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Well that's the Gold medal sorted. The others are fighting amongst themselves for the base metals.
Carlitos whips FAA 1 and 1.
Looks like Raducanu made a decent decision going to Washington she is into quarters.
Swiatek was pretty poor versus Collins to be fair
Zheng takes out Swiatek, not many will have seen that coming.
Hoping Vekic wins the other semi, could be a good final on Saturday.
Its about €7 for a months sub - well worth it to get all the streams.
Some other good stuff on it as well
Thanks - I registered now to see free content - remains to be seen if that included the tennis
Discovery plus show everything
11am I think - bah! Anyone know a way to watch online? I've just discovered I can get BBC Red Button on TV, but will have only internet at work. No chance RTE will screen it, I assume
Murray and Evans are tomorrow I think. Fritz and Paul will be tough.
Alcaraz and Nadal on the way the way out of the doubles now also by the looks of it.
Wawrinka is on his way home, but he put up a decent fight against Popyrin. We'll find out later today if Murray and Nadal will be following him. Along with Djokovic, that's four great players for whom this is the last Olympics. But only 3 of them have gold medals 😀
yeah wasn’t much of a competition, nice to have 10/15 competitive minutes at the end but yeah the end is nigh Rafa.
Made short work of that. Don't think we will see Nadal again here in singles
Djokovic steam rollering him in first set so far. 5-0
Snap.
Will be interesting to see if Nadal has anything to hurt Djoko with here. On paper it should be a straightforward win for Djoko, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Nadal lifting his level enough to cause him trouble one last time.
Yes, amazing they were down 8-3 in the tie break set - some comeback for them!! And I loved the kids in the crowd afterwards shouting for Andy to autograph their balls - great result!!
Murray and Evans doubles match was a great watch! They saved 5 (I think) match points in the third set, but have somehow fought their way through!
Battle of the oldies in the next round. Combined age of 75 and a chance for Nadal to even up the H2H.
Jesus, let him have at least 1 game ya miserable ba****.
Nadal has better form lately, and how well joker's knee will stand up. Unlike Nadal to duck a battle.
Not appealing to me either!!
Djokovic and Nadal drawn to play each other in the second round of the Olympics, though the word on the street is now that Nadal may pull out of the singles and focus on the doubles. I suppose getting rinsed by Djokovic on what is essentially home turf probably isn't that appealing.
A very reasonable perspective. But I'll be far more likely to watch Andy Murray play 1 match than Norrie/Draper/Evans play further.
It sure is, self indulgent nonsense from him , if he isn't 100% fit he shouldn't be next or near the Olympics and should have backed away from being selected.He's already won 3 Olympic medals so he doesn't need it anymore and considering selection for olympics is limited the he should have allowed someone else the opportunity rather than chancing taking a place and not being able to play.
Frankly his entire long goodbye over the past couple of years has been utterly tedious.
I admire his determination to give things a go but really he should have retired at least a couple of years back, and with the benefit of hindsight he could have just called it a day after his surgery in 2018.
Murray pulled out of the singles but still playing doubles (given how that went at Wimbledon I wouldn't be hopeful for a medal). Is this not kind of selfish plenty of strong doubles and singles players that could have been picked?
Sinner and Rune both out of the Olympics with tonsillitis and wrist injuries respectively. Disappointing the world #1 won't be there, methinks he'd be playing if it was a grand slam. Hopefully there won't be too many more withdrawals.
Murray definitely, definitely, definitely last tournament at the Olympics……
