Didn't know it was on freeview. Will give it a watch.
Are all the French open matches on then?

It's on channel 301 on Freeview

It'a now 2 sets each so Murray has recovered from losing the first two.

Gasquet has been on red hot form recently and if Murray can win this one, he should make decent progress.

Murray has just broken Gasquet in the 5th set

Yeah, am watching it already, but I can't work up any great feeling for either to win or lose.

Even though I AM Scottish.

Murray wins 4:6  6:7  6:4  6:2  6:1 

On to the next match

A complete turnaround from the halfway stage.

brisket, I've just answered your query on the Sports forum - you were right, and it's strange how in both matches Gasquet won the first 2 sets only to lose the final 3.

A couple of Murray's shots in the 5th set shows that he seems to have recovered the form which he had lost.

And I'm English, but when I watch Murray I become British

Unfortunately Elena Baltacha has followed Anne Keothavong by losing in the first round. That just leaves Katie O'Brien who is still to play her first round match.

I'm not clear if I should post here or in the Sports forum.
Anyway Federer is 1 set up and 4-1 up against Falla.

brisket, I think you've got more chance of people seeing your posts here rather than in the Sports forum. The only disadvantage is that here, unless there are frequent posts, the thread can just get lost. So its OK for say the French Open, but probable best to open a new thread for when we get to Wimbledon.

I should have made an earlier post that Katie O'Brien did lose her first round match leaving Andy Murray the sole British survivor. He's up against Chela in about an hour's time.

Thanks El Loro.
One difference between us is that you do clear-headed thinking, whereas that
is not always guaranteed with me. 

Not all the time

Why oh why do I dislike Murray SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much???.....I actually want him to lose every match he plays........Am I bad...

Me too - I just can't bear him.

He doesn't do himself any favours with his miserable attitude.

And it grates on me when people up here in Scotland say "oh, but he's Scottish you should be supporting him"



Nonsense.

It seems a shame a shame that 2 Swiss men are playing each other.
(Red button:  Freeview 301)

I would definitely advocate a new thread for Wimbledon. Something like 'Wimbledon 2010'.

I've been doing the Turkish GP.

I had a RL crisis in the middle of it and so am running about an hour behind. Haven't had a chance to see any tennis yet.

Well, I like Andy Murray. Grumpy is good

Don't they play at the net any more?
They've all retreated to the baseline.
It's like the days of Chris Evert all over again; but this time it's the men as well.
No serve and volley any more?
No delicate stuff any more? (Gone are the days of Nastase and Pietrangeli?)
**a sigh of nostalgia**

Hmm....I really don't see Murray getting the next three sets this time. Although if he wins the third they'll probably not play any more tonight. So the overnight break just might be enough for him to turn it around when they come back tomorrow.

Gawd Tennis is even more boring than football..yawn.

Murray just looks fed up!

Football's brillyunt

But the trouble with him is he's a miserable sod all the time - even when he wins he's miserable.

It's as if he hates the game of tennis - well go and do something else then and spare us all from your girning face.

Hope this other guy hammers him.

Oh dear.....He lost.....

The Federer match was brilliant

The Murray match was ... quick  

I won't half miss Trev on the Wimbledon thread

Good - shame I missed it.

Didn't realise it had stopped raining

For anyone who needs consolation -
- the chap who beat Murray seems like a nice young man.

Watching the Nadal match now (on the red button channel)
Silly Nadal, assumed he had played the winner and wasn't prepared for the ball to be returned. Serves him right that HE couldn't return it.

Let that be a good lesson for him.  Naughty to assume!

There's more towelling than tennis these days.

Has anyone seen these before  - impersonations of other players by
Novak Djokovic:





Very well observed.

I know exactly what you mean, Miss S. I find it really difficult to support someone who is such a misery guts. He takes sullen and dour to a whole new level.

Jankovitch (in yellow) looks rather sour-faced, though I suppose it could just be  single-focussedness.
Hantuchova (in red) is annoying me by this constant swapping the racquet into the other hand just so she can clench her fist.
Is she totally incapable of clenching and shaking her other fist?
Mind you, that would annoy me too, as I think the 'fist-clenching' thing is an unwarrented and unnecessary affectation.

Yes he does Yogi - now thankfully we've been spared from seeing him until Queens.



I have the women's game on the background Fluffy but it's not holding my interest at all. The only woman I enjoy watching is Serena - probably because she plays like a man.



I'm hoping for a Federer v Nadal final

Oh Fluffy I agree.
I am up to here  ( **hand-above-head gesture")   with fist clenching.

I'm guessing we would all fist clench if we were playing