TENNIS: "I can see you on the telly"
Jun. 10th, 2011 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllI came home to hear Sue Barker bemoaning that there wasn't likely to be any tennis tonight, but I kept the television on and was rewarded by seeing people in the crowd close their umbrellas and the court get uncovered. I then saw the players walking out - the above quote was the voice of someone on the other end of the radio to one of the officials walking past. It made me chuckle, anyway. I alternated between the Nadal vs. Tsonga match and the Ward vs. a good looking Frenchman with dreadful hair. I also suspect he was far from being the French number two player, but was over 150 places above Ward. Was.
Tsonga started off serving amazingly and Nadal put a lot of pressure on himself for any opportunities. He won the first set, anyway. But Tsonga stayed with him and the commentators started talking about weariness, and I started getting more into the other match. The tie break was ridiculously tense. Ward couldn't put it away and then his opponent started getting set points. Two-love down in the third set and I don't know if the crowd helped or he woke up, but he came back into the match, and his opponent helped in the final game, but Ward had had and created so many winning chances that he deserved it. What a run.
The organisers of Queen's must be quite pleased, considering that Nadal dropped out (the break may help him with Wimbledon), with their semi-finals. Two Andys who've won it in the past, three Grand Slam finalists, TWO BRITS.
Tsonga started off serving amazingly and Nadal put a lot of pressure on himself for any opportunities. He won the first set, anyway. But Tsonga stayed with him and the commentators started talking about weariness, and I started getting more into the other match. The tie break was ridiculously tense. Ward couldn't put it away and then his opponent started getting set points. Two-love down in the third set and I don't know if the crowd helped or he woke up, but he came back into the match, and his opponent helped in the final game, but Ward had had and created so many winning chances that he deserved it. What a run.
The organisers of Queen's must be quite pleased, considering that Nadal dropped out (the break may help him with Wimbledon), with their semi-finals. Two Andys who've won it in the past, three Grand Slam finalists, TWO BRITS.
