The Gays and Tennis Part 61-brief clay season and RG!

grrrr

Grrrrrossss

sorry, Shapo is hawt

The other thread is still working

Shapo doesn't do it for me at all. Felix, on the other hand...

At least four players (Istomin, Zapata, Kristin and Escobedo) have already tested positive for Covid at Roland Garros.

FAA is supremely hotter than Shapo

Shapo is not hot.

He looks like Ekaterina Makarova.

Shapo looks like Janice from The Muppets.

Escobedo had Covid earlier in the year so has actually been denied permission to play rather than he has tested positive at RG.

[quote] Escobedo had Covid earlier in the year so has actually been denied permission to play rather than he has tested positive at RG.

Why hasn't Djokovic been denied permission to play?

R10 really?

Then Dmitrov, Novaxx and Paire need to be withdrawn.

R11 I think Escobedo's coach tested positive.

It's just swirling rumours at the moment but when similar rumours went round at the USO they turned out to be true.

As far as I know nobody tested positive at Rome. Yet the French is already a mess.

[quote] I think Escobedo's coach tested positive.

If Escobedo tested positive "earlier in the year" and was dismmised, by that logic, Djokovic himself should be dismissed because he tested positive earlier in the year and spread it by holding a tournament. Escobedo's coach can be sent packing to prevent spreading.

Let's discuss the hotness of 21-year old Norwegian Caspar Ruud. Yum.

Players not pleased with conditions so far at #RG20 . Quoting an unnamed, but a high-profile player: “We can’t believe this is a tournament, let alone a Grand Slam. Communication is slow, lot of waiting. The maids at hotels are not wearing masks, tables are not cleaned regularly”.

OK it was Dzumhur's coach who tested positive that's meant Dzumhur can't play. Apparently the coach says he'd had Covid before so reckons it must be a false positive.

Apologies for the confusion all.

The published rumors, such as they exist, are that Escobedo currently tested positive.

Shapo team or Dwarf/Lil’ Diego team?

Escobedo is not on the qualification draw.

There are two players born in 2003 on the qualification draw, Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard who received a wc and Carlos Alcaraz who is currently the number 186 of the ranking. I think it's the first GS with players born in 2003

Are there or were there any white players with yellow skin in the Rome draw?

R23 I don't even know what that means

R24 He is a troll who posts the same thing over and over again.

1st set Lil Diego! VAMOS!

Third set on. I think it will be Shapovalov

What a strange third set

There's no space!

Hahaha. Li’l is the new a david Ferrer. He will run every ball.

Wha' happened?

Li’l Diego wins. Third set tie break. Tomorrow, djoko will probably beat him 6-2, 6-2

Definitely a lot of space between Shapavalov's ears, tho...

And with that win Diego enters the top 10 for the first time in his career, denying Shapovalov the same feat.

Yay lil Diego...I don't think he is even 5'7"

[quote] I don't think he is even 5'7"

The score was 6-7 in the third set.

Shapo's legs were extra beefy and furry today.

Schwartzman matches always result in multiple breaks of serve. Yesterday with Nadal it was 5 in a row in the second set. Today against Shapovalov, there were 12 breaks! 6 for each player and 3 for each in just the third set.

Djokovic has really improved his second serve over the last 10 years but Schwartzman is 1 of the best returners so that will be an interesting stat to follow tomorrow

Halep and Pliskova will meet again in the final. Halep of course is on a win streak while Pliskova has rebounded after an early USO exit

Nole team or Dwarf/Lil’ Diego team?

Men's qualification draw is out for RG. A bunch of players who used to be top 100 are in there. I'm surprised Chung hasn't gotten a protected ranking given his injury woes

Women's qualification draw will be out on Monday

R34 No, right now Shapo is number 10, Diego needs to win to get there

R41 He came back more than a year ago, pr doesn't last forever

I'd love to see lil Diego pull it off, but I'm thinking he has about a 1 in 10 shot.

