Diary

So Novak Djokovic has the coronavirus. That is a huge surprise. I mean he was being particularly careful in the Adria Exhibition in Croatia. Lockdown rules had been dropped in that country so clearly it was perfectly fine to have stands full of spectators, players hugging at the net and everyone sitting very closely together on the sidelines with no distancing or masks. To enhance the safety of everyone involved they danced in a club in the evenings. If anyone was worried that there weren’t enough safety measures in place they were unnecessarily concerned. He also organised a basketball match in which the players competed. What a mong. If he lived near me he would have been the one having his mates round for packed house parties.

You know you’ve fucked up when Nick Kyrgios criticises your behaviour and calls you irresponsible!

Andy Murray “took a knee” before his first match of the Battle of the Brits. I have written the rest of this paragraph a few times and deleted it. This country seems to be scared to death of being labelled racist. ALL LIVES MATTER. I accept that this phrase probably doesn’t fit well with what’s happening in America but we aren’t in America. Most of us have no influence over how others behave so we just need to take responsibility for our own actions. The vast majority of people in this country are not racist.

In other news I have been subscribing to Sky Movies since the end of last year. They had a 2 month free trial. When that ended they offered me 6 months for £5 which I took them up on. I was expecting it to end at the end of June. I had been on their site a few weeks ago but they had a message up saying that they weren’t taking calls from customers due to Covid-19. I was expecting an email from them letting me know the trial was about to end. I hadn’t had one. I logged into my account and checked my latest bill. Sky Cinema had gone up to £19. Twats. I tried to cancel Sky Cinema but got a message saying that to do that I had to call them. They provided a number. When I got through the guy told me that he would cancel it but I had to give 31 days notice! Fuck off! I asked why I had not been told before the price went up. “Oh we can’t do that! We have millions of customers.”

I would have thought that Sky would be able to automate that notification with very little effort. He offered to speak to his manager. I said that it was a good idea and pointed out that Covid was happening to all of us and not just SKY and we had other things to think about than our Sky subscriptions. They agreed to waive the notice period.

Its time that I was in the garden with a beer.

Stay safe.

 

Andy Murray, the BBC Sport Columnist, writes about playing the US Open and the Battle of the Brits.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53130722

Dan Evans has said that Djokovic must fee some responsibility for the fuck up that was the Adria Tour exhibition. I’m paraphrasing a little.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53131665

On Monday Viktor Troicki, who was Novax Djocovid’s doubles partner at the Adria exhibition, tested positive for covid-19.

“It is true that my wife and I are positive. She was tested on Friday and my daughter and I on Sunday after we found out she was positive. My daughter is negative, and my wife and I are positive,” Troicki said. Troicki and Djokovic are really good friends. Recently at ATP Cup, they played doubles together and did not drop a match in the event. (from EssentiallySports.com)

Alexander Zverev has insisted he is “deeply” sorry for putting anybody in danger of catching the deadly coronavirus by competing in the Adria Tour. Sunday’s final in Zadar, Croatia was cancelled after it emerged Grigor Dimitrov had contracted COVID-19.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/tennis/1299391/Alexander-Zverev-Instagram-Apology-Coronavirus-Farce-Adria-Tour-Marin-Cilic-Novak-Djokovic

The Battle of the Brits starts this afternoon at the LTA’s National Tennis Centre in London. It finishes on Sunday.

They will play a round robin format. Matches are the best of 3 but with a match tie break in a deciding set.

Making up the Tim Henman singles group are, James Ward, Liam Broady, Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund.

The Greg Rusedski group consists of Jack Draper, Jay Clarke, Cam Norrie and Dan Evans.

There is also a doubles tournament that includes Jamie Murray who co-organised the event. The matches will be shown on Prime Video.

Yet another quiet day for me on Monday. I made a start on painting the kitchen. It is more of a touch up than a full repaint. There are lots of marks on the walls from explosions of various foods and beverages and also from the dogs. The coffee machine sprayed hot milk from a latte over one of the walls ( and also Charlie!). That wall looks like new now.

As the better weather returns this week I am looing to get rid of all the unwanted crap from the shed and garden.

Let’s see what changes old Boris is going to make on the lockdown rules. I think he is announcing them at lunchtime in the Commons.