Roland Garros, Paris, France, ATP GRAND SLAM (Paris Sidewalk Cafe Discussions II)

[Moxie]

The rain has already put a wrench into the works, but there are a lot of interesting matches tomorrow on the men's side:

Rosol v. Wawrinka: Stan took care of Lukas just a few days ago, but I think it went 3. Not an easy start for the defending champion.

Stepanek v. Murray: Andy should be fine, but I doubt he'll like playing the tricky old veteran. Drop a set? Probably not. But crab about it along the way, likely yes.

Bellucci v. Gasquet: I think this one could go long.

Chardy v. L. Mayer: The unpredictable Jeremy v. the very competent clay man. The French crowd should help.

Bennateau v. Pouille: Vielle garde v. nouvelle garde?

Sock v. Haase: 1 set to play.

 

[Billie]

Not the greatest start weather-wise, but hopefully it will improve. Good thing that they start RG on Sundays so there is a bit of leeway there. But rain needs to stay away for everything to go according to plan. Some of the courts have 5 matches scheduled on, let's see what happens tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

 

[Moxie]

The forecast I'm looking at looks pretty dreary until mid-late afternoon. Let's see what they manage to get done.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

oh drizzle. it is time for you to vanish from paris.

 

[Carol]

Tomorrow Monday is expecting a lot of rain, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will bee more sunny, Friday, Saturday and Sunday pretty bad again

https://www.google.com/search?q=Paris+weather&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

 

[Mastoor]

It's good that I didn't go to Paris. We have been enjoying the same sort of weather here,

 

[Tennis Fan]

oh drizzle. it is time for you to vanish from paris.

I agree. This feels like Wimbledon.

 

[Moxie]

Still a whole lot of tennis not happening at Roland Garros. Back to bed. Someone wake me up when the French Open starts.

 

[britbox]

Rain seems to have subsided for now.

Stan's out there with Rosol.

The crowd is a bit sparse... they could have travelled together by skateboard.

 

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[britbox]

Stan's in trouble against Rosol. Lost the first set 6/4. 2/1 up in the second but on serve.

 

[isabelle]

Sock in trouble too (5th set in progress)

 

[britbox]

Stan's upped the ante and leads the second set 5-1.

 

[britbox]

Rosol gets an early break in the third to make this interesting.

 

[Billie]

Rosol just won't go away. I am switching between that match and Milos vs Janko, where Milos is in total control in the 3rd set.

 

[DarthFed]

This would be unreal. I know Stan has mostly stunk this year but this would be an absolutely terrible loss. I think he lost in the 1st round of the 2014 RG (after winning the AO that year) but that was to GGL who was at least a pretty decent clay court player.

 

[Billie]

They just played a couple of days ago and it was a tight 3-setter for Wawrinka. This is the danger of playing a week before RG, especially when you go all the way in the previous week. Not enough time to adjust. Rosol is a strange player. He can look really good or really bad. Depends on his inspiration, I guess.

 

[britbox]

Yeah, Rosol is a real hot and cold player and that's just within a single match. Looks like he's going to take this third set.

If Stan's going to progress then he's going 5.