French Open Tennis

Hehe, no biggie, SG. Was only funnin' with ya.

But you learn sumpent new every day, ay?

Yep. Actually its quite tough to keep up to date with all the nicknames this forum has given to players.

JGK wrote:As expected, Stosur gets within 2 points of the biggest win by an Australian girl in about 30 years and she chokes.

She was in the French semis last year.

Dude, I was in full foowing mode.

JGK wrote:Dude, I was in full foowing mode.

Cheers

Aye, outstanding effort by JGK. But did he put his cash where his foow was?

I did. Had a hunj on the big butted one so ended up giving back some of my Soderling cash.

Takin' one for the team. Well played, sir.

To be honest, I thought Stosur had no chance against The Butt.

Most blokes would be no chance against The Butt, so your gut feel was understandable. Sam played some massive shots.

Hope she carries on from here, and not suffer a big let down after disposing of two giants in Henin and Williams.

First set in the bag for Sam. She's played very well but came up with some wild serves in that final game when serving for the set.

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Yes!

6-1, 6-2

I reckon Sam was struggling a little with her nerves early on in the second set but once she got to the lead had too much class for Weird Al.

Wow!!!! 6-1 6-2, You go girl.

Carn Sammy Stosur.

Sammy!

From Foxy:

"Stosur will be the hottest of favourites against Italy's No.17 seed Francesca Schiavone in the title decider....the 26-year-old Stosur has defeated Schiavone in straight sets in their past four meetings, including two on clay."


God, please don't choke now, Sammy!!

Amazing performance from Sami...

Soderling-Berdych into the 5th.


FTR - I just put a hunj on Schiavoneat 4.75.

JGK wrote:Soderling-Berdych into the 5th.


FTR - I just put a hunj on Schiavoneat 4.75.

Soderling got through and will get smashed by Rafa in the Final.

And outstanding team play to lay a hunj on the Italian in the Women's.

team play? JGK wins either way . . . .

Nice new pic of the bub JGK.

The Aussie media has suddenly jumped on the French Open bandwagon,

Well Stosur is being out-thought and out-fought by an Italian at the moment.

How embarrassing.

On serve in the second set.

Despite Rafa's and Henin's dominance of the French Open in the past several years, the French Open still comes up with so many unheard of champions.

Is this because the clay brings the playing field level. Or is it because the French Open is the easiest, or the hardest to win?

JGK wrote:Well Stosur is being out-thought and out-fought by an Italian at the moment.

How embarrassing.

On serve in the second set.

Aye, the moustached one is just too clever and executing too well.

Paul Keating wrote:Despite Rafa's and Henin's dominance of the French Open in the past several years, the French Open still comes up with so many unheard of champions.

Is this because the clay brings the playing field level. Or is it because the French Open is the easiest, or the hardest to win?

Probably because it's a specialists' tournament. Most are played on hard courts and the best players tend to be adept at grass court play with fewer serve/volleyers now that there are not too many events on grass. The clays throws up unusual results with some clay specialists who struggle on other surfaces sometimes prevailing against more highly ranked players.