TENNIS: Bienvenue à Roland-Garros

[JaneJeffer]

Just realised the tennis ball emoji is missing from the app. Merde. Off to complain!

I am going out for dinner tomorrow night- so will probably miss the night session Alcaraz match (although we have form for not actually staying out late- so I might not actually miss much of it

Perhaps Kolar should marry Coco Gauff, and she could then be Coco Kolar.

@ChessieFL 🤣
I was looking at Alcaraz yesterday and his beautiful chiselled face, then up popped Emma Radacanu's face, and I found myself wondering what their children would look like.
Probably, they would look.....smug.
Made myself laugh 😃

Chessie

Coco Kolar

I wasn’t sure if those sunglasses were supposed to be upside down or if it was a new fashion!!

I keep missing chuncks of this match- he's putting up a heck of a fight, Kolar. I don't think Stef will have been expecting this. (Not expecting Kolar to win, but he's got nothing to lose by throwing everything at Stef).

The crowd are definitely on Kolar’s side - eek he’s just won the tiebreak!

Kolar definitely deserved to win a set.

Stef will just want to wrap this up.

Over on PC- Ostapenko , former champion and 13th seed, is 0-5 down to Cornet.

Eurosport are sticking with the Sinner match on ES2 though. I'm sure it's on 'other platforms' as Alize keeps reminding us- but it's not a good look, first women's night match, and they aren't showing it.

I just wanted to see if Jelena's kit was as bad a I thought the other day.

I just popped out and now there’s another tiebreak in the Stef match! Stef ends up playing late even when he’s not in the official night slot!

can’t believe Eurosport are not showing the women’s night match!

Well done to Kolar, he didnt win, but he gave it a good go.

Fizzy now Stef has finished, they will probably show the other match. I'm not really bothered about seeing it- I freely admit that I prefer watching men's matches over most of the women's. But it really doesn't look good for the channel that the coverage is so 'male' heavy . It's not exclusive to RG- I read something the other year, and Wimbledon are by far the worst for prioritising men over women on the show courts.

Very topsy turvy from the scoreline, on PC.

Jelena lost the first set 0-6, and won the second 6-1.

I agree Raahh I prefer to watch men’s tennis over women’s but I think Eurosport should show the main evening match - they’ve shown all of the men’s evening matches

i just saw a bit of Ostapenkas outfit - it’s not good - pink frills and gingham

Fizzy you've covered how I feel. Personally, I'm not fussed- but it's not right that we are on Thursday, and this is the first women's night match.

I know it will be over in a flash, and so many of the women's matches are very one sided- far more so than the men. Bit still.

Yup, Ostapenko's kit is very much at top spot for 'worst at RG'.

It makes Grigor's splodgy tracksuit look tasteful.

I will be flamed- but it looks like something Serena might design.

<runs away>

As soon as I saw it I thought Serena

DH was commenting to no one in particular about "the worst outfit in tennis" I was going to berate him for being sextist....but then I saw it, and had to agree. Its pretty horrendous!!🤣

Serenas outfits are usually much more stylish imo

Well done to Alize.

I am surprised I am still awake.

Tomorrow should be good. Some interesting matches coming up.

I hope that Mac’s not commentating on Rafas match against Botic van de Zandschulp tomorrow

Fizzy Mac commentating on that is a recipe for disaster. Although, I knew someone who used to mangle pretty basic names- but always managed to pronounce way more complicated ones properly.
Mac may just default to 'The Dutchman' for the duration of the match. Or Botic- and even that poses problems- is it Bott-ic or Boe-tic?

So long as Rafa gets an easy match.

I can't see Bedene troubling Djok. If he does, do we think Tim will remind us how he 'used to be 'British' and take it as a win?

Ironically Mac was taking the piss out of Alex's pronunciation of Jeanjean the other day. He said who? and Alex said you know like a young girl jeune jeune