Roland Garros moved to September - not a drill

[Breakpointerer]

Not really sure it's going to go ahead like this. Can't predict anything.

 

[Ombelibable]

If this actually happens(all majors being played in the fall), I would bet they change the format to best of 3. and possibly cancel the doubles events, juniors, etc. Streamlined majors are better than none I assume.

We'll finally see a nextGen winning a major, albeit with an * mark.

 

[I Am Finnish]

Nobody on the planet thinks Rome and Madrid will be played, whether it's in May, September or any time in 2020.

Cant denied it but i just wanna wait for the official confirmation

 

[Ombelibable]

Fed to skip FO and play Laver. Team World to consist of Sampras, Roddick, and Laver himself.

Laver at this age would still play better than Kyrgios.

 

[TMF]

No one will notice because instead of the Federer Cup we will get to watch a real tournament.

Even your idol begs to differ.

 

[Tennis_Hands]

That is very true. September is still a big IF as far as virus in France is concerned.

France is moving into a complete lockdown. People are now required to go out of their houses with a clear message where they are going that can be checked by the police! You get caught out without doing one of the things allowed by the law, you get hammered. If that doesn't stop this thing from spreading it means that this measure is almost useless. If it does work, however ... there is plenty of time till September.

 

[Terenigma]

Incredible decision and it's gonna be SUPER interesting to see how that plays out.

 

[Krish872007]

This is extraordinary. Half the tour will be dead by the time we get halfway through the 2nd Slam tournament if they are taking place within a 5-week period!

 

[octobrina10]

And what about you? You post a link to something you yourself referenced. The hypocrisy is hilarious!

I posted just info about the current situation in France.

You comrade demanded that the French government announce the cancellation of RG:

https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/when-can-we-expect-fo-to-announce-cancellation.665874/#post-14191517

 

[Shaolin]

Think about how everything is run normally. We are so used to be able to make predictions about this and that, plan and such.
Now it’s like... no one knows anything how it will be.
Its a bit frightening but it’s also exciting in a crazy way!

I'm an extremely old man and I remember the old days when it was like that. 90s and early 2000s were awesome...you could make educated guesses but never knew for sure who was gonna win slams. It was fun and exciting. Pete was kind of guaranteed to win W but that was the only thing you were sure of.

 

[octobrina10]

Federer right now:

Hmm. Fed obviously does not know yet that the British government's strategy is to shift the peak of the coronavirus outbreak in the UK into summer months:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/03/13/21/25949506-8110619-image-a-75_1584133813662.jpg

 

[Enceladus]

Vasek Pospisil - other comment to change of date of RG:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1239980851561037824

 

[Sarzy]

Who really knows at this point what will happen. Look how quickly things can change.

 

[OldschoolKIaus]

Connors in 4

 

[Mike Sams]

I don't think it's gonna happen. They gonna risk anything with all those 65+ year olds in attendance? And with all the traveling with players coming in from all over the world all being exposed and with the virus continuing to spread?

 

[Mike Sams]

This is a dream come true for Rafa, he'll easily go from hardcourt to clay, its so natural for him.

LOL He'll be dead before he reaches RG. His aging body won't recover in time from the grind of hards to suddenly going into another Slam on clay.

 

[JadeC]

Considering the Euro Cup just moved the tournament to next year, I could see the Olympics doing the same.

 

[tennisaddict]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1239960990793510912

LMAO, no one cares about the president of the player council

 

[bezs]

RG not giving a tossing and moving the tournament to what's convenient for them.

 

[PeoplesChamp]

LMAO, no one cares about the president of the player council

It does appear that there is some shade being thrown by Petchey and Jamie too. I guess Federer needs to get on the phone and get everyone in line

 

[Rabbit]

Since they'll be butted up against one another, the USTA needs to ensure that the Open's courts are as fast as possible. I'd love to see pros going from super fast to slow....the old days in reverse.

 

[Mike Sams]

RG not giving a tossing and moving the tournament to what's convenient for them.

They have everything to lose. I feel they don't have any choice. The top players can boycott if they choose but many lower ranked players who are struggling will be playing the event.

 

[Mike Sams]

LMAO, no one cares about the president of the player council

Yeah, it's all meaningless.

 

[Rhino]

If Wimbledon can't be played as normal, when are they going to play that? It would be really unfair to have Roland garros but no Wimbledon.

 

[weakera]

Pospisil LOL

 

[jm1980]

Wimbledon has two roofs. They could postpone it to the fall and play on a modified/reduced schedule without juniors, wheelchair, or dubs if it comes to that

 

[Mark-Touch]

This is absolutely fantastic news for Rafa and all his fans!
They can now rest up and be in tip top shape for the F.O. in the fall.
What a win-win for everyone.

