ROLAND GARROS 2012

The draw SHOULD go live in a few minutes at this link: https://www.facebook.com/RolandGarros/app_315297695213618 but let's be honest it probably will not

This is all very exciting though... PLEASE CAN SERENA HAVE A GOOD DRAW AT THIS TOURNAMENT FOR ONCE

i remember a couple of years ago the RG draw ceremony went really smoothly and on time!

I can't say I do.. is it that hard to properly test it beforehand.

I really want João Sousa (POR) to qualify and draw João Souza (BRA). Make the umpires work for their money

http://www.eurosport.fr/tennis/roland-garros/2012/chat.shtml?chatid=c99db0e52f

well this is doing a text version of the live draw so that's good

Pretty tough first round for defending champion Li... she plays Cirstea

Lol Serena plays a French player first round - Razzano. Le sigh.

yasssss Serena and Maria in the same quarter

Serena -Masha QF. Not watching this tournament, then.

oh COME ON like Razzano is a threat in 2012, she lost to Morita this week

FUCK FUCK FUCK Mrs Krumm gets Fran. No Olympics for her then :(

Azarenka/Stosur QF I believe :D That is good. Less chance for Stosur to play Serena...

Lol lex not saying she's a threat. Just saying the crowd will be even more against Serena than usuallll

Serena/Maria QF? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. One of the few players I wouldn't expect Serena to completely choke against in the French quarters.

Why would you not want Stosur to play Serena given the last 2 times?

Venus/A-Rad in round two. I don't know who that's good for.

Because that was Miami and Charleston and this is Roland Garros.

Just like Serena beat her in Stanford and then yeah. I'd rather just not have the trouble

Venus/Rad R2? LOLLLL FINALLY NO CAKEWALK FOR A-RAD :D

Full women's singles draw: http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/zn26r77y/MD.jpg

Why do the same match-ups always happen?

Serena/Woz 4R. Nooooo :/

and Justine Henin will be commentating for French TV from the quarters onwards. So maybe for Serena/Sharapova lolz.

Federer/Djokovic, Nadal/Murray semis

wow @ Sharapova's draw to the QF, may as well be empty

Well what does it matter, a QF is nothing to write home about

Praying that Kanepi beats Wozniacki in R3.

Wonder who the lucky qualifier will be who draws Cake.

Oh fuck, Barthel/Li R3. Li has the draw from hell and is not making it out of that alive :(

is there a handy jpg of the men's draw yet abcfsk?

lol @ you knowing i wouldn't have a jpg for the men's :/

Men's: http://a.yfrog.com/img863/572/3x7sn.jpg

ahaha no it was just cuz i misread the thread!

RG draw day is NOT the day on which to have to juggle work in an office >:(

merci abcfsk

I wonder if Granola will be the one to put an end to this moronic ISNER CLAY GOAT American media hype

Noooo no chance of my Sousa/Souza match-up happening :(

Why do the same match-ups always happen?

this is really bizarre and annoying yeah, though not as bad as last summer, when - just as it seemed we'd finally got rid of Stosur - she drew her bitches Bepa and Li EVERY BLOODY WEEK which probably contributed significantly to this Stosur-as-Slam-champion nonsense situation that I still can't quite believe we have to live through

Since Woz beat Serena in Miami, they've been drawn as early as possible ever since (Madrid/Rome/RG) -__-

would you rather the bad old days of Woz getting a cakewalk draw every week?

Apparently those are reserved for world #1s. Absolute LOL @ Azarenka's draw

Stephanie Myles ‏@OpenCourt

I don't want to jump to any conclusions but after saying hello to Papa Williams, seems clear there is Another future champion on the way

!!!!! is Lakeisha pregnant?!

The upper half in general is pretty laughable

i think i want to just go into hibernation for these 2 weeks :/ i can't deal

predix

4R
Azarenka d. Safarova
Halep d. Petrova
A.Radwanska d. Ivanovic
Kerber d. Martic
Barthel d. Suarez Navarro
Kvitova d. Lepchenko
S.Williams d. Kanepi
Sharapova d. Tsurenko

QF
Azarenka d. Halep
A.Radwanska d. Kerber <= really quite torn on this one
Kvitova d. Barthel
S.Williams d. Sharapova

SF
Azarenka d. A.Radwanska
S.Williams d. Kvitova

F - S.Williams d. Azarenka

4R
Djokovic d. Verdasco
Tsonga d. Baker
Federer d. (Q)
Berdych d. Del Potro
Ferrer d. Granollers
Gasquet d. Murray
Almagro d. Tipsarevic
Nadal d. Raonic

QF
Djokovic d. Tsonga
Federer d. Berdych
Ferrer d. Gasquet
Nadal d. Almagro

SF
Djokovic d. Federer
Nadal d. Ferrer

F - Nadal d. Djokovic

I had never heard of the US wildcard Brian Baker. Here's a pretty good article on him: http://www.tennis.com/articles/templates/features.aspx?articleid=17768&zoneid=9

he's in the Nice SF this week, impressive even if his big victory (over Monfils) was over a player with an injury that necessitated pulling out of RG. my pick of him is a bit of a wild flutter/reflection of how little I trust Simon and Wawrinka.

