Roland Garros -French Open 2010

[Elargento]

Yeah on some sports news showed thyee just said Del won't be able to defend US title? Wtf?

yes its more important in the long run to have a good recovery, if not his carreer won't be the same.

[Yippie-Caiay]

is delbonis in the qualyfing?

yes, and gaudio today won the 1st round of the qualy.

gaudio lost today.

One person i would like to see make it through qualifiers is american ryan harrison.

Speaking of the qualies,
I see Jesse Witten won quite easily yesterday but his previous match must have lasted close to 4 hours. The score there v Marcos Daniel was 7-6(2) 4-6 17-15. That last set alone lasted 2 hrs 15 mins. Wow!

I seen that and i thought, surely the longest 3 setter? But nope, it wasnt even as long as nadal vs djoko last year in madrid

anyways, it wouldn't have been the same since rafa and djokovic's match had tiebreak in the last set...

[Elargento]

imagine without a tie-break it could have pased 5hours.

[VillaJ100]

Imagine it 5 sets... damn.

Anyway, when did the masters change from having a 5 set final match? about 2007? And what was the reason for this?

[Vieira151]

is delbonis in the qualyfing?

yes, and gaudio today won the 1st round of the qualy.

gaudio lost today.

One person i would like to see make it through qualifiers is american ryan harrison.

Speaking of the qualies,
I see Jesse Witten won quite easily yesterday but his previous match must have lasted close to 4 hours. The score there v Marcos Daniel was 7-6(2) 4-6 17-15. That last set alone lasted 2 hrs 15 mins. Wow!

I seen that and i thought, surely the longest 3 setter? But nope, it wasnt even as long as nadal vs djoko last year in madrid

anyways, it wouldn't have been the same since rafa and djokovic's match had tiebreak in the last set...

And??? all im saying is i thought it would be longer than the nadal djoko match, but it wasnt despite the nadal djoko having a 3rd set tiebreak

[Coolhand Texas]

ryan harrison lost in the last round of qualifyin, was really hoping to see him play.

the draw is out for the french, gulbis is in feds quarter

[Mike Rotchtickles]

The RG Draw,


Men's Singles:









Women's Singles:









EDIT: I see Coolhand has already started a new thread on the RG Draw.

[djarvik]

Your thread is soooo much better! Go Gulbis!


I must say, this is a very balanced draw. Safe to say that the first 2 rounds are easy for most seeds.

If Tipsarevic is injury free and on form, he might trouble Fed somewhat in 2nd round. Soldering VS Dent could be a fun match, if Dent gets thru the first. If De Bakker wants to make an impact, now is a great time. He is looking at Tsonga in 3rd....and will beat him if gets there. Gonzo VS Dolgo will my absolute MUST see 2nd round. This will be an exciting match! Djokovic has a chance to be out of this one in first round. He has to play Korolev, another hard hitting risk machine. Meltzer VS Sela is a great match to see, both are smart players, should be some good tennis there. Enjoy!

[SoundfSilence]

Fed's got a tougher draw here to Nadal I think. He definately didn't want to see Gulbis on his side of the draw!

[petrelli83]

Quarterfinal
Federer-Gulbis(who is in the same Quarter of Cilic & Soderling )
Berdych-Youzhny
Ferrer-Djokovic
Verdasco-Nadal


some interesting first round:
Gasquet-Murray
Girarldo(he hits the ball very very strong )-Nishikori(he is comingback )
Cuevas(imo he plays good tennis)-Ferrer
Sela-Melzer(two fun players)
Nadal-Mina(courious to know the new monfils)

possible surprise:
Dolgopolov

[Elargento]

too bad cuevas has to face ferrer in 1st that guy is an exelent person, i met him in uruguay two years ago.

[petrelli83]

quarterfinal

Venus-Henin
Jankovic-Radwanska
Li-Safarova
Martinez Sanchez-Serena

some interesting first round:

Kuznetova-Cirstea
Li-Mladenovic
Dokic-Safarova
Azarenka-Dulko

possible surprises

Dulgheru
Hercog

[Cro Morgan]

From Tennis.X.com...

Nadal, Federer Face Tough Draws at French Open

by Sean Randall

The French Open draw is out, and a possible rematch Madrid rematch between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal looks possible. I think.

But both Federer and Nadal are stuck with the brunt of dangerous dirtballers.

In Federer’s quarters, there’s Stan Wawrinka, Gael Monfils, Marin Cilic, Albert Montanes, Robin Soderling and one Ernests Gulbis. Federer should coast early then run into Wawrinka in the fourth round with another showdown with Gulbis in the quarterfinals or Soderling could await.

Andy Murray is seeded to meet Federer in the top half semifinals but the Brit’s a longshot, and perhaps a longshot just to emerge out of the first round. The fourth-seeded Murray opens against local favorite Richard Gasquet and then could meet Tomas Berdych in the fourth round before JW Tsonga in the quarterfinals. In a wide open section I’d rate Tsonga as the favorite.

Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick have wound up in the same quarter of a Slam draw yet again. But I doubt they meet this time. Roddick, who hasn’t played a clay match this year, has a brutal road with Jarkko Nieminen, then Eduard Schwank The Tank with Juan Monaco and David Ferrer ahead. Djokovic opens with the hard-hitting Evgeny Koralev but should come through. Djokovic does has a good draw out the quarter but the Serb;s health is still a question mark.

In the final quarter Nadal will have to contend with Fernando Verdasco, Fernando Gonzalez, Nicolas Almagro and Tomaz Bellucci. The four-time champ figures to get through to Bellucci in the fourth round, and then I think he’ll be in for a tough battle against Verdasco. I think Verdasco has a pretty good road out the quarters.

To me, Federer and Nadal’s quarters are both loaded. Murray’s is the weakest but he’s arguably the weakest of the Top 4 seeds on the clay surface. Djokovic with Ferrer looks like a pretty balanced section.

Right now I think Federer and Nadal will get through. It’s too bad that Soderling and Gulbis ended up in Federer section and Verdasco landed in Nadal’s.

Here’s the fourth round matches by seeding: 1 Federer v. 13 Monfils, 10 Cilic v. 5 Soderling, 4 Murray v. 15 Berdych, 11 Youhzny v. 8 Tsonga, 6 Roddick v. 9 Ferrer, 16 Ferrero v. 3 Djokovic, 7 Verdasco v. 12 Gonzalez, 14 Ljubicic v. 2 Nadal.

Quarterfinals by seed: Federer v. Soderling, Murray v. Tsonga, Roddick v. Djokovic, Verdasco v. Nadal.

[VillaJ100]

Agree dent-soderling will be a good agressive battle, the "battle of who has the flatter groundstrokes".

Murray-gasquet could be fun. Although gasquet hasn't been the same since murray done him at wimby 2008.

[picachu211]

quarterfinal

Venus-Henin
Jankovic-Radwanska
Li-Safarova
Martinez Sanchez-Serena

some interesting first round:

Kuznetova-Cirstea
Li-Mladenovic
Dokic-Safarova
Azarenka-Dulko

possible surprises

Dulgheru
Hercog

Bold, but you mixed up Serena and Venus.