ROLAND GARROS 2021

incred battle btwn garin/mcdonald

tough defeat for mcdonald after having match pts in the 3rd and a bunch of break pts in the 5th

hes the first american to lose today i believe.. all these players won

collins
serena
keys
isner
giron
opelka

Is it bad that I kind of wish Barty had withdrawn for injuring herself at a press conference?

Nadal. "I'm not celebrating my birthday. 35 is not good. I wanna be 25 again".

— José Morgado (@josemorgado) June 3, 2021

this ruud/adf 5th set is a real roller coaster

davidovich fokina advances - 4h 35m match

this was the game to close it out, each guy oddly fell/slipped @ unusual times

15:0, 15:15, 30:15, 30:30, 40:30BP, 40:40, 40:AMP, 40:40, A:40BP, 40:40, 40:AMP, 40:40, 40:AMP, 40:40, 40:AMP, 40:40, A:40BP, 40:40, A:40BP, 40:40, 40:AMP

^^loved it... that final set had everything

ADF needed five match points and an underarm serve to close it out lol

Badosa vs Bogdan just now has been my favourite match of RG this year so far. Phenomenal stuff.

It was terrific. Hard to complain when we get 12hr of free-to-air coverage a day in the UK with ITV4, but it's a single channel with no alternate feeds and they often just chase the big names, which can mean you miss things like this. Thankfully there was nothing else they could have shown!

Also: I like the camera angle on Simonne Mathieu. There’s one court - court 6? - which has featured a lot in the coverage this week and that’s terrible. Ultra wide but pitched too low so a third of the screen is below the near baseline.

Musetti is something else. Through 6-3 in the 5th vs Cecchinato.

Swiatek-Kontaveit is very high quality. Bit of an awkward match up for Iga - Kontaveit hitting big on returns and not letting her get any rhythm on her serve. first set TB!

Amazing that Swiatek managed to pull that off given that Kontaveit hit 23 winners to 11 UFEs in that first set. Just really excellent tennis.

fucking hell @ nadals bqckhand to win set 2 vs cam

sad state of affairs that the only coverage in the US rn is nbc who is showing serenas match from yesterday afternoon & fed's upcoming match in only on peacock ~

It’s not on The Tennis Channel?

it was this morning but tennis channel coverage signed off shortly after 1pm when mertens/sakkari ended iirc

i know humidity is high in paris right now, but there is something to be said about federer sweating less compared to koepfer. it looks like federer uses his energy more efficiently, while koepfer is a lot stronger and uses muscle power a lot more

this 1st set fed/koepfer has been p high level by both

koep is gaining confidence

i wonder how many sets like this koepfer will be able to endure

seems like he can endure as long as he needs to

feds level is dipping, if he loses this 3rd set its hard to see him enduring 2+ more hrs to come back

love mcenroe constantly making digs @ peacock

cant blame koepfer for boiling over a bit now, hes played p great & fed has played houdini 2 be up 2-1

I didn't fancy Fed to get past Berrettini and now I don't think the winner of this will take a set off Mario.

koepfers defense has really been wildly good

yea this is def good for matteo

I have no idea why I called him Mario! It's late. (Later still in Paris - first post-midnight session?)

Actually, UK commentator has just reminded me of the Nadal-Sinner QF last year, which was a 1:26am finish.

great match, rog willed himself to that win

incredible. this is the andy murray tweet again:

Im not bothered by the outcome of this match at all. Just seeing Federer at 39 off the back of 2 knee surgeries playing to an empty stadium at 12.30am getting fired up is inspirational to me. Do what you ❤️

— Andy Murray (@andy_murray) June 5, 2021

At times that was as rough as Fed was for 2+ sets vs Sandgren in Melbourne 18 months ago (which, at the time, seemed to come a little out of nowhere, after a pretty great 2019). I think days like this are inevitable at 39, and he found some magic right at the end.

Welp

The Roland-Garros tournament organisers have learned that Roger Federer has withdrawn from the fourth round of the tournament. #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/BncPpTLUzl

— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 6, 2021

It’d be pretty funny if last night’s scheduling mess turned out be Fed’s final match at RG

id think its more likely than not to be his last

somewhat surprised he didnt wait until tomorrow to make this decision, makes me think it must be more than fatigue

womens bottom half, one of these gals will be in the final

rybakina/pavlyuchenkova

badosa/zidansek

Davidovich Fokina - Delbonis has been fun. ADF serving for it now.

Musetti is legit

novak needs to get his unforced errors under control

this changed fast lol, looks like it will be the 5th set to decide it

This is pretty horrible now. Oh well, plenty of great players had high-profile draining losses from two sets up early in their career... Federer, Nadal, Murray, Edberg all spring to mind.

kinda wild that this will be the only 5-setter in this round.

Not expecting miracles from Sinner then?

perhaps i should walk that back. that would be exciting! but hard to fathom still.

musetti won four (4) points in the 4th set

...and broken out the gate. this won't take long.

Briefly turned this back on when I saw "Medical timeout: Djokovic" on my score app, but it was a little graze on a finger? Bah. Go hit a line judge or something.

yea he slipped and fell, & still got the ball back & won the pt

I've always said it should be best of three before the QF*

(* I have never actually said this)

its a reasonably wild outcome (not the part of novak coming back obv)
but of someone to crater like that w/ no injury (right?), no extreme heat or humidity,
after 2.5 ish hours of playing @ your top level

shows just the pressure of the situation is a lot to bear, i think

boss hitting from Sinner right now

Don’t have much confidence it will last though, Nadal being Nadal

wish I could say this wasn’t expected but…

this is my fault for having turned it on in the third set

My stream just froze lol

Feels like a blessing

Damn it.

fucking gutted for stef ;_;

nourish your sensations. pic.twitter.com/7qk3kYsqv4

— Stefanos Tsitsipas (@steftsitsipas) July 23, 2018

Gotta say I get a bad feeling for Stef from how much of a procession this felt like in the 5th set.

Hope I'm wrong.

Felt completely different from his match against Zverev, where it always seemed like he would win even after losing the 3rd and 4th sets. Zverev of course isn’t Novak though.

I still think Tsitsipas is too good not to get one eventually - he’s only 22 anyway. But maybe not this year - this is going to sting for a long while :/

ffs Tsitsipas’ mic isn’t working. RG continues to be the worst.

welp. gotta endure that damn heart-throw routine again.

― andrew m., Friday, June 11, 2021 9:22 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

hopefully for the last time

― andrew m., Friday, June 11, 2021 9:22 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

goddammit