The Tennis Thread 2013

[GirlySports]

Pospisil is down 2 sets to 1 but leading the 4th set 4-1 against Zeballos. Play suspended due to darkness.

[atb]

Damn, that was heading for a 5th set with Pospisil having momentum. This favours Zeballos.

[Mango]

Ugh. Heartbreaker for Pospisil. He drops the fifth set 8-6. He had a chance to close it out too.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Mango

Ugh. Heartbreaker for Pospisil. He drops the fifth set 8-6. He had a chance to close it out too.

yeah. That sucked. Vasek broke for 4-2 in the 5th and immediately was broken back. Felt like it was inevitable at that point.

Good result for Vasek qualifying and taking a good claycourter to 5, more than I expected from him.

Onto the grass where hopefully he will have better results on a surface that suits him more

Meanwhile Milos just won the first set. Llodra can't touch his serve. Routine holds.

[fundmark19]

Llodra won second set convincingly 6-3. Lets hope Milos can get his head back in this

[polak]

Argh Milos, don't choke.

[GirlySports]

i say milos' serve is untouchable and he immediately loses serve, I should keep quiet!

although he's going to win now

[fundmark19]

Llodra completely fall off or did Milos start playing well?

[Mango]

Originally Posted by fundmark19

Llodra completely fall off or did Milos start playing well?

Just looking at the match stats, Raonic really put the pedal to the medal in the fourth set.

http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/sc...y9/1221ms.html

[polak]

There you go Milos!

Please make it to the quarters. Man, if I got to cheer on Roanic at Roland Garros I think I'd lose my mind!

[fundmark19]

Kevin Anderson is next. Milos beat him in San Jose I believe but his big serve should make it a good match to watch between them both lots of aces!

[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.

[Matty81]

Too bad for Pospisil, I think he has the talent to be a player in the 40-60 range but when he loses focus mentally, even for just a couple minutes, he throws away some amazing opportunities, really thought he could close that out, all the momentum on his side and up a break.

Good for Milos, agreed that it was a tough match to win given the setting, he made it look pretty easy. Anderson will be tough for him too but winnable.

If he hits round 4 I think Ferrer is out of his league on clay, still hoping one of the Spanish dirt guys will upset him but he is nearing the end of his career, probably has maybe 2 more go rounds to win a major on clay left and he will be mentally sharp.

[GirlySports]

Bouchard vs Sharapova on the Stadium Court tomorrow!
3rd match after Stosur and Djokovic so probably around 7am start maybe sooner.

[GirlySports]

There was 3 hours of rain but play has resumed. Djokovic is up a set and a break so he should dispatch this guy in an hour from now.

So Bouchard vs. Sharapova at around 10:15ish.

[GirlySports]

With multple rain delays,

Sharapova 6 4 40
Bouchard *2 2 A

Will resume tomorrow. Bouchard playing quite well but can't win the big points.

[Mango]

Good experience for her. This year's Fed Cup action has really helped progress her play. I wonder if she could be a top 60 player this year?

[GirlySports]

She's close, she's ranked 66 after Roland Garros (if she loses tomorrow)

[Matty81]

Milos got broken in the first set after he appeared to win the game on an ace, it got called out by the linesman late and then the umpire ruled it was in but didn't give him the point.

Milos had to serve again, he lost the point it went to duece and he lost the game. Pretty bad stuff.

[calumniate]

Raonic down 2 sets