ROLAND GARROS 2015

I am now totally happy with any finalist from this half... even Ivanovic? Even Ivanovic!

Bouchard out of the top 10 now and Safarova in :D :D :D

Ma$ha has still never defended a Slam title!

xp gosh I had no idea that was Safarova's top 10 match, she had one or two earlier this year and flopped hard iirc. Even more impressive.

Safarova and Muguruza have never played!

monfils-fed being effectively best of 3 now is increasing my excitement #makemenplaythreesets

Back call for ITV4 to show Murray match instead of Fed-Monfils :-(

Nice tanking in this game Gael

meanwhile, there's an ITF tournament in Brescia, Italy this week - the courts are in the former moat of the town castle! looks idyllic: http://www.tennisforzacostanza.it/sito/

#makemenplayzerosets

gael really got fucked by the scheduling. he had all the momentum yesterday

I had totally forgotten that this is the year of the three-week Paris-London break. Wimbledon starts a week later than I thought. I picked a bad night to agree to photograph some gamelan players (men's QF)...

Gael has no excuses.

Gael got fucked by his own clowning around and taking ten sets to beat Schwartzman and Cuevas

Murray is having to resist at the mo :-(

Murray in trouble, broken in the 3rd.

Winners flying although not Messi like.

#lolcommentary

Chardy clowns around at the next - break back.

NID that Chardy wouldn't keep it together mentally, story of his career

yup, Murray to serve for the 3rd

The height on that Serena dropshot made it look like the worst dropshot ever but it only just landed on the other side of the net and proved surprisingly effective

LMAOOOO that Chardy drive volley

w.t.f

Murray's turn to get a DF in.

gets it in the end!

Amazed this crowd aren't up seats

ripping up seats. *cries for edit button*

er ok @ serena

Serena's just left at least two Stephens shots that landed on the baseline pretty close to her for no apparent reason

is she injured/uninterested/what? Stephens 6-1 inside 25 mins.

what is this shit on my television?

Completely bizarre lack of fight in that last game, Serena just slapping the ball out. That set felt like it lasted about 10 minutes

Perched for the ERRANI SLAM now

Down 1-6, *2-3, 15-30, Serena won the longest rally of the match and it woke her up. Held serve then broke Stephens after the longest game of the match.

Rising from the ashes (again)

In the meantime Murray to serve for the match after exchanging breaks.

did sloane show any form at all coming into this tournament? she has looked really good

PLOT TWIST

I didn't know Stephens could hit BH DTL at all

did sloane show any form at all coming into this tournament? she has looked really good

not really, though not slumping like Beck/Schiavone/Vekic etc

R2 Charleston (beat Mattek-Sands, lost to Barthel)
R2 Madrid (beat Mattek-Sands, lost to Serena 4 and 0)
R1 Rome (lost to Lisicki (!) 4 and 1)
SF Strasbourg (beat Kichenok and Vandeweghe, then Jankovic retired, then lost to Stosur with a bagel in the third)

Serena serving to stay in the match.

DF to begin with.

Serve strong thereafter. 5-5

Races to 3 BPs

Serena to serve for the match.

lol sorry for the set.

Errani beats Goerges 6-2 6-2 :DDDD

That was the most impressed I've ever been with Sloane and especially her BH. She made the stretch between Serena waking up and Serena breaking in the third more interesting than I expected but...the match basically followed the Serena MO. 10-0 in three-setters this year.

Has Nadal been hustling us all clay court season? I'm sure these aren't 2008-vintage performances he's turning in, but the results are close to that (ok, Sock isn't done yet).

Sock now done.

How can someone called Sock exist btw? #wonderofitall

i like van Uytvanck's game more the more i watch her. so many drop shots

re: Sock. This is a post-Roddick thing, right? Men's tennis 2-3 years from now is depressing me right now.

Ooh, Sock broke back.