Tennis: Road to Turin, anyone seen Rafa?

[IceandIndigo]

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Well done Jack! He's on fire these days.

Well done Jack.

Taylor needs to find a decent barber and shave his hair off.

How fast does his hair grow? He's got dark roots already!

And inch a day, by the look of it.

Woo hoo! Go Jack.

Well done Jack!

Jack stands a very good chance in Paris, playing the way he is

. He has a very outside chance of qualifying for Turin- but it's still possible that Djok may drop out. And I'm not 100% confident that Casper will play (might be a good idea if he gave it a miss).

Arthur Cazaux has taken the first set against Ben Shelton. Haven’t seen him play before, he is good!

Did Cazaux beat Holger in Australia this year? Seems so long ago, but I think it was this year.
He had a good start of the year.

Raahh I wouldn’t be surprised if Djok doesn’t play Turin, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if he turned up and won the thing. What makes you think Casper won’t? He’s down to play Metz, I felt that signing up for this many tournaments late in the season means he’s keen to qualify.

Ice I also think Djok might turn up with no match play and win the whole thing.

Re- Casper, I think it's the fact he's had a pretty rotten few months since RG, and doesn't seem to have any form indoors (didn't play well really at the Laver Cup). I don't know if it's lingering illness or not. Bit like Rafa, I feel like it's not really his time of year.
I know he's scheduled for Metz- another first round loss might just seal his fate (he might not qualify anyway, if ADM /Grigor do well this week).

I see Andrey has taken a wild card to Metz, so he must be wanting to make one last push.

With Casper's luck, he will draw the ever present GMP in the first round of Metz, and get served off the court.

I remember watching him in Eastbourne quallies and he was lovely but he didn't qualify as far as I can remember which isn't very far!

Arthur looks like Timothee Chalamet’s 13 year old cousin, I am struggling to reconcile it with how hard he hits. If he wins there will be a trifecta of French Arthurs in the R16

I’m sure Andrey wants to qualify, he’s a sucker for punishment.

Well done Arthur! Amazing win.

Well done to Jordan, but a good fight from Adrian. Could have gone to 3 sets.

I have it on in the background. Missed the racquet smash

Did you see the story about the TC lookalike competition in NY?

I managed to miss the racquet smash. Felt a bit sorry for Adrian- the French players are not doing too badly at the moment, they seem to be getting a good crop of young players through. Even if we are getting a bit fed up with seeing some of them .

Stef is due to play Cerundolo now. Are they now showing that because we have to wait for Jack?So we've got a women's match with no sound.

Martina Trevisan looks a bit like Rafa's wife. Kind of.

Oh here comes Stef and Francisco- honestly, Sky is annoying.

I haven't seen Maria for ages. Yes she does look like Xisca! Her opponent's skirt looked like she had spilled a bottle of water on herself.

Martina not Maria.

We need a new thread urgently!

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