Brandon Nakashima doens't seem as comfortable on clay like he was on hard courts. He is on the verge of getting eliminated in first round of the qualification

[quote]Yay lil Diego...I don't think he is even 5'7"

I'm 5'7" (yes, I'm a shorty), and when I stand at the same point of the net that Diego was standing at yesterday, the net is considerably lower on me than it is on him. I doubt that he's any more than about 5'5" and a bit. Which makes his achievements in this world of towering tennis giants all the more remarkable.

Do you think Diego has a dick that is proportional to his height?

Shapo be dumb, R48.

Shapo is a stupid fuck

Nole team or Dwarf/Lil’ Diego team?

he may be a stupid fuck, but he's a hot stupid fuck

Come on Lil’ Diego! You can do it! For me, please!!!

Bye, Lil’ Diego/Dwarf.

A Shapo / Novax Covidovic final would have been far more competitive.

Who should Magnus Norman coach next, now that he and Stan have parted ways?

Joke O. Vic wins! Too bad for Diegito......but a victory over Baldy Nadal is a feather in his cap....or somewhere!

Tette per tutti!

Jesus Novaxx does that stupid shit even when the crowd can't stand him

Or there is no crowd^^

R59, the crowd, such as it was, seemed good natured.

Earlier today Simona Halep won her first Rome title after Pliskobot retired with a thigh injury

Sloane Stephens crashed and burned in the 1st round again, losing to tiny Nao Hibino in Strasbourg

bottom-heavy Jack Sock made it through the 1st qualifying round in Paris, he will also reunite with Popsicle to play doubles at the French Open

yesterday i saw muguruza having mustache, does she take something?

Is Djokovic the most disliked # 1 pro tennis player ever?

R52 Seriously? In my oppinion he is not even remotely attractive, at least not compared with other players of the circuit

R55 No, Shapo is simply not good enough on clay to hurt Nole. On other surfaces he would have chances but not on clay. And he show in the semifinals against a very tired opponent that he can't play the important points. He needs to learn to play that points or the lower part of top 10 is the further he'll go

It was a bad day for young players. Both Alcaraz and Mpetshi Perricard were very close to win their matches becoming the first 2003 to win on a GS but both ended losing.

With the exception of Korda and Altmaier all young players lost today (maybe i'm missing a youngster between the winners)

God, no, R164. All of those you have listed are much more repugnant, Connors especially. Novak has personality and can be charming, but he is usually trying too hard and, of course, has crazy health ideas.

But Connors was loved. He was a jerk and was loved while Lendl was polite and he was hated.

Novak is the most interesting of the big 3, at least he has a personality

Lendl was morose and lacked personality. I liked Connors back in the day but I didn't realize he was such a putz. Plus he was Merican. So we had a national cheerleading squad behind him.

Novak was fine when he was starting out, he had a sense of humor but man did he take a turn. And his desire to be loved is repulsive.

I don't think it's just love that he wants, more like absolute adulation.

[quote] I don't think it's just love that he wants, more like absolute adulation.

Djokovic is the Trump of tennis.

[quote]Is Djokovic the most disliked # 1 pro tennis player ever? Nastase/Connors/McEnroe/Rios/Court looking to relinquish the title

Interesting, r64, I'm old enough to remember them all, and they were all treated somewhat differently by the public. Nastase, for example, was someone the crowd actively *enjoyed* hating. That's what kept them in thrall—what appalling thing was he going to do next that would cause everyone to clutch their pearls? Connors was a brat, but loved by most Americans and even the Wimbledon crowd for his "spunk" and never-give-up attitude. McEnroe was far too obviously talented to really, really be hated. People conceded he could fly off the handle, but that attacking serve-and-volley game was thrilling and spectacular and divinely gifted.

Court was another player with a very problematic rapport with the public. Most people barely conceded she was one of the greatest, mainly because her tennis was laboured, based on power and overwhelming the opponent with brute force. I was just a kid in Australia when BJK started her tour, and Court was maybe-yes-maybe-no about the whole thing, always siding with the PTB simply because they were the PTB. Even as a kid, I could just feel that she wouldn't have approved of a little sissy wog like me, and the applause she got was always just tepidly polite. She was never loved, not even by die-hard Australian tennis fans.

