French Open 2021

HeidiHeidi

Well, that was just the strangest match.

I was hoping Medvedev would make a match of it, and he just didn't.

And what a bizarre last point! Wtf was he thinking???

It's just awful without a crowd, you'd have to wonder how much of a difference that would make in various matches if the crowd was there to rev a player up from the doldrums.

lostcat

yerwanthere123 wrote: »

Hope Tsitsipas makes the final, has the greatest chance of making a match of it against presumably Nadal. I suppose he'll also take some confidence from coming back from two sets down to beat him in Melbourne.

Someone usually beats Nadal in Aus though. I think Nadal will eat him without salt in a final here. He would eat Zverev as well . Id give either of them a chance against Djokovic in a final

yerwanthere123

lostcat wrote: »

Someone usually beats Nadal in Aus though. I think Nadal will eat him without salt in a final here. He would eat Zverev as well . Id give either of them a chance against Djokovic in a final

Oh I know Nadal is beating both of them handily either way, I'd just hope that Tsitsipas might make it competitive for a bit.

klr87

yerwanthere123 wrote: »

Didn't get to see anything today bar the last 10 minutes. Zidansek-Pavlyuchenkova is... not the semi final I wanted to see here. Hope Pavlyuchenkova makes it and gets routed by Swiatek in the final.

Hope Tsitsipas makes the final, has the greatest chance of making a match of it against presumably Nadal. I suppose he'll also take some confidence from coming back from two sets down to beat him in Melbourne.

Both of the women's matches could easily have gone the other way. Badosa was clearly disgusted she lost to the much lower ranked player. Actually, Zidansek hit more winners and less unforced errors than Badosa. There was a bizarre moment in the last set when Zidansek hit her only ace of the match, and one of her coaching team blessed himself

Rybakina flagged towards the end of her match, and did well to keep it going as long as she did. Pavs has played plenty of very long matches in her career, and that showed here, even if the match wasn't exceptionally long. Both women's matches were "only" about 2 1/2 hours long, despite the scorelines.

I just can't see Nadal losing to either Zverev or Tsitsipas in the final, if that's how it pans out. Father Time will eventually beat him, but not just yet, not at Roland Garros.

Augme

A real sense that Medvedev left that match behind. Made too many poor shots, and poor decisions, at crucial times. Hard to gauge what Zverev is like. Is have beaten his opponent today. I don't know if either player would best Nadal or Novak. And I don't even give Novak much hope against Nadal at this stage.

Also the decision to stick with night matches this year when they knew there would be no crowd was a terrible idea.

Slashermcguirk

Djokovic for me is the main challenge to Nadal..I know last years final doesnt suggest that but if you look over the years Djokovic is one of only two players to beat Nadal at the French. There was also another year Novak should have beaten him, took it to 5 sets and if memory serves me well he was a break up in the 5th. In two other finals Novak took Nadal to 4 sets.

Tsitsipas might take Nadal to 4 in final, zverev would get destroyed in 3. Djokovic beat Tsitsipas and Zverev at the French last year or year before. I think the only chance of Nadal not winning is if Djokovic goes into his beast mode, afterall he has 7 clay wins against him.

All that aside I still think Nadal will win. Tsitsipas will put zverev away

quote="yerwanthere123;117376414"]Oh I know Nadal is beating both of them handily either way, I'd just hope that Tsitsipas might make it competitive for a bit.[/quote]

Floppybits

How many players is Mouratoglou working with? How does he get anything done when he is in different players boxes all the time?

Hector Savage

klr87 wrote: »

Zidansek def. Badosa 7-5 4-6 8-6
Pavlyuchenkova def. Rybakina 6-7 6-2 9-7

Well, the women's singles needed two matches like those. I guess the men won't be too happy having to wait though.

Pity about Paula , was a good chance for her to progress, open draw, she used to train in my old tennis club - the Vall D Hebron in Barcelona (1992 Olympics, and they haven't been renovated since )

Hector Savage

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Djokovic for me is the main challenge to Nadal..I know last years final doesnt suggest that but if you look over the years Djokovic is one of only two players to beat Nadal at the French. There was also another year Novak should have beaten him, took it to 5 sets and if memory serves me well he was a break up in the 5th. In two other finals Novak took Nadal to 4 sets.

