I knew today that Andy Murray was through to the semis and Jamie Murray was into the Mixed Doubles final. And he said that maybe he's better at mixed, which is really unhelpful given the number of opportunities he has to play mixed doubles vs doubles. Anyway, his match was due to start at 5.30pm BST. Which is really good timing as that's when I finished work.

So I got home and went to 301 & 302 and there was... no tennis. But there was sports news, so while my computers started up I thought I'd see if there was any news of the score. Andy Murray was mentioned, Jamie Murray might well as not have existed.

As I was hungry I went and put dinner on and turned the radio on. The radio in the kitchen is permanently tuned to Radio 5, purely for Wimbledon but I found their news at 6 is handy to listen to while I cook dinner and try not to die of boredom while I do it. Jamie Murray got mentioned in the headlines.

Turned out it was on 5 Live Sports Extra, so I've been listening to that all evening. It's really strange how different the US Open is to Wimbledon. When the players sit down they have the big screen picking out random people to win a George Foreman grill. They played a final on a Thursday during the day US time, which seems mad. And the commentators end up having to stay up till 3am to commentate on matches! I mean, I do like all day tennis, but there's a limit.

And the strangest thing of all was sudden death at deuce in the doubles matches. Which made that one point so, so important. And utterly pointless, since it was only done for the TV schedules. Keeping the number of deuces in a game is going to make the match shorter, but not by much. And it isn't going to make it any more unpredictable either. Crazy.