Djokovic is perhaps the most broadly disliked number one so far, ever. If you exclude his rabid nationalistic Serb fans, people just can't warm to him. And the less they warm to him, the more desperately he wants to ratchet up those records so that, as r70 says, he just *has* to be adulated and can no longer just be considered second-rate to people like Federer and Nadal (I'm convinced he literally loathes them because he is so envious of their rapturous fans).

It's Djokovic, hands down.

You could pay the Roman army with the salt from the tears of Fedal fans.

r72 speaks the truth.

Lendl, incidentally, had a body way ahead of its time.

Nobody holds a candle to Rios. That was a sullen, miserable fuck.

But a mere blip on the radar, r75. He was in and out so quickly we forgot how much we hated him.

True, R76. Wasn't he No. 1 for like a month?

Finally realized who Shapo also resembles...

the legs are all wrong

Yeah, Lendl had a smokin' hot body as I remember

What's the real story behind Stan and Magnus parting ways? Stan's Instagram says it was by "mutual consent".

Accroding to McEnroe Lendl was hung big too

Humbert just completely outplayed Medvedev 6-4, 6-3. Medvedev, being the dick he is, didn't acknowledge any of Humbert's phenomenal shots. Instead he stamped, scowled, snarled, kicked the dirt hard, and questioned the umpire on calls that weren't even remotely in question.

Hanfmann is pretty hot, isn’t he? He beat Monfils today.

The Tales of Hanfmann

How many here would agree that Dominic Thiem's ass deserves its own thread?

I agree, R87.

Thiem thread.

Domicakes thread.

I hope we get to see Medvedev vs. Murray, Medvedev vs Fognini and Medvedev vs. Paire in the near future. Those would potentially all be fun bitchtastic affairs

R89, just the thought of Medvedev v. Fognini makes me laugh.

Paire has tested positive in Hamburg (again).

Humbert must be the most underrated nextgen. He seems a nice guy which is rare between nextgens

Paire said he has covid after playing against Ruud.

Kyrgios is an amateur compared with Benoit

Paire brings the cray doesn't he?

Katarzyna Kawka has tested positive as well in France , she came back to Poland , tested again and she is negative. Fuck off france

The same with Bernabé Zapata, and Dzumhur already said that he is going to sue Roland Garros

Tsitsipas won easily today.

And Musetti defeated Tiafoe in three sets

We need to discuss the cute French WTA umpire in Strasbourg.

Here is his instagram. I am getting a bit of a gay vibe too? He is pictured on various trips with the same guy around his age range, and went through a frosted tips phase (a la Thiem).

Hopefully he is on staff at RG filling out that uniform nicely!

He can turn all the lesbians into straights

R99, He's hot...lucky bastard gets to travel the world and call tennis matches.

R101 He had to call an Ostapenko match today and she made him get out of the chair and check the ball mark after every second point. So maybe not *quite* so lucky, lol.

And Felix lost to Bublik. AFter the US Open i thought it would be the beginning of his rise but he is playing very bad on clay

More than a gay vibe R99, his partner appears in many pictures...

R102, Hahaha, Ostapenko is a head case! Did his ass look good? That's all that truly matters.

R99 you a scary sleuth

Cuter than the majority of the players.

^ Who dis? Obviously one of the butchest girl on the tour. They have no shame at all.

There was a rain delay and he got a lot of air time. Gurs, has a thicc ass

Has Young Grigor fallen ill again?? I mean , or any other player. It sure would be a shame to lose more of the top players when there will be so much privacy at the hotels. For quarentine I mean. Not for anything else. I mean what else can you do on days off between matches around only people in the bubble. It's like you stuck there looking for some release. From the pressure of the matches I mean. Nothing more.

Thiem in Nadal’s half of the draw .. .

Damn, I like them both and had hoped that would be the final.

Serena and Victoria are in the same section as well as Venus. However V sucks on clay.

Murray and Wawrinka first round.

Bizarre, R114. I hope it’s a worthwhile match though.

R113 Venus used to be very good on clay, i remember her being the clear favourite the year Serena won her first Roland Garros.

