seagull wrote:

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James wrote:

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Julia Carrot wrote:

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I actually wanted Berdych to win as I seem to have gone off Shapovalov. Not just because he beat our boy but his behaviour in that match was not the best in my opinion.

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 What do you mean?  

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 Don't you start

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  Quite...... especially as I'm a bit out of my depth on this anyway LOL.  It was mainly concerning   the incident of the call  of 'out' on one of Shap's serve's by a member of the public which caused Kyle to  not attempt to return.  Allegedly Shap could have requested the umpire to call a 'let'.  Whether that is true or not I don't know, but Kyle's frosty handshake at the net showed he was not best pleased either.  I also thought his body language somewhat brattish/petulant in his subsequent match against Zverev.   But I'll probably get to like him again as he does have a wonderful game style when at his best.

Maybe Shap didn't know this.

Could Jo K have called for a let at Wimbledon when a woman yelled on MP against Halep putting Halep right off ?

Kyle has started and is up an early break. 2-0* (Pouille serving)

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Kyle underway and starts with a break.
Sadly I can't find a stream, and Radio 5 Live aren't covering it - they seem to have to spend 2 hours discussing the football squad..........

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It is on videostream, with all the matches from Rome

http://videostream.dn.ua/videopage/videoPage.php?g=OTcxOTYf&c=en&i=eWl2bW9iZGlzaAff

Kyle stormed through the 1st set in dominant fashion taking it 6-2. On serve in the 2nd at *2-3 but Pouille has certainly upped his game substantially. This could still be a close battle, as it should be between players provisionally ranked 16 & 17 in the world.

4-4* but Pouille looking ever more dangerous. Hoping Kyle can close it out in this set.

6-2*

4 MPs ..