So, as I pound the keyboard, the Murray, Roddick match has gone to a tiebreak, Roddick leads 5-3 for the match. The television’s on downstairs while I watch on the computer upstairs. The television is ahead, so I hear the crowds reaction at a distance before it appears on the screen in front of me. It’s now 6-4 to Roddick, no 6-5. Still match point. Roddick wins upstairs, 7 or 8 seconds after he won downstairs. Isn’t technology marvellous?
I once lived a tennis ball's throw from Wimbledon in the Borg, McEnroe days. When a Heathrow bound plane went over the flat, it could already be heard simultaneously on the television commentary, we were that close. Stereo TV before there was such a thing. We always said we'd go along one evening after work to catch a doubles match or two, but we never did. You don't though, do you?