R111 And Zverev. For the first time in a while he doesn't have a very easy draw.

Anyway Thiem draw is awful, Cilic, Opelka and Ruud on the first three rounds. He better be at a good level from the very beginning

a bunch of tough first round matches

Goffin-Sinner and Thiem-Cilic are very interesting first round matches.

Sinner is very unlucky with his GS draws

R116 true Venus was much better on clay when she was younger. Now she usually needs a quick court for mostly fast points.

I like the Dirty Daddy vibe of the Nick B. cartoon spots on the Tennis Channel.

More like Dirty Great-Granddaddy these days. I can't believe Bollettieri is still alive.

Did Vika and Venus get "randomly" drawn to play each other in the first round again?

R122 second round this time lol

Ruud over Fognini in straights. I think I’d enjoy a good hatefuck with Fabio...

Tsitsipas gets to the semis after a difficult first set. Tsisi has worked his upper body a lot, or is it just that tight T-shirt? he looks like he could play one of those comic books or animé characters.

Fabio is a strange one...he has a weird body...all torso and his head is huge. To me he looks way more Spanish than Italian.

Tisty is cut

R122, I've never doubted the integrity of the draw of the last 32 but I absolutely feel that all the Grand Slams screw with the early rounds. I've always said that the draw favors the tournament. How many times did Roger or Rafa get 3 qualifiers in their cakewalk to the semis, while Djokovic draws Kohlschreiber?

I'm shocked that Thiem isn't in Novak's half. This time Novak got the Roger draw and Dominick got the 3rd card usually reserved for Novak.

I predict an early Nadal exit. There is no way he is going to deal with all the changes, freakazoid that he is. He doesn't want hotel staff and the entire ATP tour to see him having breakfast with his "trainer" while his sister has breakfast in bed with his wife.

Rafa is already complainning about the balls.

Anyway, i don't think Rafa is in danger in the first rounds, he has an easy draw, at least at the beginning and he is the king of clay for something

Ruud defeated Humbert in three sets.

Ruud is the nextgen who is doing better on clay, but he is going to be tired on Roland Garros.

Humbert improved a lot on clay. I read an article about him today and he is described as sweet and he said that he plays piano to relax (i suppose the french federation needed someone sweet to compensate Moutet who is cray cray)

I also do not think that Rafa will last. The world is too weird for him at this point....

WTF's up with Alexander Bulbik's beard?

R132, he’s gone Amish all of a sudden!

Bublik could be cute with a decent haircut

Garin's got BDF for days

R128 His trainer is his ...????????

[quote] Bublik could be cute with a decent haircut

Ha needs to scrap the beard and get a decent, party-approved mustache.

RG qualifiers

Gomez

Martinez

Rodionov

Mmoh

Cecchinato

Diez

Korda

Sock

Laaksonen

Bonzi

Machac

Broady

Milojevic

Altmaier

Vukic

Giustino

Women

Rakhimova

Kostyuk

Sherif

Errani

Bara

Tauson

Lepchenko

Podoroska

Trevisan

Haas

Nicolescu (defeated Zvonareva)

Zarazura

Verdasco has tested positive.

The Rona sure loves pro tennis players!

He actually already had covid in August. He is saying this is a false positive and he has had 3 more tests since this (on his own) all showing negative. He said RG wouldn’t retest him - just disqualified him.

[quote]Verdasco has tested positive.

This bitch is still playing?

Galan, Polmans and Jung are the lucky losers to replace Raonic, Edmund, Verdasco

R144, Jung will play mind games with his opponents.

Nole team or Novak team?

Team No Novaxx

r147 have the objectivity to absorb this. Novak has the balls and integrity to speak truth.

Is ESL back?

