Weeks 22-23 - Roland-Garros, France - clay

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Weeks 22-23 - Roland-Garros, France - clay

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Having a look at some of the Wimbledon qualies players of the women's side 'Maria the Cheata' might not have it as easy as she thinks. I hope the select few that get to watch her support whoever she plays and get under her skin.

JonH · All-time great

Andy Murray v Andrey Kuznetsov - good starting draw
Kyle Edmund v Gastao Elias - winnable. Seems to play a lot of Portsguese does Kyle!
Dan Evans v Tommy Robredo - tough but Robredo not what he was
Aljaz Bedene v Ryan Harrison - good draw, should win

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

Is there a link to the full draw yet?

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
Andy Murray v Andrey Kuznetsov - good starting draw
Kyle Edmund v Gastao Elias - winnable. Seems to play a lot of Portsguese does Kyle!
Dan Evans v Tommy Robredo - tough but Robredo not what he was
Aljaz Bedene v Ryan Harrison - good draw, should win

Definitely winnable and a decent draw. But don't underestimate Elias. He took out Del Potro in Lyon this week in reaching the QFs as a qualifier.

JonH · All-time great

http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/draws/index.html

here you go

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

JonH wrote:
Andy Murray v Andrey Kuznetsov - good starting draw
Kyle Edmund v Gastao Elias - winnable. Seems to play a lot of Portsguese does Kyle!
Dan Evans v Tommy Robredo - tough but Robredo not what he was
Aljaz Bedene v Ryan Harrison - good draw, should win

Should be minimum 2/4 through here. Elias another challenger player so good match up and chance to progress. Aljaz and Andy should win and Evo is Evo so anything is possible, the same true of Robredo.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L128: (1) Andy Murray WR 1 vs Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS) WR 85 (CH = 39 in April last year)

Head-to-head: 2-0 in Andy's favour (2 & 1 in the last 16 of the Beijing ATP 500 last year & 6-1 7-5 4-6 6-2 in the last 32 of the USO in 2014, so they've never met on the devil dirt).

L128: Kyle Edmund WR 50 (CH = 40 last October) vs Gastão Elias (POR) WR 125 (CH = 57 last October)

Head-to-head: 1-0 in Kyle's favour (1 & 3 in the last 128 of the Indian Wells Masters earlier this year).

L128: (PR) Tommy Robredo (ESP) WR 271 (CH = 5 in August 2006 - he's now 35) vs Dan Evans WR 55 (CH = 41 in March)

Head-to-head: 0-1 (Dan lost to him by 6-7(?) 1-6 6-4 5-7 in that memborable run he had to the last 32 of the USO in 2013).

L128: Aljaz Bedene WR 52 (CH = 45 in November 2105) vs Ryan Harrison (USA) WR 42 (= CH)

There is no head-to-head.

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 28th of May 2017 10:25:24 AM

JonH · All-time great

3 out of 4 is my instinct there. All 4 could win, all 4 probably won't win!

Samson · Lower Club Player

Read somewhere on Twitter Andy is recovering from another bout of illness but didn't really read it properly.

I think there is hope for all of them there about from Evans, Robredo is too good a clay courter... happy to be proven wrong!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
Andy Murray v Andrey Kuznetsov - good starting draw
Kyle Edmund v Gastao Elias - winnable. Seems to play a lot of Portsguese does Kyle!
Dan Evans v Tommy Robredo - tough but Robredo not what he was
Aljaz Bedene v Ryan Harrison - good draw, should win

Thanks for posting this JonH. It was really useful when I was in a meeting and didn't have time/couldn't be seen to go through the draw on the site but still could manage to sneak a quick peak at your post.

And, yes, you can't ask for much better than all our three non-seeds also drawing non-seeds. And, although anyone can lose a mtach, there are no real banana skins there.

May the force be with you, lads !

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Samson wrote:
Read somewhere on Twitter Andy is recovering from another bout of illness but didn't really read it properly.

I think there is hope for all of them there about from Evans, Robredo is too good a clay courter... happy to be proven wrong!

There's an article by Stu Fraser in today's Times, under the heading "Murray's French Open illness scare", which says that he's been having to take antibiotics this week, but was "at least encouraged that he was still able to practise yesterday with Fernando Verdasco" & was described by a spokesman/woman as being "on the mend". There's also a little side piece that looks at when he could lose his N° 1 ranking (end of Wimbledon - depending on results in the next few weeks, NoDjo, Rafa & Stan the Man could leapfrog him on 17th July).

scottie1 · Futures level

Stircrazy wrote:
Samson wrote:
Read somewhere on Twitter Andy is recovering from another bout of illness but didn't really read it properly.

I think there is hope for all of them there about from Evans, Robredo is too good a clay courter... happy to be proven wrong!
There's an article by Stu Fraser in today's Times, under the heading "Murray's French Open illness scare", which says that he's been having to take antibiotics this week, but was "at least encouraged that he was still able to practise yesterday with Fernando Verdasco" & was described by a spokesman/woman as being "on the mend". There's also a little side piece that looks at when he could lose his N° 1 ranking (end of Wimbledon - depending on results in the next few weeks, NoDjo, Rafa & Stan the Man could leapfrog him on 17th July).

njoko is defending 2000 points in the French Open so if he slips up even loses the final he will probably be out of top 2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Juicy first round draws have to be:

Dustin v Gael

Sascha Zverev v Verdasco

Fognini v Tiafoe

Kohlschreiber v Kyrgios

Spectator · All-time great

First two would be worth paying money to see. I think a lot of Tiafoe, but I don't think that he's up to Fabio Fognini's level ... not sure about that one (watch it turn out to be a corker!) And big question is whether Kyrgios, having been leapfrogged by Sascha Zverev, will pull his socks up and make use of his gifts ....