Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open (Roland-Garros) - Paris, France (clay) - SINGLES ONLY

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open (Roland-Garros) - Paris, France (clay) - SINGLES ONLY

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

Drat, I felt the Prince of Clay was due a decent run here...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I thought Kokki deserved that

Dan didn't play a bad match

But the Aussie just has a bit more speed and penetration on his shots

And poor Lestienne lost 6-3 in the fifth - great show, though

And meandwhile, Albot (who beat Ryan in qualis) won his R1 match.

Ofner (who beat Jan in qualis) also won his R1 match

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Darn, I also hoped Dan would get a win or two here. Onto the grass, Evo

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Doubles draw is out now, our pairs well spread out

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Intersting to read about Korda, who won his first match since the Aussie Open today, and has basically taken a back seat to bulk out a bit:

"I put like 7kg of muscle on. Kind of getting back into it. Been a while since I played any tennis. Madrid, Rome, and now here, just kind of getting my feet comfortable again".

He says he was 3 months without even practicing.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Dan feeling at a bit of a loss and clearly unhappy with his general form

www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/may/28/evans-suffers-shocking-french-open-first-round-defeat-against-kokkinakis

Blue_Belle · Club Coach

How lovely for Lucas Pouille to win his R1 match against the man who he beat in the FQR.
twitter.com/BastienFachan/status/1662908596961566727

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Cam and Jack both on morning duty today, lets hope singles arent all done and dusted for GB by early afternoon!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Cam's service toss is all over the place, can't get any penetration on his shots, even more spiky than normal, and doesn't look up before he chooses a side

Benoit's forehand is a nightmare. And doesn't like to run. Nor bend his knees.

Apart from that, great match.... :(

5-5

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Cam's service toss is all over the place, can't get any penetration on his shots, even more spiky than normal, and doesn't look up before he chooses a side

Benoit's forehand is a nightmare. And doesn't like to run. Nor bend his knees.

Apart from that, great match.... :(

5-5

But Cam somehow manages to snaffle the first set by 7-5.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, some decent lefty serves in the ad court, with Benoit standing miles back, managed to save all the break points

Hopefully, it might get a bit easier now...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

But actually it got easier for Benoit.... :(

One set all

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

So Jack is serving underarm half the time and rolling serves in the other half???

(I exagerate but.....)

That said, he was 1-4 down

And has got it back to 4-4

But he's served at least 3 underarm serves and is doing first-seconds for a lot of them. And doesn't seem that focused or into the whole thing

He's doing OK but something's not A1 right....

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And the third set follows the second down the pan by 3-6. cry This is not looking good.