**French Open, Roland-Garros 2019**

[4K8KW10]

Djokovic and Nadal in a battle tomorrow in Rome, just days before this year's Roland Garros begins.

Who is the hot favourite and will history be rewritten in the next weeks?

 

[spruceant]

Nadal is probably just favourite but I think Djokovic is the form player atm. Will be interesting.

 

[marc2003]

This one channel/one court coverage on ITV4 really sucks. Who wants to see Nadal/Federer/etc blasting away no hopers in round one. Show something competitive FFS. :/

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

It would be nice to have the option to watch multiple games but I'm thankful we have Courier instead of Andrew Castle commentating.

 

[marc2003]

So Kyle Edmund is out after going 2 sets down and pulling out. Just before he did that, it was mentioned that he'd gone 2 sets down in 13 best of 5 matches. He lost every single one 3-0....not even pulling back a single set.

 

[marc2003]

Konta one set away from the semis having not won a match before this year.

Shame one of the biggest courts in the world is practically empty though. I reckon they should give this tournament to another country where some fans actually might bother turning up.

 

[Kelt]

This is impressive stuff from Konta.

A service game away from the semis.

French don't deserve a grand slam with low attendances like this.

 

[Kelt]

Yay, nice to see an *ahem* English player through to the froggie semis.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Yay, nice to see an *ahem* English player through to the froggie semis.

I am confused as to why/how she ended up representing Britain. She is Australian born to Hungarian parents if i remember correctly.

 

[marc2003]

Stan vs Fed is turning out pretty tasty.

 

[Marsman]

I am confused as to why/how she ended up representing Britain. She is Australian born to Hungarian parents if i remember correctly.

Because she has been living here half of her life and switched to representing GB once she became a citizen in 2012.

I do love having a laugh at the comments in the troll's section on the BBC site. Some people clearly have an issue with her being called 'British'.

I wonder if the same people constantly keep banging on about Mo Farah as well, because he wasn't born in the UK either.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Didn't mean to touch a nerve, i was genuinely interested as to why...

 

[Marsman]

It's fine. I have no issue with your post, as it was a genuine question. The latter part of that post, I was airing my thoughts about the trolls on the BBC who like to keep telling everyone that she isn't British.

Sometimes, when quoting another poster, it can seem like the whole post is aimed at them. That wasn't my intention. I could have made it clearer the rest wasn't aimed at you.

 

[robfosters]

Halep out?

Massive chance for Konta now. Will never get a better shot at a GS.

 

[Kelt]

Konta should have had the first set tied up.

Missed a a couple of sitters, hope she doesn't come to regret it.

 

[marc2003]

She had 2 set points when 5-3 up.... and loses 7-5. Oops.

Her problem has been poor shot selection. Too many drop shot attempts/net approaches at the wrong time and it hasn't taken anything special from the other girl to take advantage.

 

[Kelt]

Hard to see her winning this now.

Her opponent hasn't lost a set this tournament yet.

 

[Kelt]

Disappointing.

Konta could have won that.

Service break up in both sets and blew it.

 

[marc2003]

Again nowt special from her opponent. Jo just made her look good from all her poor decision making and repeating the same mistakes she made when losing the first set. :/

 

[marc2003]

Still empty seats when Federer is playing Nadal. Tells you everything you need to know about the French.