RG 2014

[Corbon]

Last set was hilariously stupid.

[Cro Morgan]

Finally he won! But imo, with not a very fair tactic from Monfills... He just stopped to play in the 4th set for no reason (i guess to save energy)

à la Agassi.

[ELTXETXU]

What Monfills said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSZBgmT ... 3A&index=2

My english isn't perfect , so i'm not sure if he have admitted that he give up the 4th set because he was tired and wanted to serve first in the 5th. is it correct??

[Vieira151]

Kohlschreiber taking Murray all the way. 6-5 to Murray in the 5th, on serve. I've watched the past set and a half, and it has been quite alright from both. Murray seems to have strained one of his thighs, I think, but it doesn't seem to be affected him too much.

[Vieira151]

Called off at 7-7.

[Lucian86]

It's so hard to put some damn lights there ? It's simply a sport crime to stop a match at 7-7 in the fifth set just because it got dark. How the crowd must feel ? Tell them, go home and come back tomorrow to see the rest ? (if you have a new ticket, of course). How players must feel ?
They don't actually need a roof to the central court. They don't. You can play on a soft rain on clay so unless there's a storm every day, it wouldn't affect much the schedule if you had some lights to play at night.
Fact is there's a systematic issue at RG because you know in advance with high probability that the last matches are not going to finish during the day and you see that because it's happening every single year in almost every single day. WTF ?
I know there are a lot of french guys here so please don't feel offended but what's wrong with french people lately? Just put some damn lights in there. Then there's the french crowd (awful). How about politics ? You managed to elect first Hollande with his suicidal economic policies and now at the European Elections that lady from FN got 30% of the votes ????

[Amazing Matheja]

I don't know why but it just looks soooo complicated to change things here in France... The simpliest decision takes ages to be taken...

About the "French crow", as you say, it's true that things changed... We had Tsonga here in semis and the stadium was empty... Unbelievable... We should have been pushing him sooo hard, showing Ferrer it will not be easy to win against our french guy at his home !... When PSG (football/soccer) celebrated its title last year ? Riot in the city... PSG champion again this year ? Empty stadium...
Watch when Noah was playing : the crowd was pushing hard ! Watch when France was celebrating in '98. No riots at all !... Same for PSG winner of the C2 (RIP), no riots !...
I guess you where talking about something else... (Unfair crowd ?) but this also shows that something has changed in our way to support athletes... It's a bit like "be the #1 or you're a looser"... Weird...
About the unfair crowd, I will say it can happen anywhere else... I remember some bad crowd in Australia... But it's true that we have a rather "immature" crowd here at the French... Everybody trying to shout the first, or the heavier, or the smarter... Every time a player goes check a mark it's "boooooohhhh !!!"... I watched some old Roland Garros matches (Chang/Lendl ^^, Federer/Rafter, Noah/Wilander,...), crowd was more "patient", or "polite", that's true...

[Corbon]

Not only does the crowd feel robbed, the players who stopped at 7-7 need to get into a groove again. No adrenaline left.

Kohlschreiber on clay is really something.

[Amazing Matheja]

Very true !... Don't think it changed a lot of things for Verdasco ! ^^ He plays very well and very strong these days !

Kohli is awesome, especially mentally, but, also, Murray is not very good on clay ! ^^

[Lucian86]

But it's true that we have a rather "immature" crowd here at the French... Everybody trying to shout the first, or the heavier, or the smarter... Every time a player goes check a mark it's "boooooohhhh !!!".

That's exactly what I wanted to say (cause I didn't specify). They "boooohhh" everything regardless and that's what bothers me most; as well sometimes they go against a certain player for little (remember Hingis or Sharapova)
Also I'm trully annoyed when somebody comes out with that "popopopopop and olèèèèè" thing...they do it too much. Enough!
There are some other weird sounds they make (oua ouo ouo or something like that)

[Corbon]

12-10 final set for Murray. Now vs Verdasco who played an excellent Wimbledon last year. Tough call.

[Moralspain]

12-10 final set for Murray. Now vs Verdasco who played an excellent Wimbledon last year. Tough call.

Yep hard to say but I haven't lost my faith on Fer, a guy capable of playing the way he did that year in Australia ( it was impressive, do you remember those matches guys?...just wow) has my respect.
That said, Murray is very consistent and if Fer's performance is not perfect Andy will win in 4

[Amazing Matheja]

Before the tourney began I wrote this Verdasco/Murray match and I wrote a win for Murray... But after seeing what Verdasco did to Gasquet (he was very VERY brutal), and after seeing Murray struggling to win against Kohli, I think Verdasco will win.

[Amazing Matheja]

[...(remember Hingis or Sharapova)

Hingis ? Against Graff ? I must admit I enjoyed every minutes of it... I can't remember for Sharapova, to me she's very liked here in France...

There are some other weird sounds they make (oua ouo ouo or something like that)

Haha ! ^^ It's a weird "allez !" ("come on!") we do in France... It starts on a high key, then we go down and up again ! ^^ You have this on every courts in our crazy country ! That's a common thing that we froggies do to support our tennismen/women since a long time I think. But it's like the "popopo olèèè" thing, too much is really annoying... Sorry... :/

[Moralspain]

Tough match between Fer and Murray, it's hard to play against Andy, he was just waiting for Fernando's mistake, good tactic against the spaniard, he tends to become impatience eeeeaaasily hahaha, the last point ( i think ) Andy started to hit moon balls hahaha...obviously Fernando lost his patience and lost the point.

PS: That same tactic against Nadal is uneffective