Week 20 - WTA Premier 5 ($3.45M) - Rome, Italy (Clay)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Week 20 - WTA Premier 5 ($3.45M) - Rome, Italy (Clay)

flamingowings · All-time great

Play was only officially cancelled not that long ago for today.

55 matches scheduled tomorrow - some players* play twice or three times if also in the doubles (might be some w/o's there)

Jo is down to play first on court 2, the winner of the match gets a bit of rest and then back out to face Venus on Centrale a bit later on (4th match).

*Includes the Big 3 players

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jo is 3-0 up

Michael D · All-time great

Back to 4-4. A huge number of BPs for both. Jo 7/9 saved, Sloane 2/4 saved. So 2 service games won and lost each so far.

Jan · Hall of fame

Sloane served for the set, but Jo broke again.
TB time
Jo went *2-1 up but is now 2-4*

Jan · Hall of fame

Sloane takes the TB (3)
Come on Jo!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yeah, that wasn't really very good from either player.

Good to hear that Dan Smethurst is working JoKo's corner - he's got his work cut out, though.
Mind you, Sloane's coach must be tearing his hair out half the time too .....

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

4 of the 6 matches (hopefully Jo can make it 5) have gone into a decider and that's not ideal when you have another match later. The likes of Barty, Vika, Venus and Ka Pliskova will be rubbing their hands.

Jo was *3-2 in the second set, but now *3-4.

Jan · Hall of fame

Jo to serve for the second

Jan · Hall of fame

Jo takes it 6-4
into a decider

Status Quo · Intermediate Club Player

Wow!
Yes, Sloane can be flaky, but she'll still be one of the 3 or 4 top favourites for the Roland Garros title.
And, the courts in Rome are very similar to the terre battue in Paris.

And this is a Brit fighting her out through at least 2 tight sets!

seagull · Hall of fame

ROSAMUND wrote:
seagull wrote:
Draw really opened up. Just has to beat Stephens, Venus, Halep and Osaka to get to final now!
I don't think that's going to happen somehow or other. Before we go any further Sloane Stephens is after all the runner up in Paris in 2018 and could easily have been champion.,

Whoosh