The semi-final line-up for the 2017 French Open is all set for Thursday. The match of the day on Wednesday was a thriller on Suzanne Lenglen court between Simona Halep and Elina Svitolina. It was one of those rubbish days where I was live scoring and frequently gasping at the momentum changes that were updating…
Tuesday was another wet day in Paris with the first pair of women’s quarter-finals severely interrupted by the weather. Eventually the rain abated for the matches to finish and we now know the first two semi-finalists… Timea Bacsinszky and Jelena Ostapenko! While I wouldn’t have been surprised at any of the four quarter-finalists winning today,…
Last 16 action was the order of the day on Monday with two women’s matches up first on the top two courts. The match on Philippe Chatrier was over in exactly an hour as Simona Halep recorded her first ever win over Carla Suárez Navarro on clay, soaring into the quarter-finals with a 6-1 6-1…
Sunday’s action at Roland Garros began with the completion of third round matches after the rain on Saturday. Three of the matches were wrapped up in straight sets and the first winner of the day was Petra Martic who delivered an OUTSTANDING display to beat Anastasija Sevastova, 6-1 6-1 in 48 minutes. Playing her first…
After a dry start in Paris on Saturday, the rain arrived during the late afternoon and didn’t stop meaning that four third round matches are still to be finished. While it was dry… Alizé Cornet delivered a superb display out on Philippe Chatrier court to defeat a below-par, Agnieszka Radwanska, 6-2 6-1. A win for…
Apologies for the lack of post on Thursday but it was my tennis club night and we had some stunning weather. I played a few doubles sets and ended with a couple of short singles sets. One of the sets was against someone who was much, much better than me. I was actually quite pleased…
My lunch break coincided with the start of the second set tiebreak between Petra Kvitova and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, which was good timing! The American won the first set on a tiebreak having saved two break points at *2-4 *15-40. Kvitova had the ascendancy in the second set tiebreak but with a missed opportunity for a…
I was travelling for the first few hours of play on the third day of action at Roland Garros and got back just in time for the end of the first match on Philippe Chatrier Court between the number seven seed, Johanna Konta and Hsieh Su-Wei. In a surprise result, it was Hsieh who came…
On the second day of Roland Garros 2017, my first live match was the third set of an absorbing tussle between Elise Mertens and Daria Gavrilova out on court 3. In the end it was the world number 59, Mertens who scored a superb win over the Strasbourg finalist and number 24 seed, Gavrilova, 7-6(4)…
Ready. Steady. Go! The first match of the 2017 French Open on the Philippe Chatrier Court saw the return of Petra Kvitova against the American, Julia Boserup. Just watching Petra walk out was special… Welcome back @Petra_Kvitova. We missed you! #RG17 pic.twitter.com/7sM0dkklkV — Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 28, 2017 On the very first point, Kvitova smacked a forehand…
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