TENNIS thread- The Asian swing limps to a humid close- let's chuck away the ice towels and head to Europe.

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Via a couple of Exhibitions in Saudi Arabia.

Thread was coming to an end (if I can work out how to link it!).

Casper is not that great indoors, as he admits - you would think he would be- he's from Norway. It's cold. He can't have started playing outdoors much when he was little

Well done Casper

Well done Casper. ADF is playing Raphael Collingnon in Brussels.

I just turned over to see him looking very serious^.

Come on ADF! The Belgian crowd are so rowdy.

This is not going well for ADF now.

Well done Raphael. No, I’m not calling you Rafa.

I really want Jasmine to win this match, but it's a tough match up against Elena -who has a big serve. Though so far, her own serve is holding up. Hopefully she can play like she did against Iga the other week.
I do like Elena too. Jasmine is my favourite.

Oof- Elena got the break after loads of chances.
Serving for the set. Come on Jasmine.

Not looking good for Jasmne now.

That match yesterday was so long, she's probably worn out.

I do get the feeling the commentators are wanting a Rybakina win, anyway.

Oh dear Holger is injured, it doesn’t look good.

I've just got- in - poor Holger. He seemed to pull up the same way Carlos did the other week he did in his match.

But Carlos was able to Carry on, and clearly Holger couldn't.

It looked bad, he was in tears and couldn’t put weight on it at all.

Apparently his mum has said she thinks it’s a torn Achilles. That’s a year out and potentially career altering, really awful.

Oh no

Well done Corentin

Oh no, Poor Holger That's horrible.

I'm just watching Casper.

Who is continuing with his game plan of looking like he will have a healthy lead- and then squandering it .

Honestly Casper- I'd be happy to see a straightforward win, you don't have to make it interesting.

Denis getting a bit tetchy. But then followed it up with an ace

Come on Casper!

(Be nice if you could get this wrapped up before Strictly).

I've jinxed him now

Denis looks so cross

Yay! Well done Casper.

Great timing

Well done Casper

Should have been RuRu final

I know

I really hope things are not as bad for Holger as they first appear. He's young enough to bounce back- but any lengthy time away with injury can be hard to come back from.

We will have to settle for a RuHu final instead.