Talk About Tennis 2.0

ORDER OF PLAY - THURSDAY, 08 MAY 2025

Campo Centrale - start 11:00

ATP - Matteo Arnaldi (ITA) vs Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)

Not Before 13:00
WTA - Elisabetta Cocciaretto (ITA) vs [2] Iga Swiatek (POL)
WTA - [6] Jasmine Paolini (ITA) vs Lulu Sun (NZL)

Not Before 19:00
ATP - Jacob Fearnley (GBR) vs [WC] Fabio Fognini (ITA)

Not Before 20:30
WTA - Lucia Bronzetti (ITA) vs [12] Karolina Muchova (CZE)

Grand Stand Arena - start 11:00

WTA - Naomi Osaka (JPN) vs [9] Paula Badosa (ESP)
ATP - Mariano Navone (ARG) vs [WC] Federico Cina (ITA)
ATP - [WC] Luca Nardi (ITA) vs Flavio Cobolli (ITA)

Not Before 17:00
WTA - Ashlyn Krueger (USA) vs [3] Jessica Pegula (USA)
ATP - Mattia Bellucci (ITA) vs Pedro Martinez (ESP)

SuperTennis Arena - start 11:00

WTA - Petra Kvitova (CZE) vs [27] Ons Jabeur (TUN)
ATP - Fabian Marozsan (HUN) vs Joao Fonseca (BRA)
ATP - Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) vs [WC] Matteo Gigante (ITA)
WTA - [16] Elina Svitolina (UKR) vs Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (ESP)
ATP - Learner Tien (USA) vs Reilly Opelka (USA)

Pietrangeli - start 11:00

ATP - Hugo Gaston (FRA) vs Nicolas Jarry (CHI)
WTA - Peyton Stearns (USA) vs [28] Anna Kalinskaya
WTA - [29] Danielle Collins (USA) vs Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU)
ATP - Alexander Bublik (KAZ) vs Roman Safiullin
WTA - [5] Madison Keys (USA) vs V. Gracheva

Court 14 - start 11:00

ATP - Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) vs [Q] Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (USA)
WTA - [25] Elise Mertens (BEL) vs Suzan Lamens (NED)
WTA - Hailey Baptiste (USA) vs [19] Liudmila Samsonova
ATP - Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) vs [Q] Sebastian Ofner (AUT)
WTA - [18] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) vs Marie Bouzkova (CZE)

Court 1 - start 11:00

WTA - Jaqueline Cristian (ROU) vs [23] Yulia Putintseva (KAZ)
WTA - [13] Diana Shnaider vs Caroline Dolehide (USA)
ATP - Nuno Borges (POR) vs [Q] Thiago Seyboth Wild (BRA)
ATP - Gabriel Diallo (CAN) vs Marcos Giron (USA)

Court 2 - start 11:00

ATP - [LL] Jesper de Jong (NED) vs [Q] Alexander Shevchenko (KAZ)
WTA - [17] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) vs Rebecca Sramkova (SVK)
ATP - [Q] Tomas Barrios Vera (CHI) vs Jaume Munar (ESP)

Doubles MD - WTA

1 DABROWSKI, Gabriela CAN/ROUTLIFFE, Erin NZL vs NICULESCU, Monica ROU/PITER, Katarzyna POL
KASATKINA, Daria AUS/STEARNS, Peyton USA vs AOYAMA, Shuko JPN/KICHENOK, Nadiia UKR
CHAN, Hao-Ching TPE OLMOS, Giuliana MEX vs WANG, Xinyu CHN/ZHENG, Saisai CHN
NOSKOVA, Linda CZE/TAUSON, Clara DEN vs 6 ANDREEVA, Mirra/SHNAIDER, Diana

3 ERRANI, Sara ITA/PAOLINI, Jasmine ITA vs JIANG, Xinyu CHN WU, Fang-Hsien TPE
FERNANDEZ, Leylah CAN/PUTINTSEVA, Yulia KAZ vs NINOMIYA, Makoto JPN/XU, Yifan CHN
PANOVA, Alexandra/STOLLAR, Fanny HUN vs WC EALA, Alexandra PHI/GAUFF, Coco USA
WC GRANT, Tyra Caterina ITA/PIGATO, Lisa ITA vs 7 DANILINA, Anna KAZ/KHROMACHEVA, Irina

8 MUHAMMAD, Asia USA/SCHUURS, Demi NED vs BUCSA, Cristina ESP/MORATELLI, Angelica ITA
WC BRONZETTI, Lucia ITA/COCCIARETTO, Elisabetta ITA vs KENIN, Sofia USA/KICHENOK, Lyudmyla UKR
KUDERMETOVA, Veronika/MERTENS, Elise BEL vs BABOS, Timea HUN/STEFANI, Luisa BRA
MIHALIKOVA, Tereza SVK/NICHOLLS, Olivia GBR vs 4 HSIEH, Su-Wei TPE/OSTAPENKO, Jelena LAT

5 DOLEHIDE, Caroline USA/KRAWCZYK, Desirae USA vsHADDAD MAIA, Beatriz BRA/SIEGEMUND, Laura GER
KATO, Miyu JPN/SUTJIADI, Aldila INA vs KOSTYUK, Marta UKR/RUSE, Elena-Gabriela ROU
HUNTER, Storm AUS/PEREZ, Ellen AUS vs LINETTE, Magda POL/SRAMKOVA, Rebecca SVK
MELICHAR-MARTINEZ, Nicole USA/SAMSONOVA, Liudmila vs 2 SINIAKOVA, Katerina CZE/ZHANG, Shuai

Naomi looked solid against dirt baller Errani.

good 50% chance Badosa doesnt complete the match..

