How good is technology… that is until it is not working of course! That’s how we are starting today’s social round-up…
WhatsApp, a popular messaging app, has recently had outage issues and became the top worldwide trending topic on Twitter as a result. It affected and frustrated many in the tennis world, including Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Jamie Delgado, the coach of Andy Murray:
Hey WhatsApp,are you there tomorrow?!????
— A. Pavlyuchenkova (@NastiaPav) May 3, 2017
Come on Wattsapp sort it out!!!! #annoying
— jamie delgado (@DelgadoJamie) May 3, 2017
Andy’s older brother Jamie Murray had another reason to complain:
Why are parking signs/restrictions so complicated to understand in ????????? #ticket
— Jamie Murray (@jamie_murray) May 3, 2017
Meanwhile WTA player Alla Kudryavtseva is questioning her own tour about the lack of live streaming (aren’t we all!):
Where can we stream this? https://t.co/hjRbXgWpbS
— Alla Kudryavtseva (@AllaK11) May 3, 2017
Kevin Anderson is all smiles though:
Great lunch earlier with my girl (and @KelseyOAnderson ????) in Cascais. Up later at @EstorilOpen vs Domingues! pic.twitter.com/6qDiKowvIQ
— Kevin Anderson (@KAndersonATP) May 3, 2017
So is Sergiy Stakhovsky on his beloved clay:
#Clay is different , it's natural.. I many cases these days clay is much faster then 80% of #indoor #hard surfaces .#loveclay #tennislove pic.twitter.com/USO23KEJuK
— Sergiy Stakhovsky (@Stako_tennis) May 3, 2017
The stars are arriving in Madrid ahead of next week’s big tournament, where Maria Sharapova and Elina Svitolina found the practice courts:
?????????? pic.twitter.com/cwjWdOgeam
— Maria Sharapova (@MariaSharapova) May 3, 2017
Hola @MutuaMadridOpen ! ???????? pic.twitter.com/j4uZjTi1k5
— Elina Svitolina (@ElinaSvitolina) May 3, 2017
Pablo Cuevas and Grigor Dimitrov did too – but seem to have their sports confused:
Entrenamiento distendido. La dupla celeste vs la dupla Búlgara @GrigorDimitrov Venezolana . Teníamos que hacer pesar la historia … pic.twitter.com/Oz8hGhlv5r
— Pablo Cuevas (@PabloCuevas22) May 3, 2017
Bencic Bencic isn’t there. The Swiss talent took to social media yesterday to share some disappointing injury news – and was overwhelmed with messages of support from the likes of Elena Vesnina, Roger Federer, Monica Puig and Alexander Bublik:
@BelindaBencic Stay strong Beli!Fastest recovery????????
— Elena Vesnina (@EVesnina001) May 3, 2017
Wishing you a speedy recovery @BelindaBencic ???? https://t.co/Vt9NMUaXcG
— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) May 3, 2017
@BelindaBencic ????
— Monica Puig (@MonicaAce93) May 3, 2017
Get well soon wifey @BelindaBencic
— Sasha Bublik (@AlexanderBublik) May 3, 2017
Injured Naomi Osaka is also missing life on tour:
It actually hurts to look at the scores and progression of the current tournaments going on, when you're sidelined and can't play 🙁
— NaomiOsaka????? (@Naomi_Osaka_) May 3, 2017
Popular Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis can relate… but finally has good news to share with his fans as he prepares to make his injury comeback next week:
???????? getting there https://t.co/mVw1eIhwos
— Thanasi Kokkinakis (@TKokkinakis) May 3, 2017
Meanwhile Ana Ivanovic is enjoying a new sport in retirement:
First @Cubs baseball game last night – so fun!! pic.twitter.com/GJVnyAQjUc
— Ana Ivanovic (@AnaIvanovic) May 3, 2017
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