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TENNIS: FO R4 and The Gods of Tennis
Jun. 6th, 2023 08:06 amThe second week of the French Open is starting to shape up, ( Read more... )
It’s become clearer to me what the LTA and UK Government are doing about Russian and Belarussian players for the English grass-court season, which has started at Surbiton. If players sign up to certain requirements, they can play as neutrals, with the LTA ceding to the general tennis arrangements so they won’t get fined, and so all players will gain ranking points as well as prize money. But the Home Office will be doing extra checks before granting them visas, so there’s a possibility some players may not get to play as a result.
As I can’t really watch tennis (I try to listen to coverage, but it depends on whether I can find something else to be doing that doesn’t demand too much attention, and I certainly haven’t found anything that lasts a whole match), I watched the first episode of The Gods of Tennis.
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It’s become clearer to me what the LTA and UK Government are doing about Russian and Belarussian players for the English grass-court season, which has started at Surbiton. If players sign up to certain requirements, they can play as neutrals, with the LTA ceding to the general tennis arrangements so they won’t get fined, and so all players will gain ranking points as well as prize money. But the Home Office will be doing extra checks before granting them visas, so there’s a possibility some players may not get to play as a result.
As I can’t really watch tennis (I try to listen to coverage, but it depends on whether I can find something else to be doing that doesn’t demand too much attention, and I certainly haven’t found anything that lasts a whole match), I watched the first episode of The Gods of Tennis.
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TENNIS: The French Open so far
Jun. 3rd, 2023 03:33 pmAh, it appears that Eurosport has the UK broadcasting rights to the French Open, and I no longer have access to that, so it’s been headlines, highlights on YouTube and Radio 5 Live Sports Extra (which seems heavily Brit biased) for me.
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TENNIS: The rest of the Italian Open
May. 22nd, 2023 05:47 pmOf course, hearing about the serious and deadly floods in other parts of Italy put the continual comments about the weather and conditions in Rome into context.
( From the second round to the finals )
( From the second round to the finals )
TENNIS: From Madrid to Rome
May. 14th, 2023 09:11 amFurther on the Madrid Open, ( Read more... )
Anyway, tennis moved on to Rome and the Italian Open, where there are actual coin tosses and umpires going to check marks. I watched most of the second-round match between current Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka and 2020 Aussie Open champion Sofia Kenin. ( Read more... )
I like being able to have a look at what live matches are on and then choose to watch one from the start! I selected the third-round encounter between Beatriz Haddid-Maia and Magda Linette (not a match I’d have been excited about 10 months ago), both now top 20 seeds.
I was watching in a sunny south Wales, so it was odd to watch people in macs and huddling under umbrellas in Rome, ( Read more... )
Anyway, tennis moved on to Rome and the Italian Open, where there are actual coin tosses and umpires going to check marks. I watched most of the second-round match between current Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka and 2020 Aussie Open champion Sofia Kenin. ( Read more... )
I like being able to have a look at what live matches are on and then choose to watch one from the start! I selected the third-round encounter between Beatriz Haddid-Maia and Magda Linette (not a match I’d have been excited about 10 months ago), both now top 20 seeds.
I was watching in a sunny south Wales, so it was odd to watch people in macs and huddling under umbrellas in Rome, ( Read more... )
TENNIS: Madrid Open finals.
May. 8th, 2023 10:01 amI’ve acquired Amazon Prime, which meant that, for the first time, I could watch the Madrid Open (director, one Feliciano Lopez). Over the weekend, I watched three finals.
The women’s singles final.
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The women’s doubles final
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The men’s singles final
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The women’s singles final.
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The women’s doubles final
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The men’s singles final
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