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Coup Droit


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Not sure Leeds v Norwich has main channel viewing in France..... A missed market opportunity ????

Expect the guys there will be watching England Ireland though....

Allez, Dan - keep it going.



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Bob in Spain wrote:
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Here we go then. Back to the tennis.

livestream.com/ATP/events/8548952

Hoping Dan can make it through and preferably without the torment of another 3rd set breaker.

 Just a little 'naming' diversion until Dan started the main show smile

(NB Don't like the name Ugo, either, especially without an 'H', but at least it's a real name. Dan certainly wins in the name stakes though)

And he's started really well  - and Ugo looks a little nervous.

Quite a big crowd - trying to get their man started.....

(Hopefully no third set, as you say, Bob - partly coz people want to watch the rugby !) 

Rugby ?  With Leeds v Norwich on the other channel ?  They must be mad biggrin

Dan now 4-0* up.

Who the hell in his/her right mind would want to watch the Dirties vs the Canaries?!!!  confuse



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First set in the bag by 6-2!  biggrin 



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Excellent set of tennis from Dan who takes it 6-2. Looks like he is trying to keep the points shorter today by being more aggressive and it is certainly paying off.

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Well, that was a really tidy, efficient, quality set of tennis from Dan.

(And kudos to the guy in the crowd who's let rip with a few full-volume 'c'mon Dan !')

Another would be nice......and a welcome change to the stressy ones of the previous days.....

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Have the stream on but trying to get on with other things too - thought I might just watch the third set TB (!), but maybe I should keep my eyes on it from now.
Go Dan!!

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Have the stream on but trying to get on with other things too - thought I might just watch the third set TB (!), but maybe I should keep my eyes on it from now.
Go Dan!!

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A question - in French, when the score is deuce, they seem to say one thing for the first deuce of the game (sounds like 40-all ???) and something else for subsequent deuces (sounds like equality..but in French!). Does anyone know exactly what they are saying and why the different ways of saying deuce?

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A question - in French, when the score is deuce, they seem to say one thing for the first deuce of the game (sounds like 40-all ???) and something else for subsequent deuces (sounds like equality..but in French!). Does anyone know exactly what they are saying and why the different ways of saying deuce?

 You're spot on, Jan.

For some reason, never really known why, but it's always the way: the first deuce is 'quarante-à,' which means 40-all (short for quarante-à-quarante), it's the same at quinze-à or trente-à,

 

And the ones after are 'égalité', as you say, 'deuce', 'equality'. 



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Coup Droit wrote:
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A question - in French, when the score is deuce, they seem to say one thing for the first deuce of the game (sounds like 40-all ???) and something else for subsequent deuces (sounds like equality..but in French!). Does anyone know exactly what they are saying and why the different ways of saying deuce?

 You're spot on, Jan.

For some reason, never really known why, but it's always the way: the first deuce is 'quarante-à,' which means 40-all (short for quarante-à-quarante), it's the same at quinze-à or trente-à,

 

And the ones after are 'égalité', as you say, 'deuce', 'equality'. 

 Thanks very much CD - I've always wondered, and figured someone like you would know!



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I fell asleep , what happened ?

 

the applause woke me up / I thought hed won - 

dear me - old person !!



-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Saturday 2nd of February 2019 04:28:26 PM

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Jan wrote:

A question - in French, when the score is deuce, they seem to say one thing for the first deuce of the game (sounds like 40-all ???) and something else for subsequent deuces (sounds like equality..but in French!). Does anyone know exactly what they are saying and why the different ways of saying deuce?

If memory serves, when the score first goes to deuce, an umpire in France will call égalité.  If it goes back to deuce after a game/break point has been saved, he/she says quarante (40)-à (pronounced "ah", but short) or even partout (i.e. to both players).



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Stircrazy wrote:
Jan wrote:

A question - in French, when the score is deuce, they seem to say one thing for the first deuce of the game (sounds like 40-all ???) and something else for subsequent deuces (sounds like equality..but in French!). Does anyone know exactly what they are saying and why the different ways of saying deuce?

If memory serves, when the score first goes to deuce, an umpire in France will call égalité.  If it goes back to deuce after a game/break point has been saved, he/she says quarante (40)-à (pronounced "ah", but short) or even partout (i.e. to both players).

 It's that but the other way round, SC. Don't know why but it's nearly always quarante (40)-à first, and then the égalité or sometimes just égal but never usually partout, although I've heard it for qunize partout, and even trente partout, maybe coz it's easier to say, but never for quarante partout and never by itself.

NB Some say you shouldn't ever use quarante-a and just say égalité but most do, as per this guy. My umpire book is in France, I can't remember what the actual page says. 



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 2nd of February 2019 04:32:43 PM

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Stircrazy wrote:
Jan wrote:

A question - in French, when the score is deuce, they seem to say one thing for the first deuce of the game (sounds like 40-all ???) and something else for subsequent deuces (sounds like equality..but in French!). Does anyone know exactly what they are saying and why the different ways of saying deuce?

If memory serves, when the score first goes to deuce, an umpire in France will call égalité.  If it goes back to deuce after a game/break point has been saved, he/she says quarante (40)-à (pronounced "ah", but short) or even partout (i.e. to both players).

Thanks to you as well - much appreciated!



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Dan finally wraps it up in straight sets for the first time since the first round:

SF:  Daniel Evans WR 163 defeated (2) Ugo Humbert (FRA) WR 91 by 2 & 4 

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Final:  (15) Grégoire Barrère (FRA) WR 155 (CH = 138 last November) vs Daniel Evans WR 163



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