ROLAND GARROS 2015

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super aggressive start from Schiavone, this could be a great match

cerealbar, Thursday, 28 May 2015 09:26 (eight years ago) link

Edmund withdrew? Damn.

C'mon Franny.

Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 May 2015 09:50 (eight years ago) link

Schia Kuzny pretty fun so far, both doing their thing.

abcfsk, Thursday, 28 May 2015 09:53 (eight years ago) link

Really nothing to separate them, so many long deuce games and now 7-7 in the TB. Fran's saved three SPs in brilliant fashion

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:24 (eight years ago) link

*ignores Petra forever*

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:25 (eight years ago) link

this is great

cerealbar, Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:28 (eight years ago) link

Meanwhile, Witthoeft with a banging BH DTL to take her fourth game in a row vs Errani. Looked like she was boiling over with frustration at *1-4 down, now 5-4*...

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:29 (eight years ago) link

Sveta takes it 13-11. Bloody good TB. And Witthoeft serves out the second set!

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:34 (eight years ago) link

Kuznet wins set on her 7th SP, after surviving nine deuces at 4-4 and another four at 5-5. Amazing.

xp

Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:35 (eight years ago) link

That might have been it for Schiavo

abcfsk, Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:43 (eight years ago) link

Obv the first shot I see when I tune into Wozniacki/Goerges is a Wozniacki moonball rally

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:49 (eight years ago) link

xp or not

abcfsk, Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:52 (eight years ago) link

Wozniacki still so helpless even against a nervy Goerges

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 11:00 (eight years ago) link

Quality in Fran/Sveta as good as ever.

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 11:24 (eight years ago) link

4-4 i the third set, BP down, obv Fran hits a perfect dropshot <3

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link

Sveta served for the match twice, broken both times. Fran saved a MP with a ridiculous BH winner, followed it up with a ridiculous touch volley and then Sveta DFed. This match was always going to go into extra time and here we are at 6-6!

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link

went to the hospital at 2-2 3rd set for an appointment, obv this match was still going when i got back :)

cerealbar, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:36 (eight years ago) link

pffff Serena

cerealbar, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link

Sveta serves for the match a third time. Is broken a third time.

Serena is playing so so badly

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link

Six consecutive breaks? Good grief.

Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link

Possibly some more. Sveta was up a break a few times before we got into serving-for-the-match territory iirc

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link

Bloody hell that point. Bow down. FRANNNNN

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link

THIS FUCKING MATCH

groovemaaan, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link

Sveta serves for the match a fourth time. Broken to love

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link

I feel like this match could go on for the rest of RG and I would not mind

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link

Fran holds for 9-8. The fifth hold of serve in 17 games.

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:58 (eight years ago) link

Fran stops the sequence at nine, holding from 15-40.

Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:59 (eight years ago) link

what a shot to get to MP by Fran!!!

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:02 (eight years ago) link

OMG Sveta that terrible volley to lose it!

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:03 (eight years ago) link

Well, I guess this proves the old adage than no one ever wins a match losing their serve six times in a row in the decider. My god.

Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link

anyone complaining about the number of breaks has not seen the match

groovemaaan, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link

Fran hit astonishing shots in all of the games she broke back

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link

I wasn't complaining, I could tell it was HQ stuff from the comments in here. I know you folks don't hold back when it's an errorfest!

Must try and see highlights on the RG website later/tomorrow.

Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link

Another seed out - Pliskova goes down to Romania's Fed Cup heroine Mitu. Not a huge shock given that Pliskova's servebotting game is less effective on clay, good for Mitu for closing it out eventually despite some huge nerves

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link

Kokkinakis comes back from two sets to 0 and then 2-5 in the fifth to beat Tomic, which feels like a metaphor for Tomic's career vis-à-vis Younger Australia

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link

Tomic's season hasn't been bad, he just seems to be injured all the time

groovemaaan, Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link

for me his game is still more fun to watch than kyrgios' and kokk's

groovemaaan, Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link

yeah, but he seems to be settling into a top 50 player kind of role rather than anything bigger.

Coric had a nightmare of a time trying to close out Robredo in that set, he's really going to need to develop his kill shots. When Robredo is the more aggressive one and you can only close out a set because of his UEs...

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link

Bernard Tomic will never make it into the top 10. Never. Been saying this for years.

oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Thursday, 28 May 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link

also if Serena loses to Azarenka and Sharapova ends up facing Azarenka in the final, I'm flying back to Paris and will kill myself on Suzanne Lenglen :(

oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Thursday, 28 May 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link

Watson should be a case study in why demanding counterpunchers and retrievers should PLAY MORE AGGRESSIVELY!!!!1111 should be banned. Everyone always imagines the ideal of a speedy player who can hit winners at will but you often just end up with a tactically confused player who doesn't have the power to dominate with basher tennis and makes a ton of errors instead

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link

chardy about to take out RG favorite isner

groovemaaan, Thursday, 28 May 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link

Huge five-set win for Coric in the end. He def went for his returns in the final game but Robredo looked gassed

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link

Didn't know this tho:

Jeff Sackmann ‏@tennisabstract 1m1 minute ago
Since 2006, only two players have beaten Tommy Robredo in a fifth set: Novak Djokovic and now Borna Coric.

lex pretend, Thursday, 28 May 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link

finding myself rooting for Warlocq because the french crowd are dicks

groovemaaan, Thursday, 28 May 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link

I am very happy that the last two American men standing are Johnson and Sock

DJP, Thursday, 28 May 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link

Warlocq riling up the crowd. this is fun

groovemaaan, Thursday, 28 May 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link

lol Dan

an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Thursday, 28 May 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link

lols.

Also, is Mladenovic finally going to happen? I've been waiting SO LONG since seeing her at Hopman Cup hitting clean winners off Andy Murray's serves during mixed doubles and she is just GREAT and LIKEABLE so PLEASE can she make the quarters.

oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Thursday, 28 May 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link

berlocq wins the set. some great moonball rallies in the last few games

groovemaaan, Thursday, 28 May 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link


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