Tennis: Come on Dan! Or ABD!!

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Don't know if this will work, but the old thread is complete!

Probably the tournament organisers wanted to wait to announce it, sell more tickets that way.

I was all set to do something useful before the tennis started- and discovered a Christmas film on the Christmas channel. I've seen it dozens of times before

Nooo, it’s much too early for the C word!

I watch them all year around.

Annoyingly, Eurosport is stll showing superbikes or something, though LC is supposed to start at 2.

They didn't show the first match either- which was Daniil/Big Foe, which Big Foe won earlier on.

The coverage is pretty rubbish, really.

It is on discovery, but it's such a faff going from one channel to another.

Having turned on to Discovery, I am being treated to Mark Petchey. How lovely

Things are not going well for Team Europe. I think they expected Daniil to beat Tiafoe.

Yes I think that’s the first time Foe has beaten Daniil. Hopefully Carlos can come through against Ben.

Yikes, Ben is so sweaty. Carlos looks fresh as a daisy.

Oh dear, Team Europe doubles disasterclass. Stef is bad but Casper is worse.

I have just turned over and seen the score- disaster is right!

Casper really doesn't seem to be able to get going in this arena at all.

Casper and Carlos back in action this morning- Casper will really want to get a win. Early days though, it has just started.

Casper (and Carlos) has won a set! Finally.

Probably thanks to Carlos, if I'm honest- but I'm sure he'll take it.

I can't work out the scoring in in the Laver Cup- I have a feeling the matches are 'weighted' in some way, (the final singles match may be worth more?) so it's not a case of each match win is worth a point- so Europe may still win .

Could be talking total rubbish, of course, and may have dreamt that . But I never understand the formats of these tournaments .

In answer to my own question - I think, match wins on Friday scored 1 point, 2 on Saturday and 3 today. And the winning team has to reach 13 points.

I think . Even the website confused me.

Casper is playing much better today. Shame the cameras keep going off!

Our Boris has just turned up, presumably with his new wife.

Casper 'Don't know why Carlos was so eager to play with me, after seeing me play yesterday'

I'm just watching a bit of the Laver Cup - Mo is loving being dramatic in German (and that's only saying the scores!)

I don't understand the scoring either - I'm sure there was a singles match yesterday with a third set score of 10-5!

No one dare say anything to Daniil

Mo is definitely in his element, Fizzy .

Yes that’s right, the matches today are worth 3 points each. I don’t understand why Ben is playing so much, Kokkinakis is good at doubles isn’t he? I assumed that was why he was in the team. I noticed Mac confused the two South American players when he was being interviewed the other day. It feels like the non-Americans are only there to make up the numbers.

Fizzy, when they get to one set all they play a 10 point tiebreak, in both singles and doubles.

I'm a bit confused by the fact some players are playing more than others, Ice. I'm glad Casper got chance to redeem himself , but it still feels unbalanced.

Daniil is not happy.

He's won the set, but launching that racquet has not gone down well in the commentary booth.

Grigor should go into coaching when he hangs up his racquet.