ROLAND GARROS 2016

so many dropshits

Muguruza a set down to this year's worst slumper, Schmiedlova :o

and Rosol is rosoling vs Wawrinka

Lisicki just tried to run around a FH and hit it literally straight into the ground in front of her. I played tennis on a hangover yesterday and hit many bad FHs and none were as bad as that

Errani losing a clay court match to Pironkova o_O

Dimitrov's meltdown was quite funny. Fourth straight loss, third straight RG R1 exit. This Nike tweet was probably ill-advised https://twitter.com/Nikecourt/status/734053660049580032

Buyukakcay became the first Turkish woman to win a Slam match!

Osaka/Ostapenko was a pretty interesting battle of the 1997 generation, Osaka dealt with the damp clay conditions better than I expected. Ostapenko needs a better serve.

Pavlasek/Carballes Baena was probably the highest quality match no one watched

I am dying at that Nike tweet

I mean, there are so many possible accurate answers to it

Sexpanek continuing what he began in Madrid. That's an upset I could get behind

oh god he licked his contact lens before he put it in his eye oh god oh god

wow step is 37! hadn't realized he was so old

I have never been more disgusted at anything I've seen on or off a tennis court

come on radek

lol @ Murray

Siegemund-Bouchard on court 15 with the worst quality stream smh

Coric grinding down Fritz w ease atm, only blip so far was a minor choke serving for the set

Kerber a set down to Bertens...

Bertens is fun to watch

Fran is starting to do her thing vs Kiki

so many matches to watch right now :/

Fran/Kiki was more of a mess than I thought it would be. Fran apparently can't hit overheads these days.

CSN/Siniakova is fun...

gosh what a MP save by Kerber

but on the third plays an inexplicable dropshot and is out

That was some comeback from Pouille today - resumed down 3-5 in the fourth vs Benneteau, saved 7-8 SPs (I lost track) across three separate games then came back from 1-3 in the TB to win, and with really strong tennis too. Weird to see him seeded suddenly after his surprise Rome run but he dealt with the pressure well.

Not sure if I've ever seen a man as physically imposing as Groth made to look so helpless in any context as his "match" vs Nadal

Knowing Satanrenka has been ~extremely injured~ again I actually put a fiver on her to lose to Knapp at 20-1. That first set was thus extremely to my liking but I fear the next won't be.

I've watched this for 5 minutes and Azarenka has hit the ground with her racquet more times than she has hit the ball in court

I no longer care, I cashed out in-play and took my $75 and if Knapp seals the deal that's the cherry on the cake.

wait who am I kidding, Satanrenka losing is always something I care about

Sort of hope she gets through bc I like Sevastova, her R2 opponent, more than Knapp

If Azarenka's knee felt fine at the end of that set it definitely doesn't now. I don't know why she's insisting on continuing...

So she can shorten her career, presumably. No complaints here.

Seriously though, her fitness team must be negligent.

lol @ the crowd laughing at her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0n2A1gkoiA

Pereira/Pliskova and Mathieu/Giraldo made for simultaneous late-night classics there. polysyllabic grunts and immense stylistic contrasts in the former, beef and hormones and the home crowd in the latter. Pereira won 9-7 in the third and Mathieu won 6-3 in the fifth

Osaka just saved Halep from Lucic-Baroni...but maybe Osaka could be the bigger problem! I'm so impressed with her. She's played two Slams, made R3 and beaten a seed in both, and this RG run is even more impressive given that she's such a red clay novice (never played on it before last month and her power game is unsuited to it to say the least). First post-Williams player of note to skip juniors entirely?

lol @ Murray, redux

Bourgue PEAKED when serving for a 2 sets to 1 lead. goodness. those dropshots and that BH DTL.

Bourgue definitely not peaking, Murray survives fuckery again

Elsewhere, Simon has retrieved a 4-6 1-6 14 deficit vs Pella to take the third set...

