ROLAND GARROS 2016

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

Gulbis in R3 without losing a set o_O

GGL-Thiem is a fun match right now

Thiem really peaked in the last few games, lots of great BH to BH rallies

lol @ Tomic, down SP with an open court, tapping the overhead literally into Coric's hitting zone

Try as I might, I cannot name another tennis player who wears his or her newfound privilege so boldly as Bernard Tomic. I detest him and cheer every time he loses.

Imagine if Tomic and Vandeweghe started dating

Opposite end of the spectrum - Serena's current opponent, Teliana Pereira.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/sports/tennis/brazilian-tennis-players-success-follows-a-childhood-of-obstacles.html?_r=0

Didier Rayon, who ran the academy, became a mentor to Teliana. He said he did not think anyone in the upper echelons of tennis “ever started as poor as Teliana.”

Cornet is such a ridiculous person. The time-outs, the staggering, the exhortations, the drama, the falling to the ground as though she'd just won the RG final rather than the RG R2. Would love to know what Maria said to her on the handshake to accompany that stern finger-wag

NAOMI OSAKA

First set over Halep! Doing to her exactly what Lucic would have done.

Osaka fell off but goodness, that was her seventh red clay match EVER and she pushed a former RG finalist to three sets.

*ignores Petra forever*

(BAGELLED BY SHELBY ROGERS??????)

0-6, 7-6, 0-6

Of course

aaaaan Rafa's out, wrist injury

rafa out!

https://twitter.com/rolandgarros/status/736205516314005505

Tsveti <3 this run came completely out of nowhere!

also lmao @ stephens

Pironkova always peaking with no warning, lol

Stephens plays so reactively for someone who actually has power

That point was better than advertised

damn tsonga has to retire up 5-2 first set

going 3rd venus/cornet

So, out of Granollers - Thiem, Gulbis - (Goffin or Almagro), one will make the semis... And, of the five, only Gulbis has a major semifinal to his credit. Huge opportunity here. I had predicted Goffin to lose to Nadal in the quarters, so I suppose I'd stick with him, but this seems like Thiem's spot to lose.

Venus putting Cornet out of everyone's misery is much appreciated.

I read on a disreputable site that Kvitova blamed her loss on her period. Smh, why am I a fan of this woman.

Serena/Mladenovic was the first match I have seen in full this year, and it was very good. If Granollers makes a semi, I will quit watching tennis, he is gross.

I hadn't read that about Kvitova, but I know Jankovic did exactly that a couple of years ago. And if Petra is taking cues from Jankovic...

Bertens vs Kasatkina now 8-8 in third set. Bertens was finished but Kasatkina suddenly can barely move. Serves like a child does and plays Chang vs Lendl type high balls. Both absolutely knackered.

(Bertens has already missed 5 mp's)

10-8 for Bertens

so disappointing for Kasatkina, she had such a great shot at the SF!

Thiem making a Slam SF was only a matter of time, Goffin's reached two Masters SFs this year too. Those two would be far from random SFists.

your last 16s!

(1) Serena Williams vs. (18) Elina Svitolina
(12) Carla Suárez Navarro vs. Yulia Putintseva
Kiki Bertens vs. (15) Madison Keys
(9) Venus Williams vs. (8) Timea Bacsinszky
(25) Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Shelby Rogers
(13) Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. (4) Garbiñe Muguruza
(6) Simona Halep vs. (21) Samantha Stosur
Tsvetana Pironkova vs. (2) Agnieszka Radwanska

That's really not a bad line-up at all. Predicting Serena, CSN, Keys, Venus, Rogers, Muguruza, Halep, Pironkova.

(1) Novak Djokovic vs. (14) Roberto Bautista Agut
(11) David Ferrer vs. (7) Tomas Berdych
Marcel Granollers vs. (13) Dominic Thiem
(12) David Goffin vs. Ernests Gulbis
(8) Milos Raonic vs. Albert Ramos Viñolas
(22) Viktor Troicki vs. (3) Stan Wawrinka
(5) Kei Nishikori vs. (9) Richard Gasquet
(15) John Isner vs. (2) Andy Murray

so 12 of the top 16 made their allotted second week spot and 2 of the 4 who didn't were injured. Men's tennis! Predicting Djokovic, Berdych, Thiem, Goffin, Raonic, Wawrinka, Nishikori and Murray to continue the lack of excitement.

Muguruza's BH today >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

RAONIC OUT YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

Also while I don't want it to happen I have this idea that Troicki might beat Wawrinka.

massive inside out DTL BH for gasquet to take set 1 off kei

damn richard!

gasquet a game away from the quarters

what a horrible final game from Kei, not even trying to make him play