Late Roland Garros withdrawals: Bencic on the women's side. Raonic, Versdasco, Edmund for the men. That's four of the top 10 on the women's side now that are not playing.
I took off all next week. I have like a month to burn before the end of the year and figured I'll wake up early and watch/bet on Tennis for a week.
Here are my Round 1 Matchups I like Bautista-Agut/Gasquet Struff/Tiafoe Pospisil/Berrettini Shapovalov/Simon Munar/Tsitsipas Monfils/Bublik Kecmanovic/Schwartzman Wawrinka/Murray FAA/Nishioka Cilic/Thiem Sinner/Goffin Evans/Nishikori
who makes them? Babolat makes easily the worst tennis ball I've ever used. I can't remember if slazenger or babolat does the french. Sorta odd they don't just commit to one manufacturer for the season.
wow wilson is doing the balls. Thiem says they are lighter and he likes the babolats better. I guess they were designed to not pick up as much court material or moisture during play.
Ive made a note on Tsitsipas, Rublev, Garin & Ruud. they all played today. No way they play tomorrow, but Im betting against them on Monday and/or Tuesday
Which sucks because those are all four guys (especially Stef, Rublev and Ruud) that I’d like to see go deep at RG
So in the middle of day one of Roland Garros, we’re going to have a banger Tsitsipas-Rublev final at a different tournament. So damn bizarre. And I imagine it won’t be on TV.
Sinner straight set win. I don’t even feel like Goffin looked that terrible, Sinner was just dominant.
Made it more complicated than it had to be, but Fritz advances into R2. Three American men into R2 already, with one guaranteed to be in R3 with Isner playing Korda.
Got a good laugh after Martina mentioned he made her feel so old because she played against Korda’s *grandfather*.
So anyone know how overflow works here? Only place I see on TV is TC. I’ve read and heard conflicting pieces regarding where more was being shown.
NBC has coverage starting at noon ET. My local Fox Sports affiliate had the Venus match this morning randomly. Seems to be quite the hodgepodge.
I fucking hate NBC so much. They have 189 channels yet Emril informercials are on like 10 where they could overflow matches. They have nothing on Peacock when I checked this morning as well. Not sure why.
Old man Chardy playing this Rodionov. Rodionov is doing nothing special and Chardy just making 100 mistakes. Would think it would be the opposite.
I'm...not sure that overhead was in. Also, between the weather, the courts and the ball, these rallies are slowwwww.
Not many drop shots either. Not sure why but guessing it’s because everyone is just crushing the ball.
3-1 in my bets so far. 2 pending. I had a bet against Rogers but I took the other girl at +1.5 Sets instead of the +400 ML.
Racket smash from Rodionov. Can he keep his composure? AW FUCK OFF TENNIS CHANNEL. I want to watch the end of this match