French Open 2022

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Re: French Open 2022

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If Ramkumar doesn’t win this match, he has no business playing slams. And, no excuses would suffice. C’mon, Ramkumar, please give Indian tennis something to cheer about that is desperately needed.
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Re: French Open 2022

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2-3 RR just broke to 15 at 2-2
3-3 broken back to 15
This Cuenin guy is serving 1st serves at 90mph!
3-4 but it's enough to hold. UFE at 30-30 proved costly after being 0-30 up
4-4 big hold for RR after being 15-40. 2 service winners and a ground stroke winner to recover
4-5 hold to 15 for SC
5-5 hold to 30 for RR
5-6 hold for SC. Serves are up to 123 mph now. RR had 2 break points but SC hit winners on both
6-6 RR holds to 15. Should win the TB as he is the one serving bigger and holding more easily
3-3 in the TB a mini-break each
6-7(6) Pulled it back from 4-6 to 6-6 but got broken at 6-7. Only won 3/7 points on his serve in the TB

1-0 RR holds to 15
1-1 0-40 after 3 UFE's to deuce, game point, deuce, game point, game after 5 mins
2-1 hold to 15 in the usual 2 mins service game. What happened in the TB?
2-2 holds to 30
2-3 RR broken to 15. 2 UFEs to go down 0-40
2-4 holds to 15
3-4 RR holds to 15
3-5 SC holds after saving a bp at 30-40 and wins the game after a couple of deuces
4-5 RR holds to love in a minute. SC not wanting to expend any energy in that game
4-6 holds to 15 after a df at 40-0
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Re: French Open 2022

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[Q2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND, 178) l. WC-Sean Cuenin (FRA, 595) 67(6) 46 :cry:

What a lost opportunity, especially since Samarth told us Cuenin was serving at just 90mph. Apparently, at set point in the first set, Cuenin took 2 steps into the court on Ramkumar's second serve (in order to attack it), and Ramkumar made the fatal error of trying to serve-volley on a second serve - and got passed. Ramkumar's usually-strong serve let him down today in the TB, and he was broken early in the second set too. Just a terrible outcome.
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Re: French Open 2022

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Kumar wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 12:20 pm Would not be surprised to see Ram loose his next game?
I too had that same fear, as crunch time on cusp of breakthrough he simply falters without fail, it has nothing to do playing a young phenom excuse (there are many like him) he was purely a green horn miles away in rankings Ram should have easy handled him being 12 years on circuit and far more experienced, he should have won .. period.. it was a simple case of handling the situation properly, being ahead in all the aspects but 7/8 guys he has worked with in 5 to 6 years have never been able to address this major shortcoming.
When will a MD entry happen.? it is so terrible to see him fail each and every time and this time was a golden opportunity lost.
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Extremely painful loss for RamK, irrespective of the fact that his opponent was no pushover....

I hope he can get into the Doubles main draw and redeems himself... :goodluck:
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These results are par for the course when dealing with our singles players. We will soon be left without a top 200 singles player. At this rate, it won’t be long before we have no one inside the top 300.
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Re: French Open 2022

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I think Ram just plays the same game every game. Same attitude. Same tactics. Everytime. Irrespective of type of court or tournament. Most often his opponents win. Rare few times they lose. Irrespective of the result, Ram goes on. Same way.
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Yes, RamK had no business to lose this. Maybe it is nervousness or something but RamK has failed time and again in grand slam qualies. This is in fact 24th grand slam qualies loss for RamK starting from 7 years back in 2015. This must be some sort of record for grand slam qualies and in only 2 out of those 24 attempts he has managed to get to final qualifying round. That is a dismal record. He had a similar challenge in trying to win a challenger title which he finally managed to do last year in Baharain. Hope at some time he will break this jinx of grand slam qualies.
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Re: French Open 2022

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And the so called phenom or no pushover player , meekly and quietly bow's out in straight sets 3 & 4 without any fight to a 215 ranked opponent...
Man , still not got over the missed opportunity by Ram.
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Re: French Open 2022

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RamK gets into doubles main draw along with American Hunter Resse.
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Re: French Open 2022

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Good to see Ramkumar get into the main draw of doubles with Hunter Reese (#87) -- a higher-ranked player than the partner with whom he had originally entered (#99 Sander Arends, who was around 109 at the time that the entry list was released). I wonder how this process works. It seems possible to change partners closer to the time of the start of the tournament. Whatever it is, I'm delighted that Ramkumar will finally have a chance to play his first Slam main draw match in Men's Doubles (having made his Slam main draw debut at Wimbledon last year, with Mixed Doubles).

As for the elusive singles main draw. My understanding is that Ramkumar made some bad tactical decisions at key points. When serving at 6-7 (match-point), he tried to serve-volley on a 2nd serve. That is just a very bad (low percentage, high risk) decision. Most of us don't follow his matches that closely. But Rajiv (who does) could perhaps talk to his coaches about decision-making at key points of his matches. He is a hugely talented guy who has made serious progress on his game (particularly the backhand) but appears to be making poor decisions in match situations. That appears to be why he has become a "momentum player", with emotions taking him to a sudden run of finals and the one title, but long fallow periods in between (with R1 losses week after week). In some ways, this is reminiscent of Leander's singles career -- but only more accentuated in Ramkumar's case.
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Re: French Open 2022

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Yes, very excited for RamK's MD debut here.... The draw is now out...

RamK and Reese will be up against a couple of Top-60 German singles players first up and a possible clash with the 6th seed pair of Neal Skupski/Koolhof in the second round

Bops/Middelkoop are seeded 16th and will be up against a local WC pair...

In Women's doubles, Sania/Hradecka are seeded 10th and will be up against an Italian pair comprising of Top-60 singles players...

:goodluck:

Men's Doubles

[R1] R.Ramanathan (IND, 81) / H.Reese (USA, 93) v. D.Altmaier (GER, 324/53s) / O.Otte (GER, 401/59s)
[R1] (16) R.Bopanna (IND, 26) / M.Middelkoop (NED, 39) v. (WC) S.Gueymard Wayenburg (FRA, 473) / L.Van Assche (FRA, 486/381s)

Women's Doubles

[R1] (10) S. Mirza (IND, 25) / L. Hradecka (CZE, 17) v. J.Paolini (ITA, 129/55s) / M. Trevisan (ITA, 544/59s)
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Re: French Open 2022

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Sania Mirza/Lucie Hradecka are seeded 10th in the women's doubles. They have a relatively easy first couple of rounds, but then could run into Gauff/Pegula (the 8th seeds, but seemingly more formidable than that) in the third round (PQF).

Ramkumar/Reese have a somewhat winnable R1 against Otte/Altmaier.

The lousy pairing of Bopanna/Middelkoop have a fortuitous draw, playing a pair of French wildcards in R1, and fairly easy opponents in R2. In R3 (PQF), they run into the favourites, second-seeded Mektic/Pavic. (Ram-Salisbury are top seeds, but not so formidable on clay). Since Shapovalov isn't playing doubles, Bopanna would have done much better to partner Ramkumar -- but then, of course, they wouldn't have been seeded. (Small risk for potentially bigger reward, in my opinion).
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Re: French Open 2022

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We start with an easy win, as expected:

[R1] 16-Rohan Bopanna (IND, 26) / Matwe Middelkoop (NED, 39) d. WC-S.Gueymard Wayenburg (FRA, 473) / L.Van Assche (FRA, 486/381s) 64 61
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Re: French Open 2022

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Seriously Bopanna has two final wins with RamK this year and still chooses a different partner! Is Rohan even more self centered than Bhupathi and Paes?

I hope that RamK does better than Bopanna !
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