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On Sunday, I watched the men’s final, ( Read more... )

This year, I’m only watching week 2 in the evenings, which means watching little live tennis. On Tuesday, ( Read more... )

As for the football, as one of the S4C commentators put it, we’re sad, not disappointed. What a championship after all those years! Nothing quite came together on the pitch – experts can better tell if the loss of Ramsay was the key or if it was more Portugal’s play; it did seem to me that there was little that could have been done to stop the two goals. But I think we’re all very proud of the ‘bois’ every one jack, even the ones who are defnitely not Swansea Jacks.

On Wednesday* and Thursday I was unable to watch more than a few minutes here and catch a few headlines there. This was only enough to grasp that rain and the conditions were a problem and that several seeds had fallen, chief of which was Mugurza.

On Friday afternoon, ( Read more... )

On Saturday, ( Read more... )

As for middle Sunday, ( Read more... )


* Football !?!?

C'mon Cymru! I've watched more football - two whole matches and the rest - this summer than I had previously done in my life. I only understand the goal in the net bit, really, although apparently the game is about 'creating space' and what I learned from playing netball and hockey does not apply. I still think rugby is a more interesting sport, but I'm really proud of the team. The singing, obviously, gives me goosebumps.

Last week

I only saw smatterings of Queen’s: part of Young against Batista-Agut, which you couldn’t call enthralling; part of Tomic’s quarter final against Muller, which was more interesting; and Raonic then beating Tomic. I know that Murray won a record five times, but Raonic seems to be backing up the form that got him to the semis at Wimbledon last year. It’s good to see that he’s improved – she wrote, having not watched the finals which might have left me all nerves.

It was surprising that Federer and Thiem both lost to German players you wouldn’t expect them to in the semis at Halle.

And there was a story that suggested that the BBC wasn’t giving enough prominence to the ladies singles at Wimbledon, by which I mean, the figures backed it up. I can understand the ‘editorial judgement’ a little, because the top male players, one of whom is a Scot, are more consistent, and either Serena Williams gets into massive trouble (entertaining) or she bulldozes her opponents and there’s no telling what other ladies will get through (no Sharapova this year, expect Muguruza to get a lot of attention and Jo Konta, as she only really did well after Wimbledon last year, and for most of the British public, the rest of the tennis year counts for significantly less). I think that best of five makes for a more interesting dynamic – best of three can be over in three quarters of an hour if its an unequal meet.

This week

I hadn't seen any of Eastbourne until most of the first set of the final between Cibulkova, Pliskova and the wind, and then I had to go out so I have nothing to say about that.