Anyone with BBCi TV...

[NoflopsHomer]

Put the tennis match from court no.1 on. It's Ivanisvecic and Lecount playing and so far they've come on the court covered in bandadges, tied up the match official and usurped his chair. Should be fun. 

[mikkyT]

What?

[NoflopsHomer]

It's just an over 35's doubles match, if you have interactive tv you can select which match to watch. So far, Goran played half game whilst sitting on a stool, and then a girl in the stand couldn't stop laughing so the players stopped playing and went over to talk to her instead, and one of the other players tipped a line judge when he got a good call. 

[I, Zimbra]

It were genius; I'm so sorry I had to come back upstairs and play poker...

One of their opponents is Slobodan Zivojinovic, people with a long memory may remember him breaking through into the quarterfinals of Wimbly back when Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg were kings...

[snoopy1239]

I'm watching

and waiting....

 

[snoopy1239]

What's the name of that Iranian guy who does all the exhibitionist stuff when he plays?

[NoflopsHomer]

What's the name of that Iranian guy who does all the exhibitionist stuff when he plays?

Bahrani, he was on during the previous match. playing points whilst holding six balls in his hands.

[snoopy1239]

What's the name of that Iranian guy who does all the exhibitionist stuff when he plays?

Bahrani, he was on during the previous match. playing points whilst holding six balls in his hands.

yeah - him, he's ace

bah, missed him

[I, Zimbra]

Mansour Bahrami.

He used to play with Leconte, they were a great pair - oftentimes, they would make their opponents laugh so much as to be unable to concentrate on the game! Thing is, you have to be an amazingly talented player to be able to do the tricks that Bahrami can do. As I recall, he's self-taught, but suffered at the peak of his powers when Iran banned tennis - along with all other competitive sports - in the seventies.

He and Leconte split their partnership, I think, when Bahrami became old enough to play on the Senior-Senior tour, the one above the Seniors (where Leconte still plays).