Tennis- As we leave Rome (and the ombrelli) it's off to Paris- pack the parapluie!

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I am not paying attention to thread lengths these days .

Mac is making me laugh with his chat about coaching

He's not a fan, is he?

I have to say, neither am I- just gives them the chance to moan at their team constantly.

Come on Karen!!

Mac is just marvelling at everything, isn't he. Now it's how many racquets they use.

In his day, they used one racquet- for the whole tournament. And fixed broken strings with chewing gum.

And considered themselves lucky

etc

Here we go, with the 'one racquet' story

He's so Irish sometimes with his "in my day" rants

Mac realises Karen and Daniil are both Russian, doesn't he?

Yes Jane- when they used to play tennis down the pits with no shoes.

Sounds like my dad .

Chris Evert was commentating on the sabalenka/Svitolina match earlier - she also only had one racquet back in the day

I really want to know what the craic is with that woman in the box and all the signals back and forth

Fizzy these young players really don't know they are born.

I was laughing yesterday- can't remember who it was- but there was a player with a racquet bag that was almost twice the size she was. She could hardly walk up the stairs.

The music cracks me up. The theme from the Addams family.

Aww, happy birthday Bjorn. .

Wonder if Borg is watching

Yes a lot of randomers in his box. We need AC here. He'll have been investigating.

Come on Karen!

John practicing saying Khachanov. Why doesn't he just say Karen? Surely he can't get than wrong!

He's definitely on the wind up

John is funny

Khachanov whatever it is

Come on Karen!

Disastrous tie break

Meh

Score watching at the moment- that didn't end well.

Come on Karen!! Not over yet.

What's he ranting about?

Now Karen is starting

Pfft.

The band is hilarious