Tennis Thread: who will (Arc de) Triomphe in Paris? It's going to be Eiffel-y exciting! The French Open is almost here!

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Sorry, couldn't resist!

Bring on RG!

Rafa seems to be doing alright whilst I'm not watching though.

I think I might be becoming a bit of a fan of young Caspar .

What's 'Come On' in Norwegian?

kom igjen!

(similar to Swedish, which is kom igen).

Well, Rafa is not hanging around.

He's 5-0 up.

Goffin has avoided the bagel, then.

Raahh am loving the lingo!

Can't watch ATM but hoping to catch Stan later - vamos Rafa in the meantime!

Rafa's bakery is open for business again

There were some funny "memes" as I believe the kids call them these days, of a photoshopped Rafa working in a bakery and serving up a tray of bagels

Vamos Set to Rafa!

I'm glad Ruud has hung on in there, and given Federer a match.

Right- not put Rafa on.

*now

I hope Courier is going off for a nice long break.

Why are we wasting time on this?

Just put Rafa on, ffs.

His left behind

left behind

But the last 18 months/ 2 years have not been great for Goffin- in fact, since he was runner up to Dimitrov at the ATP finals.

Bit of a poisoned chalice, that ATP final.

Goffin was even playing a challenger recently.

Plus remember he got those two weird injuries - he fell on that thing (no idea what it's called) at the back of the court, and he was hit in the eye by a ball?

Apologies if they're already harping on about this in commentary. Is courier on his break yet?!

They’re just mentioning both things now Private - you should be a commentator.

I’ve had to switch to Eurosport - can’t bear to listen to JC droning on.

Keith has come through a tough one - 8-6 in the fifth set - he doesn’t make things easy for himself.

My dad just rang- I have not really trained my family well.

We have Fabrice in the commentary. I daren't watch Eurosport- it was Mac before. He is not Rafa fan,imo, so I can't listen to him commentate on his matches. If he is involved, he will probably drone on about the shot clock for half the match. .

Oh, Keith does like a lengthy match. How many long matches did he play in Melbourne?

Goffin took a while to get over his eye injury, didn't he? And the random trip over the back board.

Fabrice makes me laugh.

'Bye bye'.

Well, David is playing a bit better this set, but we don't want a fight back.

I'm happy to have it wrapped up soon .

I love Fabrice. He's another cheeky Frenchman with a twinkle in his eye, à la (allez allez) Henri Leconte, although not quite as Gallic as HL, no one is

FB has just told me that it is 10 years today that Nadal lost to Soderling at RG, because I very helpfully commented on it.

He won't be losing today. Well, hopefully not, despite David having a break.

Wow! Just started watching, only to see Goffin break Rafa. There is some serious hitting out there. Terrific shots.