2023 Roland Garros - Women's Singles

[Mr.Lob]

Hopefully Coco doesn't get grabbed.

Girl (Grab) has some Martina Navratilova calfs.

 

[Mark-Touch]

Wow great win for Danilovic.
Next up Jabeur. Good luck (Danil) !

 

[Mr.Lob]

Coco up 4-1 in first. Go ahead and mark the Coco down for the next round.

 

[ScottleeSV]

First time I've seen Grabher. Not remotely impressed.

 

[Dominic & Andrey]

Happy for Olga, her match with Ons will be one to watch.

 

[Mark-Touch]

First time I've seen Grabher. Not remotely impressed.

Neither am I (first time seeing her).
But then Coco's playing isn't really impressive either.

I'll take Mirra over either of these two in the next round.

Speaking about Grabher. Are any of you here familiar with the Grabher licence
plate scandal in Canada?

A guy had his 30 year old licence plate pulled because one Canadian complained about it!

 

[Mr.Lob]

Neither am I (first time seeing her).
But then Coco's playing isn't really impressive either.

I'll take Mirra over either of these two in the next round.

Speaking about Grabher. Are any of you here familiar with the Grabher licence
plate scandal in Canada?

A guy had his 30 year old licence plate pulled because one Canadian complained about it!

Oh, brother. Guess the guys lucky authority's didn’t mandate he change his last name.

 

[ScottleeSV]

Just not a pretty gamestyle is it? (Grabher) Just seems to be constantly flipping the ball up rather than actually hitting it. Hard to judge where Coco is from that. She'll have to be on it next match though.

 

[spystud]

Opening breadstick for Bianca over Navarro.

 

[Mark-Touch]

Bibi should have absolutely no problems with Navarro tomorrow.
Should be a cakewalk compared to Vika.

Going exactly as I predicted.
Should be a straight set win for Bibi absent an injury
or some catastrophic and catalyzing event.

Her next round match though will be much tougher against
Tsurenko!

 

[THUNDERVOLLEY]

Nobody claims to be the next no 1. Keys showed all the potential years ago to be the next Davenport and win a few slams (with Lindsay as her coach) but she has shown herself to be a pathetic joke of a player. I don't know if i've seen a female player hit 70+ unforced errors in a match but I just saw it. She is a joke. She doesn't have limited range. If she had a tennis brain she'd be a slam champion. Ostapenko did it. Keys was 2 sets away in a slam final but got bagelled by Sloane Stephens.

She's a "pathetic joke?" There's rarely a standard for anyone winning a major. Many fans--myself included--have been caught up in putting WTA players on a timer, but when and how a player can put together the right formula is not known. Calling her a joke is beyond harsh.

 

[spystud]

That's a wrap for Thursday.

 

[ktx]

Again I miss almost every women's match because RG will only put the men on at night. I saw most of Coco's at least.

 

[coolcamden]

Again I miss almost every women's match because RG will only put the men on at night. I saw most of Coco's at least.

You didn’t miss much buddy. Coco wasn’t impressive, JG was even worse. She has an absolutely weird service motion, and she keeps flipping the ball short into Coco’s BH, which is world class. Roughly 50% to BH, 21% middle and not a lot to Coco’s weak side FH.

 

[coolcamden]

Ons Jabeur is an absolute enigma. She can lose a point by casually block a ball back into the net or to the doubles ally, then the very next shot she’d put a gorgeous drop shot off the serve 2 foot beyond the net. Her otherworldly amazing talents compensate for the cavalier attitude, they would bail her out of many matches, but will keep her from absolute dominance.

 

[optic yellow]

Ons Jabeur is an absolute enigma. She can lose a point by casually block a ball back into the net or to the doubles ally, then the very next shot she’d put a gorgeous drop shot off the serve 2 foot beyond the net. Her otherworldly amazing talents compensate for the cavalier attitude, they would bail her out of many matches, but will keep her from absolute dominance.

She can't have one without the other I don't think.

 

[chuckersthenut]

16 year old qualifier Mirra Andreeva is into the 3R with a great 6-1 6-2 win over French WC Parry.

She next faces the winner of Grabher v Gauff.

What's with this kid she is beating the hell out of everyone.

 

[Arak]

Neither am I (first time seeing her).
But then Coco's playing isn't really impressive either.

I'll take Mirra over either of these two in the next round.

Speaking about Grabher. Are any of you here familiar with the Grabher licence
plate scandal in Canada?

A guy had his 30 year old licence plate pulled because one Canadian complained about it!

I was wondering when will someone mention this. Her surname reminded me of the infamous Trump quote

 

[spystud]

Peyton is waking up to real life.

