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I eagerly await the Ladies' Final, Rusty! I sometimes opt for players with good/interesting names - Mardy Fish and Jack Sock, for example.

Elle, I hesitate to say this... Right now, there's one match on BBC1 and another on BBC2.

Yes, sorry, Malone..........
I DID express that very badly - I really meant that there was no choice being offered me via the Red Button - the match shown on there being the same as on the BBC2 channel.

I'm relieved to hear that! I think we will have to be extra-vigilant,re the Red Button,this Wimbledon as I'm sure Euro 2016 will get in the way at times.

Hello, Elle,
The option to use Blue Button/Menu appears on my screen.
Quite straightforward to follow.
Just amazed that there are so many differences with Red Button and different systems.
I don't really approve of Miss Safarova playing in her nightie.
Does not look quite the thing.
Whatever is Wimbledon coming to!

What about Gussie Moran and her frilly lace knickers ?

Hi, Rusty!
Well, I am relieved that all has now become clear about this mysterious Red Button!
I was beginning to be concerned for my sanity - both in my own eyes and most probably in everyone else's too!
Are you sure that Lucie is playing in her nightie, Rusty?!
I remember as a child watching Maria Bueno when she first appeared in her various frilly tennis dresses!
How daringly short they looked then!
But how is Lucie doing in her match? Is your bet still valid?


Gussie Moran is a tad before my time, Eirlys! Wasn't she born in the early 1920s?
I have to admit to not knowing much about her.......or her frilly knickers.......
Shades of NBK here?

Elle
Here is her obituary

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gussie-moran-tennis-player-who-shocked-wimbledon-with-her-controversial-clothing-8459119.html

Eirlys, I live and learn!
And there was I thinking that Maria was the (daring) forerunner of woman's tennis fashions!

Hello, Elle!
Miss Sarafova and nightie are safely through to the next round.
No idea when Nick Kyrgios is playing in the Gentlemen's Singles.
Two of my books have landed from Amazon.
Had a quick riffle through them and they shall be good.
Similar style to Lyn MacD.
A photo and wee story caught my eye.
Lily Baron was 5 years old when her father was killed at Bourlon Wood, in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917.
He has no known grave.
Lily wanted to see where he died and went to France for the only time, with her family, when she was 98 years old.
She left a floral tribute of "lilies" there, and this little note.
"Thank you for five years of real happiness- I've missed you all my life."
Lily died shortly after she returned home in 2010.
There is a photo of Lily, aged 98, holding a photo of her and family, taken on her father's last leave in 1917.