Tennis: Going for Gold à Paris

[JaneJeffer]

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Very touching to see how emotional Dan was. Shame they couldn’t make it a slightly longer run but Taylor and Tommy did deserve to win that one.

Aww Dandy 😔

Clare Balding's crying now!

Now Clare’s crying!

We're all crying

Je pleure.

First Rafa, now Andy.... truly heartbroken 💔💔

Carlos is my hope to beat the Evil One 💪

Carlos has form for beating Djok so I am putting my hopes on him.

I am score watching from the hairdressers as I made dd2 an appointment and didn't consider the time. There is no air con working, the place is like an oven.

I think Carlos ought to win. I'm expecting more 'tactics' from Djok later and hope Lorenzo is ready for him.

Well done to the Italian women

Felix doesn't know how to deal with Carlos

I'm so pleased for Jasmine and Sara- Jasmine is having such a brilliant year.

Carlos and Felix are level on hth meetings- but it's a while since Felux beat Carlos and his game has moved up several gears.

I've just read that Queen's are renaming their Centre Court the Andy Murray Arena. It's a lovely thing to do ( though a bit small to be an arena, imo).

Much as I love Rafa, it always feels wrong naming courts before players have actually retired. Makes losing on them so much more awkward!

That's nice. Shouldn't it be the Sir Andy Murray Arena though??

Good point- everything I've read, seems to just call it 'The Andy Murray Arena'

Or to really make a mouthful of it.....The Sir Andrew Barron Murray Arena
Really pleased they did this though. Well deserved especially given he's won it 5 times, plus the doubles.

Re Djok, I really don't know why opponents fall for his games. Everyone knows what he's like. Stef seems to be particularly susceptible

Looking at the scheduling, Felix is meant to be playing the bronze medal match at 2.30pm! Followed by a women's doubles semifinal. Why on earth were they scheduled in that order?

kazza It really was odd last night- Stef should have won a set easily, geven the way Djok was acting, but it was like he couldn't play an 'injured' opponent. Instead of grabbing his chance, Djok got back in the match. He probably couldn't believe his luck himself, to be honest- in his own head, he had probably decided to ditch the second set.

VAMOS

Well done Carlitos.

Poor Felix. Well done Carlos!

I wonder what sort of humour Iga is in today.

Chris saying there's no interview so he doesn't have to worry about putting the watch on

Just caught the end of Carlos and Felix - thing that was a match too far for Felix - he looked worn out - too much tennis!

That's good news about Queens naming their court after Andy Murray (is Jamie still the tournament director? )

Apparently Djok is very worried about his knee - hmm - I'm not convinced - he's cried Wolf too many times. Lots of players have made me feel emotional this year but Djok and his shenanigans just leave me cold

I'm not sure if we've said much about the apparent beef between Iga and Danielle Collins - Collins apparently told Iga that she didn't need to be fake about being concerned about her injury. Iga looked totally taken aback and I wonder if it affected her match yesterday - she is quite a sensitive person

I'm not sure how much enthusiasm there is in tennis for playing for a bronze medal (although I would be very happy to get a bronze medal in anything!)

I hadn't thought about Jamie being the tournament director at Queen's

(Still a good thing to though).

I'm not worried about Djoks knee. It seemed perfectly fine by the end of the match yesterday. I think he just realises he might not beat Carlos, perhaps .

I really hope Musetti whacks balls at his knee wins though.

If he's that worried about his knee fizzy he'd* *better pull out immediately.
I'd hate for it to develop into a career ending injury.