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!

I'm torn . I love Stan

But I also want to go with the player who has the better chance of beating Federer- and I think that might be Stef. Although Stan is playing well.

Yes I think you're probably right there. But what about Meyer - he could have a decent shot at beating Fed? (Well maybe)

Btw, did you see the end of Mahut's match yesterday - his son came down on court and they walked off together - Meyer was wiping away tears!! It was very sweet.

Apparently Mahut has got a wild card for Queen's and for the Wimbledon "qualies"

They should just give him a wildcard into the main Wimbledon draw imho, after that godawful marathon match!!!

Aw, Mahut. Yes, they should just let him play anyway. They owe him!

Fed could easily have lost a set the other day- it was a close one. Meyer night have a chance. You never know.

The women's game is very unpredictable- I'm not sure what it is about them- they can be wildly inconsistent ,the top players.

Kerber, Halep, Wozniacki, Osaka, Muguruza- all slam winners- all very vulnerable to early losses.

I was pondering earlier whether it's to do with the best of 3 format, as that's more likely to produce the upset than Bo5.

But then again it might have nothing to do with it....

Meyer was sobbing like a baby private

One of the reasons I'm for Stan is because I also thought.....Stefanos will have lots more chances. But then we've said that about other bright young things before and look what happened (or rather, didn't) there......Dimitrov, for example

Ooh, Coric has been Struffed.

Oh wow, Coric has been Struff'ed - 11-9 in the fifth! I turned the TV off in disgust earlier as both itv and Eurosport were managing to show two boring matches while that was at 8-all

Anyway. I wonder if Novak will be the next Struff-ee?! Doubt it somehow.

Raahh

Yes, Dimitrov is a good example of the player who has not fulfilled the potential everyone said he had. Tour finals aside.

I always had high hopes for Raonic, but things have gone down hill since the end of 2016.

Thiem could still be the one to break through.

Someone has to!

Old Struff is having quite a year!

He's been strutting his st(r)uff.

Delpo doing well.

For a horrible minute, I though they were taking this off for Serena.

Yay well done JMDP! I see Delpo's Bakery was also open today - if only briefly

Sam Smith, who I usually quite like, really doesn't like it when Serena is losing.
I don't really understand the love for Serena, personally. It's like a cult.

I just briefly turned over to the Barty match, and they mentioned Dolgopolov.

Old Dogs- where did he go???? I loved him, (even let him beat Rafa at Queen's - he's on a 'list' ). He was one of my tips for big things for a while. I liked him .

I like Kenin. The commentators are making out that she is the one with the attitude - er , come off it- she's playing Death threat Serena.

She has every right to have an attitude with Serena playing mind games at the other end of the court.

Whoop!

Come on Kenin!

Hurrah! She did it!

I hate it, as usual- they are barely cheering, because it's all about Serena as usual.

And Sam is still talking about Williams. .

They are booing.
It's shit.

Oh dear, Serena lost. But she's still a goddess and a mother

Just saw the final point and don't like the way the way the crowd were almost booing at the end!

It really, really annoys me Kazza. I'm not saying that Kenin does not look like a player who might irritate me in the future (she does have a bit of an attitude, and her favourite player is Sharapova [grin). But , you know, she beat Serena.

But, once again, it is a young girl , who has had one of the biggest wins of her career. And once again, because it was against Williams, she gets boos.

Before the tournament , Serena was pictured in a wheelchair. The commentary team were very coy about it, and didn't want to talk about it. What's the bet, we now find out about an injury ? because she's not long had a baby you know

I just caught the end of it but had the sound off so couldn't hear the crowd. They love a good boo at RG, don't they?!

Judy Murray really rates Kenin - from juniors playing against GB apparently.

Well, she should know.

Btw Raahh I think Dolgopolov is injured - I saw something about him on Twitter recently. Will try and find it.