TENNIS THREAD- We bid farewell to SW19 for another year (along with AC the butterfly fancier), and prepare for the hard courts, after a detour on the European clay.

[Raahh]

Who will be the champion? Will Andre and Tim muzzle AC?

Will Eva Asderaki Moore muzzle the spectator in the crowd?

It's all coming to an end<sob>.

Casper is doing well do far against Cerundolo the Younger- JMC beat him Gstaad last year. I will miss the end of this, possibly, as I might have to leave to pick up DD2 who is finishing school early. It's the last day of term .

Heck Casper. I'm score watching, and I've seen it's gone to a 3rd set.

This is not going well. 4-1 to JMC.
Not sure Casper can turn this around.

Well done JMC.

He seems to have the measure of Casper at Gstaad.

Bublik got shafted by the rain delay then. Halys doesn’t seem to be doing so well against Shevchenko.

First set to Barbora after a shaky start.

Well done Barbora

The court in Athens looks like it’s on a ship

I missed Barbora- again!
She'a doing well without me
Got back in time to see that Stef might lose the second set to Rinderknech.

Well done Stef, much needed confidence boost.

Daria Kasatkina has got married. So has Tommy Paul. Not to each other obv (that would be a VERY strange wedding!)

Daniel Merida has won in Umag. He looks very different now he's grown out/chopped off the blonde hair.

Well done Maria. Frosty handshake

I saw Daria’s wedding pictures but I didn’t get the lacy blindfolds

Every time I post on the thread it doesn’t recognise half of the words I type so that I’m beginning to think I’m spelling everything wrong. It’s really annoying. Don’t know if it’s my phone or MN that’s the problem.

Both sets of pictures a bit strange in different ways I think. I prefer Daria's wedding to TP's (even with the odd blindfolds )- TP's wedding just looks a bit joyless, all that posing- what was with Paige posing arond in her underwear? Do they know any people who are not tennis players ? it looked more like an ATP shoot.

(I found it funny they made Reilly Opelka sit down).

I'm sure they both had lovely weddings, and TPs probably cost $$$$$ hence the Vogue photo shoot, to pay for it .

Jasmine has competition in the smallest player stakes. Sara Bejlek is 5’ 3”. I don’t know who the commentator is but he’s obsessed with height and has already said three times that Clara Tauson is 6 foot and they haven’t even started playing yet. And just repeated that Sara is 5’ 3” in case we forgot from one minute ago.

And of course smaller players must be described as a dynamo!

I need to check out TP’s wedding photos

The line calling system has stopped working already!

I was just about to comment on that. They've now had to stop- again- because the ELC isn't working. Again.

Paige had about 4 dress changes (unless one of them was the picture of her in her French knickers).

https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/tommy-paul-and-paige-lorenze-wedding

enjoy

We now knw the height obsessed commentator is Paul Hand .

i have to walk the dog. The temperature has just about dropped enough. Went very warm earlier.

Very appropriate name