Week 22/23 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris, (Clay)

JonH · All-time great

Week 22/23 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris, (Clay)

Jimmy09 · Intermediate Club Player

3rd set Verdasco 6/3 not much in it

DavidC · Tennis legend

4th set to Verdasco 6-2 to end Dan's challenge

Jan · Hall of fame

FerVer just had too much for Evo. Onto the green stuff!

flamingowings · All-time great

Well 1/3 and for me, it was unexpected given form. Well done Kyle. Dan seems to have given a pretty good account of himself.
He and Cam are in the doubles tomorrow.

Jan · Hall of fame

Oh I forgot he was playing doubles!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
For the record:
L128: (Q) Elliot Benchetrit (FRA) WR 273 defeated Cameron Norrie WR 41 by 3, 0 & 2
Clearly, my confidence following Kyrgios' withdrawal was misplaced!
L128: (28) Kyle Edmund WR 30 defeated Jérémy Chardy (FRA) WR 41 by 7-6(1) 5-7 6-4 4-6 7-5
*****
L64: Pablo Cuevas (URU) WR 47 (CH = 19 in August 2016) vs (28) Kyle Edmund WR 30

L128: (23) Fernando Verdasco (ESP) WR 27 defeated Daniel Evans WR 80 by 6-3 6-7(4) 6-3 6-2 hmm

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

In his interview on ITV, Cam Norrie says he was a bit nervous and just never got going. He says Elliott Ben. was confident, came out firing and Cam just wasn't enjoying it, couldn't execute and it was simply a bad day.....

JonH · All-time great

Coup Droit wrote:
In his interview on ITV, Cam Norrie says he was a bit nervous and just never got going. He says Elliott Ben. was confident, came out firing and Cam just wasn't enjoying it, couldn't execute and it was simply a bad day.....

Refreshingly honest

Nix · Futures level

Watch the end of Paire and Herbert if you can!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Nix wrote:
Watch the end of Paire and Herbert if you can!

Paire mène par 10-9*, dernière manche...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Nix wrote:
Watch the end of Paire and Herbert if you can!
Paire mène par 10-9*, dernière manche...

And Paire takes it by 11-9 in the fifth after four hours & 33 minutes... He's not a bad-looking bloke. Why does he have to sport that ghastly beard? disbelief PHH (he of the rather odd service action!), on the other hand, is also rather odd-looking. Maybe he'd benefit from a beard...

flamingowings · All-time great

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Nix wrote:
Watch the end of Paire and Herbert if you can!
Paire mène par 10-9*, dernière manche...
And Paire takes it by 11-9 in the fifth after four hours & 33 minutes... He's not a bad-looking bloke. Why does he have to sport that ghastly beard? PHH (he of the rather odd service action!), on the other hand, is also rather odd-looking. Maybe he'd benefit from a beard...

He is a beard ambassador so he gets paid to. Google it -I'm not kidding! Herbert has great cheekbone structure which is a nickname of his on forums. He is also a good singer, there was a short video of him singing Wonderwall by Oasis not that long ago -it's on YouTube.

Excellent 5th set. Even Andy was watching it! Shame there can only be one winner in matches such as that

-- Edited by flamingowings on Wednesday 29th of May 2019 07:40:18 PM

-- Edited by flamingowings on Wednesday 29th of May 2019 07:41:06 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Nix wrote:
Watch the end of Paire and Herbert if you can!
Paire mène par 10-9*, dernière manche...
And Paire takes it by 11-9 in the fifth after four hours & 33 minutes... He's not a bad-looking bloke. Why does he have to sport that ghastly beard? PHH (he of the rather odd service action!), on the other hand, is also rather odd-looking. Maybe he'd benefit from a beard...
He is a beard ambassador so he gets paid to. Google it -I'm not kidding! Herbert has great cheekbone structure which is a nickname of his on forums. He is also a good singer, there was a short video of him singing Wonderwall by Oasis not that long ago -it's on YouTube.

I'll take your word for it: my revulsion towards facial hair (& tattoos & piercings of any kind & topknots...) is such that I couldn't bear to, er, enlighten myself! Nor am I inclined to read up on PHH's "great cheekbone structure" in any fora dedicated to such a subject. The Oasis reference went right over my head, as I have no interest whatsoever in current/recent "pop" music culture (= tuneless cacophony, as far as I'm concerned), so I have no intention of going there, either. Thanks for the explanation, though.

flamingowings · All-time great

Stircrazy wrote:
flamingowings wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Nix wrote:
Watch the end of Paire and Herbert if you can!
Paire mène par 10-9*, dernière manche...
And Paire takes it by 11-9 in the fifth after four hours & 33 minutes... He's not a bad-looking bloke. Why does he have to sport that ghastly beard? PHH (he of the rather odd service action!), on the other hand, is also rather odd-looking. Maybe he'd benefit from a beard...
He is a beard ambassador so he gets paid to. Google it -I'm not kidding! Herbert has great cheekbone structure which is a nickname of his on forums. He is also a good singer, there was a short video of him singing Wonderwall by Oasis not that long ago -it's on YouTube.
I'll take your word for it: my revulsion towards facial hair (& tattoos & piercings of any kind & topknots...) is such that I couldn't bear to, er, enlighten myself! Nor am I inclined to read up on PHH's "great cheekbone structure" in any fora dedicated to such a subject. The Oasis reference went right over my head, as I have no interest whatsoever in current/recent "pop" music culture (= tuneless cacophony, as far as I'm concerned), so I have no intention of going there, either. Thanks for the explanation, though.

Well. Consider me flattened on all accounts then.