Tennis!

[Lineker]

Pliskova has gone. All top ten female seeds are now out.

[Baddar]

Andy Murray on comms for Nadal-Del Potro. Nice.

[Baddar]

Djokovic v Nadal will probably run quite late. Isner and Anderson are currently 3 sets into their match (2-1 Isner), with all 3 going to tie-breaks.

[Arjen Robben]

John Inverdale is fucking insufferable.

[Baddar]

3 minutes ago, Arjen Robben said:

John Inverdale is fucking insufferable.

Yeah, he's awful.

[Adam]

Vika Azarenka labelled him "comical, and not in a good way" on Twitter yesterday after watching her doubles match with Jamie Murray back and having to put up with Inverdale on commentary.

[Arjen Robben]

God it's never going to fucking end this is it.

[Baddar]

Longest semi-final of all time.

[Baddar]

Why they can't do 5th set tie-breaks, I'll never know. Whoever wins this is getting hammered on Sunday regardless now.

[Arjen Robben]

It's ridiculous that they don't at this point, nobody wants these never-ending matches. 

[Baddar]

3 minutes ago, Arjen Robben said:

It's ridiculous that they don't at this point, nobody wants these never-ending matches. 

Like John McEnroe just pointed out - it doesn't take anything away from the match if it's won on a 5th set tie-break.

Also, why do they start so late on the main courts? 1/1.30pm is pushing it. If they started at around 11.30am, there'd be plenty of time. As it is now, Djokovic-Nadal probably won't finish until tomorrow.

[Arjen Robben]

Probably won't even start until tomorrow, never mind finish.

[Adam]

On the contrary, I loved the battle between Federer and Anderson the other day that went into this sort of territory. It's a bit different when it's just two huge servers like Anderson and Isner, but overall I much prefer it this way. It feels a bit cheap winning a 5 set epic on a tiebreak.

[Arjen Robben]

I really don't think it does cheapen it, it's how it is in the US Open and it doesn't feel cheap. This is just no good for either the schedule, the fans, the players (and their health), and the other players waiting around waiting to play.

[Adam]

I agree it's not ideal but it's quite rare it goes as long as this. It's always when you get two men who's game is entirely based around their serve. McEnroe's suggestion of the 5th being allowed to go to 10-10 or something before a tiebreak would work for me, maybe 12-12 so you can play through a de-facto "sixth set" before settling it this way.

[Baddar]

If the final is something like 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday, and essentially a non event, I hope they look into changing something.

Hoping it rains now. That way, Djokovic-Nadal can get started in about an hour on centre, and this can finish tomorrow on Court 1, along with the other semi on Centre after the women's match as I don't think that's finishing tonight either.

[Adam]

They wouldn't stop this match before the finish in favour of the other match though I don't think. Nadal/Djokovic not starting til tomorrow seems more likely at this point.

[MDK]

I went out about an hour ago to get fags and order a pizza and whathaveyou. I thought it would probably be over by the time I get back but here we are.

[Chris2K]

It would be different if this was a Federer/Nadal/Djokovic/Murray technical contest, but these two are just serving really hard and that's it so it's beyond boring at this point.

There's been one break of serve in 94 games. ONE.

[Baddar]

I'm still watching, mind. 

But yes, it's boring me a bit now.