TENNIS THREAD- WIMBLEDON- part 3! Will the Plucky Brit make it to the end? Will there be 2 Italian winners at the weekend? Will Cobolli have to move house again?

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We will probably need another thread before the weekend anyway- but these are important questions.

Well done Karolina. Hope she’s ok. That tiebreak was crazy! Tough for Coco

Those men with the tennis ball heads are freaking me out!

I hate it when the interviewer asks a question and simultaneously provides the answer. What’s the point?

Yeah they’re creepy

I never understand people who wear impractical clothes and silly hats when it's so hot.

That goes for the people in the Royal Box as well

My hip has gone out just looking at that pose

I had to go out, but I haven't missed much of this match- seems quite close so far.

First set to Linda.

I’m having a bit of a break as the room with our TV in it is too hot!

My DM phoned me up in the last match tiebreak to tell me that she wasn’t watching the tennis as it was too hot! I told her that I was watching and it was a crucial point!

My mother has a habit of ringing when things get crucial.

This time it was dd2 who was demanding things when the tie break was about to start in the last match. I made her wait .

Jan Kodes- one of my 'go to' Pointless answers.

Linda looks very calm. Could be on for an all Czech final.

I guess Martina is bouncing around the commentary booth

Well done Linda

Well done Linda! I am really pleased for her, she seems so lovely. She had a good back end of last year- but the early part of this year started slowly.

Marta has had a really good season. And had the best dress.

Well done Linda. Another Czech winner this year!

Well done Linda.

my mum rings at crucial points of tv shows too.

managing watching Wimbledon in the heat by watching on my iPad in the garden. After being hot and busy all day finally starting to chill in both senses of the word

Oh, Martina is going to be thrilled to bits.

There are so many good Czech players around, we've been saying that for a while now. I'm quite excited for the final now.

I’ve had a lot of viewing interruptions today so I’m hoping to be able to glue myself to the sofa tomorrow

Well done Linda - I just turned on and she’d won

Lots of superstitions there!

Coco is a stoic

She was very mature in her press conference- she can be emotional, but that was a good response. It will be a hard loss, but good to see she will just pick herself up.

Last couple of years she has really matured. It wasn’t that long ago that I thought she was this precocious teenager. She has grown up

Oat Matcha sounds vile.

But I don't like matcha

There hth is 1-0 to Karolina, Claire .

But they played doubles together at the Paris Olympics. They know each other pretty well.

I was just asking DS2 if he ever had matcha and he didn’t like it either. I won’t go near anything tea-like!

I went to a cafe the other day and there was so many options for various matcha flavoured lattes. Non of them sounded that appetising tbh