Pella has lost his break lead in the fourth set as well, lol

Pella served for the match and was broken, then lost the TB, lol

So Simon, this match

The Beck/Bondarenko MP was pretty special. Longest rally of the women's tournament so far.

http://video.eurosport.de/tennis/french-open-frauen/2016/french-open-2016-annika-beck-verwandelt-irren-matchball_vid788145/video.shtml

Good to see some coverage of the Turkish milestone too - http://www.wtatennis.com/news/article/5597927/title/turkish-delight-in-paris

from 1-4 down Bacsinszky has been ruthlessly exposing every one of Bouchard's flaws. Seven games in a row

Timea's backhand is such a great shot

even her forehand looks good lol

Nine games in a row lol

BAGEL HA

I was expecting Bacsinszky to drag by bringing Bouchard to net with her dropshots and exposing Bouchard's terrible volleying but she hasn't even needed to do that

all these errors off moonballs <3

Putintseva has started GROWLING after winning big games! I love her

the #comeback is on :/

Putintseva wins the first point after an umpire dispute and we get three kinds of fistpump in different directions and five C'MONs

Not sure what Bacsinszky thought she was doing in that last stretch but Bouchard is bad enough that it didn't matter

Petko losing by that scoreline makes me wonder how terrible Robson must have played

Robson is nowhere near WTA level and for her own sake these protected rankings and WCs need to run out soon

murray is getting to EVERYTHING

almost worry he's going to wear himself out on novak's service games

Under a lot of pressure - took everything to just hold

Now its Murray's turn to try and hold

Epic game

Murray to serve for the set

oh dear..

RG lap this shit up all day long.

2xsps saved

UE for the set

So should that have been 30-0 or 15-15? The call came when exactly?

Anyway, Murray did great after the bullshit booing

#godRally

what a fantastic rally

:)

Novak's turn to block - this is punishing to watch

fuck a drop shot andy

fuck's sake

fkn df

Showed a lot by getting two BPs to stay afloat in the set

4-1, D has cut the UEs..and he has missed a couple of drop shots but he doesn't need them now to get through Murray, who started this match on an incredible spell - and may have peaked?

andy looks gassed

Djoko looks unplayable now. Anyone would look tired.

Terrific angles, coverage, athleticism...2 SPs

or - showing who is the boss

Got Novak to deuce but actually it was fine from (thought andy could've made more of the last pt). The decisive moments are now here..

some astonishing tennis from Novak here - 2 BPs

awful at the net from Murray for the break - decisive indeed..

novak finding that other gear no one else has

What a beautifully angled shot near the net for 4-1 in the 3rd - if you are going to dominate the men's game and make it a borefest play the game like this.

Novak holds all four slams - even if he doesn't beat the all-time slam record of Federer's (and given the state of the tour its looking shaky) this is a unique, perhaps once in a lifetime achievement.

Four in a row on three different surfaces is the greatest ATP achievement of the open era imo

Match was pretty dull aside from a fire start by Murray and the dramatic wobble at the end which obviously didn't matter. I don't think Djokovic was unplayable by any means - occasionally excellent but Murray was barely competitive for most of the last hour.

Roll of honour -

Men's singles: Novak Djokovic
Women's singles: Garbiñe Muguruza
Men's doubles: Feliciano López & Marc López
Women's doubles: Caroline Garcia & Kristina Mladenovic
Mixed doubles: Martina Hingis & Leander Paes
Boys' singles: Geoffrey Blancaneaux
Girls' singles: Rebeka Masarova
Boys' doubles: Yshai Oliel & Patrik Rikl
Girls' doubles: Paula Arias Manjón & Olga Danilovic

ESP with the women's singles, men's doubles and girls' doubles; FRA with the women's doubles and boys' singles; SRB with the men's singles and girls' doubles; SUI with the mixed doubles and girls' singles. Danilovic is the first 2001-born Slam champion, her dad is a famous basketball player I think. I saw her at Les Petits As last year and she was impressive even then.