Summer of sport excels
It’s been bloody awful weather but no one can criticise the quality of summer sport.
Over the weekend Carlos Alcaraz – the young pretender – claimed the title from serial major winner Novak Djokovic and Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogecar continued their fascinating Tour de France duel into the Alps.
After 3 hours of tennis my attention tends to wander.
So I switched over to the wider open spaces of the Tour to check what was happening. The two are literally mano-and-mano as they track each other up mountain and descent.
Today is a rest day and the time trial on Tuesday might just be decisive.
Normally there is a big football tourney in the summer but only the most avid soccer fan can miss this. The sporting pages, in which soccer usually dominates, are reduced to ill-informed transfer speculation.
The summer sport just goes on and on.
This week there is the Open at Hoylake which Rory McIlroy won 12 years ago.
We thought this would herald a decade of Majors for the Irishman but it did not prove so.
Also this week cricket boasts the Fourth Test at Old Trafford.
Let’s hope the rain steers away and we can have another absorbing contest