ATP WTA GS Roland Garros 5/16 - 6/5 2022

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[JazzNU]

When I first saw pics of that kit I thought they were a joke. At least he wore the dark background.

Spoke too soon. He's changed his top mid-match to white with the same obnoxious print. When he's in motion, it's hard to see the graphics well, when he's serving or walking, it's clear as day. Worse in white for sure, but even in black I can see the angry graphics and 50s-esque pinup girl and I'm really not interested in any of it. And of course RG is apparently fine with this and won't be issuing statements about this being inappropriate.

[dryrunguy]

The rationale behind going from 16 seeds to 32 was that, at the time, drawing the 17th ranked player was indeed a huge difference from drawing the 33rd ranked player. You seldom had a truly flukey quarterfinalist, or even a finalist. Chris Lewis (Wimby 1983 finalist) was very much an exception.
Now, if you ask somebody "who would you rather play, Pablo Carreño Busta or Tommy Paul?" (currents 17 & 33) they will shrug. Maybe they would rather play one of another depending on surface, but the difference is menial. It will boil down to the cereal they had that morning.
In the WTA, it would be Leylah or Elise Mertens. Roughly equally dangerous players, adjusting for variables of surface.
So the reason for 32 seeds has been slowly fading away, with this parity.

But it was Venus' loss to Barbara Schett in the opening round of the 2001 French Open that really sealed the deal, wasn't it? The seeding change happened shortly after that, didn't it?

[ponchi101]

I don't remember precisely, but the rationale was that there was a significant difference between #17 and #33. So, as you say, drawing #17 in the first round was, at the time, sort of unfair.
On the other hand: if the #33 player is the same as the #17, seeding 32 players is a bit of a reward for the lower seeds. You don't get Iga or Novak in the first round.

[ashkor87]

Looking like semis in the wta will be Swiatek versus Kasatkina and Gauff versus Anismova...

[Suliso]

Looking like semis in the wta will be Swiatek versus Kasatkina and Gauff versus Anismova...

We'll build you a monument here if that's indeed true.

[meganfernandez]

Looking like semis in the wta will be Swiatek versus Kasatkina and Gauff versus Anismova...

We'll build you a monument here if that's indeed true.

I think Badosa instead of Kasatkina, and in another thread we annointed Teichmann the favorite in Gauff's section (but I'm still bullish on Sloane).

[ponchi101]

Looking like semis in the wta will be Swiatek versus Kasatkina and Gauff versus Anismova...

We'll build you a monument here if that's indeed true.

His very own forum, and his very own group of one so we can give him a special color

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[ponchi101]

Ok. Sure, I agree with the thing about the rules and the part that you are responsible for your racquet.
But you didn't lose in the 3rd because of her racquet toss.