London Calling – Day 4 Diary
“Who Can Hit The Roof” To Decide Round-Robin Deadlock
Followers of the Five Live Tennis twitter feed have been sending in their suggestions on how they would decide the round-robin groups, should two or more players have the same number of games in a round-robin tie-break.
Take your pick from:
- “See who can hit the roof at The O2? Closest goes through.”
- “It’s got to be who has the most unique coloured shoes?”
- “who can say the alphabet the fastest backwards?”
- “take the net down and get them 2 race from 1 end to the other and back.”
Murray & Djokovic Rap For Bryans
After being turned down by Davis Cup buddy Andy Roddick to record a rap for their new album because he was “a little embarrassed to do it,” doubles stars Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan turned to Top 5 players Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic to do a star turn on their album “Let It Rip”.
“We asked Murray, and he said yes. Djokovic said yes. They were the first two guys we asked. They said, Okay, anytime, guys,” explained Bob, who wrote the lyrics for Murray and Djokovic-themed raps. “We took the computer with a microphone to their rooms at the hotel. They did it. Andy Murray was actually getting a massage. He was like a little bit asleep. He was like, Okay, let’s go for it. Took him three times. He was a little off for the first couple times. He eventually started getting the rhythm and nailed it.
“He didn’t have time to practise. I don’t think anyone can critique Andy because, like I said, he was getting a massage. I gave him my iPhone with the lyrics. He’s like, All right, let’s give it a try. I want to thank the guy because not a lot of people would do that for us. We’re going to be fans of the guy for life, obviously friends for life for him doing that for us.
“Then Novak was loving it. Anytime he can kind of show off, he was dancing. He actually hasn’t heard the song yet, Novak. We’re looking forward to playing him the song. It turned out pretty good, I thought.”
The dynamic duo also revealed they are hoping to get Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer on board and have already penned lyrics for their songs. “Federer, I don’t know,” said Bob. “He’s a great guy. He’s a good friend of ours. But we didn’t want to ask him… We actually wrote a verse for him and wrote one for Nadal. We got to make it past the agent.”
