Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open, Paris - Clay

flamingowings · All-time great

Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open, Paris - Clay

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Townsend's a bit of a strange one, as CD says, she has had her issues with the USTA in the past, but she's 23 now, has been in and around the top 100 for over 18 months, but still plays 90% of her matches in the US and only seems to venture out of North America for the slams and has very few warm up events in those continents:

www.tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/wplayer.cgi

I guess if a country is putting on constant W80 and W100 events throughout the year as well as the many WTA events that they do, and you like your home comforts, you can build a solid enough ranking and stay in your comfort zone, but if she played the likes of the Far East swing, Middle East double, Euro red clay events etc., and she had the ranking to at least get into Qs for those, you'd think that would develop her much more as a player and maybe a person.

flamingowings · All-time great

I've heard that Townsend doesn't like travelling. Don't know how true / if that is true though. Bit of a top 100 player vulturing points really.

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wolf · Tennis legend

JoKo first on Court 7 tomorrow.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Kvitova has just withdrawn, with young Kaja Juvan getting the slot.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Shame for Petra, grade 2 tear in left forearm. Hopefully she can get back for the grass.

Big opportunity for Juvan, very open section now.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Could this match get any more painful????

Status Quo · Intermediate Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
Could this match get any more painful????

confuse

Jo just won the first set 6-4

the addict · Tennis legend

When I turned the TV on, I thought for a second that it was Naomi down the other end.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Status Quo wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Could this match get any more painful????

Jo just won the first set 6-4

It was one of the worst sets of tennis I've seen in a long time....

Mervatron2 · Futures level

It's a strange match. When you think Jo has gotten hold of it all of a sudden she's in trouble

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It's reciprocal WC Lauren Davis next for the winner of this. Long way to go here though.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Big hold there, saved successive BPs and then an additional one.

DF · Tennis legend

match

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

What a difference 3 or 4 mins can make. Lottner on the brink of breaking to serve for the match and then broken for the first time in the set. Not the prettiest of matches, but job done, a landmark win and can move on to another winnable match.