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Anyone for Tennis?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:33 pm
by SmurfingH
It's the summer grass court tennis season now and the men's tournament at Queens in being played. This is the warm up for Wimbledon which I always watch. :-D Anybody else like tennis or are we doomed to football talk for aaaaaaaaaaaages? :naughtysmurf: :)

PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:40 pm
by paolo
I like tennis a lot, until five or six years ago I used to watch Wimbledon from day one till the final about 8 hours a day, then I started working seriously and I had no more free time to watch afternoon games.
Anyway, yesterday I watched the Roland Garros final and I plan to watch Wimbledon finals on Saturday and Sunday (rain permitting).

PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:03 pm
by SA Smurfette
I love the Tennis !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't wait for it to start :mosh:

At least it will keep me entertained while I'm up feeding Jack in the middle of the night :-D

PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:07 am
by Lia
Wimbledon is great!! I love that too!

and then we`ll have the Tour de France,

and then the Olympic Games!

so.....we all can be happy about something :cheers:

PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:05 am
by Guest
Women's tennis is great i must agree, i would love to be a cameraman :love:, for professional reason's of course :wink:

:-D :beer:

PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:42 am
by SmurfingH
Funny that, Beers, I usually prefer the men's! :winks: :-D

PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:29 am
by Michelle
I really like tennis a lot.... but I miss Justine Henin!
Every match I was watching I wondered if she could win or not? It was really shocking news when she asked to take her off the list (nr 1).
This made it very true :(
So now it's very hard to have a favorite in the women competition.
But Federer is my fav! He's so pure, sad he couldn't win RG this time...
I'll hope he wins Wimbledon again!

Michelle

PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:04 pm
by FlamingO
I will still watch Wimbledon but I don't follow tennis like I used to :-?

I used to love going there (although didn't enjoy queing up through the night :chilli: ) so we could get tickets for a main court and see Becker, Agassi, Ivanisavic, Courier, Lendl, Rafter, Graf, Seles, Capriati etc. :-D but I just can't find much enthusiasm for any of today's players :???:
I think I can name two currently playing Federer and Nadal :) is there anybody else??
Oh and of coure Murray, but if you want to support a Brit you have expect some frustration :sillyme:

PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:18 pm
by SmurfingH
Henin was a lovely player! I know what you mean about the Brits Sue. :banghead: Hopefully Murray will change the trend but I'm not holding my breath in case he doesn't! :-D :)

PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:43 pm
by Tojo
Sorry but I find tennis really boring...

Thwack, thwack, skid thwack, thwack, OUT!!! Lots of groans..... :)

I'll stick with the football if you don't mind :-D

PostPosted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:34 pm
by SA Smurfette
Funny that, Beers, I usually prefer the men's! :winks: :-D
Me too :-D
but I miss Justine Henin!
Every match I was watching I wondered if she could win or not? It was really shocking news when she asked to take her off the list (nr 1).
:iagree: Michelle. She was one of my favourites along with Kim Clisters, now they've both retired :( I'd say my next favourite woman is Lindsay Davenport :D All the Australian woman are crap :)

PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:38 pm
by paolo
What a great Wimbledon final!
Maybe the best match in the past few years (since Sampras retired).

PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:42 pm
by Guest
The spanish are winning everything :) :)

:-D :beer:

PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:46 pm
by paolo
Let's hope that some Olympics gold medals (soccer and volleyball for example) will be for our players.

PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:47 pm
by Guest
Well i doubt GB will win anything as usual :banghead:

:-D :beer:

PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:01 pm
by Lia
That final was breathtaking! True...spanish winners from the EC, Wimbledon and a spanish cyclist in the yellow jersey in the Tour!! Great!

PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:11 pm
by SmurfingH
The final was just breathtaking! :shock: What a rollercoaster! So please Nadal one though. All in all a really good tournament this year. :-D

PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:44 am
by Syd Smurf
I like playing tennis but like most sports...watching is never quite as much fun. The other night I got to have a photo taken with a 711 umbrella, that according to the nice English lady who owned the umbrella, it came from Wimbledon for only $10 when she was watching the tennis.

I like 711....or more specifically Slurpees from 711 a lot better.

Dyar