She ate a quick bagel.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

A morning bagel from Kasatkina. Peyton Stearns not able to even get into points with too many UFE's.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

Peyton is waking up to real life.

She ate a quick bagel.

Might be a breadstick in the second.....just about over.

 

[spystud]

Peyton got returned to sender. And DasKa is FAR from dominant.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

Peyton got returned to sender. And DasKa is FAR from dominant.

Must have been 6 or 7 service games (just about all of them) where she had game point or 30-0 and just couldn't finish them off......Kasatkina smartly just kept getting the ball back occasionally switching sides and let Stearns miss.

Now, how will Pegula do?

 

[AM75]

Kasatkina had nearly 100 % of her first serves in. That‘s quite insane, this Iga-like scoreline is also not that one expects from her.

 

[spystud]

Elise, please beat JPeg.

 

[bezs]

Solid start from Elise.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

Dang - bakery shop on overload alert again......4-0 Mertens.

 

[spystud]

 

[spystud]

JPeg straight swallowed that breadstick from Elise.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

Elise Mertens rolls in the first set, 6-1......looking solid so far.

 

[spystud]

TC is bummin’ with the Americans doing what they do.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

American ladies are not faring well so far today.......and that is an understatement.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

TC is bummin’ with the Americans doing what they do.

Need to re-market these first two matches for insomnia treatment......haha.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

Moonball Mertens with the winner! and she breaks.......again.

 

[ScottleeSV]

Well my accumulator died quickly today. So far my players have won 2 games and lost 19.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

Signs of life.....Jessica Pegula breaks back......can she get back into this match?

 

[spystud]

Does anyone really care?

 

[Aussie Darcy]

I know it's singles but interesting that it's one half of the 2nd seeds in doubles (Pegula) against one half of the 3rd seeds in doubles (Mertens)

And Mertens gets the break in the 2nd.

Up 6-1 4-3. Vamos Elise!

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

Elise Mertens too good right now for Jessica Pegula.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

Does anyone really care?

Hard pressed to think anyone other than the remaining top-4 seeds with what I've seen so far.....but......you never know.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Dang, good rally and what a point from Mertens to hang in there and win it to save break back point!

Deuce.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

I'm not surprised Pegula is struggling. What she does best is be consistent, hang in points, don't do too much and wait for the opponents error and that's also what Mertens is very good at. In this match, Jessie is just the one hitting the errors too much earlier than Elise.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

I know matches have started but just wanted to post the 3R lineup:

(1) Swiatek v Xin Wang
Andreescu v Tsurenko
Schmiedlova v (Q) Day
(Q) Andreeva v (6) Gauff

(4) Rybakina v (PR) Sorribes Tormo
(23) Alexandrova v (14) Haddad Maia
Cocciaretto v Pera
(Q) Danilovic v (7) Jabeur

Muchova v (27) Begu
(Q) Tauson v (LL) Avanesyan
(PR) Pavlyuchenkova v (24) Potapova
(28) Mertens v (3) Pegula

Blinkova v (PR) Svitolina
Stearns v (9) Kasatkina
Stephens v Putintseva
Rakhimova v (2) Sabalenka

Just 12 seeds. Although 7 of the top 10 seeds still alive.
3 players with a Protected Ranking (now that is rare)
4 qualifiers
1 lucky loser

5 slam champs, 3 more slam runner ups.

 

[romeo8880]

Pegula is the WTA’s sinner and Ruud. Not really top 10 players

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Mertens gets it done!

She takes out #3 Pegula 6-1 6-3.

Just a really solid and consistent match from the Belgian.

 

[Tennis Fan States63]

Pegula is the WTA’s sinner and Ruud. Not really top 10 players

Tend to agree - she definitely has talent and game, but she seems to play more to a level like top-10/15 seed to me. Some really disappointing exits in Grand Slam events as well.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Elise just always so consistent, especially at the slams. Has been seeded at every slam since her breakthrough at the 2018 Australian Open where she made the SF.

My post below from the AO earlier this year just sums up my love for her.

Mertens takes the opener 6-4.

I love Elise. She's just consistent. She's not ever going to win a singles slam but you can trust she'll make the 2nd week of a slam a few times a year, have good results, nab a title a year at least, make some QF's and SF's at large tournaments. Consistent top 20 player.

 

[spystud]

The bottom half is WEAK. Aryna better handle business.

 

[spystud]

Pavs/Potato playing 3.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Sabalenka cruising now.

Up 6-2 2-0.

Looks like she'll break her RG 3R streak and make the 2nd week for the first time in her career.