Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open, Paris - Clay

ROSAMUND · Futures level

RE: Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open, Paris - Clay

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Vekic beat Bencic, quite comfortably, so thsts who the winner of Jo's match will face.

Hopefully she's moved on to another court if Mahut takes his match into a 5th.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Mayer has won in 4 sets so Jo on soon .

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Jo raced into a 3-0* lead, but Kuzmova is starting to find her range and has pegged it back to 3-2*.

Jo has since had a BP, but back at deuce.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

That was an efficient 7 mins, Kuzmova barely won a point since the last post. Jo wraps up the first set in about 30 mins. 6-2.

markymc1983 · Club Coach

6-2. Jo very impressive so far. Viktoria looks bewildered by Jo's game

Jajon · Club Coach

Uhhh Jo played unbelievably well

Jan · Hall of fame

Fabulous win for Jo!
6-2 6-1

nicofrance · Strong Club Player

Superb performance by Jo .

No last minute dramas . Serving was excellent , hard to fault anything . Vekic in the next round will be tough but she should take a lot of confidence from this win.

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

JoKo + mojo spells big trouble for all the others. Tough Brit coming in fast, under the radar....

Michael D · All-time great

Some performance from Jo, that's for sure. Just relentless there. She and Vekic are equal on paper and Vekic has the last two wins.. but playing the way she is at the moment, I suspect Jo will start the favourite in their next match.

R32: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) [26] 26 beat KUZMOVA, Viktoria (SVK) 46 (CH=43 4/3/19) 6-2 6-1

R16: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) [26] 26 vs Donna VEKIC (CRO) [23] 24 (CH:23 May 19)

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indiana · Tennis legend

Superb biggrin

Looking at the bottom half at the L16 stage, well because we can ...

(7) S Stephens vs (19) G Muguruza
(23) D Vekic vs (26) J Konta
M Vondrousova vs (12) A Sevastova
K Kanepi vs (31) P Martic

Great win by Jo but that's a very good looking win by Vekic over Bencic too, 6-4 6-1

JonH · All-time great

Michael D wrote:
Some performance from Jo, that's for sure. Just relentless there. She and Vekic are equal on paper and Vekic has the last two wins.. but playing the way she is at the moment, I suspect Jo will start the favourite in their next match.

R32: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) [26] 26 beat KUZMOVA, Viktoria (SVK) 46 (CH=43 4/3/19) 6-2 6-1

R16: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) [26] 26 vs Donna VEKIC (CRO) [23] 24 (CH:23 May 19)

All those are on grass or hard court venues that have a fast rating eg Acapulco, Cincinnati, Tokyo, so hard to draw conclusions- I think jo must start favourite on Sunday!

Peter too · Tennis legend

The last time we had someone in R4 was I think Jo Durie in 1983. To beat the 1983 record Jo would have to get through to the final.

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

I'm just so pleased to hear that Jo is talking of playing with more variety in her game, and having the confidence to keep trying to do so. As she plays this way, then she'll improve at it too. I think the penny has dropped, and maybe things just had to evolve for it to do so. Whatever, it matters not now, Jo is playing well, and can look forward to successful future clay court campaigns. I really hope the lessons learned are taken up by the other Brit women players too. The strategy to win at the highest level has to be always keep your opponent guessing, never give your opponent time to take the initiative away from you.