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First main draw match about to start. Hmmm press seats are…far…

Basel, the new retirement home of tennis

@duckdablackswan.bsky.social I'm saying nothing

Today at Uttoxeter

There are Fairytale runs
and there are FAIRYTALE runs
and then there is Vacherot in Shanghai

Vacherot and Rinderknech aren't only literal cousins.

Vacherot is a French name that means "person who takes care of cows".

Rinderknech is a German name that means "person who takes care of cattle."

Cowboy final in Shanghai.

2 guys who haven't won a singles tour title in a Masters 1000

If this isn't a nerve riddled match I'll be shocked

argh - I always use the webpage - I've never seen them before (they are using a different player) - typical!

@acetennisfan1.bsky.social I'm probably just out of the loop, but have SkySports finally given us web users SkySports+ streams for all tennis courts?

Unworldly conditions in Shanghai today

Perhaps they shouldn't have slowed the courts to treacle, just a thought

yeah, level isn't great and there is always the worry the amount of tennis in her legs this week so far compared to Arango is telling a bit too

Wasn't counting, but if the stats are right, it can't have been as she hit at least one in the 3rd game and has 4 now

1 game in and Jacquemot is already pissed off

You'd have to be a brave person to be Jacquemot's coach

Her death stare is quite a look

This Penko MTO is next level comedy

Two blood pressure checks and two pulse checks

Sometimes finals are just that, the last match of a tournament

Instantly forgetable, totally one sided dominance from Alcaraz
Definitely the worst of the 3 GS finals between these pair in terms of jepoardy/drama/combined tennis level

I'm still waiting for these 2 to start playing well at the same time since RG

It never really happened at WImbledon
It hasn't happened in nearly 3 sets here
We saw a couple of sets in Paris

Imagine clapping because someone has turned up to the tennis and is put on a screen

Jfc

Easy enough for Alcaraz

Djokovic again looks like an old man vs the top 2 in these BO5 matches

and they didn't correct it the 2nd time around either

Absolute shower

Sky's HLs of the Saba / Peg match managed to miss off the final game

They really are incompetent

Happy for AA, takes some major reset to get over what happened in July

Whilst you can never erase what happened, that is how you correct it, stand up and perform like that - bravo Amanda

Home town netcord was extremely helpful on big points in that 2nd set

This is the real version of AA

with the pressure valve released, easy love hold straight after

We have a match

AA stops the nonsene that could have occurred if she kept wasting game point chances, with the Wimbledon run of games hangover

Sky has to fill 2.5 hours now

I bet they wished they hadn't chatted for so much earlier

That'll be the most dramatic match of the day, by a mile

If Carlsberg did tiebreaks.......

Now for an interview

Marvelous, ignore the actual sport, let's just keep talking about the tennis rather than show it