Anyone for Tennis 🎾 🎾?

Amazing tennis!

I’m on pink muscato… 🍷

Do you think Sinner has got a bionic arm hidden under that bandage?

PamelaJ1

It’s 5o’clock somewhere in the world Merlot I’ll raise a glass of Sav Blanc to you. 🍷 Sorry emoji’ s don’t do white. On,y red or bubbly 🤷🏼‍♀️

🥂cheers Pamela

silverlining48

If I were interested enough I would google Andrew Castle. … assume he plays tennis? Please tell me it will be over soon!

Have found this year particularly hard because our internet went down which cuts out manyof the freebview/ catch up progs.

He was British No.1 tennis player in the mid 1980’s

MayBee70

eddiecat78

Why on earth has Andrew Castle been chosen for the final? Nobody likes him!

I do…

So do I

If I were interested enough I would google Andrew Castle. … assume he plays tennis? Please tell me it will be over soon!

Have found this year particularly hard because our internet went down which cuts out manyof the freebview/ catch up progs.

eddiecat78

Why on earth has Andrew Castle been chosen for the final? Nobody likes him!

I do…

Can someone tell me when it’s all over? By that I mean tennis football and cricket.. Am hoping it’s soon.

Why on earth has Andrew Castle been chosen for the final? Nobody likes him!

Well it’s tense! Might have to have a glass of Pinot soon.

It’s 5o’clock somewhere in the world Merlot I’ll raise a glass of Sav Blanc to you. 🍷 Sorry emoji’ s don’t do white. On,y red or bubbly 🤷🏼‍♀️

Definitely not Merlotgran! I’ve opened a Pinot Grigio (for the risotto you understand 🤭) and to save the vinegar 🪰 getting at it…lawdy, I’m so predictable! 🥂

And I want Carlitos to win 🙏

I don’t mind who wins. I’ve just come in from watering the garden so….Is it to early for a G&T?

I like them both too and sort of would like Jannik to win. I'm sure it will be a good match even though the irritating Andrew Castle is commentating.

Looking forward to the men’s final, especially as I don’t really mind who wins so I can relax and enjoy the tennis!

I don’t think I ‘ve liked a women’s tennis player as much since the early days of Venus Williams. I watched Iga’s match against Collins in awe and followed her for the rest of the tournament. and it’s good to know she seems to be a really nice person, too.

Two, German players were not allowed, as well as Japanese and Italian, and I feel like this kind of thing would show the Russian government that maybe it's not worth it,” she said at the time. For more than a year, she wore a Ukrainian ribbon on her hat during matches.
Today, Russians are still allowed to play top-level tennis, and during this year's Wimbledon championships Swiatek beat two of them to make it to the final. After winning against the Muscovite Polina Kudermetova in the first round, she was asked how it felt being a superstar in her home country.
“I've gotten used to it,” she said in the post-match press conference. “I hope it means a positive thing for my country.”
Although it does not come
without its downsides for the self-professed introvert: “When I go to Poland, I can't really go to a restaurant any more and not be asked for photos every two minutes.”

hired last year to replace the Polish former tennis player Tomasz Wiktorowski, Swiatek surrounds herself with a Polish team, including Maciej Ryszczuk, her fitness coach, and Daria Abramowicz, a psychologist and her closest adviser.
Swiatek, who is single, lives in her home country, a decision that is unusual by the standards of elite tennis, where a single match can win players large sums of money. Many highly ranked players reside in Monaco — where they pay no personal taxes on income, capital gains or investments — including Djokovic, Sinner, Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece and Russia's Daniil Medvedev. Some others live in Switzerland or Dubai.
In contrast, Swiatek lives in Raszyn, a village 12km southwest from the centre Warsaw with a population of 7,000. “It's always good to be home, especially since I'm there so rarely,” Swiatek posted on social media after winning the 2023 French Open. In Raszyn, a mural of the player has been painted on the Cyprian Godebski primary school.
In her downtime, Swiatek said she reads and plays with Lego. On Wednesday she said she was reading a novel by the Italian author Elena Ferrante, who is most famous for writing the Neapolitan Novels tetralogy. She signed a sponsorship deal with Lego Polska last year and said the plastic bricks help her to “be in

the moment” before a match.
She is also an enthusiastic participant in the time-honoured tradition of pinching Wimbledon's £40 towels. “We love our towels,” she said bashfully, after being confronted on national television for lifting half a dozen. “Sorry guys, sorry Wimbledon.”
Last Saturday, Swiatek caused a stir by posting a picture on social media of her dinner: a bowl of cooked pasta with yoghurt and chopped up strawberries. “Its a Polish thing,” she shrugged, spawning countless recipes and TikTok videos of fans trying to recreate the dish.
Her eagerness to wave the flag for Polish culture has made Swiatek a celebrity in her home country, earning her the Polish sports personality of the year award in 2022 and 2023.
She has also earned admiration from Ukraine, after she spoke out against the Russian invasion in February 2022. At a time when her country took in about 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees and was the first to begin supplying Ukraine with heavy weaponry on a large scale, Swiatek spoke out against allowing Russian players to compete in international tournaments

