The Tennis Thread

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Yes, the BBC iPlayer can be hugely annoying and those self-promotional ads.................what on earth are they all about? Instead of paying some editor to cobble together clips of programmes on the iPlayer you have no interest in seeing try making the search engine better.

If you put Wimbledon/tennis/women's invitational 2024/ Hingis & Clijsters into the search box how can it not come up with the coverage of their matches in the result? But no all you get is "no result".

Similar if you went looking for the current score for any tennis game on the BBC web site it would just take you to their general Wimbledon tennis pages. It was easier just to Google and you'd likely get the latest score in the listings without even having to go anywhere else.

[Anpanman]

Novak wins Golden Slam by taking gold in Paris, fantastic stuff.

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Jack Draper into the quarters at the US.

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You cannot be serious!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/ce3zg3y23v7o

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Rafa confirms that he'll be hanging his racquet up at the end of the current season.

Greatest clay-court player of all-time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/ckgv9n5jj8jo

[Anpanman]

Djokovic using Andy Murray as coach for Aussie Open.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/ckgzvlxyvxgo

[Anpanman]

Sinner wins Aussie open, the result didn't look like going any other way, was hoping for a Sascha win but it wasn't to be.

Keys pulled a stunner in the ladies, Sabalenka let herself down a bit at the end but bounced back with probably one of the best runner up speeches we've seen.

[Anpanman]

Been watching the Abn Amro open (500), last nights semi Alcaraz v Hurkacz was superb. Nice to see Hurkacz back.

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World number one Jannik Sinner has accepted an immediate three-month ban from tennis after reaching a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) over his two positive drugs test last year.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/cj48rn79kego

[Anpanman]

Watched this last night, in fact been watching this all week. Been some good matches.

Draper played well but he was shattered by the third set, Rublev mentioned it in his interview after the match - which is usually worth watching!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/c4g0mkdy3z2o

[Anpanman]

Superb, Draper had to work against the crowd at Indian Wells to put the Brazilian sensation Fonseca in his pocket. Excellent play in the 6-0 second set.

[Anpanman]

Draper does it again, good game from him and also Kartal through to the next round - I mentioned her last year, enjoy watching her play.

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Draper through to final, impressive stuff from the Brit. Kartal's run comes to an end but she's had a really good tournament.

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Draper does it, Indian Wells champino!

Superb stuff.

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Novak missed out on his 100th title at the weekend to the new tennis star Mensik who along with Fonseca might start to challenge Sinner and Alcaraz.

Top players want more money, perhaps we'll see the oil drums burning on the picket lines.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/c1mel1y998eo