TENNIS: Back to the European clay

[JaneJeffer]

Oh and agree with @Fizzywinegum about the dreadful umpire/linesman outfits!
(Although obvs I'll put up with them if it means another win for dandy! )

Well done Dandy!

You’d think they had just won gold the way they were celebrating!

Amazing but so bloody hard to watch.

Well done Dandy - everyone decided to descend on us here so I couldn't concentrate as much as I wanted to

Well done to the swimmers as well!

Brilliant swim to retain their title!

The Dandy celebrations were brilliantly enthusiastic

The greatest joy for me, yesterday, was to see both Andy & Rafa play so well & enjoy it so much. A lovely (almost) finale to twpo great careers.

Who do you want to win the mens doubles of the two teams? I can't decide but probably lean towards Andy a tiny bit.

It's not going to happen but a Dandy vs Nadalcaraz final is possible, which would be fantastic!
I would want Dandy to win because it would be Andy's last match and the pinnacle of Dan's career (he will now drop like a stone down the rankings, given the points he will now lose from his great run this time last year, so his career is virtually over, bar a miracle!). Rafa has so many titles and still hasn't indicated an official retirement date and Carlos is at the beginning of a, no doubt, fantastic career, with plenty more titles to come.
And, as you all know, I invariably back the Brits

As a Rafa fan girl, I won't be moved from that- I do wish he'd just played the doubles - and physically he probably does too. But once the draw was announced (and there were drop outs across the mens and women's singles) it would have looked like he was avoiding the possible Djok match. Which I wish he had. Djok's smug face spoils everything.

The scheduling is not favouring Carlos- who will play singles and doubles today(again) -and we need someone to be fit enough to beat Beelzebub!

I think I would favour Rafa (also as a Rafa fan girl ) - I just love how it means so much to everyone involved and as kazza said Dan is more or less sacrificing his career for Andy - would love to see a Nadalcaraz/Dandy final

I bet Djok is miffed that nobody is really bothered about the singles

Yes Carlos has got two matches today - the doubles is on at 6pm tonight I think

Is that mixed doubles Carlos is in as well?

I think he's just in singles and doubles with Rafa magi but he's playing in both today

Careful now Andy

I would love both Dandy or Nadalcaraz to win, but if they’re both in the final I would want Dandy to win for the same reasons kazza gives above.

Love this photo of Dandy!

I've really enjoyed watching Dandy but I'm also a Rafa fan girl and will always want him to win no matter who he is playing!

I feel that Sascha is going to win the singles

Great picture!

I just caught the end of a bonkers Moutet/Tommy Paul match - Moutet tried an underarm serve that didn't even go over the net!

James Keothavong looked completely fed up of Moutet - Tommy Paul won in the end

Taylor Fritz has just lost against Musetti but he's still got 2 more matches today - doubles with Tommy Paul and mixed doubles with Coco Gauff - it still looks hot in Paris as well

I would like Carlos to win the singles, but ABD really .
Carlos might end up playing too much and not feeling he can ditch the doubles to concentrate on the singles.

I do like the French crowd sing song.

All sounds so much better than Sweet Caroline in English

Tsitsipas and Ruud could also have a chance as well? But yes I'm also ABD

I don't think that Carlos would pull out of the doubles - it does seem to mean a lot to him to play doubles with Rafa - he's also (hopefully) got potentially many more years to win an Olympic gold

I quite like the Champs Elysee song - I only have to hear it once though and it gets stuck in my head! Much better than bloody Sweet Caroline!

Felix is also playing three times today as well I think (the schedule is making me go cross eyed - why are there still so many matches?)

Better get back to work ...

I nearly forgot Casper- how could I?!

The scheduling is as all over the place as it has been at all the majors this year- I really don't get it. Rafa seems to have played every day- whereas some players have had days off (even allowing for playing more than one event). It's all being packed into one week- when even some masters events are longer (but have a bigger draw, I think).

Looking at Carlos here I don't think the doubles is having any affect on him. He's full of beans.

I was thinking about people like Roman who know they have no chance but go out there and play anyway even when they're not allowed to represent their country. Good on them!