TENNIS: Strewth, it's time for the Australian Open!

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New thread.

Well down Stef.

That match had a bit of everything .

Only Stef can get away with wearing his grandad’s thermal vest to play in

Good reception for Shintaro- who gave it a good go at the start.

Jane
It's an interesting style choice.

But still 100% better than Jannik (and Naomi).

Stef does this everywhere and he knows that everyone knows it

He's off again with his 'this is my favourite place in the world' schtick.

That towel really suits him. He’s so pretty.

Every time they show a clip of Jannik I think don’t tell him Pike

Can't imagine Lorenzo Mussetti wearing what Sinner does, surely the player has some say? I'd be threatening to change to aosics if I were Sinner when my contract was up.

Nike have often been a bit odd on the design front. Remember the skeletons? The same year as the bees- which looked much better. But bottom of the pile that year were the ones who got the floral version - I think Kyle Edmund ended up with that one. I think it was 2019. A strange year.

Of course- the Adidas poo stain shorts were also
real low point.

I don’t think any of the kits are that great this year - so far

No, it's really not a vintage year. I miss the dentist kit.

No surprises overnight. Glad to see ADF has despatched the Trump supporter.

I was just about to post about ADF beating Lumberjerk, Jane- iwas score watching that one, it got a bit dicey.
Glad Daniil is through.

Mirrra Andreeva is just starting her match against Maria - that could be tough one. I'm hoping Jasmine gets through her match.

Looks windy in Melbourne.

Maria looks good in her orange dress. All of Naomi's frilly bits would have been flapping everywhere .

Looking over the over night results- Carlos' match was not all that simple- the first set was 78 minutes, before he got his act together.

Danil's match started off in a similar way.

Mirra is firmly in charge of this- Maria is not really playing well- 6-0 in the first set to Mirra.

The Greek fans have woken up- that's helped her .

I’m just score watching for now - not a good day/night for the Brits but Norris is still battling away

I think Jannik is keeping quiet about his kits in case they make him wear the jelly fish outfit!

I’m still a bit perturbed by Naomi’s outfit - it had a sort of Miss Havisham/Mary Poppins/bee keeper vibe - wonder what she’ll wear next time?

Fizzy Jannik coming in in the jellyfish outfit would make my year.

Glad that all my favourites came through overnight. Muchova has just won the second set against Alycia Parks, rooting for her.

Jannik is definitely wise to keep Nike on side .

I think Naomi is trying out ideas in case she gets a Met Gala invite. Assuming the theme is 'Clothing as Food' and she's gone with Sushi Jelly fish.

Jasmine has started well.
But she has done this before, and thrown away big leads. So I will keep quiet.

what's happening now?Rain??

Oh, I went to put the laundry on and now it's pouring with rain.