Today's R16 Really I was 4/4 on my predictions; you have to give me that fourth win, especially with my touching allusion to the Italian Renaissance. You might recall how bad a few of my predictions were about a month ago, perhaps during Madrid? I'll take the losses just as well as I'll take the …
Category: French Open
Quick R16 Preview
I have not been studying French Open tennis during this first week of play, but knowing quite a bit about the boys, their patterns and the patterns of the current competitive play, let's have ourselves a little look at tomorrow's action. Djokovic has been on my tele more than any other. His is an interesting …
The Red, White & Blue TSQ
The revolution will be blogged! There's a lot this great country of mine is doing to make us all (locally to globally) pretty frustrated and/or worse, but this blog is not Twitter or some other sort of forum that aggregates that kind of activism and media. Do I put it past this recent political and …
What’s “Rain” in Italian? La Pioggia
Obviously the Nadal match today was the most interesting turn of events. Remember what I said a couple of times in probably a couple of posts: Nadal, in my humble opinion, is not as dominant as he was last year, let alone five years ago. Yet this is what the TSQ will have you believe. …
RG Day 1 and Rafa Pre-RG Interview
I watched zero tennis today, but some of the scores tell me a lot. Zverev, no matter who he is playing in these early rounds, going 1 1 and 2 is splendid tennis at this stage. He needs to take a nap and wake-up in the QF. A match like today works quite well for …
French Open Draw 2018
Wawrinka I was literally preparing a few notes for a post on the Swiss second-string, in fact looking at his 2015 pre-Roland Garros results to see any kind of pattern that might lift our hopes for his 2018 French Open campaign. We have a pretty good indicator of Stan's chances against Rafa in Paris …
French Open 2017 Aftermath Part II
To continue the thread from my previous post, Nadal has to be considered a favorite for The Championships. His form is too high and devastating to not be considered transferable to another surface, such as the homogenized grass, especially in the slower conditions during the first week or so. If one wants to certify the …
French Open 2017 Aftermath
Are you all ready to move-on to grass? Wasn't the French terre battue quite the scintillating high none the less? Let's not get too used to these sorts of fireworks; let's truly appreciate what is going on here. How long can these "farewell tours" last, after all? The continuation of this story starring Fedal and …
2017 French Final: La Decima
The last two lines of my preview of this match were: "A guy can dream 😉 Enjoy the match!" Dream crushed and not an enjoyable match. Not only was the match a terse rejection of my blog's final proposal, but Wawrinka has to be thinking the same thing: Dream crushed and not an enjoyable match. …
2017 Roland Garros Final Preview
We know pretty much the story of this final: Rafael Nadal has put himself into position to win La Decima. People have been talking about this for awhile, sure a bit last year when he seemed to be finding his confidence before pulling-out of the major mid tournament. The talk has gotten much louder this …
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