2016 French Open - Men's tournament discussion thread
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stringertom
Bionic Poster
He won with ease in '14 but he'll be playing a totally different player should they meet in 4R. Nadal and his fans should first focus on a thoroughly unpredictable Fognini in 3R.
As a Thiem fan, I'm not looking any further than Cervantes. There are also good tests from that point (probably GGL and DT's good buddy Zverev).
If the match happens, it will be a good one.
bananaforehand
Rookie
Looking at the weather forecast, I'll be lucky if I even get to see the match tickets I paid for. Praying that it doesn't rain as much as the forecast is predicting over the next two weeks.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
Forecast looks abysmal. Cold and rainy the whole time. Hooray.
Liam Fitzpatrick
Professional
Accuweather says rain from now until 1pm local 2 hours of dry then rain from 3om til midnight. We might only see two hours today. Theirs a yellow thunderstorm warning all day tomorrow.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
This tournament has hot, soggy mess written all over it :/
Liam Fitzpatrick
Professional
Watching Inverdale and Bartoli in a studio together gets cringier and cringierIt's gonna be rain delay-o-rama isn't it?
Watching on ITV4 and Orange Inverdale says courts are uncovered and play should start soon, but I bet it's gonna be on and off all day.
Krish872007
Talk Tennis Guru
Wimbledon 2007 all over again weather-wise
Liam Fitzpatrick
Professional
Nadal V Soderling:The Five day match.
maxrenn
Legend
And he still managed to take Fed to 5 sets in the final even after his gruelling schedule. Ahh prime Rafa was so exciting.
Krish872007
Talk Tennis Guru
ITV is showing the Kvitova match - umbrellas up on Chatrier as well.
And tomorrow's supposed to be worse (stormy weather)
maxrenn
Legend
Lets just hope it's drizzle/light rain as they can play through that on clay. The £7 I paid for Eurosport player is already worth it, Kyrgios in HD rather than boring old Kvitova on fuzzy sd and John Inverdale/Petchy hell!
bananaforehand
Rookie
Tuesday - Thursday at least look okay weather wise.
maxrenn
Legend
It's funny, the link posted above from the espn 'experts' pick Kyrgios as a dark horse. I agree he has a big game but I can't see him having a great deal of success on clay, it's suited to a fast surface and he just doesn't have the patience you need on clay to construct points. I don't seem him losing to this guy but making the last 8, I don't see that.
Krish872007
Talk Tennis Guru
Nick needs to move up the gears now.
Krish872007
Talk Tennis Guru
First set in the bag. But he doesn't need to complain so much and cite top players as examples for excusing his conduct.
Sambuccashake
Hall of Fame
"-Kyrgios winning a tie break? That's surprising!", said noone ever.
maticftw
Semi-Pro
I thought the row was over!(didn't catch that either
)what's he saying?A great set of tennis though.
Pretty sure he got the violation for shouting at the ball kid for his towel.
Krish872007
Talk Tennis Guru
Paire has dropped the second set against R Albot.
Josh Lyman
Hall of Fame
There are just no interesting matches today.
Aussie Darcy
Bionic Poster
Not really. Paire has got to be one of the most inconsistent top 25 players along with Troicki and Tomic on clay. Paire is good on his good days but bad on his bad
maxrenn
Legend
There are just no interesting matches today.
Nick's just tried two hotdogs in two rallys. This match is good
Albot's not particularly good even on his good days!
Krish872007
Talk Tennis Guru
Ouch...
clayqueen
Talk Tennis Guru
I don't know why anyone takes any predictions seriously especially the ESPN ones because they have not got the FO remotely right in 5 years, at least.
Aussie Darcy
Bionic Poster
Can't do much against that wow good job Nick
Saves the 2nd. 6-6
Saves the 2nd. 6-6