1st rounders that could be interesting to watch:

Djokovic vs. M. Ymer

Hurkacz vs. Sandgren

Garin vs. Kohlschreiber

RBA vs. Gasquet

PCB vs. Millman

Struff vs. Tiafoe

F Lopez vs. Altmaier

Harris vs. Popyrin

Berrettini vs. Pospisil

Medvedev vs. Fucsovics

Basilashvili vs. Monteiro

Anderson vs. Djere

Rublev vs. Querrey

Shapovalov vs. Simon

Tsitsipas vs. Munar

Monfils vs. Bublik

Schwartzman vs. Kecmanovic

Wawrinka vs. Murray

Nishioka vs. FAA

Sugita vs. Ruud

Sock vs. Opelka

Thiem vs. Cilic

Herbert vs. Mmoh

De Minaur vs. Cecchinato

Paire vs. Kwon

Goffin vs. Sinner

Nishikori vs. Evans

Nadal vs. Gerasimov

Yastremska vs. Gavrilova

Bouchard vs. Kalinskaya

Vondrousova vs. Swiatek

Konta vs. Gauff

Sakkari vs. Tomljanovic

Kuznetsova vs. Pavlyuchenkova

Errani vs. Puig

Svitolina vs. Gracheva

Kontaveit vs. Garcia

Bouzkova vs. Kanepi

Azarenka vs. Kovinic

Venus vs. Schmiedlova

Petkovic vs. Pironkova

Serena vs. Ahn

Sabalenka vs. Pegula

Niculescu vs. Collins

Rybakina vs. Cirstea

Kvitova vs. Dodin

Linette vs. Fernandez

Keys vs. Zhang

Siegemund vs. Mladenovic

Goerges vs. Riske

Ostapenko vs. Brengle

Wow, R148, that's astoundingly astounding. Such convincing authoritative information from a world-renowned osteopath.

I just saw Serena in a commercial for a migraine pill and I've seen her in that deodorant commercial......mama is making coin......

He's fug

And Tsitsipas wins.... tomorrow vs. Rublev.

BTW, who is the very hot and handsome man sitting in Rublev's box?

Musetti proves he's the real deal and wins a challenger today. The big boys are lucky as hell he's not in the RG draw

R155 Oh come on, the guy is going to be big but he lost a bunch of weeks ago with Carlos Alcaraz and Carlos failed at past the qualifications (he wasted two match points)

R156 but he suddenly has momentum now. In tennis sometimes just 1 match can propel a player forward. He's been in great form starting with the Wawrinka win

R157 Let's be serious, he won a challenger, it's his first one, he is playing well and he is doing well, but that's all for now.

And Alcaraz won a challenger too before Roland Garros and at the moment of truth he played badly.

They are very young, they will be top players if everything goes well, but they are not remotely ready to give a scare to a top player at a GS.

In fact they did a lot putting themselves on top 200 on this weird year.

I think there's a clear risk of Musetti being overhyped like Dimitrov was because his game is beautiful

R158 the way he's playing now he definitely could have upset some seeds at RG. Not a Nadal or Djokovic but surely some top 30 guys

lmfao Nadal already complaining about the change of balls compared to last year.

R160, the Wilson balls they are using this year are meant to stand up to long rallies and are heavier than the balls the tournament had been using. This works against players who use a lot of topspin, like Nadal and Thiem. (Thiem has also complained).

Nadal is such a whiny little prisspot. R128 here they are at a Shakira concert, just a bunch of straight guys at a Shakira concert. The wife was busy at her job at the bank, which she totally loves, that's why she doesn't' tour with him. Also he's so focused she doesn't want to distract him. That's why they go weeks without even speaking.

Azarenka leaves the court, saying it's too cold to play.

Looks like the supervisor agreed but the umpire didn't actually say play was suspended so Vika might be in a bit of trouble.

Goffin vs. Sinner is quite fun so far but lots of breaks

the roof is closed

Vika's dressed like she's playing in Siberia

Some of the outdoor matches are suspended.

Some are going on

7-5 to Sinner

R162 To be honest, they are married know, but what they did when they were dating it's more normal that the ones who are following their boyfriend when they are dating for a month.

