Gauff knows exactly what to expect today. She will have a specific plan on what to do when the crowd tries to disrupt her serve or bully her. I think Andreeva’s coach failed to prepare her properly, but on the other hand, there was no crowd riot during Pegula’s match so I guess it’s forgivable that she didn’t foresee this possibility.
2025 French Open - Women's Discussion
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Aussie Darcy
Bionic Poster
French crowd weren’t even there for the JPeg match. Crowd was barely 1/10 full. Only started to care last night, it’s just embarrassing really. Least the Aussie crowd get in from the start of the tournament. They couldn’t even show up for her against Pegula. Weak crowd.
And the plan is to double fault and whine about racism.
Moose Malloy
G.O.A.T.
Mixed doubles final is in a few hours, should be a good one - King/Townsend vs Errani/Vavassori
ScottleeSV
Hall of Fame
I would say there's a big difference between 4th round of Wimby and semis of the French. Lots of players reach the 4th round of slams without much fanfare. I don't think anybody thought it was that big a deal that Raducanu was scratching around playing challengers in the lead up to the US Open. With Boisson it will look strange if she's not at Wimbledon.
That would be plan B, but maybe she can do plan A by stopping play when the crowd abuses her. This is traditionally the most effective way of shutting the crowd down.
spystud
Talk Tennis Guru
Damn, King’s singles rank of #1460 makes Eikeri’s 1317 look solid.
Fun with numbers in the doubles game.
diggler
Hall of Fame
The more you complain, the worse they get.
Quick, someone complain they are not starry enough to play the finals.
diggler
Hall of Fame
Boisson's rank will automatically qualify for Wimbledon.
diggler
Hall of Fame
The crowd wasn't that bad.
diggler
Hall of Fame
I didn't realise. No automatic qualification. Bugger.
That’s my point. The best approach is the passive one, like more experienced players do. When the crowd is raucous, pause the play and wait. If they scream during your serve, abort the serve and wait. Smart players are normally very patient when the crowd is against them.
Aussie Darcy
Bionic Poster
Will it? Will anyone care? Let’s be real lol.
The French crowd weren’t even there for her in her 4R match against the literal #3 Pegula. Crowd was near empty. They only cared last night.
You think the Brits are gonna care come Wimbledon that some random French woman with one good run isn’t there? Lol. Hope Boisson can do more than Podoroska did with her RG SF run years ago or Zidansek. Me thinks not.
The crowd was extremely bad. Only a French person would say that. Are you French?
ScottleeSV
Hall of Fame
The cut-off was June 3rd, at which point her live ranking was apparently about 150.
Subway Tennis
G.O.A.T.
Anyone know if there have been any updates / changes in Boisson's sponsorship situation?
AM75
Hall of Fame
I wish Lacoste would give her some nice girly outfits.
Fed881981
Hall of Fame
Subway Tennis
G.O.A.T.
She is so marketable. This crap of having to wear old Adidas ubersonics and Asics kits without a proper apparel and shoe sponsor will be a thing of the past soon thankfully. She already showed a huge amount of class and maturity with the way she dealt with Harriet Dart earlier in the year and now we have seen the first big run at a major (hopefully not the last). Very bright future ahead.
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Tennis Fan States63
Legend
Heckuva return from Gauff and even better drop volley from Boisson.....nice.
Rovesciarete
Hall of Fame
Sinner knows her from 'back in the days'* and asked her in the gym about her injury. Nice sketch of her playing style by him:
*A 23-year old speaking...
Oval_Solid
Hall of Fame
boisson sweating buckets
Mark-Touch
Legend
It was delightful to watch Sab demolish Iga. 
speedysteve
Legend
Time to ban line judges - everywhere.
Boisson won that point..
Boisson won that point..
speedysteve
Legend
Well played Gauff.
Boisson no answer to that level of play - at the moment
Boisson no answer to that level of play - at the moment
Mark-Touch
Legend
She is playing well, but she did get a Coco Puff ™ draw, no one can deny that.
That left her a lot of free time to start messing around with her eyelashes.
That left her a lot of free time to start messing around with her eyelashes.
zvelf
Hall of Fame
LOL!
No_Kwan_Do
Professional
6-1 6-2 is a score line you'd expect Gauff to pull out when she's playing well against someone ranked 50+ on the tour, and she played the occasion much better than Pegula or Andreeva did. Silenced the crowd early with the double-break and never really let them get into the match outside a couple of games. She's also an excellent gate-keeper and rarely gets beaten by heavy underdogs in big matches.
Boisson's had a great tournament with some great wins under her belt. We'll see how her game translates onto other surfaces. Her record on clay vs hard court would suggest it doesn't but time will tell.
Boisson's had a great tournament with some great wins under her belt. We'll see how her game translates onto other surfaces. Her record on clay vs hard court would suggest it doesn't but time will tell.
speedysteve
Legend
Don't down on the eyelashes
she will automatically get into the next 4 grand slams starting with the USopen so probably not until after that
Mark-Touch
Legend
Interesting.
So that alone is worth $400K.
AM75
Hall of Fame
USO & AO probably, but she sill will have to qualify for a lot of Masters in between.
GhostDog
Hall of Fame
My gut was emphatically wrong! Cinderella's clock struck midnight & all slippers were lost.
Quite the run, we may not see anything like this again in a long time. She won like 8x the prize money she up to this point in her career.
yes this is big for her
lol you are not understanding how the rankings work. She will get into next FO and Wimb2026 also. She got 780pts just for reaching the semis of a grand slam. Go look at the live rankings No100 ranked women only has 696. That means even if she doesn't play another tournament she will still qualify until her FO points drop off in a year. She has very little points to defend(171) and she is going to be able to at least get more points for playing in those GS. She will at least be able to play in wta250, 500 for sure and being ranked 65 with 951pts right now means she probably is in 1000 also as 1000's have bigger draws allowing more players in. She is probably going to even get more points just for playing these also. She may or may not do well but she is set for the next year for sure. This is huge for her.
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No_Kwan_Do
Professional
I doubt it. Most of them are two-week events now with 96-player draws and she's ranked in the top 70 so she'll get direct entry into all the slams, most 1000s and most 250s for the next 12 months. She might even get a few WCs.
The only ones she'll need to qualify for are the 64-player 1000 events like Wuhan, Qatar and Dubai, 500 events as they are usually stacked and the occasional stacked 250.
That's on the assumption that her ranking stays as it is and doesn't go up, which is probably unlikely as she very little to defend between now and RG 2026.