Tsitsipas might take Nadal to 4 in final, zverev would get destroyed in 3. Djokovic beat Tsitsipas and Zverev at the French last year or year before. I think the only chance of Nadal not winning is if Djokovic goes into his beast mode, afterall he has 7 clay wins against him.

All that aside I still think Nadal will win. Tsitsipas will put zverev away

quote="yerwanthere123;117376414"]Oh I know Nadal is beating both of them handily either way, I'd just hope that Tsitsipas might make it competitive for a bit.

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2013, he was a break up in the 5th and had a point to go 2 breaks up, some ****e about his shirt touching the net f*cked it up for Djokovic and the little aspirin pumped tosser took full advantage.

Sickening, to this day it annoys me.

yerwanthere123

Floppybits wrote: »

How many players is Mouratoglou working with? How does he get anything done when he is in different players boxes all the time?

Serena, Tsitsipas and Gauff I think, though milks his fame the most with Serena.

Joe_ Public

Hard for gauff to lose that set. Has all the shots, just not clinical enough on key points yet. Interesting to see how she responds to that setback.

Edit: no response at all sadly, total collapse. Decent tournament overall but still an awful lot to learn yet.

Rob2D

Tuned in to Borg V Shang there for a sec and it's just 3 guys dismantling the umpire's chair for some reason :pac:

Sakkari is the young female Nadal popeye of tennis

sxt

The amount of prize money the top women can win is unnreal. The women get the same amount in the singles as the men, and nearly all the top women play doubles and some of them play singles, doubles, and mixed. I'm not sure any of the top men do or could do that

Barbora Krejčíková is into the semis in the singles, she's into the semis in the doubles, and she could have been in the semis of the mixed doubles

Rankings of the 3 semi-finalists already through ->



Zidansek - 85

Pavlyuchenko - 32

KreJcikova - 33


Such depth

Rob2D

Well, I wasn't expecting that.

Hector Savage

sxt wrote: »

The amount of prize money the top women can win is unnreal. The women get the same amount in the singles as the men, and nearly all the top women play doubles and some of them play singles, doubles, and mixed. I'm not sure any of the top men do or could do that

Barbora Krejčíková is into the semis in the singles, she's into the semis in the doubles, and she could have been in the semis of the mixed doubles

But the patriarchy !!
it's sexist innit ?

Rob2D

Diego smaller than some of the ball kids haha. He looks like a photoshop.

josip

Rafa breaks but Diego immediately breaks back.

DS really struggling to hold his server all throughout this set

Does not augur well for him having even the remotest of chances unless that changes.

Also what is with the weird little double-noise that he makes before AND during/after he hits a forehand ground-stroke.

Rafa absolutely completely disregarding the "don't touch your face" Covid guidance 82 times per service game.

This is actually out of date - he has added a couple of new "forearm snot wiper" movements to his sequence repertoire it seems

yerwanthere123

Literally every single women's quarter final went the opposite of how I wanted. Don't really care who wins it now, I've zero investment anymore, but if I had to pick someone it'd be Pavlyuchenkova. Was always a widely tipped prospect but never really made it big on the seniors tour, despite several grand slam quarter finals. Watch Zidansek win it all now!

Augme

Huge set for Diego and everyone else in the comp. Deserved as well.

josip

First time in 37 sets.
It's been almost 2 years since Nadal won a 4 setter.
House of cards about to come crumbling down.
Maybe

Girly Gal

josip wrote: »

First time in 37 sets.
It's been almost 2 years since Nadal won a 4 setter.
House of cards about to come crumbling down.
Maybe

Doubt it very much, Rafa still the strong favourite, but, at least someone is putting it up to him for once

Hector Savage

Who has been messing with Eurosport ?

It has 1-1 in sets....

Nadal lobbing DS on break point

Cheap shot

yerwanthere123

And so endeth that little challenge. But it was a nice half hour.

whiterebel

In fairness, he is some competitor. Doesn't let the lack of height get in his way.

Interesting how big a difference there is in bounce off Nadal's forehand ball due to the change in temperature from last year's FO to this one - and in particular for a diminutive specimen such as DS

Montserrat Caballé has broken into song in the case of this match.