French Open 2018

[Sin Hombre]

One match at a time for Yuki. I'll take a first GS MD win with no clay tournaments as a stupendous achievement.

Elias Ymer can't be considered as a top European talent anymore. He has stagnated at this level for a few years now and is a generally solid player with no clear spikes in his game.

[RohitG]

Live streaming available for Prajnesh match?

[sameerph]

Yes, streaming there on betting sites. Check the link which I had posted a few pages back in this thread for his earlier match.

[sameerph]

Anyway, Prajnesh is down a set 3-6 and an early break in second set.

Saw a few games in first set and Prajnesh is missing a lot compared to his earlier match. Nerves playing a key match ?

[sameerph]

Prajnesh breaks back and now it is on serve at 3-2 in the second set.

[Ravishankar Krishnan]

Very disappointing loss.

#Ymer def. #Gunneswaran 6-3 6-4 and reaches the main draw.. The Swede hit only 2 forehand winners on the way to victory..
#Consistency #Depth #ThisIsClay
#RG18 https://t.co/lUXsBiUGAv

Got this from Twitter.

[Tolamu]

4 Lucky Loser spots available for now. How will they draw lots from the 16 Q3 losers? Will Prajnesh get a chance?

[PKBasu]

Sad, especially because Prajnesh seemed to have succumbed to nerves in a crucial match. But perhaps Ymer was simply playing better and more consistently on the day.

[Sin Hombre]

No chance of a LL spot since those go to the 4 best ranked losers.

The older Ymer is a solid grinder and Prajnesh probably hasn't played many of those. Still, kudos to him for rescuing an otherwise dismal FO qualifying campaign.

[Mohit Dahiya 2345]

I think prajnesh could have beaten ymer in straight sets if he was playing close to his level in anning

[sameerph]

No chance of a LL spot since those go to the 4 best ranked losers.

Nowadays they make a draw from LL spots+2. So, in this case they will draw 4 out top 6 best ranked losers. But, Prajnesh is not among top 6 best ranked losers too. So, unlikely for LL spot unless there are more withdrawals.

I watched only part of first set. But, from what I saw it was a mix of Prajnesh not playing to his level as in Anning Challenger and first 2 rounds here and Ymer playing solid grinding tennis and getting more balls back which frustrated Prajnesh.

[PKBasu]

The French Open website is useless. Does anyone know whether Yuki's R1 match is tomorrow (Sunday)?

[S_K_S]

Schedule is not out at the moment

[VReddy]

He wont play tomorrow from what I heard. Likely Tuesday but hopefully its Monday. Appears bottom half matches only tomorrow. Did not verify directly with RG folks, so maybe wrong.

[PKBasu]

Google claims it is tomorrow, first up.