French Open 2020

Pigeon_Killer · 6 Oct 2020 at 22:41

Yeah, he's a fantastic talent but Nadal has little in his arsenal to hurt him with the weather this cold. No pace or spin to the forehand he'd be dominating with usually.

Quite like the high looping cross court forehand he's playing now though, opens up the court for the shot down the line.

Edit: I've watched tennis for almost 12 hours today

Excellent performance from Sinner, dominated most of the points in the 1st set, a lot of points in the 2nd but look mentally beaten in the 3rd. Semi finals will be very tough for Nadal but there's no way he's beating Djokovic this year.

Pigeon_Killer · 8 Oct 2020 at 14:53

Swiatek is basically the Ivan Drago of the tennis world. As powerful as the hardest hitting men, capable of ridiculous amounts of spin and has a team of coaches, tacticians and psychologists to back her up. She's a cheat code.

marc2003 · 8 Oct 2020 at 14:59

Just a light training exercise so far.

marc2003 · 8 Oct 2020 at 15:17

Polish fans be like Radwanksa who?

Pigeon_Killer · 8 Oct 2020 at 15:24

I thought she was well old, only 31 and retired in 2018.

Would love to know Swiateks string tension, she can't be generating that much power from her size or technique at only 19. Does hit through the ball fast though.

Eddie · 8 Oct 2020 at 15:33

Let's see if they do anything about Kenin's dad's continuous coaching in the next match...

Apparently, Kenin's dad went and sat next to the opponents coach in the last match... https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/sp...ins-dad-moves-paris-match-changes/3630782001/

Strange behaviour. I don't normally pay much attention to the women's game but I'm hoping for a Kvitova win today.

Spacedeck · 8 Oct 2020 at 16:55

Have ITV stopped showing the scoreboard during the current match?

Pigeon_Killer · 8 Oct 2020 at 17:02

Broadcasters have a problem with their scoreboard so ITV have just this second added their own graphics.

Eddie · 8 Oct 2020 at 18:29

As it turned out, Kenin didn't need much coaching during today's match as Kvitova struggled to find her game.

Hopefully the final will be more competitive.

Eddie · 9 Oct 2020 at 13:20

Any predictions for today's matches?

Pigeon_Killer · 9 Oct 2020 at 14:10

Schwartzman in 5, Djokovic in 3.

Eddie · 9 Oct 2020 at 14:20

I'm going for Nadal in 5 and Djokovic in 4 (after a bit of 'rope-a-dope' in the first and second from Djokovic

).

Pigeon_Killer · 9 Oct 2020 at 14:37

Still sad that we can't see Nadal's forehand behave like normal but the short looping topspin shots are almost head height for Schwartzman.

Edit: Hard to keep track of the ball with the roof half over.

marc2003 · 9 Oct 2020 at 14:43

Nadal in 3. Djok in 4.

marc2003 · 9 Oct 2020 at 15:19

No, Mullins. I'm not going to sit here with my eyes closed listening to two men grunting.

Pigeon_Killer · 9 Oct 2020 at 15:24

Schwartzman not as competitive as I thought he would be today, seems to have had a game plan which Nadal has worked out and now he's stuck for ideas.

Edit: Really impressive from Nadal, was concerned after his performance in Rome and his complaints about the weather and balls but this is a beating.

marc2003 · 9 Oct 2020 at 15:53

Long way back from here.

Pigeon_Killer · 9 Oct 2020 at 16:11

Got him on a string now, I may have been wrong about 5 sets and Schwartzman winning

Eddie · 9 Oct 2020 at 16:16

It's not the match I thought it was going to be either, so far anyway.

marc2003 · 9 Oct 2020 at 16:23

Breaking Nadal.... nice. Getting broke to love in the next game.... not so nice.