Roland Garros -French Open 2010

[AUSSIE_FABS]

Man it's his plan just wait till 5-1 40-0 then he will attack him.

[KluddKalle]

Man it's his plan just wait till 5-1 40-0 then he will attack him.

Yeah, sound plausible...not so commonly used tactic, but hey, whatever get's you the win.

[jayl0ve]

I'm watching Soderling-Dent at the moment...whats up with Dent? He just keeps slicing his backhand over and over. So boring and non-effective. Maybe that's why he's down 6-0, 6-1, 2-1...

I have no idea either...I don't care if you have the best slice backhand in the world, it's not gonna get you anywhere if you do it every time a ball comes to your BH...Dent definitely gets carried away with BH slices. He has an excellent BH slice, but...

[KluddKalle]

I'm watching Soderling-Dent at the moment...whats up with Dent? He just keeps slicing his backhand over and over. So boring and non-effective. Maybe that's why he's down 6-0, 6-1, 2-1...

I have no idea either...I don't care if you have the best slice backhand in the world, it's not gonna get you anywhere if you do it every time a ball comes to your BH...Dent definitely gets carried away with BH slices. He has an excellent BH slice, but...

Santoro was great with his wierd slices but he played other shots aswell...

Dent simply had a really bad day with no confidence at all. Did he even try to play s&v?? Maybe it's hard to do that when your serve is failing you.

[jayl0ve]

Clay is just not his surface. At all.

Most Americans have never even seen or stepped onto a clay court, myself included.

[KluddKalle]

Clay is just not his surface. At all.

Most Americans have never even seen or stepped onto a clay court, myself included.

I feel sorry for you americans you're really missing out on something...

Playing on clay is great fun. I play a couple of hours every week on clay and plan to do so until fall is here sometime in september.

[VillaJ100]

He got through the 1st round and is A. american and B. a serve and volleyer. He probably hasn't got over the shock yet.

[KluddKalle]

He got through the 1st round and is A. american and B. a serve and volleyer. He probably hasn't got over the shock yet.

[Moralspain]

Clay is just not his surface. At all.

Most Americans have never even seen or stepped onto a clay court, myself included.

I feel sorry for you americans you're really missing out on something...

Playing on clay is great fun. I play a couple of hours every week on clay and plan to do so until fall is here sometime in september.

playing on clay is a bit tricky, not easy, even myself when i get back to clay after haven´t been played on it for a few weeks i feel very strange and i need 30 min- 1 hour to get use to it

[KluddKalle]

Clay is just not his surface. At all.

Most Americans have never even seen or stepped onto a clay court, myself included.

I feel sorry for you americans you're really missing out on something...

Playing on clay is great fun. I play a couple of hours every week on clay and plan to do so until fall is here sometime in september.

playing on clay is a bit tricky, not easy, even myself when i get back to clay after haven´t been played on it for a few weeks i feel very strange and i need 30 min- 1 hour to get use to it

Yeah, absolutely it's tricky. For me it's two (pretty big) things to adjust to; the high bounce on top spin shots and my movement.

[fedfan]

Kuznetsova was trailing 4-6 4-5 0-40, saved 3 mp plus another after deuce and somehow managed to break back and take the set 7-5.

In the final set Kuznetsova missed 3 mp on Petkovic serve at 5-2 and has just been broken back when serving for the match at 5-3.

So much talent but she really is found to be wanting an awful lot between the ears.

UPDATE: Kuznetsova hung on and manages to break to win.

[andman666]

Thiemo de Bakker is through to the 3th round!
I hope he can beat Tsonga again like he did in Rome

[fedfan]

Monfils and Fognini playing in pitch blackness but the referee folded under pressure from the crowd and Monfils to play on when they were tied at 4-4.

Fognini was penalised a point because he was saying they should stop, the commentators were going berserk but Fognini managed to save a break point to go 5-4.

Fognini has had 3 mp on Monfils serve (who is playing ultra negatively btw) but Monfils held on.

Hope Monfils loses it after he forced the issue imo.

[emate007]

Yea he forced the issue, but then fognini stalled and bitched for 10 minutes... Should have been penalized 8 minutes earlier, they even showed shots of his coaches signalling to stall as long as possible, WTF?

[fedfan]

That's true.

Still can't believe how negatively Monfils continues to play given all his weapons, at least Murray has an excuse for playing that way.