TENNIS - clay continues

[JaneJeffer]

Just caught the end. Montiero is way too loud!

He was very vocal, Jane. I am hoping he never plays doubles with Sabalenka.

I'm intrigued how they decide when they use the 'grown up ' ball kids . Is it just for the more 'high profile/ insta worthy matches?

Ok, so Lorenzo hasn't quite arrived at this match yet. But Jannik looks like he means business.

Poor Lorenzo

Good start for Sinner- but I feel like Lorenzo is not really 100 %, even though Jannik was always going to be a tough call.

Jannik’s not wasting any time! It said earlier that Rafa won’t be on before 3pm - there could be quite a gap unless Lorenzo wakes up a bit!

Lorenzo has been playing a lot recently, he seems to have been everywhere. Maybe he's just tired.

Good for Stef to not be pushed into making excuses and credit his opponent- who played (from what I saw) very well indeed.

oh no- it's all rained off!

And yes, there will be a big gap probably now between the end of the Sinner match and the start of Rafa- seems a waste of the roof to just have that court sitting there for a couple of hours.

I thought that Raahh, maybe they could move another match in there before Rafa.

Another nice net moment there.

Thanks for the new thread Jane - oh no is it raining? I’ve got the house to myself and nothing else to do all afternoon and it’s raining - boo! Hopefully Rafa’s match will still be on with the roof

Baby Rafa is very cute - I saw a picture of him with a slightly bigger racquet than usual - he was waving it about and looking quite lethal!

I went to see the Challengers film last night - it was OK - more raunchy than cheesy! I think most people were there to see Zendaya rather than the tennis! The tennis scenes were quite realistic but there was quite a lot of love triangle-ness in it (and some naked men in the changing room )

Fergus is umpiring the Rafa match- he's probably hoping for a calm day at the office.

Might be noisy, if there are big crowds, and the roof is shut, though.

I haven't noticed any of the 'last match' stuff regarding Rafa today (even though it's more likely than it was the other day).

But fingers crossed Alex is having an off day. Maybe he spent last night consoling Katie.

Raahh
She* *really should have won that match!

I wouldn't want to get too close to Baby Rafa with that racquet, as cute as he is!

Blimey. Listen to that crowd response.

You spoke too soon Raahh!

Oh for god sake- Jonathan has gone one further and decided it will be his last match ever.

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I certainly did.

What's happening here, a 2 minute silence?

As if this isn't tense enough!

I got very confused there as I thought he said it was Rafa’s family being escorted onto the court!

How sad.

Very nice of Rafa to go over.

I wonder if Baby Rafa won't be there today, it's likely to be a much tougher watch for Xisca.

It was confusing, because they did actually say that.

Ah, not just me then! I did think some sort of Rafa tribute was rather premature.