Anyway, that's the difference between having a good image or not. Nadal basically did the same Cristiano Ronaldo did for years, he went to holidays with a lot of male friends without the girlfriend, but that plagued Cristiano with gay rumours while there was nothing in the press about Rafa

R166 I think Sinner is a nightmare on first round. He is not regular enough to get further on the draw but he is able to give trouble to almost anyone right now. He was on the verge of defeating Khachanov at the US Open (and without the physical problems he should have won) and his game is powerful enough to give Goffin a lot of trouble

And Shelby Rogers lost 62 63 against Rakhimova

Sinner is winning 75 50

75 60 for Sinner. Vika won the first on 61

75 60 30 Goffin better wake up soon or he'll be eliminated in no time.

They are playing under roof

A Rafa le gusta la polla.

And Sinner defeated Goffin 75 60 63.

First big surprise of this RG (even if some people thought Sinner could make it, but not that easily)

Au revoir, Elf

Sakkari, Sharma, Kanepi won

Lots of ominous commentary about how much slower and heavier court conditions are.

Good victory for Korda, after the medical time he was down 3 1 but he won the five next games to win the match

Third set in the Tsitsipas-Rublev match. Maybe they'll pay the effort on the first round of Roland Garros

Watching Tsitsipas-Rublev match on ESPN from South America and the commentators keep blabbing nonstop when the points are in play. So fucking annoying.

Bonzi def Ruusuvuori in 4

Mertens easy over Gasparyan

Halep recovered from 2-4 to 6-4 against Sorribes

Tsitsipas is starting to become an specialist in tanking matches he has almost won

What a mental meltdown by Tsitsipas. Painful to see

And that's exactly what he does, he was serving 5-4 and lost the following three games. After tanking his match against Coric on the US Open i have serious doubts he'll do anything at Roland Garros

And i think De Miñaur was a break up at least three times, and now they are playing the tie break

Evans recovered from a 1-5 down and tied the third set at 5 against Nishikori. Evans won the first 61 and Nishikori the second with the same score

R186 it is a break fest. At one point both of them lost their serve in a row to love

Cecchinato 7-6

11 to 9 in the tie break

Alex deserved to lose the set.

You can't waste so many opportunities if you want to win.

I hope he recovers but he doesn't seem to adapt to clay this season because he was playing well at the US Open

Comely Machac has taken the third set from Fritz and is up a break in the fourth.

Did Elf forget his Keeblers or will this be a breakout for sporadic Sinner?

Sinner was on the verge of defeat easily Khachanov on the US Open, then he had physical problems and lost. He is irregular but on a good day he is trouble for his rival.

Fritz was very lucky to win the first two sets

The French Open must be Goffin's least favorite GS. Three years ago, he injured his ankle badly in a freak accident there.

over 10 minutes (and counting) for a game in De Minaur-Cecchinato. They will finish next Sunday at this rate

Jesus, 40-40 and they cannot finish it

20+ minutes for a bloody game

Venus loses to Schmiedlova 64 64

Minaur is melting

Chardy is husband material.

[quote]Chardy is husband material

Susan Gossage Chardy agrees

ugly as fuck

Dear Venus,

Retire. This is embarrassing.

Granny V should be in the wheelchair tennis draw at this point.

Bad luck for the little Hitler wannabe. Cecchinato 1st round on clay is a very bad match up.

Misery team or Stan team/Wawrinka team?

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If Kovinic hadn't walked off too, they'd have defaulted Azarenka. I imagine she received a stern telling off.

Chardy is so hot!

And Borna looks headed for the exit as well, down two sets and a break in the fourth.

Coric out! More time to spend with Bruna in the next few weeks.

next up on Court 7, the fabled Genie-Bikini!

Murray should just retire. He is embarrassing himself and wasting WCs all the time.

BBC Sport @BBCSport · 7m Stan Wawrinka takes the second set 6-3 against Andy Murray.

Will he win it in three, or are we in for another Roland Garros epic between these two?

I don't understand why Azarenka is so cranky about the weather. Sometimes in April, even early May it can be cold in Europe.

I do think it's time for Venus to retire. It's bizarre to me that she has now lost to Schmiedlova multiple times. That girl is so ordinary. Even Azarenka at her worst would probably beat her. Venus got a win over less-than-great-form Azarenka this past summer yet still struggles against Schmiedlova.

