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Tweets of the week: It’s a mad time on the tennis circuit, sports world mourns loss of French athletes

Reem Abulleil

16:38 13/03/2015

Sport360 picks out the highlights from the sporting Twittersphere with Novak Djokovic, Kevin Pietersen, Shane Warne and Christian Vieri all featuring.

Players prepare for ‘March Madness’ in the US in different ways. Andy Murray had a heroic Davis Cup weekend, Victoria Azarenka was dancing on SportsCenter, Roger Federer and Grigor Dimitrov played an exhibition in Madison Square Garden before the former had a fun Twitter Q&A, while Novak Djokovic took part in some ballet with his wife, of course…

 

Sports world mourns loss of French athletes 
The sports world mourned the loss of Olympic champion swimmer Camille Muffat, boxer Alexis Vastine and sailor Florence Arthaud. The French trio were amongst those who died on Tuesday when two helicopters collided while shooting the reality television show ‘Dropped’.

 

More misery for England 
Unsurprisingly, England’s World Cup exit had Twitter ablaze with players, pundits and journalists voicing varying degrees of disgust…

 

Tweetlets 
Real Madrid fans gave a sigh of relief after the Spanish side lost 4-3 to Schalke at home but still scraped through in the Champions League 5-4 on aggregate.

Former Italy striker Christian Vierienjoyed McDonalds while Houston Texans star JJ Watt decided to start some spurious trade rumours…

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