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.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 5 June 2021 10:01 (two years ago) link
Musetti is something else. Through 6-3 in the 5th vs Cecchinato.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 5 June 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
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!
― Roz, Saturday, 5 June 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
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.
― Roz, Saturday, 5 June 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
fucking hell @ nadals bqckhand to win set 2 vs cam
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
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 ~
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
It’s not on The Tennis Channel?
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Saturday, 5 June 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
it was this morning but tennis channel coverage signed off shortly after 1pm when mertens/sakkari ended iirc
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
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
― Punster McPunisher, Saturday, 5 June 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
this 1st set fed/koepfer has been p high level by both
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
koep is gaining confidence
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
i wonder how many sets like this koepfer will be able to endure
― Punster McPunisher, Saturday, 5 June 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
seems like he can endure as long as he needs to
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
feds level is dipping, if he loses this 3rd set its hard to see him enduring 2+ more hrs to come back
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
love mcenroe constantly making digs @ peacock
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
cant blame koepfer for boiling over a bit now, hes played p great & fed has played houdini 2 be up 2-1
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
koepfers defense has really been wildly goodyea this is def good for matteo
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
I have no idea why I called him Mario! It's late. (Later still in Paris - first post-midnight session?)
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
Actually, UK commentator has just reminded me of the Nadal-Sinner QF last year, which was a 1:26am finish.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
great match, rog willed himself to that win
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
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
― Punster McPunisher, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
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
― Roz, Sunday, 6 June 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 June 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
womens bottom half, one of these gals will be in the final
rybakina/pavlyuchenkova
badosa/zidansek
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
Davidovich Fokina - Delbonis has been fun. ADF serving for it now.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 6 June 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Musetti is legit
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 7 June 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
novak needs to get his unforced errors under control
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 June 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
this changed fast lol, looks like it will be the 5th set to decide it
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 June 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 June 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
kinda wild that this will be the only 5-setter in this round.
― andrew m., Monday, 7 June 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
Not expecting miracles from Sinner then?
― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 June 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
perhaps i should walk that back. that would be exciting! but hard to fathom still.
― andrew m., Monday, 7 June 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
musetti won four (4) points in the 4th set
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 June 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
...and broken out the gate. this won't take long.
― andrew m., Monday, 7 June 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 June 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
yea he slipped and fell, & still got the ball back & won the pt
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 June 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
I've always said it should be best of three before the QF*
(* I have never actually said this)
― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 June 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 June 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
boss hitting from Sinner right now
Don’t have much confidence it will last though, Nadal being Nadal
― Roz, Monday, 7 June 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
yeah tough to get broken @ love serving for the set, but also not unexpected cuz rafa
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 June 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
felt so bad for sinner there - worked so hard to get back on serve from 4-0 down only to be broken to love :/
― Roz, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
two fantastic, very close women’s quarter finals so far. both went down the wire: Zidansek beat Badosa 8-6 in the final set, and Pavlyuchenkova took out Rybakina 9-7 to advance to the semis for the first time after six failed QF attempts in the past ten years.
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
tsitsipas just went 2 sets up and lookin pretty dominant from the bit i've been able to watch. medvedev is a weirdo and could bounce back though. tbd.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
breaking at 2-2 in the 3rd i thought medvedev ALMOST got the hook into the match he needed to turn it. good on tsitsipas though. good stuff.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 8 June 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
great match by stef
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
Swiatek in real trouble right now - down a set and a break versus Sakkari.
Incredible performance from Sakkari, so solid and impenetrable on serve. Iga looks perplexed.
― Roz, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 12:27 (two years ago) link
Wow at Sakkari just blowing this women’s draw wide open. Four first-time semi finalists!
Also the first time two Greek players have made the semis at the same Slam.
― Roz, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link
also a semi where the highest-ranked player is #17, can’t have happened too often?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
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
goddammit
― andrew m., Monday, 14 June 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link