Stircrazy wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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Big credit to David Goffin - and serious concerns about the umpire....

Goffin's ball is sliced, quite slow, takes the outside of the line, Sinner is on the ball, it's called out, Sinner hits the ball back over into Goffin's half.....

Goffin queries the call, umpire looks, overrules, calls it in, and awards the point to Goffin.

Sinner looks completely befuddled - the umpire sticks firm - and Goffin tells the umpire the guy got it back over, it has to be replayed - credit to him.

Especially as then gets broken...

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 Sinner makes mincemeat of Goffin (11), beating him by 5, 0 & 3 in just under two hours!

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 Well Sinner proved worth his place on the main stage ( as much of a main stage as it is in the circumstances ), once again showing what a talent he is, here against the WR 13. The Italians are coming   And Murray vs Wawrinka was a very understandable choice. Just a pity these two matches didn't last rather longer and in particular how 'off' Andy was.

In the women's Chatrier matches, at least for the French, Garcia took out Kontaveit in 3 sets after Halep's pretty routine win. And a well known home player against a seed is not unexpected in one main court  match at any of the slams. 

In spite of concerns expressed in the Jo Konta thread ( sorry, I hsd lost where it was ) it seemed to me a perfectly reasonable main court line-up for the first of 3 days of R1 matches, if as it turned out not the amount of tennis to be hoped for.

If though they had gone for 5 matches the first 4 might have gone long, causing the last to be played under the roof whatever the weatther ( if they can indeed go late ), and I imagine that the organisers would say the same as Wimbledon do, that it is essentially meant to be an outdoor event ( if not really a September / October outdoor event. So they shouldn't schedule quite likely indoor night matches. If it rains during normal hours, fair enough. 

emmsie69 wrote:

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Bob in Spain wrote:

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Dan Evans clearly not happy with the tennis balls they are using.

"Some of those balls we were using, you wouldn't give to a dog to chew."

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 I saw that quote on the BBC website and suspected that was from Dan, he was moaning after the 1st game.

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By all accounts, Rafa has been moaning too and he hasn't hit a ball in anger yet.