Hello, this is the game podcast from The Times and I'm Natalie Sawyer.

Geregle Robertson and Allison Rudd with me today.

We'll speak to Gregor on just a moment, but Allison, how you doing?

I'm really well, thank you Natalie, and I'm back playing tennis, so that has improved my mood enormously.

Oh, I know, you're a huge tennis fan you love playing it. What's it

been like on the courts then? Has there been lots of people queuing up or how's it

worked? It's worked well you can't queue up and that's the point you have to look online

everyone's doing it like that and so you just pay over your laptop no one has to

come and get your money off you it's a bit weird on the court because

your ball will occasionally stray onto another court and you hear people shouting,

don't touch that ball.

It's not clean.

So you desperately run after your ball

and hope that it doesn't touch anybody.

But apart from that, it's just like normal,

but no doubles anywhere because although you can play doubles if

you're a family most families don't have a whole doubles in them so it's it's lots of

singles and people just looking, you know, people smiling more when you come

on court saying, have a lovely game, isn't it great to be back? People are not taking it for

granted, that's for sure. apart from those who think you're

unclean with your unclean tennis balls but no it sounds great that you're able to get

back out on the court that's for sure Gregoror how you doing? I'm good yeah along the same theme I was

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