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

Peter too · Tennis legend

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

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And the torture continues......

PaulM · Tennis legend

3 set points are excellently saved, before Emma hits a screamer to save game point.

A good drop shot on her fourth set point does the job.

6-7(4) 7-5 *0-0

paulisi · Tennis legend

I'm enjoying the intensity of the match and the quality is decent.
Still expect this to swing back and forth.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Obviously some weren't at the top of their games, but that bottom quarter has now lost Krejcikova (2), Kontaveit (4), and Muguruza (10) all in R1.

Emma looking well on her way now. Chance for 5-1.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Emma nearly home and dry, Noskova was a horrible draw for her, shes got a great game going forward. Impressed with how patient Emma being here.

5-1 in the third, two points from victory as we speak.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R128: DART, Harriet (GBR) 111 lost to TREVISAN, Martina (ITA) 85 0-6 2-6
R128: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 105 lost to Jacquemot, Elsa (FRA) WC 216 3-6 3-6
R128: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) (12) 12 def NOSKOVA, Linda (CZE) Q 184 6-7(4) 7-5 6-1

R64: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) (12) 12 (CH=11 2022) v SASNOVICH, Aliaksandra ( ) 47 (CH=30 2018)
They played at Indian Wells with Sasnovich winning 2 & 4.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Well done Emma. Sometimes all you can do is grind it out and she stayed calm and just about solid enough to never fall properly behind and to get those 3 deuce games which ended Linda's resistance.

She'll need to play better, but she's lost plenty of these tough contests since New York. Getting over the line today mattered.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Anybody know who is doing the on court interview with Emma? I feel like I know her and Im sure it will be obvious when someone says.

Neil Gee · Club Coach

Yes well done Emma, a rare fightback from dropping the opening set, really didn't think she was going to do it through most of the first two sets, and definitely not by 6-1 in the decider.

nicofrance · Strong Club Player

That was nerve shredding . Given the circumstances that was Emmas best performance since the US Open and she won from a set and a break down , the first time shes done that on the main tour .

indiana · Tennis legend

Got there.

And less than a year after playing her first main tour match Emma had now got through at least one MD round of all four Slams. One in particular went especially well

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Emma was very fortunate to get away with a performance that bad. She let Linda dominate the match until Noskova ran out of gas in the third set.

I don't understand what Raducanu's strategy was beyond relying on Linda to make a huge number of errors. I know she finds it difficult in slow conditions but that was ridiculous.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Phew. She was great for most of the last set but first two I found quite painful to watch. I don't remember her doing all those loopy shots at US, she really seemed a different player to me there. I'm not seeing those crouching Radwanska style shots that she used so much in her winning run, maybe you don't do that on clay, I don't know. Not that those shots were winners but were precursors to setting up winning shots, instead of these loopy moon-balling things that she was doing in the early part of the match today.

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

Emma has now won at least1 singles match at all the Slams.