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

Michael D · All-time great

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

Mervatron2 · Futures level

Daily Fail. Move on.

Etienne · Club Coach

If the Daily Mail don't like you,you must be doing something right.

Sadly, I reckon Konta's got rather bigger things to worry about at the moment.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Etienne wrote:
If the Daily Mail don't like you,you must be doing something right.

Sadly, I reckon Konta's got rather bigger things to worry about at the moment.

If Jo could play like she did against Mertens in Miami or Osaka in the Fed Cup then her worries would disappear pretty quickly.

Etienne · Club Coach

That's her problem though, when she rose through the rankings, she was extremely consistent. Now she has the a few good matches, a few more good sets, and a lot of rubbish.

flamingowings · All-time great

Jo seems like one of the most loveliest, warm and genuine players in the game. So does Heather for that matter.

hoots · Intermediate Club Player

ROSAMUND wrote:
Don't know whether anybody reads the Daily Mail, but Charles Sale who writes a Sports Agenda obviously doesn't like Johanna Konta very much because he has made a pretty awful comment I think. He describes Jo as hugely over-rated and unlikeable. This is the only British female to reach Grand Slam semi-finals in the last 35 years. His own paper has built up Jo's prospects in the past. As for unlikeable has he ever met Jo? No wonder Jo described journalists with a word that had to be bleeped out.

I think Mr Sale's agenda is,and has been for a long time, to stir up trouble and controversy as much as possible. As for unlikeable,he should look in the mirror-thoroughly.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Following on from Charles Sale's opinion of Jo Konta I had a look back to a cutting I had on him from May 2016. On that occasion the BBC was doing its Olympic launch in Shoreditch There was a brief media round table interview with Clare Balding. However Clare Balding refused to do the interview unless Mr Sale was removed which he duly was. Obviously Clare Balding was not impressed with him.

I cannot remember him making any comments about Jo before or know if he has ever met her. His comments were on a par with some of the stuff on twitter and he was hardly reporting on sport. However back in 2012 when Jo was able to represent GB for the first time Mike Dickson , Daily Mail's tennis correspondent found her very pleasant on their first meeting.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Hev battling hard but Mertens is too good

1-4*

PaulM · Tennis legend

Broke three times, held serve... zero times

3-6 0-0*

wolf · Tennis legend

Heather loses the first set 6-3, 2 holds to nil.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Some good points but, overall, pretty weak from both players

wolf · Tennis legend

Yup, way too many unforced errors and Heather serve is shocking.

Grachka · Club Coach

Not a great match and Heather is totally unable to hold serve, which is a fairly fundamental flaw today.

Heather Watson GBR 3-6 *1-4 (16) Elise Mertens BEL

Jaffa · Challenger level

Bloody hell, been a different player the last 2 games. Back on serve, not that it means much.