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ti-amie wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:52 pm

Confused on why he thought that would be "funny and dumb" question. Would you like to not deal with crippling pain every day if it meant you couldn't win this tournament for the 14th time given you probably have 50+ years of life ahead of you? Hilarious!


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French Open schedule for 2022 put just one women’s match and nine men’s in the primetime slot – it’s not right

Alize Cornet and Jelena Ostapenko are the only two women to have featured in the primetime TV slot at Roland Garros this year with a series of underwhelming men’s matches taking priority

Opinion by James Gray, Senior Sports Journalist


ROLAND GARROS — Amelie Mauresmo knows how to hide. Towards the end of her coaching relationship with Andy Murray, she stopped sitting in his players’ box at some tournaments and would find a covert spot in the stands, supposedly to aid his concentration. It did not work and they split a few months later.

Now the French Open tournament director, she performed a similar disappearing act this week, moving her scheduled press conference to Wednesday morning after the Rafael Nadal vs Novak Djokovic epic, which had finished just hours before. Most reporters had not left until after 2am. She hoped it would alleviate the scrutiny. Once again, it did not work – as for the split, who knows.

The night sessions were a key focus. On Tuesday evening, Philippe Chatrier’s floodlights lit up for that titanic clash between Nadal and Djokovic, but it was the exception to an otherwise uninspiring set of late matches at the tournament so far.

Mauresmo cannot control the quality of the matches of course, but she can control the choice. It was controversial enough that she chose to put Nadal and Djokovic on at night, against the express wishes of the 13-time champion, but even more so that nine of the 10 night matches had been men’s singles, with just one women’s clash getting primetime billing.

“In this era that we are in right now, I don’t feel – and as a woman, former woman’s player, I don’t feel bad or unfair saying that right now you have more attraction, more attractivity, [more] appeal in general for the men’s matches,” Mauresmo said.

To some people, Mauresmo will be speaking an uncomfortable truth about the state of women’s tennis, where the previous world No 1 has retired at the age of 26 and the current incumbent Iga Swiatek has little competition for the crown.

“My goal was when I was doing the schedule every day to try and see, and from the first rounds, from the first round, when the draw came out, to try and see what match in the woman’s draw can I put there. The confrontation or the star that I could put there,” Mauresmo added.

“It was tough for more than one night to find the match of the day. The fact that it’s right now a one-match night session is tough on this. It is tough.”

Mauresmo’s solution? To keep the women away from primetime in case the matches turn out to be a dud, because even one-sided men’s matches last a bit longer.

Of course the one women’s match she did deem worthy, home favourite Alize Cornet against former champion Jelena Ostapenko, turned out to be a three-set ding-dong that no one who bought a ticket could claim was not worth the money. Whether the same could be said for Nadal losing just eight games to Corentin Moutet, Carlos Alcaraz spending two hours demolishing Karen Khachanov or Djokovic’s ludicrously one-sided win over Yoshihito Nishioka remains to be seen.

Admittedly at least there were global stars or a home player involved in each of those matches, but the women’s game does not lack for them either: Naomi Osaka, Emma Raducanu, Coco Gauff, Swiatek herself.

You could argue those names, for all their weight, do not have the same kind of appeal, to use Mauresmo’s word, as Djokovic, Nadal or now Alcaraz. But they are not going to become more popular or well-known when hidden away in the corners of the tournament. Perhaps the best match-up of the first week between Osaka and Amanda Anisimova started at 11am local time on the second-biggest court. Most people had barely finished their first latte of the day.

Then there are the logistical problems with playing tennis at 9pm in northern Europe before summer has really got into gear. Even the hardiest fans had resorted to the grey, green and blue blankets handed out at an increasing rate of knots by Roland Garros staff. By the third set, when temperatures had fallen some 10 degrees, the crowd almost forgot to exalt Nadal for breaking to love. The energy levels had dropped with the mercury.

Both players complained about it. “We need to find a balance, the right balance to make the things the best way possible. It is true that start the match here at 9pm in the evening playing on clay, best-of-five can be very long,” Nadal said, while he conceded that the TV companies pay the money for the rights and make the big calls.

Djokovic agreed on both points: starting too late because money talks.

For the match-going fan though, it was a nightmare. The last metro train left Michel Ange Molitor half an hour before Nadal’s winning backhand. Taxis were quoting ludicrous prices for journeys of a few kilometres. The night buses are virtually non-existent.

The organisers, zipping home in their Roland Garros-branded private transport, hadn’t even thought of it.

“That will be one of our priorities in the future,” Mauresmo said.

“We haven’t planned anything yet, but obviously we need to organise ourselves differently with the Department of Transport of Paris with bus systems, with the underground system.

“We do not have the means to organise this for 15,000 people yet. For the moment, there is nothing.”

This was Mauresmo’s most public outing as tournament director, and she perhaps spoke with too much candour. But she now knows what the spotlight of the world feels like, and how many ways the French Open must do better.

https://inews.co.uk/sport/tennis/french ... ot-1662774
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