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Wed 07 Jul 2007Tournament is left running for coversAt times, it was like counting in a squadron of Lancaster bombers as they roared back over the horizon from all directions. Crikey, I think the old man has bought one! Thank goodness, Rusty has made it! Fancy that, JC, the old blighter, who'd have ever thought?Some came in swooping and diving, some arrived with a crash landing and a jolt, others got lost in the storm and some are still out there somewhere, their multiple forays onto court and off court and onto court and off court sending them into a kind of Wimbledon dementia and the tournament into some kind of lugubrious farce.