R4
Azarenka def Cibulkova
Stosur def Cetkovska
Ivanovic def V. Williams
Kerber def Medina Garrigues
Barthel def Suarez Navarro
Kvitova def Wickmayer
S. Williams def Wozniacki
Sharapova def Pavlyuchenkova

QF

Azarenka def Stosur
Ivanovic def Kerber
Kvitova def Barthel
S. Williams def Sharapova

SF

Azarenka def Ivanovic
S. Williams def Kvitova

F

Azarenka def S. Williams

lol :D

Ugh I hope you are wrong, the world needs an Ivanovic SF run even less than it needs Azarenka winning another slam.

Ivanovic has got a pretty easy route, yeah.

Hmmm I am ever vigilant for unwanted Ivanovic revivals but Venus or Aga are about her worst 4R opponents, she's just the kind of dumb basher Aga feasts on and if it's Venus she'll just piss her pants if it gets remotely close. Wouldn't be surprised if Unforced Errani gets her first anyway.

Azarenka in the same general region as Stosur and Radwanska whom she pwns. Meanwhile, Sharapova, Serena and Kvitova on the other side of the draw. It would be too much to hope that Cibulkova grows a brain and does the job this time, right?

I anticipate Peak Shitova turning up losing early, too.

great story in the nytimes on CAKE: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/sports/tennis/26iht-srfobartoli26.html?_r=1&ref=global&pagewanted=all

last few paras are ;_;

Looking fwd to ITV4's coverage -- way more committed than the BBC.

I'm on streams. But I've already seen some of Del Potro, so that's nice.

don't think kuznetsov will be able to keep it up, but he's playing amazingly right now - takes the first set against Tsonga 6-1.

Dunno if Jo's just doing the French guy in front of a French crowd thing, but he seems really sluggish at the mo, not moving well at all.

ah nvm, seems to have gotten it sorted

Ormaechea *5-2 Venus

lollll

I am amazed at the lack of Roddick schadenfreude on this thread

Fuck's sake Novak that error.

Wow, serve-and-volley on that point. He didn't have to hit the volley but what balls.

YES, two great first serves from D :-)

Nice ace!

I think there were two eps of QL in the ITV4 schedules today, xyz!

i'm extremely displeased

Nadal holds, no point conceded.

Ah, they must've increased the number of Quantum Leap eps since I was last home on a weekday :-) xp

oh dear we're off again

lol @ Nadal: "save the balls"

or something like that..

Rain delay already lulz. This is all your fault, moron RG organisers, I hope you're having a really shit time right now.

Oh are they actually gonna play now? Haha what a shambles this is.

http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/upload/168814686002543556_UD3IS2cw_b.jpg

"My cans! My precious cans!"

lol they are playing!!

Nole needed that FH so badly...

The Resumption Of The Resumption

OH yes

what a fkn point, unbelievable

serving more 1st serves now

This match is muuuuuch better than it was yesterday.

wtf nadal stopped..

Fuck off Rafa, you can't stop play just because your opponent has an open court he's about to hit a winner into.

haha Jim Courier getting annoyed at French TV: "French people don't understand this sport"

omg...30-30

30-30 come on come on come on come on come oooon

"i like the french in general!" lol

wtffffffffffffffffffff kill me why that forehand

Aghhhh

aww no D, fuck off with pulling that long

FYUCKNFH JCVBHBASFFH J

AAAGHHHH

ah fkn hell - take it to a tie break at the least

if this goes to a TB my nerves will die

NO you fuck!

If we puts a pl more FHs like that, we won't

ALL THESE FOREHAND ERRORS

I CAN'T FUCKING DEAL

FUCK'S SAKE HIT YOUR FH IN THE COURT OH GOD

oh god MP Rafa

NICE MOONBALLING, NOLE!

Championshp point

MY god

oh my

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HBDSG

Nadal is the keeper of Rod Laver's legacy

The destroyer of people's calendar slam dreams!!

I can't believe that ended on a double fault. Safina's ghost haunts this stadium.

Was that a key break in each of the three sets he lost that Nole handed over with a DF? NOVAK DJEMENTIEVA.

Hahaha French housemate trying not to laugh at both their attempts at le français

Rafa, that trophy is going to BITE YOU BACK one day, it must be pretty sick of this abuse by now.

Roll of honour

Men's singles: Rafael Nadal
Women's singles: Maria Sharapova
Men's doubles: Max Mirnyi & Daniel Nestor
Women's doubles: Sara Errani & Roberta Vinci
Mixed doubles: Sania Mirza & Mahesh Bhupathi
Boys' singles: Kimmer Coppejans
Girls' singles: Annika Beck
Boys' doubles: Andrew Harris & Nick Kyrgios
Girls' doubles: Daria Gavrilova & Irina Khromacheva

Serious side-eye at the girls' winner; Beck is already top 200 in the pros and has been playing WTA qualies regularly this year, including at RG. She may still be 18 but WTF is she doing slumming it in juniors with the babies? Let's hear it for the runner-up instead, Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova.

so I did manage to see this live after all, albeit on mute, while waiting in a lobby. Was sort of glad it ended quickly, but at the same time, that last game was just ;_;. Especially given Nole's recent record when down match points.

yeesh Rafa, use the goddamn safe or give it to Uncle Toni or something. This is the second time he's let this ridiculously expensive watch get stolen.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/06/12/sports/tennis/12reuters-tennis-nadal-watch.html?smid=tw-NYTStraightSets&seid=auto