Coric what a disaster. His winner:unforced error ratio was atrocious today. Gombos is 30 and got only his second main draw slam match win!

The WTA was better off without Azarenka especially this arrogant version.

I knew Garcia vs. Kontaveit would be a tough match but wasn't expecting an upset. Garcia seems to be getting out of her prolonged slump after all

[quote[ Sometimes in April, even early May it can be cold in Europe.

Sometimes it snows in April.

[quote] Sometimes in April, even early May it can be cold in Europe.

Sometimes it snows in April.

R205 Cecchinato didn't won a match on a GS since his quarterfinals on 2018.

De Miñaur had a lot of opportunities on the first set and he wasted them, he got what he deserved

R218 Not in Spain, i start to go to beach on march most years (and i live on the north)

Rodionov is a younger guy to look out for. He went on a challenger run last year which built up his ranking. He seemed like more of an indoor specialist so his win over Chardy was a good effort today. He goes for his shots and is tenacious

Just in advance for when this thread gets paywalled, here's the next one

hopefully we don't have to use it for a while

Murray is wasting wcs. If Wawrinka who is very far from being in top form is defeating him so clearly he is in no condition to compete

Kanepi def. Bouzkova is a surprise given both of their recent forms.

Gauff first set over Konta

Clay was never Murray's best surface but I thought he'd give Wawrinka a tougher match than this

R226 After what happened at the US Open i think she is determined to do well here

R227 It's not his best surface, but he was semifinalist four times and one time finalist. That's way better than most clay specialist resume

R223, Have you ever considered tipping the webmaster 2 dollars a month? You wouldn't need to obsess over the fucking paywall if you just paid the 7 cents a day. Are you this cheap all the time? I'll bet you're a shitty tipper too.

Tennis Channel is pathetic. They were showing the Londero-Delbonis match tied up 6-6 in the fifth set and then went off the air as "no scheduled programming".

Londero - Del Bonis lasted more than 4 hours

It was cold. It rained. It went dark. Only fog was missing

[quote] Only fog was missing

He plays tomorrow.

r223, seriously, wait for the paywall to happen, a new thread typically opens very quickly. As it is now you're going to get two threads running parallel and its just nonsense.

So technically, this isn’t the French Open?

Or is it?

I agree with R233, pay the money.

I thought it was very boring. I watched all morning and afternoon.... and it was difficult to believe it was a grand slam.

Poor Misery.

I'd still rim him all night.

I'm appalled!

Yeah, well I'm a mother! I have a daughter goddamnit!

Yeah? I live in FLORIDA!

Andy's ass tastes like haggis anyway

His body is so weird. That line is curved

looks ok to me here

I think Felix is going to bite the dust early

Sock is winning 64 64 against Opelka

And Thiem won the second set

I watched the two first sets of the Thiem-Cilic match and it was good. If Only Cilic could stop making so many unforced errors. He is rather frustrating to watch because I really like his game.

Cilic is up a break in the third set

Not anymore 4-2 for Thiem.

Felix collapse on clay is almost complete. I thought the fourth round at the US Open was the beggining of his rise but it seems i was wrong

And Sock defeated Opelka quite easily, he'll be Thiem's rival next round (if Dominik wins his match point)

It's frustrating being a Felix fan, R248. He still runs either hot or cold, it seems, with not much in between.

Serena played great today. Hopefully she can stay in this zone and win #24.

Bublik is such an argumentative smirky asshole. I hope Monfils slaughters him.

Moutet-Giustino , those guys know that there are gonna be 3 matches after them?

Puig! out.

R253: At least Delbonis and Londero were the last match of the day in that court

Moutet totally deserved to lose. You can't waste so many opportunities.

Muguruza got a scare but she won, Keys and Vondrousova are out

Moutet-Giustino was epic. Level of Play of a third category WTA match of the 90s

R251, I saw only the first set and Serena looked really rusty. So she must have really pulled it together in the second set.

[quote]Bublik is such an argumentative smirky asshole. I hope Monfils slaughters him.

