Week 21 - French Open (Roland-Garros) - Paris, France (clay)

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 21 - French Open (Roland-Garros) - Paris, France (clay)

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

In the absence of any British women I feel myself rooting for Jeanjean and the way she was treated by the FFT. I see she's on Lenglen at least albeit first thing tomorrow.

Steve J · Lower Club Player

Peter too wrote:
R128: DART, Harriet (GBR) 111 lost to TREVISAN, Martina (ITA) 85 0-6 2-6

R64: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) (12) 12 (CH=11 2022) v SASNOVICH, Aliaksandra ( ) 47 (CH=30 2018)

Ms. Trevisan and Ms. Sasnovich are through to the 4th round.

SuperT · Futures level

Steve J wrote:
Peter too wrote:
R128: DART, Harriet (GBR) 111 lost to TREVISAN, Martina (ITA) 85 0-6 2-6

R64: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) (12) 12 (CH=11 2022) v SASNOVICH, Aliaksandra ( ) 47 (CH=30 2018)
Ms. Trevisan and Ms. Sasnovich are through to the 4th round.

Yes and Sasnovich beat Kerber who has been in excellent form this tournament. Just to put Emma's loss into context.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Helen40 wrote:
In the absence of any British women I feel myself rooting for Jeanjean and the way she was treated by the FFT. I see she's on Lenglen at least albeit first thing tomorrow.

Yes, I've got 10 am marked in the diary too biggrin

Although I did thoroughly enjoy Teichmann's tennis today too.... but still not the same - allez, Léolia !

Pancho P · Lower Club Player

Helen40 wrote:
In the absence of any British women I feel myself rooting for Jeanjean and the way she was treated by the FFT. I see she's on Lenglen at least albeit first thing tomorrow.

I think we should " Go Paulo" for Aces sake !

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Pancho P wrote:
Helen40 wrote:
In the absence of any British women I feel myself rooting for Jeanjean and the way she was treated by the FFT. I see she's on Lenglen at least albeit first thing tomorrow.
I think we should " Go Paulo" for Aces sake !

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ace, I'll give you 'Go Paula' for next week

She's 4th in the world or whatever

I'm not using my direct line to higher powers to root for a top 4 player in week one

Sorry, but today is 'Go Léolia' !

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Come on Leolia

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, one game would be good !

The poor girl has completely frozen.....

nicofrance · Strong Club Player

What a shame for Leolia .

If only she could have just taken her chances as Begu could have unraveled after missing those match points . She was 30 -0 on Begus serve and just needed to be more aggressive and she could have turned the match around .

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, that first set was the most hideous set of tennis I've seen for a while - her arm was like lead, couldn't hit through the ball, and her legs not much better.

At least the second set was better, she made Begu play, hit some good shots, staged a bit of a comeback to at least give the crowd something. She'll be really disappointed just with the way she played but there were a few positives in the second - and the week overall has been an amazing positive.

ADD: and, yes, nico, Begu looked amazingly tight and nervous at the end for someone winning so easily - even her coach looked worried .... as you say, if she'd made it 5-5, you would have bet on a third set....

So Léolia's moment is over - Ace, over to Paula

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 28th of May 2022 10:39:16 AM

nicofrance · Strong Club Player

The womens top ten bar Swiatek must be the worst quality in years .

Youd not put any money on the rest consistently winning any matches and many seem to fold far too easily .

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Sorry for you, Ace.

Paula had to retire. Hope she's OK.

Sabalenka (7th seed) also lost

indiana · Tennis legend

nicofrance wrote:
The womens top ten bar Swiatek must be the worst quality in years .

Youd not put any money on the rest consistently winning any matches and many seem to fold far too easily .

I'm with you on that.

Some folk will say it's great with all the unpredictability but the women's tour even more now needs much more narrative rather than its collection of pretty unrelated short stories. I would far rather have a bit more consistency from some who would be targets for the others.

Swiatek certainly gives it some as the current clear #1. It needs 2 or 3 more truly high level consistent performers, not liable to produce a shocker at a moment's notice. Particularly, since time moves on for many of the underperformers, it needs the better younger players to continue to rise, find that consistency and hopefully make things generally much better in the future, such as Emma, Gauff and Anisimova.

The 20s in the seedings are not doing to badly here. As Jaggy was saying the 2-30 in the rankings are all over the place as to who are the best performers.

The 2 remaining top 16 seeds, (1) Swiatek and (11) Pegula, are also in the same quarter.

2 out of 16 is how many would be most expected to get through to R4 out of any random selection of 16 R1 entrants. And the top 16 seeds in theory had easier draws.

Edit: Actually I had missed that the one remaining L32 match also had a top 16 seed in (16) Rybakina. Though she looks like being pulled back to one set all vs (22) Keys.

Edit edit: As you were re just 2 of the top 16 seeds through to R4 as Keys beats Rybakina 7-6 (10-3) in the 3rd set.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 28th of May 2022 06:56:23 PM