TENNIS thread- We're saying good bye to Rome, and counting down to Roland Garros.

[Raahh]

Looks like the old thread is ending and I had a Jannik-panic .

I like the shorts design on the placket

It is a really cool not to the original shorts.

Stan will be missed.

Aww

Aww. Well done Jesper. Nice of him to get the crowd going, he know's this isn;t his moment.

Amelie was hovvering on the sidelines for the tribute to come.

We had better not miss Stan's speech .

Bloody TNT

Nice words from Jesper.

I've gone to the red button, I missed what Jesper said, because the main TNT channel was on a bloody ad break.

It would have been nice to watch the whole match instead of the morsels we were allowed.

Guess I’m going to have to watch it on YouTube

Wish I could speak French!

I've got it on the red button, but I am so annoyed with TNT- why show the Stan match, and then decide to switch to Svitloina? It was obvious there was going to be a tribute.

Lovely tributes.

Nice videos.
And a presentation of some clay.

Which always looks a bit heavy.

He’s going to be there for hours signing things!

They’re going to show it now

Or maybe not

I’m watching via the HBO Max app, some adverts but not when anything interesting is happening!

My coverage is terrible. The main channel mostly consists of people yapping instead of showing the tennis. At least Alex is there today.

Yes, TNT has a habit of doing this. Every other tennis broadcaster- Eurosport, Sky, even Prime and ITV when they showed it, they show a match, and talky bits and ad breaks happen at the change of ends/ end of sets/ end of matches. Not at random points for no reason . Or talking over the start of a match. It's just rubbish.

And I cannot stand Rachel Stringer. Her constant 'look at me, gurning at the camera' when she is talking in the studio, is grating. She is the Isa Guha of TNT tennis coverage. She knows nothing, but carries on regardless.

Casper's focus is dropping off a bit. He doesn't want to let Roman get a set,

Ugh tie break.

And TNT has taken off Casper- to put on Katie Boulter.

Except the match isnt even starting yet.

FFS.

Why can't they just keep to pne channel
Come on Casper!

Flavio is having a conflab with the umpire. I just tuned in so I don’t know what happened.

Well, Casper was lucky to take the second set- Roman was coming back strongly in the tie break.

But they have just been reeling off stats- and he's never lost from 2 sets up.

So that's jinxed him, hasn't it?

Yes her main topic today seemed to be taking the piss out of Jo Konta for not bringing the right clothes to Paris