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Originally Posted by GirlySports
what makes the french so bad? I've been to US Open but never to the French Open.
A co-worker of mine went to Australian Open and loved it.
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See below for an earlier post.
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Originally Posted by NBC
Playing a Frenchman on a show court at Roland Garros is not an easy task. Highly vocal and partizan crown make it extremely difficult.
I also find it interesting that the French Open organizers heavily favour their countrymen by putting them on the show courts, regardless of who else is playing. When I went a few years ago, They had Gilles Simon, Marion Bartoli and Paul-Henri Mathieu on Philippe Chatrier (centre) and had Federer, Venus Williams and Djokovic on Suzanne Lenglen. Number 10 seed Andy Murray was put out on some ridiculous outer court.
Very odd.
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The favouritism shown to French players at Roland Garros is obscene. You would never put the world no.1 on anything but centre court at the US or Wimbledon or the Australian, but the French will do it just to have one of their top 50 guys play some no name on the main show court. This only happens at the French. And the crowds when a French player is on is something to behold. Vocal, aggressive, loud, disrespectful (to the opponent) - again only at the French.
I've been to 3 out of 4 Grand Slams and the behaviour of the crowds when one of their own is playing and of the tournament organisers is shocking.