WIMBLEDON - scattered seeds in SW19

[JaneJeffer]

Almost cheaper to fly to London with Ryanair and buy one there

I have a pink Wimbledon towel, think it's from 2012. Bloody expensive.

Also I must be the only one who likes Djokovic. The stuff he does at the end is for his kids, annoying as it is for us. He winds the crowd up which can be a good thing as they're so annoying the past few years. But it seems he's popular with other players.

The Wimbledon towel I have is still going strong - it's a 1990 one (I didn't go that year, my friend gave me one of the many she had). And 1990 was a good year
I use it regularly, and it has a tiny hole in it, but is otherwise one of the best towels I have.

You can buy the towels on the John Lewis website, oddly . No turquoise towels left though.

Sigh, maybe I should have bought one. DH would have been cross with me though, he was already grumpy about queuing 30 minutes for strawberries.

There was a lengthy discussion during one of the matches yesterday about how many strawberries there are in the boxes they sell.

It was obviously a thrilling discussion.

I’ve got a couple of Wimbledon towels from previous years but I don’t actually use them much because they’re a bit too small. I like bath sheet size - I am a bit fat so the Wimbledon ones aren’t big enough to wrap round me properly. I tend to use them as beach/swimming towels but I don’t go to the beach or swimming that often so they mostly just live with all the other towels in the bed storage. Even the Wimbledon hand towels are on the small side so no good for wrapping hair up after washing it.

Chessie I do tend to use my towel mostly for my hair. I have a big head a lot of hair.

There's a lot of fist pumping going on in the Cilic/ Cobolli match.

Looks like Barbora has with drawn from her doubles match today, after what ever was wrong with her on Saturday. Which is a shame. I think that match was due on court 2 later.

Marin always pauses when he’s serving like he’s forgotten what he’s supposed to be doing

The woman counting all the children

It's an odd quirk. Bit like Rafa and all his little pre-serve motions.

He used to bounce the ball a lot more, maybe this is to stop him doing that ?

This is a long game.

Probably headed for a tie break though.

And it is .

Loving all the towel chat

The queues for the shops at Wimbledon were crazy - DH had requested a Wimbledon water bottle so I had to brave them (and I’m supposed to be the tennis fan )

OMG a Norris/Djokovic final - I think I would have to give that a miss if it happened!

Cilic used to do the wobbly leg thing when serving - I couldn’t work out if it was nerves or just a thing that he did

Cobolli is playing well but could all be over for Cilic with this tiebreak

That serve was a disaster for Flavio

Ooh

Are we changing channels again?

Yay! Marin gets the set. I don't actually mind who wins, but it would be greatfor Marin. Flavio has years ahead of him.

Ooh well done Marin

They really do need to clarify the toilet break rules - it always makes me think of children at school asking to go to the toilet - the umpire saying if you need to go then go

Shite now I don’t have access to the match

Well I won’t be complaining about an on court shirt change from Cobolli (although I think he’s younger than my youngest DS!)

That's rubbish Jane!

Arggh. I can watch Djokovic on two
Iplayer channels and the Cilic four-setter has disappeared

I’ve got Djok on three channels now and the women on the RB

I thought when the news was over they would go back to the other match

I’m not watching but apparently Roger is in the royal box today? Maybe he’s putting some sort of hex on Djok?