Tennis: French Open 2025

[VMBM]

The 'real final' just starting? I'll go out on a limb and predict that Swiatek wins.

 

[John Price]

Swiatek is dominant on clay

Should be interesting

 

[John Price]

Wow just turned the game on and Arnya is dominating 4-1 early

 

[kihei]

Both of these women have flattened out their groundstrokes and are hitting absolute howitzers. Sabalenka having a hard time holding on to what was initially a two-break lead, 4-3 now.

 

[Jack Straw]

Few things in sports more absurd than a player yelling at his/her coaches after a double fault.

 

[kihei]

Second serve is both these women's Achilles heel in a big, big way.

 

[kihei]

Few things in sports more absurd than a player yelling at his/her coaches after a double fault.

I was just thinking about that. I go back a long way and the thought of Rod Laver or Ken Rosewall or John Newcombe or Tony Roche or Arthur Ashe or Stan Smith or Jan Kodes, or Stefan Edberg etc, etc., yelling at their coach after a point is literally absurd to even contemplate. It simply does not compute. Now it seems like it is a near-universal infection.

 

[VMBM]

Tie-break! Holding a serve seems to be the hardest thing in the world right now.

 

[kihei]

A breaker seems like the only appropriate conclusion to this set.

 

[kihei]

Eight service breaks in all in that set.

Having come from two breaks down to even the match, the loss of that set is a hard one for Iga. Has to shake off her disappointment fast because she can't afford letting Sabalenka get off to another commanding lead.

 

[Bourque]

Go Coco! Hopefully Barry Bonds I mean The Sinner loses.

 

[kihei]

Maybe this second set will be a little more tactical and a little less swing for the fences.

 

[Jack Straw]

I was just thinking about that. I go back a long way and the thought of Rod Laver or Ken Rosewall or John Newcombe or Tony Roche or Arthur Ashe or Stan Smith or Jan Kodes, or Stefan Edberg etc, etc., yelling at their coach after a point is literally absurd to even contemplate. It simply does not compute. Now it seems like it is a near-universal infection.

Yep. I remember those days. Laver was my idol.

 

[kihei]

11 breaks in 16 games so far.

 

[John Price]

Going to a third and decisive set.

 

[kihei]

Jeez, pretty much a normal set with Iga bouncing back to the point that she seems in the ascendancy going into the third set.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

This pseudo final deserves a third set

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Jeez, pretty much a normal set with Iga bouncing back to the point that she seems in the ascendancy going into the third set.

Caught the tail end of the 1st set but it seems like the lack of being able to hold serve did her in that set. The tiebreaker was very shocking from Iga too

 

[VMBM]

Swiatek is toast.

 

[John Price]

Sabalenka advances to the final.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Dismantled in the last set.

 

[kihei]

Did not see that coming.

 

[kihei]

Swiatek did not win a single point on her second serve in the whole third set. In fact, she only won six points in all, thanks in large part to 12 unforced errors.

 

[kihei]

Coco off to a 4-0 start against Boissson. Only one unforced forehand error so far, too. Of course, everyone starts out fast against Boisson. It hasn't stayed that way, though.

 

[kihei]

A very impressive 6-1 set from Gauff who managed to keep her concentration admirably and pretty much make the crowd irrelevant.