Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris (clay)

Michael D · All-time great

Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris (clay)

flamingowings · All-time great

...and was broken again so is 4-6 down.

Michael D · All-time great

The lack of a plan B makes this so grimly, disappointingly predictable. 4-6 *1-4
Come on Jo, surprise us... surprise yourself... even if a forlorn hope confuse

flamingowings · All-time great

Jo will not be breaking her run of R1 defeats this year.

How much longer can this go on? She clearly needs at least a plan B and ideally a plan C as well.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Given how poor Poots is on clay this utterly miserable.

Nothing redeeming about this performance

brittak · Satellite level

Decent hold but then Putinseva did the same for 2-5 so looks bleak now! Really hope that Jo can salvage something out of this but not looking likely.

brendan · Strong Club Player

The one consolation from Jo's performance is to hear Marion say 'shocker'

Samson · Lower Club Player

I had thought Jo had been improving steadily over the clay season. So to see a poor performance from Jo here is disappointing to say the least. Maybe she just hates Roland Garros?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Pretty awful. End of.

Sheddie · administrator

That was pretty dismal. At least her volleying has improved for the grass

Jan · Hall of fame

Very painful to watch.

Dallastone1 · Improver

Plan B, C and D needs to be seek out a new coach surely !!! Joyce seems to be a millstone round her neck.

brittak · Satellite level

Really desperate! In the end didnt make Putintseva work for it at all. What concerns me is that we can all see what is going on but the man who is supposed to be helping her (and presumably is paid a lot of money to do so) cant.

Unless the grass court season goes well, I think there will be some coaching changes at the end of Wimbledon.

Really hope though that Jo can turn this all Around but something needs to change here...

SuperT · Futures level

Putinseva won 65 points and 32 of those came from Jo's unforced errors. How does she possibly think she can win when she gives her opponent 50% of their points?

flamingowings · All-time great

brittak wrote:
Really desperate! In the end didnt make Putintseva work for it at all. What concerns me is that we can all see what is going on but the man who is supposed to be helping her (and presumably is paid a lot of money to do so) cant.

Unless the grass court season goes well, I think there will be some coaching changes at the end of Wimbledon.

Really hope though that Jo can turn this all Around but something needs to change here...

Jo has sooooo many points coming off / to defend during the grass season as well. I don't know how many but she will be right down the rankings if she doesn't do even somewhat ok.