Week 38 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris (clay) - men's qualifying

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 38 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris (clay) - men's qualifying

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Four qualifiers have already tested positive and been withdrawn, pre the draw being done.

Istomin, Escobedo, Kristin and Zapata are all out.

And the coach of Dzumhur has also tested positive so Dzumhur's out too (although the coach says it's false because he had covid 2 months ago and so it's just old antibodies that are being detected).

ADD: The Roland Garros official statement says that only two tested positive and the other 3 were excluded becuase they were in close contact with a coach who had tested positive

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 20th of September 2020 08:48:14 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Liam is second match on court 4

Jay is last match on court 11, not before 15.00h

Jajon · Strong Club Player

Are they still allowing fans into this? I see Covid cases are spiking in France...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As of the last thing I saw, they are still allowing fans into one court, (Chatrier) but they've cancelled them in all the others.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

the match before Liam's has just finished so he should be next up on Court 4

Bet365 have Liam as the very slight outsider - Kuhn is 1.8 and Liam at 1.95

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 21st of September 2020 10:04:05 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Very pleased to see Enzo Couacaud get a win (over 6th seed Kudla)

Enzo is known for being a bit on the outside (not really his own fault, I believe, more like just not one of the favoured ones).
Anyway, he didn't get a wildcard from the FFT into the MD, despite several players quite a lot lower than him getting one.
And he's not old, (although not a hot young hope either), age 25.
He posted a couple of rather bitter tweets along the lines of 'who do you have to be friends with to get a wildcard ?????'
Which probably hasn't endeared himself to the blazers any further.

But he won today

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Liam started off badly, was 0-2 down, and played a horrible game to get broken.

Then really clicked into gear and won the first set, 6-4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QR1: Liam Broady WR 205 defeated Nicola Kuhn (ESP) WR 240 by 6-4 7-6(4)

*****

QR2: Liam Broady WR 205 vs Botic van de Zandschulp (NED) WR 164 (= CH)

The Dutchman saw off the q18, Paolo Lorenzi, in straight sets.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Great news. Well done Liam. He has been showing some form on clay recently so I am not surprised at this result.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Really enjoyed that.

Liam deserved to win, he was the better player, and SO glad he didn't have a little wobble at the end. Good tennis.

Jan · Hall of fame

Excellent! Well done Liam

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jay lost 1 & 4, which is not a real surprise - tricky draw, that.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Another quite sweet story is that of Tristan Lamasine (who's quite a laid back sort of guy) who was inscribed for the 25k at Plaisir last week, an indoor hard court tournament. He hadn't given Roland Garros a thought because he said he thought all the wildcards would go to the young players and there was no one really to bat for him in the deliberations, no reason to make him an exception, so there was no chance.

But what he'd completely forgotten was that there is the 'Race' - the circuit of tournaments that give points towards a wildcard. He said he had completely 'zapped' about it - didn't remember there was one (it's quite new) and certainly didn't think it was happening this year.

So he was there are the indoor hard event and suddenly got his email saying he was the Race leader and had got a wildcard.

So he went an practiced on clay, then played his hard court match (which he lost but he claims he gave it his all, losing the second set TB 11-9), and then flipped back to clay - and won his first round match yesterday

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Another quite sweet story is that of Tristan Lamasine (who's quite a laid back sort of guy) who was inscribed for the 25k at Plaisir last week [...]

Thinking in French again, I see, CD. wink