Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open, Paris - Clay

Grachka · County player

Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open, Paris - Clay

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Fantastic; well done Jo :D

Jan · Hall of fame

Just enjoyed watching my recording of the match. So impressive from Jo!

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Sevastova looked absolutely spent in her earlier match with Vondrousova following her 3 hr + epic with Mertens the other day, and lost 2 and 0 in under an hour. I guess Jo will be hoping this Muguruza-Stephens match goes just as long (even if she doesn't admit it). Been quite a few long games and Stephens is now back on serve at 3-3, but Garbine should really be well ahead this set.

I like Sloane, but hoping Muguruza can come through and then it'll pretty much be win-win for me and if that's the case, I'll certainly be wanting the winner of that QF match to take the title.

flamingowings · All-time great

Ace Ventura wrote:
Sevastova looked absolutely spent in her earlier match with Vondrousova following her 3 hr + epic with Mertens the other day, and lost 2 and 0 in under an hour. I guess Jo will be hoping this Muguruza-Stephens match goes just as long (even if she doesn't admit it). Been quite a few long games and Stephens is now back on serve at 3-3, but Garbine should really be well ahead this set.

I like Sloane, but hoping Muguruza can come through and then it'll pretty much be win-win for me and if that's the case, I'll certainly be wanting the winner of that QF match to take the title.

Same situation for me as I'm another Garbine fan. It's good to see her a bit more consistent than...oh I dunno the last 18 months?

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Jo now has 14 wins on clay this year which is double the number she had managed up to this year. Pleased she managed to beat Donna Vekic on the 2 occasions it mattered the most I.e in the Grand Slams. A quarter final for a British female in Paris is a rare happening.. From 1973 inclusive I.e 47 French Championships prior to Jo this year only Sue Barker in 1976 when she won and Jo Durie in semi finalist in 1983 have got to the quarter final stage.

flamingowings · All-time great

I think Sloane has got this now.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R16: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 26 26 def VEKIC, Donna (CRO) 23 24 6-2 6-4

QF: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 26 26 v STEPHENS, Sloane (USA) 7 7 CH=3 2016
H2H 2-0
Brisbane 2019 Konta 6-4 6-3
Rome 2019 Konta 6-7(3) 6-4 6-1

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Sevastova looked absolutely spent in her earlier match with Vondrousova following her 3 hr + epic with Mertens the other day, and lost 2 and 0 in under an hour. I guess Jo will be hoping this Muguruza-Stephens match goes just as long (even if she doesn't admit it). Been quite a few long games and Stephens is now back on serve at 3-3, but Garbine should really be well ahead this set.

I like Sloane, but hoping Muguruza can come through and then it'll pretty much be win-win for me and if that's the case, I'll certainly be wanting the winner of that QF match to take the title.
Same situation for me as I'm another Garbine fan. It's good to see her a bit more consistent than...oh I dunno the last 18 months?

Yeah, real shame - she'll be disappointed that 1st set slipped from the position she was in and also had chances in the latter stages of the second, but not to be. I suppose she has surpassed her ranking as she beat (an albeit struggling) Svitolina, but the main thing over the next few months will be to try and get her ranking down to where it should really be (or where we're more used to seeing it anyway) before the US Open, so that she doesn't play the 9th seed in the last 32 or the 7th seed in the last 16. Mind, she reached the SF last year, so that #19 is going to go the other way short term.

indiana · Tennis legend

The top QF will be (14) Keys vs (8) Barty after they beat Siniakova and Kenin respectively.

indiana · Tennis legend

Halep and Anisimova complete comprehensive victories over Swiatek snd Bolsova Zadoinov respectively and we have a.very interesting QF line up including the champion, runner up and one losing semi finalist from last year. Though very new RG territory for some

(14) Keys vs (8) Barty
(3) Halep vs Anisimova
(7) Stephens vs (26) Konta
Vondrousova vs (31) Martic

Bottom half scheduled for Tuesday, top half for Wednesday.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 3rd of June 2019 05:41:59 PM

flamingowings · All-time great

Anisimova is the first player born in the 2000s, female or male, to make a Grand Slam quarterfinal

markymc1983 · Club Coach

Very gutted I'm at work when Jo is on at 1pm. I've watched all her matches here so far, as well as at the Fed Cup and the majority of her matches at Rome (excluding the final)..I feel like my viewership brings luck

Good luck Jo! Regardless of the outcome, what a tournament!

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

If Jo wins again today will add more fuel to the fire for those incandescent at the rank sloth and indolence they perceive on her behalf over the past 18 months. Nobody can blame a limited hacker like Bjorn Phau for having a poor run but I can see certainly see their argument re: Konta, if not in total agreement as Im sure shes been trying.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Just some points to note about the quarter-finalists:

Pretty impressive that the Americans have three out of the last eight. (And a pretty young three too)

Added to which one Aussie, Brit, Romanian, Croatian, and Czech.

The age profile is quite different from normal too:

The average age is: 24.

Points to note are: one junior, or two teenagers, or 4 players under 25, no players over 30.

Jo is the second oldest..

Two unseeded players. Three between 17-32. One 9-16. Three top eight seeds (but only one top four)

One woman trained by a woman (only 4 out of the top 100 women players have a female coach, apparently).

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 4th of June 2019 07:37:38 AM