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Poland rallying behind its best-known athlete, who is unafraid to be true to her heritage on the world stage.
Most of the world's sporting superstars are typically sponsored by a small group of big businesses. The American behemoth Nike is a prime example. Sunday's men's finalists, Jannik Sinner of Italy and Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, as well as Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus and Jack Draper from Britain, are all sponsored by the company. Novak Djokovic, the Serbian who has won Wimbledon seven times, is sponsored by the French fashion house Lacoste for an estimated €8 million a year.
But Swiatek, who is now world No 4 and entered Wimbledon this year as the
eighth seed, agreed to a sponsorship deal a little closer to home. While her all-white kit also bears the logos of the Indian tech company Infosys and the Swiss sports brand On, her primary sponsor since May has been Oshee, a Polish energy drink company based in Krakow.
In Polish supermarkets, brightly coloured bottles of Oshee with Swiatek's face plastered on the label are priced at four zloty each, or about 80p. The value of the deal, with the biggest sports beverage company in Poland, has been kept secret.
“I'm a global athlete and foreign companies are also interested in me, so we can, in a sense, make more tactical choices,” she said in a 2023 interview with the Polish outlet Grupa PZU. “I turned down
several nice offers precisely because sometimes the values of some companies are not necessarily in line with mine.”
Swiatek's net worth, estimated by Forbes at about £18 million, will have been boosted by Saturday's prize money of £3 million.
She ended a sponsorship deal with Nike in January 2020 after the company reportedly refused to provide kit for her whole team. Eight months later, she won her first grand slam. An Oshee spokesman said her presence in the Wimbledon final was “an important voice for Poland on the international stage”.
Swiatek grew up in Warsaw with her parents and older sister, Agata. Her father, Tomasz Swiatek, competed in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul as a quadruple sculls rower, placing seventh. Her mother, Dorota, is an orthodontist.
Tomasz described his daughter as a “restless” child, who started tennis to compete with her sister.
When Swiatek was a teenager, her family struggled financially. “There was a moment when I was against the wall. There was a moment when I earned enough money to earn my bread and butter, but there was nothing extra,” Tomasz, who was his younger daughter's first tennis coach, said last year.
Aside from Wim Fissette, her new Belgian coach who was

Meet Iga Swiatek, the patriotic Pole who just won Wimbledon
Some champions use sponsor money to live in luxury abroad — not this history maker, who lives alone and builds Lego in a home nation that couldn't be more proud

Dominic Hauschild, Wimbledon
When Iga Swiatek lost in the semi-finals of the Paris Olympics in August last year, a flood of commiserations poured in on social media.
One of the messages was from Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland. “Iga, we are all a bit sad,” Tusk posted on X, “but please remember: we are with you, for better or for worse!”
Eleven months later, as the “Queen of Clay” conquered the grass of Wimbledon on Saturday, Tusk was able to tweet triumphantly. “Wimbledon is 148 years old, and no one, neither man nor woman, has ever won the final without losing a game! Iga has made history, although her story is really just beginning,” he wrote.
Swiatek, 24, beat the United States's Amanda Anisimova, 23, with a brutal 6-0, 6-0 score completed in 57 minutes, the
Iga Swiatek says Lego helps her to “be in the moment” before a match

quickest final since 2014. The last time a player won in straight sets without losing a game was the 1911 victory of Dorothea Lambert Chambers, a seven-time Wimbledon winner, over Dora Boothby.
After her 6-0, 6-0 victory — known in tennis as the “double bagel” — Swiatek said: “This is the best feeling a player can have.” She is the first Polish champion at Wimbledon.
In the post-match press conference, Swiatek said receiving the trophy from the Princess of Wales was “something surreal”, but added that she was “too overwhelmed” to

There’s a lovely article about Iga in The Times…

What a lovely message 🙂

I am impressed by how kind the tennis players are to each other. Rublev send a lovely message to Amanda after her defeat.

Allira

Yes, it's awful

"So, Amanda, how do you feel about just losing in the Wimbledon final?"

From lip-reading, I'm sure the Princess of Wales said to her "You'll be back".

Yes l thought that as well.
Roll on tomorrow!

I don't know who I want to win tomorrow because I like both of them.
May the best player on the day win.
Ladies final a disappointment but that was not Swiatek's fault.Congratulations , Iga.
I don't think that Samsonova should have been forced to be interviewed after that drubbing.
A member of the player's team should be substituted in similiar cases.
Having said that Samsinova handled it gracefully.
I don't think the boys will be three sets to love......