TENNIS - When in Rome - the clay court season continues!

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New thread!

YAY!!!

VAMOS Tabilo.

Almost makes up for Rafa losing.

Tabilo played really well- but it will all be because Djok lost.

Booing. Ooooh. It's like he threw the match.

Yup.
Concussion.

Blimey! A double fault - well done Tabilo

The crowd are booing Djok - what a strange match

Well done Alejandro!

I was just saying to DS1 that Djokovic will probably sue water bottle man now

Did Tabilo take Djoks racquet as a souvenir?

Suddenly, the whole tournament feels much better.

I don't mind who wins now.

But the fact Djok is going into RG still without a tournament win, is quite satisfying.

I was a bit confused by that . Maybe he's going to give it him back.

Brilliant result! Apparently only 67 minutes. And to lose on a double fault
The water bottle will definitely be blamed. Delayed concussion or some bollocks

I was wondering that - he’s a brave man - the racquet might end up somewhere that he wasn’t expecting!

The Azarenka/Sherif is noisy.

Lots of whooping and shrieking from both of them.

The Djok press conference- and yes, he is now claiming he may have concussion, and will have to investigate that.

It was a plastic bottle. Not a bloody brick. He's claiming he felt nausea and dizziness. And there was blood. No indication of that at all, whilst he was making jokes of things yesterday, with his daft helmet.

Now he's lost- he is looking to connect the whole bottle incident to it .

Disclaimer: I am not a medic
I've only seen clips but there didn't seem to be much wrong with Djokovic he just got outplayed. Andrey won a whole tournament whilst suffering from a throat abscess!

Congratulations to Barbora Strykova on the arrival of Josefína 🥰

Exactly- it was all fun and games when he was messing about with cycle helmets. Not a hint there was a problem.

Until he loses. Then all it takes is someone to suggest - well, maybe you weren't quite feeling right- and he's happy to run with it.

Now, I will hold my hands up and say 'aww, that's terrible' - if it turns out the bottle was filled with liquid mercury, weighed more than a small dog. and he actually does have delayed concussion that will put him out of action for the forseeable months.

but it's unlikely.

and I won't feel terrible at all

Aww, congratulations Barbora. We said she looked ready to drop!

We have had a thunder storm now for nearly 2 hours. It's very loud and doesn't seem to want to go away.

I saw the rain in Manchester at the football Raahh it's lovely and sunny here for now!

Carota Boys supporting Darderi 🥕

It's been nice all day- til about 6,and then it got really dark, and has been stormy ever since.

It's nice the Carota boys are getting a trip out!

Darderi is playing well but I can't see him beating Sascha even if he is a bit off form

Great shot to win the set

I've never seen Sascha's dad so animated!

Lovely here in Hampshire aswell but perhaps the storms are moving south. I know the weather is about to change but I'm going to a funeral on Tuesday and there's nothing worse than a wet, dark funeral
Haven't seen any feedback from the Cock defeat but I knew the water bottle would get the blame. As you say, he was alright yesterday, fucking around with a cycle helmet on his head

Djok is just a Djik!

hopefully the torrential rain won’t be coming across the Pennines Raahh - we currently don’t have a roof!

Hope that the funeral goes ok on Tuesday kazza

I saw somewhere that Rafa is passing his clay court baton onto Holger which is a bit of a turn up for the books

Yes! Go Holger!