ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Rome 5/9 - 5/21 2023

[ponchi101]

Serious here. If you had given Mac such a position in 1984, he could have easily hit the baseline line judge with his slice wide out. Sampras could have done the same in the deuce side.
Anybody that right now develops a "slice-wide out, volley to the open court" combo can do some damage.

[ti-amie]

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 Day 10

Center Court Starts At 1:00 Pm

QF
(1) Novak Djokovic VS (7) Holger Rune
Not Before 3:00 PM
Paula Badosa VS (20) Jelena Ostapenko
Not Before 7:00 Pm
QF
(4) Casper Ruud VS (24) Francisco Cerundolo
Not Before 8:30 PM
(1) Iga Swiatek VS (7) Elena Rybakina

Grand Stand Arena Starts At 11:00 Am

QF
Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos VS (2) Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury
Followed By
(1) Coco Gauff/Jessica Pegula VS (6) Shuko Aoyama/Ena Shibahara
Followed By
QF
(1) Wesley Koolhof/Neal Skupski VS Alex de Minaur/Jason Kubler
After Suitable Rest
(OSE) Marie Bouzkova/Bethanie Mattek-Sands VS (2) Lyudmyla Kichenok/Jelena Ostapenko

[ti-amie]

[nelslus]

Remember they recently played at Monte Carlo, with Zverev serving for the match twice (in the 2nd and in the 3rd) and losing.
In the matches I have seen, he is not being able to dictate with the BH. Maybe the timing is a bit off.

Pretty embarrassing ending to today's match for Zverev. Medvedev only had to play the "don't hit an error" routine to "win" the second set tiebreaker. Uninspiring- with an anti-Zverev Happy Ending.

[nelslus]

WELL, since I have to re-do this message anyway, let's go with....

Madison Brengle: Your 2023 Roland Garros Champion.

[JazzNU]

[ti-amie]

[nelslus]

...."all the feels".....

[JazzNU]

Another very good match, high quality, just not as entertaining as Badosa vs. Muchova, which had all kinds of shot variety. A very good win for Veronika, she was up two breaks in the 3rd, Zheng got one back and seemed like she was going to get it back to even a couple of times, but Veronika served well under pressure.

[ti-amie]

I just watched Kudermetova's husband/coach literally talk her through her entire match vs Qinwen to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

#notimpressed

[JazzNU]

...."all the feels".....

What would you prefer they say there?

And let Paula have this one. She's been consistently having tough draws since she's not ranked as high and is finally getting through a few.

[nelslus]

....Iga's gotta be having a nasty case of the giggles, with all of these marathon women's matches going on/

[nelslus]

...."all the feels".....

What would you prefer they say there?

And let Paula have this one. She's been consistently having tough draws since she's not ranked as high and is finally getting through a few.

OH, no anti-Badosa commentary meant. I'm all good with Badosa winning many matches. Just wta snark.

I mean, why not go ahead and post "You GO, Girl!!!!" and up the obnoxious comment quotient factor?

[JazzNU]

I just watched Kudermetova's husband/coach literally talk her through her entire match vs Qinwen to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

#notimpressed

I mean that's fine, but I hope you were posting that about Carlito in Madrid as well.

[ti-amie]