TENNIS: Hard court season continues. Scream if you want to go faster.

[JaneJeffer]

Well done Holger! What a battle!

I've just read that Elena Rybakina has hired Goran Ivanisevic as her coach- that's a big deal, I think. I wonder who approached who, and if any other players were on Goran's radar?

Ugo is carrying on from yesterday. I like both of them, so I don't really mind who wins- but it would be great for Ugo to win again in front of a home crowd.

Well done Holger! I had to go out and was scared to check the score.

Oh, Ugo was doing so well, and seems to be injured.

He does look possessed

Well done Ugo

Well done Ugo, was looking a bit shaky for a while.
Jordan has had a great tournament too

Get Ugo, the poet.

Well done Ugo! I only saw the end of the match, I was worried it was all going to go pear shaped after he couldn’t convert those earlier match points. Bit cold at the net there, Jordan may not have enjoyed playing a Frenchman in Paris.

Grigor looks knackered, and like this is a match too far for him this week.

Someone in the crowd had a sign saying 'Grigor - baby goat'- obviously a reference to when they used to compare him to Federer.
Completely lost on the commentators who started waffling about 'kids'

idiots

I see Katie has made the final in Hong Kong.

I watched most of Katie’s match earlier. The second set was frustrating (she was 3-1 up and very close to going 4-1 up) but she played really well in the third.

I wish Sky would sort the audio out. I can barely hear Gigi, Laura and Tim even when I turn it up way higher than normal.

It's so rubbish, Jane, I really don't get what the issues are.

I'm assuming they've sorted out the problems from last year-weren't there issues with the courts and things in Cancun?
Actually, they don't seem to have learnt- wasn't a bit thing the fact it was hurricane season? So they are going back again, to an outdoor tournament - at the same time of year.

It was a shambles last year.

Are they playing outdoors in Riyadh? I assumed they might be using the indoor court that was used for the Six Kings shenanigans.

I can’t watch any of it as I don’t have Sky.

I’m really hoping for a Holger-Ugo final in Paris.

I've just realised that Ice- Sky confused me by showing highlights of last year's final...

I did think it was a daft idea to go back!

Not quite the ott, dramatic floor show that the 6 Kings thing got. Which is not such a bad thing really.

I thought you meant they were going back next year Raahh

This is funny k_

I hate Sky.

We've watched Paris all week- now that the WTA finals have started , Paris is on the red button.

I'm guessing events in Riyadh pay well.