That is Novak Djokovic’s finest trick ( off the court, anyway) and he showed he was bang in form in his pre-tournament press conference. More as I have it on the Parisian food poisoning crisis.ĭon’t want to answer too many questions? Make your answers longer. There was also a story going round the locker room about some dodgy octopus, the location of which I am yet to identify. The world No 3 ended up crashing out in the third round. She ordered snails, one of her favourites, but then spent the next few days barely able to leave her bed. Speaking of restaurant recommendations, if anyone catches up with Jessica Pegula any time soon, find out where she had dinner the week before the tournament. but one of the big upsides of proposed development across Church Road would be the ability to bring qualifying on site and turn it into the kind of event that made Roland Garros buzz with 50,000 fans over five days before things even really got going. A similar event simply isn’t possible at SW19, where qualifying is held at Roehampton to save the courts for main event, although there is a small show court at the Bank of England venue this year to allow a few more fans into pre-tournament week. Wimbledon, a sellout for two weeks at the championships, must be crying into their planning permission when they see it. People can watch qualifying, enjoy the circulating brass band and enjoy “sparring sessions” where players face off on show courts in front of a couple of thousand people. Not at Roland Garros though, where cheap tickets (10 Euros for under-25s) are sold throughout the week. Tennis Alcaraz is watching Murray and Federer videos to learn grass-court tennis but not Djokovic Read More France for the French?įrench bureaucracy is famous, from their obsession with stamps to the difficulties of trying to do almost anything without the birth certificate of both your parents, but it seems that even extends to tennis. Series two might be better: they are still following Ons Jabeur and were in the room when Aryna Sabalenka returned to a press conference after skipping two, but I did also seem them trailing around after Alexander Zverev, a development plenty will see as a reason not to watch. The second tranche of Break Point episodes from the first is due to come out just before Wimbledon – I’m lucky enough to have been given early access and our review will be out later this week – but given the lukewarm reception within tennis to the first five shows, expectations are low. The extremely expensive and heavily manned cameras of Netflix have become part of the furniture at grand slams, which might a strategic advantage when it comes to capturing the best content.
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