TENNIS- The hard court season is in full swing on the run up to the US Open.

[Raahh]

This match is very up and down.

Didn’t one of the female players get in trouble fairly recently for changing her shirt on court - even though she had a perfectly respectable crop top/sports bra on underneath so showed off far less than the men do when they change. Think it might have been Alize Cornet but wouldn’t swear to that.

Chessie I think it might have been Alize, yes.

So 'doing a Djok' would probably get the title taken off them.

I'd rather see a sports bra than Djok's hairy chest, quite frankly.

I think it was Iga Chessie but I'm not 100% sure!

There was a conversation here about getting rid of Sky because they've lost so much of the football so I had to protest! I wish Prime had kept it. I like being able to choose which match I want to see.

I'd rather any of the women to go topless than fecking Djokovic!

I googled and yes Alize got a warning but Iga didn't!

That's the annoying thing, Jane I like being able to watch a lot of matches on Prime. It's very sad that they are stopping.

(I know I complained when they first started, but they have improved a lot since then ).

This is so cute 🥰

Awww! matching hats

I hope it turns out to be a photo we will see again when they end up playing each other in the future

That would be brilliant

Serena has given birth to her second daughter, so that's nice. Congratulations to her little famly.

So many tennis babies this year!

just playing with the edit function.

Congratulations to Serena - Olympia looks very proud! Refreshingly Serena looks a bit knackered which most people do after giving birth!

I haven’t seen any tennis this week - I’m saving myself for the US Open - still not sure how I will watch it - I made the rash decision to get rid of Sky sports

Wish I could go and see some of the Davis cup matches - I wonder if Stan will be playing for Switzerland? I don’t think that Kyrgios will be playing so you don’t need to worry about bumping into him Raahh

I thought you were trying to wake us all up Raahh - need to work out how to use the edit button!

I will wander round Manchester and see who I can bump into during the Davis cup- good to know Dick won't be involved
Serena did look very normal and very happy- they all did, like any family. Not some annoying, irritating 'insta ready' arty shot of the child's right ear lobe- and Serena filtered to look like she is 6 stone and 25.

I have mixed feelings about the edit function.

Laver cup line up has been announced. https://lavercup.com/news/2023/08/23/teams-finalized-for-laver-cup-vancouver

Nice to see Monfils in for Team Europe, and hoping they make Casper and Holger play doubles

RuRu playing doubles would be great, Ice

It's a strange line up, in that it has (as of now) none of the top 3. Daniil not there again, or Carlos.(Not fussed about Djok ) Surprised not to see Sinner chosen either. It's probably a management company/availability thing as much as anything. And it must be hard to strike a balance on fairness when the majority of the top 20 players are European.

Happy to see Gael given a slot- he is having a real 'moment' and enjoying his tennis again- this could be his last year (don't know what hs plans for retirement are)- but it wouldn't surprse me if he was aiming for Paris/Olympics as a swan song- could be a big tourmament for saying 'goodbye' .

Talking of retirements, Isner has announced he will retire after the US Open, I had almost forgotten the overgrown toddler existed. I hope he is isn't expecting a big send off

We can't leave Andrey out of the Ru-Ru-Ru love. I want the whole team to eventually end up with a surname starting Ru

I forgot about him-

Ruusuvuori next year?

Yes!

Rafa has joined forces with Infosys to help the kids become better human persons - it's very important for the so-chetty (society)

What the heck sort of coverage of the quallies is this on Sky? A split screen showing two different matches

Well it's raining now so that's put paid to it