TENNIS: French Open 2015 last few days
Jun. 8th, 2015 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllI have little to say because I just followed the results on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, I got to see the end of Wawrinka beating Tsonga, and, I suppose, the crowd, then I watched most of Djokovic against Murray. I drifted in and out as the results of the first two sets did not look as close to me as the commentators were suggesting, but then I did see Murray get geed up and start to play brilliantly, dominating the third. But then, of course, there was the storm.
I forgot to check when the resumption would be, and switched on the telly to find Grand Slam champions chuntering on about the ladies' final. I learned that Murray had pushed Djokovic to five sets, but not won.
I then missed the first set of the ladies final - it was over in thirty minutes, with Serena Williams doing her crushing thing, and Safarova doing the debut finalist thing. But in the second, Serena wobbled and became more and more flat, while Safarova found the form that had got her here and it became a much more interesting match, even if the result ended up going Williams's way. Now, if she wanted to use anger and frustration with herself quite deliberately to raise her game, that's fair enough, but there was no need to do it using that language, and she probably should have been penalised more heavily on the spot. I was supporting Safarova by this point, from wanting her to make a good account of herself and live up to the occasion to supporting the underdog, with the bonus that she's left-handed. However, as a player, at her best, it seems that no-one can live with her (I'd love to see Kvitova playing her when she's on song.)
I didn't watch any of the doubles finals or the men's. While I did entertain the possibility of Wawrinka winning, I thought it was Djokovic's. The French really is becoming his bugbear, non? Congratulations to the Swiss player, who is now on a par with Murray in the slam champion stakes.
On to the grass, then. (I see that Nadal has dropped to no. 10 in the world, and even though they have some flexibility with the seedings at Wimbledon, I don't see how they can be too lenient as his results have been dire there the last couple of years, although I wish he'd do better.)
I forgot to check when the resumption would be, and switched on the telly to find Grand Slam champions chuntering on about the ladies' final. I learned that Murray had pushed Djokovic to five sets, but not won.
I then missed the first set of the ladies final - it was over in thirty minutes, with Serena Williams doing her crushing thing, and Safarova doing the debut finalist thing. But in the second, Serena wobbled and became more and more flat, while Safarova found the form that had got her here and it became a much more interesting match, even if the result ended up going Williams's way. Now, if she wanted to use anger and frustration with herself quite deliberately to raise her game, that's fair enough, but there was no need to do it using that language, and she probably should have been penalised more heavily on the spot. I was supporting Safarova by this point, from wanting her to make a good account of herself and live up to the occasion to supporting the underdog, with the bonus that she's left-handed. However, as a player, at her best, it seems that no-one can live with her (I'd love to see Kvitova playing her when she's on song.)
I didn't watch any of the doubles finals or the men's. While I did entertain the possibility of Wawrinka winning, I thought it was Djokovic's. The French really is becoming his bugbear, non? Congratulations to the Swiss player, who is now on a par with Murray in the slam champion stakes.
On to the grass, then. (I see that Nadal has dropped to no. 10 in the world, and even though they have some flexibility with the seedings at Wimbledon, I don't see how they can be too lenient as his results have been dire there the last couple of years, although I wish he'd do better.)
