TENNIS thread - It's still Clay-time, and we're off on a European tour- next stop Barcelona, Madrid and Rome.- before landing in Paris.

[Raahh]

amongst other places it would have taken too long to put in the title.

Casper's finally got a break.

Now don't mess it up.

Right, serve this out now.

Well done Casper! And not as late as I expected it to be.

Well done Casper.

Well done Casper

Happy anniversary for yesterday kazza

Yay that’s good news about Djok not playing Rome - I just think he’s become a bit irrelevant recently - I’m not sure if he’s got the stamina any more to play many long 5 setters and I think he’s also lost his aura - hopefully he’ll just bugger off and retire

Norris is having a battle

That was yesterday Jane

Oh I just switched on and thought it was live

I didn’t realise Big Foe was still there. Haven’t seen him at all.

Sky catches me out like that all the time, Jane.

They don't always have the 'live' thing in the corner.

Madrid looks nice

I don't get, if they are still playing catch up, why they are starting matches so late in the day.

It does, all looks a lot greener around the grounds than I remember it in recent years.

Spanish innit

No logic to it - and they've just said on the Big Foe match it might rain later- so even more bonkers

I was watching Big Foe and turned over to check the Iga score, saw the first set score and thought it was Iga doing Iga things- and then realised it was Madison who got the the bagel!

Second set is looking more like I expected.

Well done to Iga- but it was a very shaky start.

And Arnaldi is carrying on , proving his win against Djok wasn't a fluke (because the commentators were trying hard to say it might have been).

Aww Seb’s cat (named after Rafa) has died

Oh no

We don't want to talk about Djokovic, Annabel. He's not there. He's not going to be in Rome. He's not winning anything, and he really might as well retire.

Time to talk about someone else.

Oh no - poor Rafa the cat

Feli always seems very laid back but yes it does seem bonkers starting so late when they’ve still got some catching up to do

Jane I can’t believe that you don’t follow Norris so avidly that you didn’t realise he lost yesterday! (I’m not sure that Sky counts him as a Brit any more since he started losing)

Looking forward to some sexy dentist time later (that sounds very wrong )

I’m waiting for the gang on the Kneecap thread to come after me with pitchforks for disrespecting a British tennis player Fizzy