Buckle up possums, it’s the Australian Open!

[IceandIndigo]

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Well done Jack. Really well played. Hard luck Matteo.

Well done Jack.
Bad luck Matteo.

GB doing well in the doubles. 5 of the 8 semi finalists are Brits!

Well done Jack - hopefully this will be good for Matteo's confidence - he's had some good wins this week

Well done Jack!

Just in time for The Apprentice (we all have our TV weaknesses )

Good win for Jack, shame for Matteo.

All British doubles final in Qatar!!
Cash and Glasspool vs Skupsi and Salisbury! Bit surprised that the latter beat Heliovaara and Patten, given that Neal and Joe haven't really done that well together in the past, but a great result.
I wonder when the last time was there was an all GB doubles final at this level

I was pleased to see the Salisbury/Skupski result- Joe has been a bit inconsistentover the past year /his split with Ram so this will boost him a bit.

I’ve just been watching Mirra and Elena. Mirra won and is through to the final. She’s having a great run and beating some tough players.

Mirra Andreeva is continuing her good week, she's just beaten Rybakina to make the final in Dubai.

X post- she's doing very well- she'sbuilding up a good record against the big names.

Andrey is having a few problems, keeps rushing to the loo.

Would be a shame if he was ill too.

The bananas must be helping. And the meditating.
He has seemed a lot calmer on court. (Nothing against FAA, I quite like seeing him win usually).

Another final set tie break.

Well done Andrey!

Sweet meet

Well done Andrey.

I only saw bits and pieces again

They both played very well- but it looked like Felix might take it when Andrey started disappearing to the loo. Not sure what that was about.

New focused Andrey

Tell him to fuck off with his patronising shite Andrey!

The questions are getting worse.

I wish they would just do away with the on court interviews altogether- the interviewers have nowt to say, and the players don't really want to be there!

And in case we haven't been paying attention all week (because in the absense of anything else to say, they will tell us every 5 minutes)

this used to be a 250 event, dontcha know.

The sole purpose of the interviews is to annoy everybody