ROLAND GARROS 2015

*stands, applauds*

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGKSDwBUIAEzLcs.jpg

Didn't expect Cornet to come out so tight after using home support so well in R1, but...she was tight against Townsend in R2 last year too. Great to see Mirjana hitting her spots so far, had feared she'd bury herself in errors...

lol @ commentators talking about how infamous '90s party girl Iva Majoli, who pretty much wasted her entire post-RG career, is teaching Vekic how to focus on tennis

Also, I jinxed Mirjana :(

Mirjana serving for the set again. Nets an easy smash, Cornet openly laughing at her

Plot twist! Serves it out from 0-30 down

Beck is such an annoying pusher

lmao @ that Cornet second serve

^ hahaha

Cornet was about a million times more demonstrative after winning R2 than Myskina was after winning the final

That serve, for posterity

https://twitter.com/philousports/status/604248820210352128

I only half-watched Federer/Dzumhur but every time I looked at the TV there was some tremendously fun shotmaking happening from both. Fed's BH seemed particularly on song

Dzumhur is v little but I hope he sticks around, entertaining player, sorta like the New Rochus

Berdych actually looks great in that outfit

Paire hit dropshots on six consecutive points in that second set

Benoit Paire, attempting a comeback

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CSN has reached the QF or better of every tournament she's played this year...except the two Slams.

Pennetta has reached the QF or better of 4 of her past 7 Slams - but only six other Tour events in that period.

I guess that "upset" reflected where each woman peaks these days...

Monfils circus/Cuevas choke

mostly pretty boring first week makes me more grateful for these Monfils matches. I was grinning like an idiot at the end there

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Gael Monfils such a fickle player… In my opinion the best pure athlete to ever play tennis...

"pure athlete" ?

code for "he's BLACK"

lol not lol

In the responses the only players mentioned as contenders for "pure athlete" status were James Black and Yannick! But the Yannick responder has deleted, apparently! wtf

Kyrgios just hit a tweener lob O_O

Meanwhile Schiavone is losing to Mitu

Fran started well but has gone a bit flat. Mitu has a nice neat game and her FH is a weapon

How many times are we going to be told Kyrgios is "just what the game needs"?

Inconsistent, too full of himself, an ok game but not enough back-up

he's clearly incredibly talented

& fun to watch

He's ridiculously talented imo. Obviously he's inconsistent, he's still so young but far ahead of everyone else his age. And he has far more dimensions to his game than someone like Raonic. I don't see how he won't be a multi-Slam champion, and I don't have anywhere near that confidence in any of the other touted kids like Coric, Zverev, Tiafoe etc. He's an arrogant little fuck but I don't find that as objectionable (yet) as I did with Hewitt, it's just a young ppl thing. Players like Murray will always be his kryptonite though

fwiw I see a lot more hunger to win in him than I ever did in Monfils, so despite his wildness and showboating I don't think he's in danger of going down that route

iirc Murray was stringing a lot more section of good-to-great play at around 20/21 but the physical aspect was letting him down.

I suppose its reaction to the hype. He'll win slams - though that's a reflection on the next generation coming through as much as K's talent - but its hilarious seeing this one great one shit shot off the court 'approach' against 'this guy is the future'.

Wait, while I'm stuck without a TV in Stockholm, Petra won in straight sets? I'm just going to not watch her for the rest of the tournament :D :D :D

Should also be remembered that Kyrgios has played an unusually light schedule in his first year on tour due to injury and this is his first season on what will likely be his worst surface, and he's notched up his first final and a win over Federer on it. In general he has v few losses I'd call bad, let alone stretches of them. He's ranked far ahead of everyone else born in 1995, as well as everyone born in 1994 and 1993.

Murray serving crap, wins 2nd 6-2. xp

It's sort of interesting that the leading 1996-born players - Coric, Chung, Kokkinakis - are far more consistent and solid than Kyrgios, but nowhere near as flashy. So it'll be interesting to see how those rivalries develop.

lmao, I didn't realise Petra hadn't reached the second week of any non-Wim Slam since the USO 2012.

*continues to ignore her*

SARA in the 4th round <3333

flick cross court from M :-D

if Fran had to have a comedown after her Sveta heroics I'm glad it was to Andreea Mitu, who was in tears afterwards - she was contemplating retirement this time last year...

Who'd have thought Mitu would be the last woman from her country standing.

Sad for Fran though. Maybe she'll just fuck the haters and keep playing anyway.

K dances the dance and clowns around and hits hard. Basically everything but take a set. Dispatched in straights ktxbye.

More fun than the last five to ten next big things though.

ferrer came back to crush bolleli 4th & 5th sets wow

vika :)

quality level here is a+

matching sic strong return of serves to match their outfit color schemes, not sure what more i could want

yeah i wasn't expecting vika to play this well

omg @ the result,i had to go out @ vika up 4-2 second set

nice gamesmanship by serena at the end of the 2nd set