Week 22/23 - Roland-Garros Main Draw Paris, France Clay

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Week 22/23 - Roland-Garros Main Draw Paris, France Clay

Samson · Lower Club Player

Jo played so well in the 1st set. Hsieh upped her level in the 2nd and the unorthodoxy of her shots seemed to upset Jo's rhythm, her serve became a bit of a struggle certainly. The 3rd was a nervy affair from both.
A shame for Jo because I think that's the best she's played on clay this year, from what I've seen. But all credit to Hsieh, such an entertaining match!
Jo will need to hit the ground running on the grass, her results on clay might give other players some optimism in regards to their chances against her.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity re Jo. Ultimately her clay results this year have to be looked on as disappointing whatever the promise at times. Few probably really expected particularly deep runs, but I think it was reasonable to hope for more success this year than last as so much else has improved. Indeed she came into this year's French Open seeded #7 compared to #20 seed last year and was clearly seeded higher elsewhere too.

As it is she came into the clay season with 4330 points and leaves with the same 4330 points, simply replacing two mandatory 10s from Madrid and R-G with two new mandatory 10s from R1 losses. The only place she went further this year than last was in the Stuttgart Premier by winning a match there, but 55 is a non counter. She repeated her L16 spot ( 105 points ) in Rome and that too remains a non counter.

For various reasons hard courts just suit her game most but let's be hopeful of a pretty good grass court season, which at least suits her rather more than clay.

In ranking terms Jo may yet come out of the French Open up one place at WR 7 if Muguruza doesn't win the title again. Kuznetsova and Wozniacki are best placed to overtake her, a QF place being sufficient ( both can't achieve this since they are in the same eighth of the draw ) with anyone else needing at least a SF. In the race she has so far dropped two places to #5 and Venus Williams and Kiki Mladenovic are now within one and two further wins respectively of also overtaking her.

Around #7 in both ranking and race would ultimately be a fairly strong overall position to be in having left clay behind for this year, just a pity not even better.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 30th of May 2017 09:19:46 PM

wimdledont · Challenger level

With 2 teams withdrawing already from doubles, Anna+Brengle now head the ALTs list.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thrilled for Lucky Loser, Ons Jabeur, from Tunisia, who has just made R3, putting out Cibulkova, and played an excellent match.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Reckon Cibulkova will be practicing what to do with drop shots for the next week or so!!

LordBrownof · Futures level

Thought this was an excellent response and evaluation of the clay season from Jo. Staying positive...

www.wtatennis.com/videos/roland-garros-johanna-konta-finds-positives-her-first-round-performance

JonH · All-time great

wimdledont wrote:
With 2 teams withdrawing already from doubles, Anna+Brengle now head the ALTs list.

Anna and Brengle obviously got in! They are just warming up and playing Kalashnikova and Soylu. I hope they are "firing" on all cyclinders, wouldn't like lack of prep to "soyl" their performance.

I tried at least...

DF · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
wimdledont wrote:
With 2 teams withdrawing already from doubles, Anna+Brengle now head the ALTs list.
Anna and Brengle obviously got in! They are just warming up and playing Kalashnikova and Soylu.

YEY!!! Well spotted!

indiana · Tennis legend

Good stuff. I recall that two or three years ago Jossanna made a late drive to Paris in the hope of getting in as alts and I believe they ended up as #1 alts but didn't get in. Twice the next in line wouldn't be a double you'ed want.

wimdledont · Challenger level

They've taken the first set, 7-5

By far the best draw of all 3 of our teams, with R2 not looking impossible either...

wimdledont · Challenger level

7-5, 3-6, Brengle hopeless

indiana · Tennis legend

Brengle & Smith win 7-5 3-6 6-2

So Anna has defended last year's 130 points and moves on ...

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Anna+ win 7-5 3-6 6-2

Spectator · All-time great

That's very nice indeed.