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!

Oh good, Fizzy I thought I was hearing things!

I want to know what all the noise is.

Can't be for Konta, surely?

Stefanos is a break down, and I want to watch that one too.

Bit rubbish if people were expecting to see stan/Grigor on Lenglen, and it's now on Court 1. It was always a big match, when you looked at the draw. No wonder there are some cross spectators.

The scheduling is a bit rubbish, despite the early starts.

It is a bit rubbish shunting Stan and grigor onto another court - I think it’s one that a lot of people would want to watch.

There have been a lot of long matches today but they should be used to that. Mahut lost in the end .

Poor Mahut.

I'm not sure why they've moved this match. Chances are it won't finish tonight, regardless of which court it's on.

the Grigor Slam

Poor Grigor!

Although he looks to be doing ok now.

Argh my MN emojis don't seem to be working.

There was a grin missing from that last post...

Very short sighted of the organisers to not realise this would be a 'popcorn' match.

I can guarantee they would not have moved the Federer match to court 1, just to get it played- and risked half the spectators not getting in.it would just never happen.

Jinxed him. Sorry Grigor!

He is doing ok. It's a shame they keep meeting early.

Stefanos got the first set after a wobbly start.

Apparently the noise was booing from spectators expecting to see this match on Lenglen, and there was a crush trying to get into court 1.

Sounds a bit scary and badly planned as you said Raahh. This is obviously a big match.

I’ve just seen that Private - the crowd from Suzanne Lenglen court were looking pretty angry. I would have been annoyed as well. It is obviously a popcorn match . (There has also been talk of mini breaks!)

Guy Forget is going to get some grief from irate spectators demanding refunds.

Meanwhile, Lenglen sits empty, for the want of them waiting about 15 minutes for the Stephens match to finish.

In fact, I don't even think it was that long.

We need bingo card- breakers, mini breaks, pop corn matches, Soderling,.

All these things would win you the money.

So Konta seems to be doing well to say that she’s never won a match at RG before

Yes well done to Jo.

A shoo in for sports personality of the year now.

But please don't go much further, your presence takes over valuable tv time from better other players.

I was sat here and my tv changed to the Stefanos match without warning!

Sue Barker- Voice of Doom- she would have warned me.

Guy Forget - remember when Greg beat him at Wimbledon in his first year playing for GB?!

Yes well done Jo - she's having a good clay season. Plays Vekic next I think.

I was thinking of Sue today when someone was talking about a "voice of doom" on the radio

Stefanos is well away in the second set.

So did mine Raah - I can’t decide which one to watch now - I think Tsitsipas has got this one (don’t want to jinx him). Think Stan/grigor will be the closer match.

Who would be the Eurosport voice of doom? probably Mac