Early Roland Garros Chat

[the AntiPusher]

Welcome, Roberto! Agreed. I think everyone is looking for an attitude adjustment for Novak, and Andre has been there on wandering in the desert with his tennis, as well as becoming a very grounded person, later.

Moxie..do you think Andre will hire "slim" to be Novak's spiritual "herbal" consultant :lulz2:

 

[Moxie]

Moxie..do you think Andre will hire "slim" to be Novak's spiritual "herbal" consultant :lulz2:

Who is "Slim?" For the record, I do rather think that Andre is in it for the short-term, and won't be hiring anybody.

 

[isabelle]

Who is "Slim?" For the record, I do rather think that Andre is in it for the short-term, and won't be hiring anybody.

I'ld be grateful if Andre could fire this stupid Pepe Imaz....

 

[Carol]

I understand that the 'Pepe relation' is already for 6 years so I doubt Andre is going to fire him, I'd say that Pepe would fire Andre.....

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Somebody named Tennys gets a wild card to RG.

p.s. MJD, your list is correct and so I have deleted my wrong list.

 

[mightyjeditribble]

According to
http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/n...here_are_the_rolandgarros_2017_wildcards.html

the wildcards are:

• Julien Benneteau

• Benjamin Bonzi

• Mathias Bourgue

• Quentin Halys

• Laurent Lokoli

• Alexandre Muller

• Tennys Sandgren (USA)

• Following to the agreement between the FFT and Tennis Australia, a wild-card is allocated to a player from Australia.

This is dated May 16, so some time ago. Your list may be from 2015?
http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/n...ildcards_for_the_mens_and_womens_singles.html

It seems the Australian wildcard has since been confirmed to be de Minaur.

https://www.tennis.com.au/news/2017/05/18/de-minaur-awarded-wildcard-for-roland-garros

 

[El Dude]

LOL, Pouille is a top 20 player - he definitely isn't a wildcard.

 

[Shivashish Sarkar]

According to you guys, who are the favourites and in which order?

 

[GameSetAndMath]

According to you guys, who are the favourites and in which order?

1. Rafa
2. Thiem
3. Stan
4. Novak
5. Zverev
6. Sir Andy

 

[the AntiPusher]

1. Rafa
2. Thiem
3. Stan
4. Novak
5. Zverev
6. Sir Andy

I like your order and i would add JowillieTs as a dark horse to make the semis
1. Nadal
2, Novak
3. Stan
4. Thiem
5. Zverev / Sir Andy

 

[the AntiPusher]

Have anyone seen this comedian Elliot Loney's impersonation of Rafa..its dead on..Carol..can you attach the link please. Even Rafa's team has got to find it hilarious

 

[El Dude]

1. Novak
2. Thiem
3. Stan
4. Zverev
5. Andy
6. Tsonga
7. Monfils
8. D Brown
9. Rosol
10. Darcis
11. Soderling
12. Rafa

 

[Moxie]

1. Novak
2. Thiem
3. Stan
4. Zverev
5. Andy
6. Tsonga
7. Monfils
8. D Brown
9. Rosol
10. Darcis
11. Soderling
12. Rafa

 

[mightyjeditribble]

1. Rafa
2. Thiem
3. Stan
4. Novak
5. Zverev
6. Sir Andy

No question about No 1 of course.

I find it hard to order Thiem/Stan/Novak. If forced, I would probably go with Novak > Thiem > Stan, but there is so little in it and so many questions:

• Thiem has been second-best player in the clay-court season, but is he really ready to go all the way at a slam, when he hasn't managed to do it at a masters?
• Djokovic is defending champion, and has made some progress in reaching the Rome final, but obviously hasn't been able to string good results together since the beginning of the year, really.
• Wawrinka hasn't shown much form on clay this year, but he's such a streaky player, and lives for the big stage, so can always go on an unstoppable run. Hard to count out the former champion!

I would definitely hesitate putting Zverev above Murray. Again, current form favours him, but impressive as he was in holding it together in Rome, doing it over two weeks at RG ... I really don't see it. Andy at least has made the final here before, and knows what it takes to do it in a GS.

TL;DR: Nadal > Djokovic = Thiem = Wawrinka > Murray > Zverev.

 

[Carol]

Have anyone seen this comedian Elliot Loney's impersonation of Rafa..its dead on..Carol..can you attach the link please. Even Rafa's team has got to find it hilarious

Which one? because he has many of themB-)

 

[Moxie]

^ I agree with absolutely all of this, @mightyjeditribble, including how you see Thiem and Zverev, though Thiem did reach the semis at RG last year. Sasha has gone from a skunking by Rafa at MC to a trophy in Rome, which is amazing, but I'm not sure I'm seeing him zooming to the clay Major. Djokovic is the bookies' universal 2nd choice, but that's slightly unimaginative, and not reflective of his year. He had 2 good days in Rome, then a bad one; he's completely re-jiggered his team, and even down to changing his clothing sponsor. It's hard to see him as more than a work-in-progress/Spring-cleaning version of himself, rather than hefting the Coupe des Mousquetaires at the end of RG. Murray and Wawrinka are huge question marks...could go deep, could bail early. I know that Stan is more likely, in his unreliability, but if Andy stays in, I'd give him a chance over the newbies. It will all become a little clearer when we see the draw, I guess.

 

[the AntiPusher]

Which one? because he has many of themB-)

The one where he is mimicking Rafa playing golf and the other one ALEXANDER Bolbik is taking a selfie with RAFA

 

[Carol]

The one where he is mimicking Rafa playing golf and the other one ALEXANDER Bolbik is taking a selfie with RAFA

This one? my goodness look his eyebrows and the face......ugh!

 

[the AntiPusher]

This one? my goodness look his eyebrows and the face......ugh!

Can you add the other video please

 

[Carol]

Can you add the other video please

This one?