Tennis: French Open 2025

[kihei]

Bublik plays an absolutely INSANE level of tennis to knock off Draper 5-7 6-3 6-2 6-4. Draper played very well himself throughout the match (37-25 w/ue ratio), but ultimately he had no answer for Alexander's extreme brilliance (68-39 w/ue ratio; 37 successful drop shots; 34 of 40 at the net). Bublik cost me all my Vcash, but I consider it money well spent to watch a performance such as this.

 

[Jack Straw]

Sinner is absolutely steamrolling Rublev.

 

[Greatzsky 99]

what a legend 100 wins in RG, 99 in AO, 97 in WIM and 90 in USO

what a Tennis player, the one and only Novak Djokovic

Both Alcaraz and Sinner has under 70 GS wins in TOTAL!

its going to be at least a decade and a couple of years, until
these young guns a worthy to be mentioned in the conversation.

Lets appreaiate this GIGANT while he still is playing

 

[John Price]

Sinner advances in 3 sets over Rublev

 

[kihei]

If seeding holds true the rest of the way, for Djokovic to win the French Open, he must beat the three highest ranked players in the world, Zverev in the quarters, Sinner in the semis, and Alcaraz in the finals.

 

[LT]

Without the Bublik upset, it could've been only top 15 players in the quarterfinals.

Going to be some high powered tennis for the remainder of the tournament on both the men's and women's sides.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Boisson and Bublik upsets were pretty damn cool for obvious reasons in each. Draper not taking advantage of an absolute soft draw even though it was on clay is pretty bad for him. Pegula is just female Zverev at this point and can't get it done at majors.

Pretty straight forward for the mens, it seems. Hoping Paul can muster something legendary v Alcaraz tomorrow but a 5 setter would be cool regardless.

 

[kihei]

Three of the four quarterfinal predictions seem pretty straightforward--Sinner, Alcaraz and Musetti. However, Zverev/Djokovic seems like another coin flip. I'm picking Djokovic based on current form, tactical superiority and track record, but I wouldn't be surprised if Zverev won the match.

At this stage of the tournament, I think Sinner has been playing by far the best tennis on the men's side, just crushing people. And Sabalenka is looking just as solid as she can be on the women's side. Because of their head to head rivalry, I still wouldn't pick Sinner over Alcaraz in the finals, though.

 

[LT]

Tiafoe looks maybe the best he ever has right now. I still favor Musetti, but I'd hesitate to say it's pretty straightforward.

It's difficult to see anything but a Sinner/Alcaraz final happening though. I'll take as many duels as we can get between these two.

 

[John Price]

Arnya advances easily over Zhang

 

[John Price]

iga advances

swiatek sabalenka should be good

 

[John Price]

Musetti advances over Tiafoe.

 

[kihei]

One of those matches that you look at the set scores and it seems a pretty straightforward win for Musetti 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. But Lorenzo got a little passive in the middle two sets, and Tiafoe played much better, but couldn't get the third set to a breaker and that was that. But it felt like it would not have taken much for it to go the other way. Anyway, Musetti continues the great year that he is having on clay.

 

[Jack Straw]

Is that D Rose?

Edit: sure is. I remember when the Sixers played the Bulls in the playoffs and he was just killing us. Then he injured his knee and was never the same. But what a phenomenal talent he was.

 

[kihei]

Methinks Tommy hits the proverbial wall today.

 

[LT]

This is hard to watch. Paul can barely move

 

[John Price]

The way Alcaraz is dominating so far this match may be over by the time I get to the bar for Taco Tuesday

 

[kihei]

6-0, 6-1, 6-4. Paul had other issues besides fatigue. He hobbled around for most of the first two sets; I'm guessing a groin injury or pull of some kind. Tommy made one last yeoman effort in the third, but, really, it was only a matter of time because even though Carlos' level relaxed a little bit in the third set, he still had way too much game for a physically compromised Paul. For his part, Carlos looked very sharp, and, obviously, saved some energy today that can payoff in the semis.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Keys in 3 v Coco tomorrow
Mirra in 2 v Boisson

Mirra in 3 v Keys

Sabalenka in 3 v Iga on Thursday

Sabalenka v Mirra final, Saba in 3

Sinner in 3 v Bublik tomorrow
Zverev in 5 v Novak

Alcaraz in 4 v Musetti
Sinner in 4 v Zverev

Sinner revenge for Rome in 5 v Carlos and wins RG

 

[kihei]

Going to a third set as it is the same old same old with these two. Neither Gauff nor Keys can keep their forehands in play for long (71 unforced forehand errors between them so far), just a total error-fest with 15 service breaks in 26 games midway through the third set.

Gauff runs away with the third set 6-1, thanks to 16 more unforced errors by Keys. For the match 40 winners and 101 unforced errors between them in 30 games.

 

[VMBM]

Gauff defeats lacklustre Keys in three. A strong finish, but didn't look like a GS winner to me.

 

[kihei]

Why is it so hard to fix these women's forehand? In Keys case it is even pretty obvious what goes wrong when she gets tight: her footwork deteriorates; her margin of error over the net goes haywire; she de-accelerates her racket head and doesn't follow through; and she frequently takes her eyes off the incoming ball. Gauff's problems look more complex, but, come on, all this stuff should have been long fixed by now.

 

[Jack Straw]

Wow. That was some set.

 

[Jack Straw]

This is the ugly side of tennis. Crowds have gotten a lot worse and I’m pretty sure it started with the US Open after it moved from Forest Hills.

 

[John Price]

Boisson did it!