Upset alert...Mertens plays Lamens next..M is really no good on clay ..

Owendonovan wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 12:55 am Naomi looked solid against dirt baller Errani.

She did win a 125K on clay a couple of weeks ago pretty comfortably so hopefully that will give her some confidence.

JTContinental wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 5:36 am

Owendonovan wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 12:55 am Naomi looked solid against dirt baller Errani.

She did win a 125K on clay a couple of weeks ago pretty comfortably so hopefully that will give her some confidence.

Article on the Athletic today with that premise - I haven't had a chance to read it yet

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 2:33 am good 50% chance Badosa doesnt complete the match..

Turns out there wasn't - she didn't even start the match.

Naomi. Anybody that can say held MP against Iga at RG cannot claim they are lost on clay. Sure, she is not that good on that surface as she is on hard courts, but that does not make you horrible.
The cow on ice learned how to play there, and it is not as if Naomi's strategy when playing does not include a lot of "hit, just hit" tennis.

All the old familiars pulling out with the same persistent injuries

ORDER OF PLAY - FRIDAY, 09 MAY 2025

Campo Centrale - start 11:00

WTA - [1] Aryna Sabalenka vs Anastasia Potapova

Not Before 13:00
ATP - [Q] Dusan Lajovic (SRB) vs [3] Carlos Alcaraz (ESP)
ATP - [8] Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) vs [Q] Otto Virtanen (FIN)

Not Before 19:00
WTA - [4] Coco Gauff (USA) vs Victoria Mboko (CAN)

Not Before 20:30
ATP - Camilo Ugo Carabelli (ARG) vs [2] Alexander Zverev (GER)

Grand Stand Arena - start 11:00

ATP - [14] Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) vs [WC] Francesco Passaro (ITA)

Not Before 13:00
WTA - Olga Danilovic (SRB) vs [8] Qinwen Zheng (CHN)
WTA - Emiliana Arango (COL) vs [7] Mirra Andreeva
WTA - [10] Emma Navarro (USA) vs Kamilla Rakhimova
ATP - [5] Jack Draper (GBR) vs Luciano Darderi (ITA)

SuperTennis Arena - start 11:00

ATP - [Q] Roman Andres Burruchaga (ARG) vs [23] Karen Khachanov
ATP - Alexandre Muller (FRA) vs [18] Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE)
WTA - [21] Ekaterina Alexandrova vs Emma Raducanu (GBR)
ATP - Francisco Comesana (ARG) vs [9] Holger Rune (DEN)
WTA - [3] Sara Errani (ITA) / Jasmine Paolini (ITA) vs Xinyu Jiang (CHN) / Fang-Hsien Wu (TPE)

Pietrangeli - start 11:00

ATP - [13] Arthur Fils (FRA) vs Tallon Griekspoor (NED)
WTA - [26] Magdalena Frech (POL) vs Victoria Azarenka
ATP - [LL] Cameron Norrie (GBR) vs [10] Daniil Medvedev
ATP - [27] Denis Shapovalov (CAN) vs [Q] Vilius Gaubas (LTU)
WTA - [11] Elena Rybakina (KAZ) vs Eva Lys (GER)

Court 14 - start 11:00

WTA - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs [31] Sofia Kenin (USA)
WTA - Katie Volynets (USA) vs [22] Clara Tauson (DEN)
ATP - [31] Alex Michelsen (USA) vs Laslo Djere (SRB)
ATP - [Q] Vit Kopriva (CZE) vs [32] Sebastian Baez (ARG)
WTA - [5] Caroline Dolehide (USA) / Desirae Krawczyk (USA) vs Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) / Laura Siegemund (GER)

Court 1 - start 11:00

ATP - Jordan Thompson (AUS) vs [28] Brandon Nakashima (USA)
ATP - [24] Alexei Popyrin (AUS) vs [Q] Carlos Taberner (ESP)
WTA - Veronika Kudermetova vs [15] Amanda Anisimova (USA)
WTA - [24] Leylah Fernandez (CAN) vs Antonia Ruzic (CRO)
WTA - Bianca Andreescu (CAN) vs [20] Donna Vekic (CRO)

Court 2 - start 11:00

WTA - Maria Sakkari (GRE) vs [32] Magda Linette (POL)
WTA - [30] Linda Noskova (CZE) vs Sonay Kartal (GBR)
ATP - [21] Ugo Humbert (FRA) vs Corentin Moutet (FRA)
WTA - Marta Kostyuk (UKR) vs [14] Daria Kasatkina (AUS)
WTA - Veronika Kudermetova / Elise Mertens (BEL) vs Timea Babos (HUN) / Luisa Stefani (BRA)

Court 15 - start 11:00

WTA - Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) / Liudmila Samsonova vs [2] Katerina Siniakova (CZE) / Shuai Zhang (CHN)

Not Before 12:30
WTA - Tereza Mihalikova (SVK) / Olivia Nicholls (GBR) vs [4] Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)

Followed by 14:00
WTA - Lucia Bronzetti (ITA) / Elisabetta Cocciaretto (ITA) vs Sofia Kenin (USA) / Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)

am very impressed (and surprised) with Baptiste beating Samsonova - a formidable slow court player..

some players are just so much fun to watch as they move -Paolini is the latest - not great shots but beautiful movement..I wouldnt bet on her but always sorry when she is out of any tournament. Muchova is another such..

I can't quite put a finger on what is different about Griekspoor's technique. Something definitely separates him from the average stroke production as my eyes tell me. But what exactly?