BALLS PLEASE ! ROLAND GARROS, WIMBY, ETC....

[MrsVamos]

New thread with BALLS.

When MNHQ remember their promise.

Juan yes- Bagnis is doing brilliantly. No idea how this will end Benneteau looked injured/had the trainer out earlier.

Oh sorry, I got the Thiem score wrong - he's just won the second set.

Oh fantastic!

Fantastic Facundo :)

Oh bless, he's on the phone now. Must be ringing his mum :)

Dominic through.

Had to sort out DD2.

Brilliant result. Not a great day for French players today, though.

Garcia-Lopez is playing very well. Maybe Stan does better when his shirts are creased?

Stan is certainly being out-played here. The crowd are not happy.

woah, wassup with the man Stan? Love the Stan man but love Garcia-Lopez too so VAMOS Lopez.

hope these stay now through Wimbledon.

Garcia-Lopez is playing so well. I like Stan- but I'm sure there will be excuses when he loses.

Clearly, this crowd didn't expect what they are seeing, despite G-L having been a very good player over the years.

Vamos

The booing in the crowd is pretty poor show.

Not Stan's finest hour.

Oh ffs- Inverdale has already got Murray to the last 8 now that Stan is out.

Shut up.

Stan's problem was that his game style was heavily influenced by his outfit. So, if you wear lemon you play like a lemon. Shame that, it looked good on him.

Ah, yes Juan- the curse of the Lemon

Yep The curse of lemon strikes again!
Poor Stan not sure what happened.
I read a interview he gave and he was saying how mentally he is struggling, he achieved his ambition but not really, he won but didn't and said he was finding that very hard to cope with along with the added pressure of being a gs champion. Hope he finds his form later in the year.

I think the demons of the Aussie Open seem to have affected both Stan and Rafa. Neither will ever know what would have happened 'if'...

Hopefully Stan can re-group before Wimbledon.

That's interesting mama. Why does he feel he didn't achieve his ambition - was it cos Rafa was injured? He certainly hasn't lived up to that win really. Pot is saying on FB how it hurts not to be at Roland Garros :(

Juan- must be worse for Pot because it is the second year running. it's like the whole sport is moving on without him

Yep He said he wanted to win but not the way he did (with rafa so clearly injured) and that it didn't matter then but he has struggled with that since. Did he win because he earnt it or because rafa was hurt?
I agree with raahh that it is that what if... That is probably affecting both Stan and rafa since.
Poor pot do they know when he maybe back yet?

Evenin' All !

Yay !

Ended up going out today (grrrrrrrrrrrr) and managed to catch the last set of Rafa's match, he looked in fine form.

All else is well, I assume, Novak played well ?

Haven't seen schedule for tomorrow, but as the weather forecast is so crap, I am intending on parking my backside and not moving as of tomorrow.

Was hoping the rain today would be enough to carry the tournament over a day, clearly my dancing and wailing wasn't enough, unless maybe I need to wail in French ? I think maybe all the rain came here today ?

OMG, just seen posts....Stan is out ?

Poor guy, he was a real contender, I thought.

I would be exactly the same in the unlikely event of me ever winning a slam! That is, I'd be unable to accept it was my talent and hard work that had won it for me. But I'm not a world class sportsman (some of you may be surprised to learn this). He is though, and psychology must surely play a huge part in the game at his level - he and his team are hopefully addressing that. Both he and Rafa seem to be having some confidence/psychological issues this year, and it's fairly obvious that they are just from watching them play. Is it to late, do you think, for me to become a sport psychologist?

Yes, must be hard for Pot seeing all his peers doing their thing whilst, yet again, he's sidelined. Wonder what he makes of Bagnis' s win. He did say a few weeks ago he would like to be back playing again in August/September but I guess he can really write off this season totally. It must be so utterly frustrating.

Evening MrsV, yes Stan out. Only himself to blame really - he was wearing yellow. :)

Stan!!!