Tennis: Roland Garros continues

[JaneJeffer]

Not paying attention again

I see Kato won her mixed match against her also disqualified women's doubles partner.

Marie Bouzkova and Sara Sorribes Tormo got a lot of abuse for their part in getting the other pair disqualified and Vasek Pospisil said Kato's loss of prize money and points was theft!

It's very Bublik

Eh??!
Have I stumbled into a parallel universe

It's the wonderful world of Bublik kazza

Ha ha I’ve got no idea what’s going on either kazza

I’ve just started reading the Sue Barker autobiography - it’s quite entertaining in a jolly hockey sticks sort of way

Apparently Tim calls her Aunty Sue and Henman Hill was a car park before it became Henman Hill - no wonder Tim is so keen to build that underground car park - it’s like the circle of life!

circle of life

Now I have visions of Tim being held aloft on Henman Hill with Elton warbling in the background (and if that doesn't happen I will be very sad ).

yes I’d quite like to see that Raahh

I wonder what’s happening with the underground car park? Hope we get an update soon

At least Tim won’t be constantly interrogated by Mac about Russian players being banned this year

Poor Tim.
I remember poor Sue being in the middle of a heated debate between AC and Peter Fleming on the subject at Queen's. I'm sure the topic will come up somewhere.

I'm going to miss Sue.

I remember that Raahh - it did get very heated - I hope they’ve pensioned Peter Fleming off this year - he’s useless!

It’s Martina on the Tennis Gods programme tonight and the second instalment of the Netflix tennis programme is on from Wednesday

Still haven’t seen any of the Nottingham tournament - DH is making us go on a walk later (as it’s Fathers Day) so not sure if I’ll get to see any. The last time he tried to make us climb a big hill we all rebelled and refused to go up it!

Murray’s match is on already - I wasn’t expecting it to be on so early

Ivan Lendl is watching Andy - now I definitely wish that I’d gone to Nottingham!

Thanks Fizzy, I hadn’t realised it had already started today!

Murray about to serve for the match - Ivan looking as happy as ever

Well done Andy!

Aww Kim with her swishy hair and the kids have turned up to surprise him - that’s sweet - he didn’t know they were there!

Congrats Andy.

Big Foe and Struff are in the Stuttgart final, would be good to be able to watch it!

Jane I'm very sad not to be able to see Marvin Struff and Big Foe. I also feel sorry for Matteo , that he lost so early this week- I hope he has a better week at Queen's but having seen the draw (he's not seeded) I'm not too hopeful. He faces Ruusuvuori tomorrow.

Grigor, bizarrely, is having to go through qualifying for Queen's despite having a higher ranking than other players who didn't need to. Not sure why maybe he missed a deadline to enter.
The same applied to Tommy Paul apparently (who is ranked 15 in the world- so would definitely get automatic entry).

I would have thought (as a former champion) Grigor might get a wildcard.

That's very strange Raahh and surely Grigor would be a big draw too.

Jane he's always been very popular at Queen's (same as Marin, who isn't there this year )- and it's not as though he's really low ranked- he's in the top 30, so it's an odd situation. He's also one of the few players around who we know can actually play on grass. So many of the 'newer' players have little experience- especially after the last couple of years - what with covid and Russian bans.

That all sounds very odd!

Katie has beaten Jodie in the women’s final. That means Brits have won both the singles events and the men’s doubles. It’s a shame Heather and Harriet couldn’t make it a clean sweep in the women’s doubles.

Well done Katie. She's one of my favourite women to watch play. Hope she does well at Wimbledon.

Pierre HH posted that's it's been a year today since his injury at Ilkley and that his recovery is coming along nicely now but it sounded awful

Poor PHH. So many players sidelined by injury. Milos didn't get as far this week as I hoped he would- but I think he will be at Queen's. (He has a protected ranking).

Struff serving to level the second set at 5-5 (or Tiafoe will take it to a 3rd).

Ooh another tie break

Struff seems to be doing better in this tie break.

Well done Big Foe, but really good week for Struff. He's been having a pretty good few months.

I think Tiafoe is playing at Queen's next, but Struff will be in Halle.