Tennis ITF Roland Garros 2022

[Monzanator 4,503]

On 5/20/2022 at 12:41 PM, hckošice said:

2nd round secured

 

1st round draws

 

MS

 

Alex Molčan - Federico Coria 

 

WS

 

Anna Karolína Schmiedlová - Kristína Kučová

Rebecca Sramkova enters the MD as lucky loser after Rebecca Peterson WD. Sramkova lost to Linda Noskova in the last round of quals otherwise. She will be a total outsider vs Darya Kasatkina tomorrow.

[hckošice 14,835]

12 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Rebecca Sramkova enters the MD as lucky loser after Rebecca Peterson WD. Sramkova lost to Linda Noskova in the last round of quals otherwise. She will be a total outsider vs Darya Kasatkina tomorrow.

ah yes Rebecca more famous with her "private life" and enormous lips than by her tennis. Surprised to read she is still active

 

 

 

[Monzanator 4,503]

@hckošiceSlovakian derby going into the third set. Kucova served to win in two but lost in TB. 2 hours & 20 minutes for two sets. Should be over three hours unless someone runs out of gas next.

[Monzanator 4,503]

Kucova did run out of gas and AKS won the decider 6-2. Match lasted 2h 57 minutes which is the second longest women's MD match so far (Azarenka vs Bogdan was 2h 58).

[Monzanator 4,503]

Holger Rune takes out Denis Shapovalov in three sets. Let's see if this is Denmark's biggest win of the day

[Federer91 2,797]

Jo-Willie Tsonga played his final match and had a very emotional ceremony afterwards. The French really did a good job in making this a proper send-off to one of their best in the new century. He has never been one, that i was fond of in his best years, but i have to admit the tribute video they showed got me a bit choked up. Almost all of that second tier of players that supplemented the Big 3 (or 4, if you'd like) for close to a decade are now retired. Nalbandian, Davydenko, Soderling in the beginning and then Tsonga, Berdych, Ferrer, Del Potro and Wawrinka in the second wave. Only one left is Stan the Man, but for how long.

[JoshMartini007 2,538]

It's still impressive how three men dominated singles for so long. We've had 74 grand slam tournaments since Federer won his first (2003 Wimbledon) and the breakdown is...

 

Nadal - 21

Djokovic - 20

Federer - 20

Everyone else - 13 between 9 players

 

In the everyone else category, three of them happened during the first two years (2003-2005) and two happened in the last two years. Makes you think what could have been had the three not existed. Would Murray or Wawrinka have won double digit grand slams or would the winners been as varied as the women's (minus Serena Williams)

[Makedonas 2,155]

Tsitsipas survived a scare, coming back from 0-2 sets down to win in 5 sets 

[Monzanator 4,503]

Aliaksandra Sasnovich takes out Emma Raducanu in three sets in R2 so a bit of a payback for the Wimbledon ban

[Makedonas 2,155]

How Sakkari and Bencic allowed that girl to win the US Open, I will never understand