 

[theEndgame]

lol at fed fans

 

[TennisLBC]

Ballsy move by FFT. Basically giving the middle finger to the Asian swing of the Tour.

 

[Mike Sams]

This is absolutely fantastic news for Rafa and all his fans!
They can now rest up and be in tip top shape for the F.O. in the fall.
What a win-win for everyone.

Yeah, Nadal's really looking forward to playing 4 weeks of best of 5 set matches all crammed into a space of 5 weeks and defending 4,000 points! LMAO

 

[Milanez82]

From all the posts here its clear most people are in areas that haven't yet been hit properly by corona virus. Italy has been in a complete military style lockdown for over two weeks now and officials are becoming hopeful they have hit the peak of epidemic(with another 350 people dead overnight).

France is at the point where Italy was 3 weeks ago. USA and UK will join them soon. China had first case on November 17th and now, 5 months later they are starting to restore things to normalcy.

So going by those time frames neither Wimbledon nor US Open will be held on schedule so us tennis fans, should be happy if we get any tennis this year.

 

[E36BMWM3]

We’ll have to wait til Q4 for Rafa’s 20th. I’m game

 

[beard]

Watching Wimbledon in October would just be the strangest thing. I just hope the players remember to pack a couple of extra jumpers.

Federer lost his 2014...

 

[van_Loederen]

Watch Wimbledon get moved to October lol this is about to be crazy.

it may be pushed back into summer, but by the second half of September, UK weather will be too ugly.

From HC to a clay slam in 7 days.

i think that by July, SARS2 will be out of the news, far less contagious and people won't care anymore.
immune systems are getting better in summer, virus getting problems in warmer conditions, and the whole story will be getting old by then.

They only have a roof over one court... Is the weather in Paris late September to early October better than it is in May-June?

weather should be fine, thanks to global warming.
it's getting dark quite early though, so the early rounds will inevitably take longer, i'd say. this might become a problem.
( @bjsnider )

Heck yeah! Great news!

very fitting

 

[Nadalgaenger]

The Kyrgios gif is classic here. Made my day!

 

[D-Lite]

Wimbledon has two roofs. They could postpone it to the fall and play on a modified/reduced schedule without juniors, wheelchair, or dubs if it comes to that

The lawns of those 2 roofed courts get absolutely torn up by the middle of the 2nd week, so with even more matches over a longer period of time they'd be annihilated unless they could re-turf them but I'm sure it's a lengthy process.

 

[D-Lite]

France is moving into a complete lockdown. People are now required to go out of their houses with a clear message where they are going that can be checked by the police! You get caught out without doing one of the things allowed by the law, you get hammered. If that doesn't stop this thing from spreading it means that this measure is almost useless. If it does work, however ... there is plenty of time till September.

Other countries will need to get their houses in order too or I imagine if countries like France do defeat the virus they won't be letting people in from certain countries (that could even include players who have gone back home to those countries?)

 

[D-Lite]

Considering the Euro Cup just moved the tournament to next year, I could see the Olympics doing the same.

I imagine they will consceed and put the games back a year. It's very optimistic to assume most countries will be rid of this virus by July. If some aren't, I doubt people/athletes will be able to travel from those countries to Japan in the fear that it could cause a new outbreak. A vaccine is also looking unlikely until at least the beginning of 2021, if not mid to late 2021.
If Wimbledon were to take place and players knew the USO and RG were upcoming, they may skip the Olympics to prepare and rest. If Wimbledon weren't to be played and the Olympics were a go, then they would probably see the Olympics as a huge thing and it could be a massive event. I know I'm making presumptions, but I'm sure you get what I'm saying!

 

[D-Lite]

I was in Paris on December 2019 and damn it was cold as hell, to the point that it was even snowing and it was almost annoying to be outdoor.

Glad they put it on a good date!

Well yeah, that's the beginning of winter so it would be very cold there, but in September it's still typically a good temperature for tennis, and if it did get chilly come early October then the players can always just wear long sleeves etc as they get hot enough running around for hours.

 

[Showtime]

tournaments should be moved to nov-dec which is normally the offseason months but I dnt think the would mind till late DEC seeing as they wont be playing much tennis for most part of the year

 

[Tennis_Hands]

Other countries will need to get their houses in order too or I imagine if countries like France do defeat the virus they won't be letting people in form certain countries (that could even include players who have gone back home to those countries?)

Yes, otherwise it wouldn't have made much sense to impose those measures just to see the infection spread fast again.

