Someone's playing tennis today apparently

[caddyman]

Now I'm not particularly interested in tennis, it's just another of the more dreadful spectator sports. I can see that there may be fun to had playing it: not for me to be sure: I have the hand-eye coordination of a sloe worm and the gut of a blue whale, but I can see that there might be fun there for someone of a more athletic bent and particularly, it looks like a game where you can have fun without being terribly good (or goodly terrible) at it.

That said, I have a passing interest in tonight's (UK time) US Open match up between Briton Andy Murray and World Number Two, Swiss Roger Federer. The British media of course, are playing up the match, as this is the latest in a string of finals where we can have the First British male champion in a Grand Slam tournament since Fred Perry in 1936. I suspect that this time tomorrow we will still be waiting for the first British male champion in a Grand Slam tournament since Fred Perry in 1936. The fun then, will be in seeing how the technique and mental resilience of Scotsman Murray is compared with the Swiss Federer.

You probably have to be from the UK to understand the point of that last sentence.

Comments

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Come on Tim !

[fen-wolfchile.livejournal.com]

I'm giving him a 40% chance, which is much higher than I would have given Henman or that Canadian chap.
The swiss chap is still favourite mind, then again so was that Spanish chap in the semi.
Just a pity it won't be live on any TV channel I actually have access to.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Tennis: Probably the dullest spectator sport in the world, I *hate* it.

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Golf ? Darts ? Poker.....


Yawnnnnnnnn sleepy just thinking about it....

[fen-wolfchile.livejournal.com]

You missed baseball.
I can usually get into most sports as a spectator but baseball I just don't get the point of.
So chap throws a ball, the other chap swings a bat and misses, this seems to repeated several times then they swap sides and do it all again.
And the commentators don't help by constantly realing off reams of statisticle information until my brain really does seem to start to run from my ears.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

"So chap throws a ball, the other chap swings a bat and misses, this seems to repeated several times then they swap sides and do it all again."

That description sounds dangerously close to tennis.

[fen-wolfchile.livejournal.com]

Well they do seem to at least hit the thing to each other a few times in a row, more often than not :)

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Poker isn't a sport. : )

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Neither is Darts !

Too late to add Football ?....

[fen-wolfchile.livejournal.com]

Technically niether is snooker :)

I actually quite like football, I just wish it didn't dominate the media so much.

[keresaspa.livejournal.com]

Tennis? is that the one with the fat Japanese guys in nappies or am I thinking of the Eton wall game?

[ash1977law.livejournal.com]

No, you are thinking of Porn.

[keresaspa.livejournal.com]

I always mix those two up! That explains why that tennis video I bought was so unsatisfying.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

Tennis on the Wii is good - well it makes me laugh.... so does the golf and the baseball and the bowling but the cow racing is best of all and makes my sides ache with laughter

[fredlums.livejournal.com]

Aww they missed the cow racing off our Wii! The tennis is good as is the golf and the bowling but the baseball is hard work as you have to be the whole team (most unfair)!

As at the top of the thread -C'mon Tim!!