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On Thursday, I came home in time to see ( Read more... )

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I've picked up that Bartoli will be involved in the BBC's coverage of Wimbledon and that ITV have got coverage of the French for the next few years.

A lot of tennis yesterday, but I generally gorge myself on the first week of the French because it just isn't possible to catch as much of the second week or the grass-court season.

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The reason why I didn’t watch the tennis yesterday was that I went shopping and successfully bought mumble books (all hardback girls own apart from one paperback D.E. Stevenson) for mumble mumble pounds. Actually, it worked out as being about £4.40 per book and not one of them cost more than you’d pay for a first hand paperback. It’s just the volume that makes me want to mumble. I’ll be posting many reviews about this haul, I hope.

While I wasn’t watching tennis, plenty happened on the women’s side, with seeds falling everywhere. Williams (Serena) and Li Na are the biggest surprises, but many others have gone. I suppose it's the cumulation that's the surprise, although it's telling that so many women have won the French recently. That is, nobody has come close to Nadal's domination.

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I had forgotten that Queen's starts this week. I'll probably blether on about what I see of that. Let us hope that the finale isn't spoiled.

Monday - week 2

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Tuesday - week 2

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Wednesday - week 2

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Thursday - week 2

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Good to hear the phrase 'for the rest of the fortnight' and that ITV seems to have most of the same commentating team from last year, more or less, with added Judy Murray. John Inverdale was guilty of one of my pet peeves by referring to a match as a game – a game means something really specific and different in tennis.

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I saw most of the men’s semi-finals, but I feel as if anything I’d have to say about them is invalidated by the final. ( Read more... )

I see that the rain has beaten Queen's.

I'm operating on too little sleep and trying not to think about how much I spent on an item of clothing yesterday (50% off and just the colours I wanted is my only defence.)

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Friday, Saturday and Sunday

The middle of yesterday afternoon (Sunday), I thought ‘I really should have posted yesterday morning’ but ( Read more... )

As advertised, here it is then, the French Open with its red clay, colourful players and distinctive 'ole'...on ITV. I can't say that I love the fact that it's sponsored by a betting agency and half the ads seem to be for other betting agencies. I'm feeling out the format and working out who the commentators are - Petchey's the only one who's crossed over from the Beeb, I think, of which I approve. I'm a bit less enthusiastic about Inverdale who is trying to put everything in a rather insular British (English) sporting context. Ah well, everyone seems to be polite to him.

I saw bits of games and wasn't much involved until tonight ( Read more... )