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(Ladies’) quarter finals

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Round 3

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Round 4

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As anyone who knows me knows: it's tennis on Freeview season!

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Les femmes

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I had the men’s doubles on in the background, on Satuday afternoon but can’t say I followed it.

Les hommes

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ITV has secured the rights for another three years, and there is the grass-court season to enjoy.

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Thursday:

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Friday:

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I've watched quite a lot of tennis, or had it on, at least.

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I was asked last week who I thought would win the French Open. I had to explain to them that Federer was sitting out the clay-court season, Djokovic wasn’t back to himself and neither was Serena Williams and that Ostapenko had come from nowhere much to win last year. I said Nadal or someone really young (probably Zverev on the clay-court form that has him seeded no. 2), and who knows on the women’s side.

Anyway, it’s back on ITV4, and the channel works on my Freeview box.

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And now day three is beginning…

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I didn’t see the women’s semi-finals although I had presumed that whoever won Halep vs. Pliskova would be the most likely to win the French Open.

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It's week 2 of the French Open and I haven't discussed it here - mainly because I haven't seen all of a match yet. I came close to it last night, watching most of Garcia vs. Cornet. I've watched or listened to pieces - Konta was doing well in the first round until I tuned in. I've seen bits of Murray, the enigma that is currently Djokovic, Kyle Edmund, Muguruza and Pliskova play. But not Nadal, who seems to be on fire and must surely be the strong favourite to regain his Slam, somewhat amazingly, Halep, Cilic or Thiem.

The women's side, as one always says, is madly open - even more than it was going in, with Serena Williams pregnant, Sharapova not playing (my take on it is to follow whatever the agreed procedure is for a player who has served a drugs ban), Halep, who'd apparently been good on clay injured. The focus was, rightly, on the wonderful news that Kvitova was able to play again after being stabbed. But then Kerber and other seeds went out. Pliskova is the highest ranked seed left but has done nothing at Roland Garros previously, and so it's open to whoever wins all their matches, whoever she may be.

There's something reassuring about the team that ITV has reassembled to cover the tournament - the former tennis players talk sense, some in a charming French accent, the commentators who weren't tennis players waffle and John Inverdale talks fluent pompous garbage.

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I didn’t see the semi finals, but I understood that the seeds came through and the last zebra fell (a lot of the players wore zebra patterned clothes at the French this year).

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I couldn’t watch the men’s doubles – I think it’s a bit rich of them pretending to care when they haven’t aired a single doubles match up til now.

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It’s the one time of the year where I notice and regret not being able to receive ITV4 through my Freeview, so I have to watch through my laptop.

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I have little to say because I just followed the results on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, I got to see ( Read more... )

On to the grass, then. (I see that Nadal has dropped to no. 10 in the world, and even though they have some flexibility with the seedings at Wimbledon, I don't see how they can be too lenient as his results have been dire there the last couple of years, although I wish he'd do better.)