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 agoSince 2006, only two players have beaten Tommy Robredo in a fifth set: Novak Djokovic and now Borna Coric.
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