seems to be giving someone a good Struffing!

Fizzy he has some good results, and then seems to just vanish.
He's obviously capable of beating big players, but can't string matches together.

He seems to give a couple of higher ranked players a Struffing and then go home every single tournament

My phone has Struffing saved as a word.

I suppose it pays his bills.

That's a terrible photo of Sonego. I think the ATP photographer is taking the piss.

I haven't recovered from the pictures for the WTFs- Jane.

Beelzebub was bad enough, but I don't think any of the players got a decent picture .

Beelzebub was bad enough

Luxury wine, Stan's BFF

Stan

My phone also has Struffing saved!

On breakfast telly it was saying that temperatures in Spain were likely to hit 38 degrees - while I wouldn’t want it to be that hot here I wish it was a bit warmer - I’ve just been out and it’s freezing!

Hoping to watch a bit of Andy Murray later - hope it’s better than his last efforts on clay!

It almost feels like it's going to start snowing here! The temperatures the weather people are giving do not match up with what it feels like at all for the last month. It's weird.