Coup Droit wrote:

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Well, GB looks like going one better than France.

Assuming Gasquet loses tonight (against Nadal, and I don't think it's sticking my neck out too far to go along with that), there will be no French players, men or women, in R3 (single)

As one of the leading French tennis tweet guys is saying:

"Nous sommes les témoins d'une édition dramatiquement historique."

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 Good thing our German/New Zealander is still in for us

junior wrote:

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Covid times and that in recent couple of years most of the "older" timers have sort of dropped off, leaving the young ones really the only ones left. Tsonga, Gasquet, Goffin, Monfils, Lopez, Verdasco, Kolscreiber, Dimi, Stan, Cilic, Nishikori..... Nowhere to be seen.

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 Nishikori is still in RG! 

flamingowings wrote:

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junior wrote:

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Covid times and that in recent couple of years most of the "older" timers have sort of dropped off, leaving the young ones really the only ones left. Tsonga, Gasquet, Goffin, Monfils, Lopez, Verdasco, Kolscreiber, Dimi, Stan, Cilic, Nishikori..... Nowhere to be seen.

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 Nishikori is still in RG! 

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 As is Kohlschreiber

So indeed there will be no French players in either singles L32.

An absolute shocker, out of comparison with GB's bad Slams, given the relative French depth over many years and how much more a part of general French life tennis seems to be compared to the UK.

I guess CD can best put it into context.

indiana wrote:

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So indeed theee will be no French players in either singles L32.

An absolute shocker, out of comparison with GB's bad Slams, given the relative French depth over many years and how much more a part of general French life tennis seems to be compared to the UK.

I guess CD can best put it into context.

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 Journalists are having a field day, as you can imagine. It's all 'catastrophe' and 'worst performance in history' and 'dramatic gap' of players and more and more of the same. 

I like this one: 

"Le creux générationnel annoncé depuis des années, notamment chez les garçons, semble se concrétiser et annoncer plusieurs années de vache maigre"

The thrust is simply that the gap of players coming through, that we've known was coming for years (especially in men), now seems to have become reality

BUT the bit I like is that we're now going to have some years of 'skinny cows'

(which we would translate as 'lean years') 

But there's certainly going to be a lot of pressure on the bods in Paris. (Especially as Italy are doing so well).

They've been used to having a rich stable of players, and managed to paper over it in the past few years, as a few older players, or young guns on a flukey run, diverted attention. But now it's staring them in the face....

Will be interesting....

Coup Droit wrote:

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indiana wrote:

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So indeed theee will be no French players in either singles L32.

An absolute shocker, out of comparison with GB's bad Slams, given the relative French depth over many years and how much more a part of general French life tennis seems to be compared to the UK.

I guess CD can best put it into context.

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 Journalists are having a field day, as you can imagine. It's all 'catastrophe' and 'worst performance in history' and 'dramatic gap' of players and more and more of the same. 

I like this one: 

"Le creux générationnel annoncé depuis des années, notamment chez les garçons, semble se concrétiser et annoncer plusieurs années de vache maigre"

The thrust is simply that the gap of players coming through, that we've known was coming for years (especially in men), now seems to have become reality

BUT the bit I like is that we're now going to have some years of 'skinny cows'

(which we would translate as 'lean years') 

But there's certainly going to be a lot of pressure on the bods in Paris. (Especially as Italy are doing so well).

They've been used to having a rich stable of players, and managed to paper over it in the past few years, as a few older players, or young guns on a flukey run, diverted attention. But now it's staring them in the face....

Will be interesting....

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 When they invest so much stock in Mr Mouratoglou, what do they expect?