Tennis: US Open - hoping for a happy ending

[JaneJeffer]

I have to do everything myself around here

Well done Shintaro

Well done, Shintaro!

Chaos is right.

Aww he's so cute

He is really lovely. I've enjoyed the matches I've managed to see this week.

Instagram is good today: Holger and Boris, Sascha and Angie, Benoit and Beer

Come on Shintaro!

Shame. No fairy tale final for him. Well done Karatsev.

That's a pity. Still he did much better than he expected to!

I saw the result for Ben's match , but had to go out this morning so couldn't watch Shintaro/Aslan- shame for Shintaro, but he has had a great week and will have gained a lot of fans, he's still so young.

Over in Antwerp (that is sadly not on Prime) Tsitsipas is playing Arthur Fils in the semi final later, and is also in doubles action. So he's got a busy weekend

Just realised that the Tsitsipas /Fil match is on Prime- just in time for the end really. Or maybe not. Fil took the first set and is 5-4 up, serving now.

Well done Arthur ( good timing, just in time for Strictly) . Thought he might lose his nerve. Stef will be cross he lost this one.

These early finals throw me- I nearly missed it. Obviously,it's not early in Tokyo

Ben's dad looks happy.

Just realised Karatsev doesn't seem to have any sponsors in his shirt - unless he wasn't expecting to get this far, and this is his emergency 'Tesco' shirt.

First set to Ben- going well so far.

Wow- second set was very quick- well done Ben!

I think he wrote 'Show me something, Arthur' on the camera at end- but it was hard to tell.

The young players have certainly arrived.

Well done Ben!

Just switched on to the start of things in Basel - Seb Baez playing Chris O Connell- it's an odd court that sounds like they are on a squashcourt- it's quite claustrophic to watch. No commentary either at the moment.

I've just put on the main coverage where Struff is warming up. It's got commentary. Why is it so dark? It's dark enough here already!

Delighted for Bublik's Antwerp win!

I disappeared to watch Doctors.
The darkness is very strange, I remember this last year. I think Paris is similar.

It was a good win for Bublik- he looked very happy with it.

I went off to the dales for a while. I should be doing stuff!

Boris hard at work I see

That looks like Boris's kind of training. The glass of whiskey is probably out of shot

Well done Jan Lennard.

The Baez match is still going- though it is match point to Seb, so could be over soon.