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Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:42 pm
by ponchi101
I was expecting Mirra to win. But the score is indeed surprising.
Coco fluctuates quite a bit; but she likes clay and it gives her a nice, high bounce to play with. Her extreme FH grip is not affected that much.

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:48 pm
by ashkor87
Apparently Coco lost only 1 point on serve in the second set!

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:58 pm
by ashkor87
Meanwhile, a bagel for swiatek...has that ever happened before?!

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:22 pm
by Suliso
I was only scoreboard watching, but Mirra was serving at 5-4, 40-15 before collapsing for whatever reason.

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:41 pm
by JTContinental
ashkor87 wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:48 pm Apparently Coco lost only 1 point on serve in the second set!
And it was match point!

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 11:30 pm
by ti-amie
ORDER OF PLAY - THURSDAY, 01 MAY 2025

Manolo Santana Stadium - start 1 p.m.


ATP - [14] Casper Ruud (NOR) vs [9] Daniil Medvedev

Not Before 4 p.m.
WTA - [4] Coco Gauff (USA) vs [2] Iga Swiatek (POL)

Not Before 8 p.m.
ATP - [10] Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) vs [LL] Gabriel Diallo (CAN)

Not Before 9:30 p.m.
WTA - [1] Aryna Sabalenka vs (UKR) vs [17] Elina Svitolina (UKR)

Arantxa Sanchez Stadium - start 1 p.m.

ATP - [5] Marcel Granollers (ESP) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG) vs [2] Harri Heliovaara (FIN) / Henry Patten (GBR)

Not Before 3 p.m.
ATP - [20] Francisco Cerundolo (ARG) vs [22] Jakub Mensik (CZE)
ATP - [5] Jack Draper (GBR) vs Matteo Arnaldi (ITA)

Stadium 3 - start 1 p.m.

ATP - [1] Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Mate Pavic (CRO) vs [6] Nikola Mektic (CRO) / Michael Venus (NZL)
ATP - Sander Gille (BEL) / Jan Zielinski (POL) vs [3] Kevin Krawietz (GER) / Tim Puetz (GER)
ATP - Christian Harrison (USA) / Evan King (USA) vs Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) / Andres Molteni (ARG)

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 4:19 pm
by jazzyg
Swiatek no longer is the favorite to win Roland Garros. In fact, I'd be surprised if it happened, and I'm even more surprised to be writing that.

She was lucky to win it last year. Osaka had her dead to rights before getting tight, or the what's wrong with Swiatek narrative would have started much earlier.

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 4:29 pm
by ashkor87
What a serving performance from Coco !!

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 4:33 pm
by JTContinental
A title here will put Gauff back at #2

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 7:23 pm
by mick1303
jazzyg wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 4:19 pm Swiatek no longer is the favorite to win Roland Garros. In fact, I'd be surprised if it happened, and I'm even more surprised to be writing that.

She was lucky to win it last year. Osaka had her dead to rights before getting tight, or the what's wrong with Swiatek narrative would have started much earlier.
I see a strong correlation between her decline and the debacle with doping suspension. Which happened a lot later. I'm convinced that she got a raw deal with how it was handled. Now I'm actually worried that Sinner will have a similar slump.

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 8:01 pm
by JTContinental
They’re both convicted dopers—the fallout from that is all on them

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 10:03 pm
by ponchi101
Agree that she is no longer the favorite at RG.
But I have buried other players way too prematurely, only to have to eat my words on a nice slice of toasted bread. I will not be surprised if she wins it again,
But I know give her less than 50% of a chance. Way less.

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 10:18 pm
by ponchi101
jazzyg wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 4:19 pm Swiatek no longer is the favorite to win Roland Garros. In fact, I'd be surprised if it happened, and I'm even more surprised to be writing that.

She was lucky to win it last year. Osaka had her dead to rights before getting tight, or the what's wrong with Swiatek narrative would have started much earlier.
Agree that Naomi had her. But she then crushed everybody else.
And that is the nature of the sport. Let's not forget that in January, it went backwards. Swiatek held MP against Maddie, but did not convert. And we are not invalidating Maddie's Aussie just because of that.

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 11:24 pm
by ti-amie
ORDER OF PLAY - FRIDAY, 02 MAY 2025

Manolo Santana Stadium - start 1:30 PM


WTA - Victoria Azarenka / Ashlyn Krueger (USA) vs Veronika Kudermetova / Elise Mertens (BEL)

Not Before 4:00 PM
ATP - [20] Francisco Cerundolo (ARG) vs [14] Casper Ruud (NOR)

Not Before 8:00 PM
ATP - [5] Jack Draper (GBR) vs [10] Lorenzo Musetti (ITA)
WTA - Sorana Cirstea (ROU) / Anna Kalinskaya vs [3] Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)

Arantxa Sanchez Stadium - start 1:30 PM

ATP - [3] Kevin Krawietz (GER) / Tim Puetz (GER) vs [5] Marcel Granollers (ESP) / Horacio Zeballos (ARG)

Not Before 5:00 PM
ATP - [1] Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Mate Pavic (CRO) vs Christian Harrison (USA) / Evan King (USA)

Re: ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Madrid 4/22 - 5/4 2025

Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 12:15 am
by ashkor87
Wonder which Coco will show up in the finals against Saba...the one who has been serving bombs or double faults .if the former, she will win...