Weeks 21 & 22 - French Open 2016 (inc. Andy) (clay)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Weeks 21 & 22 - French Open 2016 (inc. Andy) (clay)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Great to see Andy execute his game plan; tried and tested format against the big fellas. Another days rest then big Izzie and he should be nicely set for the QF's

Loved the lob, inch perfect! 9 ft 6 (6ft11 + 3ft7) high and almost hit the baseline... Beautiful!

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Friday 27th of May 2016 11:04:00 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The story behind those God-awful shirts JWT, Berd-brain, Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem &, apparently, Ana Ivanovic & Simona Halep are all wearing this fortnight, courtesy of yesterday's Times:

Stars dazzle in striped kit

Players contracted to adidas might look like zebras in their black-and-white outfits at Roland-Garros, but their kits, designed by Yohji Yamamoto, were inspired by dazzle camouflage from the 1940s and 50s. [All the players mentioned] won while wearing the outfits yesterday.

Camouflage? Flamin' distracting eyesores, if you ask me, & as bad as anything Stan or Dino (the Ted Baker numbers) wore last year! Thiem vs Zverev on Suzanne-Lenglen is proving very hard to watch at the moment...

Vandenburg · Futures level

Stircrazy wrote:
The story behind those God-awful shirts JWT, Berd-brain, Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem &, apparently, Ana Ivanovic & Simona Halep are all wearing this fortnight, courtesy of yesterday's Times:
Stars dazzle in striped kit
Players contracted to adidas might look like zebras in their black-and-white outfits at Roland-Garros, but their kits, designed by Yohji Yamamoto, were inspired by dazzle camouflage from the 1940s and 50s. [All the players mentioned] won while wearing the outfits yesterday.
Camouflage? Flamin' distracting eyesores, if you ask me, & as bad as anything Stan or Dino (the Ted Baker numbers) wore last year! Thiem vs Zverev on Suzanne-Lenglen is proving very hard to watch at the moment...

Ana Ivanovic looks great in it, more women tennis players should aspire to be like that.

Jaffa · Challenger level

I personally love it, wore it for our league match this morning

Whom we beat top of the league, 4-2

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Vandenburg wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
The story behind those God-awful shirts JWT, Berd-brain, Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem &, apparently, Ana Ivanovic & Simona Halep are all wearing this fortnight, courtesy of yesterday's Times:
Stars dazzle in striped kit
Players contracted to adidas might look like zebras in their black-and-white outfits at Roland-Garros, but their kits, designed by Yohji Yamamoto, were inspired by dazzle camouflage from the 1940s and 50s. [All the players mentioned] won while wearing the outfits yesterday.
Camouflage? Flamin' distracting eyesores, if you ask me, & as bad as anything Stan or Dino (the Ted Baker numbers) wore last year! Thiem vs Zverev on Suzanne-Lenglen is proving very hard to watch at the moment...
Ana Ivanovic looks great in it, more women tennis players should aspire to be like that.

So somebody finally took the bait (though my views remain as published, so I wasn't playing devil's advocate, just, er, stirrin' it...). And she lost in straight sets earlier today, as Kristina Mladenevic looks also likely to do! wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Jaffa wrote:
I personally love it, wore it for our league match this morning

Takes all sorts, I suppose... disbelief

Vandenburg · Futures level

The tradition and crap of Wimbledon sums up tennis in this country. Elitist farts from the home counties. I love the Zebras.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Vandenburg wrote:
The tradition and crap of Wimbledon sums up tennis in this country. Elitist farts from the home counties. I love the Zebras.

Nobody's forcing you to live here!

Jaffa · Challenger level

Stircrazy wrote:
Jaffa wrote:
I personally love it, wore it for our league match this morning
Takes all sorts, I suppose...

Haha, you should see the rest of my wardrobe!! wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Jaffa wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Jaffa wrote:
I personally love it, wore it for our league match this morning
Takes all sorts, I suppose...
Haha, you should see the rest of my wardrobe!!

I don't think I want to!

KK · Club Coach

Vandenburg wrote:
The tradition and crap of Wimbledon sums up tennis in this country. Elitist farts from the home counties. I love the Zebras.

What a bitter and unpleasant comment! There must be some grudge we don't know about there.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Wimbledons great though, change is as good as a rest. Throughly enjoy seeing the players smarten up a bit once a year. Being a member of an inner city tennis club, gutted that I got diddly squat in the ballot but very excited for some of the people going who don't really fit the definition of Home Counties old farts.

Neither did the coach load of 55 kids from the Birmingham over spill comprehensive I went to that used to go down from school every first Thursday year on year. One of the few sporting events at which you see a mixture of men women and children.

Interestingly my kids love the zebras

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I think the look awful, perhaps Vandys 12?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

KK wrote:
Vandenburg wrote:
The tradition and crap of Wimbledon sums up tennis in this country. Elitist farts from the home counties. I love the Zebras.
What a bitter and unpleasant comment! There must be some grudge we don't know about there.

Typical of the man, I'm afraid, KK. I doubt he even needs the excuse of a grudge! cry