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Stircrazy


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Michael D 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

More people than you would think SC! The Canaries have a surprisingly diverse support... Anyone who has been to UEA or lived in Norwich/ Norfolk... And you've got to like Farkeball and Farkelife wink

My comment was nothing whatsoever to do with the Canaries & everything to do with the Dirties, even though I'm Yorkshire-born, just not from the Leeds area...



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Stircrazy wrote:
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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

Was going to say "just one more French Barrier to overcome" but I am sure someone will tell me that the translation is not quite right.

You're right, Bob, it isn't: barrère has no meaning in French as such.  It's out by one vowel:  one of the words for "barrier" is barrière.

Interestingly, Barrère has an SE into the main draw in Budapest, where he's seeded fifth.



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Bob in Spain 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?

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!

Except my memory betrayed me & I got it the wrong way round! 

 No problem!

 It might be a problem if anyone made any life-changing decisions off the back of the incorrect advice.

Oh bugger off, will you?  If it had been a life-changing decision, I'd have made pretty bloody sure that I'd got my facts correct by waiting more than a minute or two to post a reply.  furious

I actually took Jeff's comment to be a bit of a sarcastic and tongue-in-cheek Brexit dig rather than commenting on anything you had put.  But if I am right on that, let's leave the Brexit thing to a different thread.

 Quite. The reaction had to be seen to be believed.



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Well, Bob, according to one of the sites:

Étymologie du nom de famille BARRERE

Origine : barrere est un nom de famille de la région du sud-est, designantla barrière caracteristique de la maison ou surnom d'un gardien de barrière .

Which basically means you can do your joke, just fine, if you want !

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JonH wrote:

All I can say is tiger honey drew

Tiger is the son of two very successful porn stars, his father is Ben Dover, I think he got of lightly! 

 

 



-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Saturday 2nd of February 2019 09:35:55 PM

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

More people than you would think SC! The Canaries have a surprisingly diverse support... Anyone who has been to UEA or lived in Norwich/ Norfolk... And you've got to like Farkeball and Farkelife wink

My comment was nothing whatsoever to do with the Canaries & everything to do with the Dirties, even though I'm Yorkshire-born, just not from the Leeds area...

 It's ok SC, no offence taken - and it was a brilliant match with the Canaries playing some superb football to win 1-3 at the Dirties and replace them at the top of the Championship biggrinbiggrin



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I support Norwich too. It was gripping match!



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I support Norwich too. It was gripping match!

Congrats on the win.  See you in the PL next season as we both go up.



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Bob in Spain wrote:
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I support Norwich too. It was gripping match!

Congrats on the win.  See you in the PL next season as we both go up.

 Thanks and I hope so.



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KK wrote:
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I support Norwich too. It was gripping match!

Congrats on the win.  See you in the PL next season as we both go up.

 Thanks and I hope so.

Yes, I was thinking I had read somewhere you were a Leeds fan, Bob. And I agree, the two sides are probably the best two footballing sides in the Championship and it would be good to see both go up. But it remains very close at the top so still plenty of work for both to do.   



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Evo underway, fingers crossed for him

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Good quality match so far. Barrere trying to get after the Evo 2nd serve in particular and playing some quite aggressive tennis, but Evo standing firm and has had 2 BPs of his own. On serve at 2-2* so far.

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On his 5th BP overall, Evo makes the breakthrough as a Barrere forehand goes long.

*3-2

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Cracking game. 8 points. 7 winners. Dan saves 2 bps.
Good match up.....

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Dan has had BPs in 3 out of 4 return games.  4-3 for Dan, he serves.



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