No suck luck, Monfils is the first Top 10 seed to lose so far

Nadal looked pretty good and the ass looked better than ever, no?

Ahn played some very impressive tennis today. Had she been playing anyone else she'd have won.

Monfils is playing awful, and without the new rule of the ranking he wouldn't be top 10 (probably not even top 20)

Ahn then?

Tig!

Bublik is still an ass.

lol a lot of my favorites have already lost

What is up with Monfils?? I like him, he seems like a good dude.

Kerber down a set and 4-1 to Juvan.

A lot of the heavier hitters are struggling opening round.

Tiafoe-Struff was a high quality match that was unfortunate to be in the first round. Both were thinking out there to go with good hitting.

Cutie Hubert Hurkacz up two sets to one over deplorable Sandgren. Yea!

And Medvedev is down a set and a break

a not very flattering shot of Thiem yikes

This Fucsovics fucker is hot and fuckable.

Fucsovics is a hotter Berdych, who himself was attractive with a decent body. Fucscovics is better looking and has a better body

He's so cute. I hadn't noticed him before. DL has a new Tennis fave. He's wearing too many layers but you can make out a thick muscular body underneath. Great legs too.

Fucscovics's body is HAF.

Bublik's problem is that he gift his rival too many free points but not today.

Serena Williams on the GOAT debate: "I don't get involved in the greatest talk. You know, the greatest for me is and will always be Jesus, so I'm going to leave it at that."

Sandgren through in what appears to have been a grueling match.

How tiresome she seems at R277. Next she’ll tell us she had a baby.

Fuscovics' legs are DELICIOUS. FACT.

And he's 6'6 which means he probably has a big ass Hungarian dong.

Kasatkina/Kontaveit out of doubles. Rumour says it's Covid related.

Possibly also Kuznetsova/Bertens but can't confirm.

R277, she makes it soooo hard to root for her.

6 hours and 5 minutes for Giustino-Moutet

Yes, R266, it's been very disappointing with Petkovic, Venus, FAA, Hurkacz, Monfils, Coric, Mmoh, Hoang, Tiafoe, Murray, Machac and De Minaur out already before the first round has even ended.

R277 I can't fucking stand these religious people.

[quote]And he's 6'6

Fucsovics is 1m88 so that's 6'2"...still quite tall

Is it true that Fuscovics has nudes leaked online? I've read that a few times on LPSG.

Ah...my bad. I thought the commentator said 6'6. Maybe he was talking about Medvedev.

I’ve been a fan of Fucsovics since his match against Stan at Indian Wells. He is enjoyable to watch.

Felix is precocious, but he is nowhere near Nadal or Djokovic at his age, and i don't watch in him the hunger those two had at that age either. He has talent and he has a stronger body (i remember Davidovich saying that most of them look like child in comparission with Felix when they were juniors even most of them were older) but its needed way more to get what the atp is promoting with him.

Right now i think Sinner looks more promising than Felix

Medvedev out.

Thank god

[quote] It's not his best surface, but he was semifinalist four times and one time finalist. That's way better than most clay specialist resume

Who are clay specialist?

Marton has such a weird tattoo. I had to go out to Instagram before to see it. It looks like a black wristband and then that the ink splattered on his forearm while he was wearing a glove. He often wears an actual wristband during his matches and you can't see it, but it's a unique but odd choice.

Oh, here's a much better picture of it. And not too bad of his face and guns as well!

[quote]Maybe he was talking about Medvedev

Probably, I think Daniil is 6ft6. Pretty crazy he has never won a match at RG

It's very odd Medvedev's never won at RG considering he trained in France on clay and lives there.

R291, Sinner is only a year younger than FAA. Outside of the NextGen finals, Sinner so far hasn't accomplished much, certainly in comparison to Nadal or even Felix at 19.

Fucsovics has BIG dick energy.

Felix's bodacious bod may be mature, but his mind is not. That's okay, everybody in their own time. I fear that he's fallen down the girlfriend rabbit-hole though. He needs to switch to the find'em, fuck'em, forget'em mode because his careeer is more important right now.

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