After three hours and 34 minutes in 40c heat, Kyle Edmund celebrated his progress to the fourth round of the Australian Open (he beat Nikoloz Basilashvili 7-6 3-6 4-6 6-0 7-5). He's now got to beat someone ranked below him to get into his first Grand Slam quarter final.
Look he once briefly visited Tickton as a child when his parents Yacht was blown off course while sailing from Cape Town to the Bahamas - but by'eck that's enough to claim him as one of our own for me. As for his Bindippery, lets remember he learned to play Tennis at the David Lloyd Center, and any link with that great man makes him forever Ull City too. I say we get him along for another Tennis ball protest except this time everyone throws the balls at him and he smashes them at the empty directors box......
In all seriousness, good luck to the fella. It's not like he spends much time in the UK (or Bermuda). I guess his football passion must have come from when he was a kid (2000ish?). Maybe David Lloyd told him to support Liverpool.
Geez, that's a way to travel for a home game... I know someone from Hull who lives in Torquay and travels to Scouseville every other week to watch Liverpool, but Bahamas to Scouseville, that takes some beating.
The boffs at the BBC will be foaming at the mouth if he gets into the semi's. Andrew Castle will have a semi of his own.
I meant I have no qualms with him being resident in Bermuda. He is probably touring the world for 30+ weeks of the year and the rest of it he'll be training somewhere a bit warmer than Tickton. Having just flow into City airport yesterday, I have much more of an issue with those non-doms going home after a week in the city.
A lot of the USA champions were Czech originally and defected such as Lendl and Navratilova, so him being here from 3 year old is not an issue for me.
Looking good again after losing the first set. He's won the second and 4-1 up in the next. Opponent looks finished. Guess some on here won't be happy until he has Allam Out emblazoned across his bright pink shirt. It isn't very 'Ull' is it (bright pink).