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That would be something that I would like to see. You are the previous year's Junior champ? You get a WC into the main draw. Still, good for her that she made it the hard way.
And I really know nothing about her.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 3:44 pm That would be something that I would like to see. You are the previous year's Junior champ? You get a WC into the main draw. Still, good for her that she made it the hard way.
And I really know nothing about her.

I like the idea, but you'd need to probably add one wild card spot to make it happen. FFT acts like it's in their rulebook to hand out RG wildcards to French players and only French players so I just can't see them willingly giving up one of their current ones to a non-French player yearly unless it's required of them.

Remember, all my ideas are basically pipe-dreams. Your point about the FFT is spot on.

Qualifying Day 5 May 20

Court 14

Qualifying Women’s Singles
THIRD ROUND
FRA O.Babel vs --- O.Selekhmeteva
Qualifying Women’s Singles
UPCOMING
THIRD ROUND
BUL V.Tomova (10) vs SRB O.Danilovic
Qualifying Men’s Singles
UPCOMING
THIRD ROUND
GER D.Masur vs FRA G.Blancaneaux

Court 7

Qualifying Women’s Singles
THIRD ROUND
CAN R.Marino (9) vs AUS S.Mendez
Qualifying Women’s Singles
UPCOMING
THIRD ROUND
SUI J.Zuger vs MEX F.Contreras Gomez
Qualifying Men’s Singles
UPCOMING
THIRD ROUND
SUI A.Ritschard vs ARG C.Ugo Carabelli

Court 6

Qualifying Men’s Singles
THIRD ROUND
TPE CH.Tseng (11) vs GER CM.Stebe
Qualifying Men’s Singles
UPCOMING
THIRD ROUND
ARG P.Cachin vs --- P.Kotov
Qualifying Women’s Singles
UPCOMING
THIRD ROUND
GER N.Schunk vs USA H.Baptiste (17)

Court 11

Qualifying Men’s Singles
THIRD ROUND
PER JP.Varillas (12) vs CHI N.Jarry (25)
Qualifying Women’s Singles
UPCOMING
THIRD ROUND
ROU M.Buzarnescu (15) vs SWE M.Bjorklund (31)

Court 12

Qualifying Women’s Singles
THIRD ROUND
UKR L.Tsurenko (14) vs JPN Y.Naito
Qualifying Men’s Singles
UPCOMING
THIRD ROUND
--- A.Kuznetsov vs ARG M.Trungelliti

Court 13

Qualifying Men’s Singles
THIRD ROUND
SVK N.Gombos (10) vs NED T.Van Rijthoven
Qualifying Women’s Singles
UPCOMING
THIRD ROUND
GRE V.Grammatikopoulou vs USA C.Mchale
Qualifying Men’s Singles
UPCOMING
THIRD ROUND
CRO N.Serdarusic vs USA B.Fratangelo

Tuned in to watch Canadian Rebecca Marino and Océane Babel play - Babel's got a unique style that's fun to watch... but I see only a wet tarp covering those two courts.
Raining in Paris.
Damn.

Deuce wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 9:18 am Tuned in to watch Canadian Rebecca Marino and Océane Babel play - Babel's got a unique style that's fun to watch... but I see only a wet tarp covering those two courts.
Raining in Paris.
Damn.

Well the rain finally stopped and they played...
Rebecca won easily and quickly (2 and 0), but Babel lost in straight sets and didn't look very comfortable out there. She kept it close until the end in the 2nd set, but she really had no spark today.

Deuce wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 11:51 am

Deuce wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 9:18 am Tuned in to watch Canadian Rebecca Marino and Océane Babel play - Babel's got a unique style that's fun to watch... but I see only a wet tarp covering those two courts.
Raining in Paris.
Damn.

Well the rain finally stopped and they played...
Rebecca won easily and quickly (2 and 0), but Babel lost in straight sets and didn't look very comfortable out there. She kept it close until the end in the 2nd set, but she really had no spark today.

Nice to see Marino qualify. Another good story out of qualifying (I posted this in the wrong thread earlier) is Jule Niemeier. She lost in the last round of qualifying in the last 3 Slams, even holding 2 match points in Wimbledon. This time she got it done - losing an Iga-esque seven games in three matches - and qualified for her first Slam. She's 22.

Also loving a Mexican woman named Fernanda Contreras Gomez, who played for Vanderbilt. It was her first time trying to qualify for a Slam and she did it. Nice to see more Mexicans in the mix. Not many to root for. Her coach is a familiar name - Christo van Rensburg, one of only 2 people to beat Sampras in straight sets at Wimbledon.

I recognize about 3 names from the male qualifiers.

2022 French Open Qualifiers

Men

Andrey Kuznetsov ( ) 31 227
Zdenek Kolar (CZE) 25 136
Nuno Borges (POR) 25 126
Pavel Kotov ( ) 23 143
Camilo Ugo Carabelli (ARG) 22 154
Jason Kubler (AUS) 29 161
Borna Gojo (CRO) 24 222
Bernabe Zapata Miralles (ESP) 25 133
Giulio Zeppieri (ITA) 20 215
Norbert Gombos (SVK) 31 115
Chun-Hsin Tseng (TPE) 20 110
Juan Pablo Varillas (PER) 26 122
Bjorn Fratangelo (USA) 28 185
Geoffrey Blancaneaux (FRA) 23 195
Sebastian Ofner (AUT) 26 218
Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna (ARG) 22 203

Women

Ysaline Bonaventure (BEL) 27 170
Jule Niemeier (GER) 22 103
Lin Zhu (CHN) 28 99
Cristina Bucsa (ESP) 24 127
Irina Bara (ROM) 27 114
Donna Vekic (CRO) 25 101
Fernanda Contreras Gomez (MEX) 24 224
Oksanka Selekhmeteva ( ) 19 198
Rebecca Marino (CAN) 31 116
Olga Danilovic (SRB) 21 174
Linda Noskova (CZE) 17 185
Valentini Grammatikopolou (GRC) 25 188
Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) 29 117
Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) 32 121
Mirjam Bjorklund (SWE) 23 150
Hailey Baptiste (USA) 20 125