Eurosport Player on the big TV for me and will watch another match on the laptop, whether that is via ITV4 or the Player again, time will tell.

It's probably fair enough as they will know what their audience demands, but you know that if they get the opportunity they will show more men's matches on the main station, like if on at the same time, Zverev (4th on 2nd court) will probably take priority over Ostapenko (4th on Chatrier). The Eurosport main channel qualifiers were heavily dominated by men's matches this week.

I love Tennis on clay, so I went down to just have a look at RG in the summer while in Paris on holiday with the kids, there was a lot of building work going on. I popped into the office just to ask a few questions about what was going on, and the women in there was so rude it really put me off the whole place and I could see my 13 year old daughter looking gobsmacked. Cant but feel Tennis generally doesnt really cater for real fans, ie. people who have a similar level of interest to your average season ticket holding football fan.

That left us with some time to spare, so we walked round the corner to the home of PSG and had a great time walking around the stadia, checking out the latest PSG knomes and key rings in the club shop.

Similarly in Barcelona at a conference in September, had a couple of hrs off did the stadium tour, I ended up doing it twice because a friend wanted to go later in the week and the tour was so much fun. The highlight having over indulged the night before was a quick 40 winks pitch side in their very comfortable dugout.

Not much tennis history to chase down but in contrast to Paris it was a piece of cake to organise to play a bit of tennis and drop into some group coaching at one of the clubs near the Camp Nou. I met an American young guy who was a keen high school tennis player and now club player who had taken 6 months off to just be in Barcelona and train to get a feel for the country and really improve his tennis. I cant but help the Spanish have a bit more love for and value their dirt and I think that Spain ought to be the home of the worlds premier clay court event.

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I love Tennis on clay, so I went down to just have a look at RG in the summer while in Paris on holiday with the kids, there was a lot of building work going on. I popped into the office just to ask a few questions about what was going on, and the women in there was so rude it really put me off the whole place and I could see my 13 year old daughter looking gobsmacked. Cant but feel Tennis generally doesnt really cater for real fans, ie. people who have a similar level of interest to your average season ticket holding football fan.

That left us with some time to spare, so we walked round the corner to the home of PSG and had a great time walking around the stadia, checking out the latest PSG knomes and key rings in the club shop.

Similarly in Barcelona at a conference in September, had a couple of hrs off did the stadium tour, I ended up doing it twice because a friend wanted to go later in the week and the tour was so much fun. The highlight having over indulged the night before was a quick 40 winks pitch side in their very comfortable dugout.

Not much tennis history to chase down but in contrast to Paris it was a piece of cake to organise to play a bit of tennis and drop into some group coaching at one of the clubs near the Camp Nou. I met an American young guy who was a keen high school tennis player and now club player who had taken 6 months off to just be in Barcelona and train to get a feel for the country and really improve his tennis. I cant but help the Spanish have a bit more love for and value their dirt and I think that Spain ought to be the home of the worlds premier clay court event.

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You may be right about the 'tennis' aspect of the experience.

But there's a good chance that your experience at RG was just a perfect example of an awful 'Parisian French' experience, which is common. Now, the PSG one obviously belies that but I am not at all surprised that you found some ultra snotty woman at RG who looked at you both as though you were something she had trodden in - it's not really about tennis and love of clay - it's just about 'tennis' and 'Paris' in the same breath.

From my lesser experience, it's not much different at Madrid. Unlike Barcelona, which is chilled.

And, although the official Wimbly tour may be great, I have been into a couple of tennis clubs in the London area, just asking to look round - including one where a British Tour event was playing - and frosty and rude doesn't even cover the half of it. 

Helen, try this rder-of-play-sunday-may-27">www.rolandgarros.com/en-us/article/roland-garros-201rder-of-play-sunday-may-27

Edit: hmmm... Didn't like that, here is a bit.ly link to the above https://bit.ly/2LzfIiL

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Helen, try this rder-of-play-sunday-may-27">www.rolandgarros.com/en-us/article/roland-garros-201rder-of-play-sunday-may-27

Edit: hmmm... https://www.rolandgarros.com/en-us/latest-news scroll down and there is an article with the OOP.



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 Yes, the whole website still sucks, but under RG18 if you click on All Matches, I think that's the OOP. Certainly as near as I could find it.  

Post should show now ( although I see folk quoted it   ).  It was showing as spam.

Jo is on now.

Monday - Heather Watson v Oceane Dodin 4th on court 3