Anyone forTennis.......Wimbledon 2013

[french frank]

name is Rafferty. Sean Rafferty.

Or do you mean Seán O Raifeartaigh, Padraig?

[teamsaint]

That's Andy through, then, 6-2 6-4 7-5.

that is how sports reporting SHOULD be done.

lets get rid of the psychobabble, and lets start NOW !!

[french frank]

that is how sports reporting SHOULD be done.

lets get rid of the psychobabble, and lets start NOW !!

I was going to add, 'A workmanlike display by the sound of it.' But I decided not to.

[teamsaint]

I was going to add, 'A workmanlike display by the sound of it.' But I decided not to.

that would have been ok, I think. nothing more needed though.

"what would Kenneth Wolstenholme have said?" is a good test.

[Padraig]

Or do you mean Seán O Raifeartaigh, Padraig?

Touché, ff. Old habits die hard.

Caidé an t-ainm atá air?
What is his name?
Seán O Raifeartaigh an t-ainm atá air.
His name is Sean Rafferty

[amateur51]

Touché, ff. Old habits die hard.

Caidé an t-ainm atá air?
What is his name?
Seán O Raifeartaigh an t-ainm atá air.
His name is Sean Rafferty

Good to see that you're still at your studies, Padraig

[Serial_Apologist]

Touché, ff. Old habits die hard.

Caidé an t-ainm atá air?
What is his name?
Seán O Raifeartaigh an t-ainm atá air.
His name is Sean Rafferty

Shorn of any Irishness...

[Padraig]

For my sins, amateur.

[french frank]

Good to see that you're still at your studies, Padraig

Good job it's an easy language - at least it looks it ...

[teamsaint]

prolly how Raffers feels about English.......

[Serial_Apologist]

How do people explain the increased length of men's shorts since the 1970s, not just in tennis but in sports generally? Are we supposed to be becoming more prudish?

[gurnemanz]

How do people explain the increased length of men's shorts since the 1970s, not just in tennis but in sports generally? Are we supposed to be becoming more prudish?

No explanation apart from - just fashion. Even gents like me of advanced years at my tennis club have succumbed to the baggy trend. I still have a few specimens of the tighter variety lurking at the back of drawers. To turn up wearing them would doubtless invite the same derision as wielding a wooden racquet.

A similar fashion also seems to pervade swimwear where most blokes seem to favour extreme floppy shorts rather than traditional trunks.

[EdgeleyRob]

I still don't understand why they get two goes at serving!
Make 'em get it right first time!!

[Flosshilde]

A similar fashion also seems to pervade swimwear where most blokes seem to favour extreme floppy shorts rather than traditional trunks.

Extremely uncomfortable for actually swimming in. One hotel/holiday resort (Alton Towers, possibly?) banned men from wearing trunks because it was a 'family' hotel

[Mr Pee]

Extremely uncomfortable for actually swimming in. One hotel/holiday resort (Alton Towers, possibly?) banned men from wearing trunks because it was a 'family' hotel

What did they wear then? Jeans?