 

[Crionics]

From all the posts here its clear most people are in areas that haven't yet been hit properly by corona virus. Italy has been in a complete military style lockdown for over two weeks now and officials are becoming hopeful they have hit the peak of epidemic(with another 350 people dead overnight).

France is at the point where Italy was 3 weeks ago. USA and UK will join them soon. China had first case on November 17th and now, 5 months later they are starting to restore things to normalcy.

So going by those time frames neither Wimbledon nor US Open will be held on schedule so us tennis fans, should be happy if we get any tennis this year.

Exactly, a lot of people seem to be quite ignorant regarding the current situation... I live in Switzerland and we get plenty of news of what is happening in our neighboring countries, Italy and France. Also in Switzerland the situation is quite bad, all shops (except grocery stores/pharmacies) are closed. We are still allowed to get out in the street without a permission, but who knows for how long. Things are evolving VERY quickly.

No way Wimbledon and Olympics will be held and I have serious doubts about the US Open too. On swiss tv they interviewed one of these sports consultant and he said to basically forget about any sporting event before the end of the summer. I think we'll just end up in the best case with 2 slams this year, AO and RG in september.

British and american people on this board don't fully realize what is happening now, but in 1-2 weeks it will be the same situation in UK/USA as in Italy/Spain/France.

 

[ForehandRF]

From all the posts here its clear most people are in areas that haven't yet been hit properly by corona virus. Italy has been in a complete military style lockdown for over two weeks now and officials are becoming hopeful they have hit the peak of epidemic(with another 350 people dead overnight).

France is at the point where Italy was 3 weeks ago. USA and UK will join them soon. China had first case on November 17th and now, 5 months later they are starting to restore things to normalcy.

So going by those time frames neither Wimbledon nor US Open will be held on schedule so us tennis fans, should be happy if we get any tennis this year.

Things started to be really bad in China only after January 20 and the situation was under control in less than 1 month, but what's happening in Italy is much worse, with consecutive days with 300+ deaths.It's like it's a war zone out there.

 

[rUDin 21]

Maybe only US Open will be played this year
as things go so far.
I'm kind of not buying this September RG story yet.

 

[JadeC]

I imagine they will consceed and put the games back a year. It's very optimistic to assume most countries will be rid of this virus by July. If some aren't, I doubt people/athletes will be able to travel from those countries to Japan in the fear that it could cause a new outbreak. A vaccine is also looking unlikely until at least the beginning of 2021, if not mid to late 2021.
If Wimbledon were to take place and players knew the USO and RG were upcoming, they may skip the Olympics to prepare and rest. If Wimbledon weren't to be played and the Olympics were a go, then they would probably see the Olympics as a huge thing and it could be a massive event. I know I'm making presumptions, but I'm sure you get what I'm saying!

I think it will be moved to next year too, like you said, it's very optimistic to think they can still hold such a large event in July. I am staying a little bit optimistic in regard to a vaccine. There were a few articles mentioning it is in the testing stages, so hopefully for those affected, it won't be too long. There's been cases of people recovering from it only to get it again, though. It's such a mess.

I don't see athletes travelling to Japan or in general to the Asia region any time this year. Athletes are coming from everywhere in the world to this one place, it's just not a good idea during a time when we should be practicing social distancing. I feel it's probably better if we just cancel everything this year. I don't see a point in salvaging this year.

 

[Desertman]

I had a google, temps looks similar no idea about the rest.

Temperatures may, on average, be similar but the daylight certainly isn’t. A late May / early June FO is only one month to 2 weeks short of the summer solstice, but a late September / early October FO means most of the tournament will be after the autumnal equinox. All this would mwAn sunset around 7.30pm rather than 10pm. I’m guessing there’ll be plenty of morning matches.


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[Deleted member 735320]

Can they just book a slot like that without consulting other slams or ITF ?

What about clay warm ups?
Surely RG won't be played without clay warm ups?

I hate Rafa but he won't need clay warm-ups.

 

[TennisaGoGo]

what's happening in Italy is much worse, with consecutive days with 300+ deaths.It's like it's a war zone out there.

yes, if the draft were 75+

 

[malbaker86]

Nadal to win La Decimotercera on a chilly autumn Sunday in Paris.

Djokovic to lift Wimbledon on New Year's Eve.

Idk why but this made me laugh out loud

 

[Sport]

Maybe only US Open will be played this year
as things go so far.
I'm kind of not buying this September RG story yet.

Maybe not even the USO will be held, if the COVID-19 pandemic lasts another 18 months, as scientists from the Imperial College London are predicting. They claim that we will have to wait till the vaccine is available to control the virus.

And, in any case, it seems largely unlikely that the USO will be held but not RG, when the USO is scheduled sooner.