French Open 2015 - Day 10

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Here we go then:

Chatrier (2PM start):

Ana Ivanovic (7) vs Elina Svitolina (19)

Kei Nishikori (5) vs Jo-Wilfred Tsonga (14)


Lenglen (2PM):

Garbine Muguruza (21) vs Lucie Safarova (13)

Stan Wawrinka (8) vs Roger Federer (2)


...and a host of doubles matches on Court 1/2, including the Bryans and Sock/Pospisil in separate matches. More here. Safarova playing again just a day after beating Sharapova!

Feds being outplayed here, too passive really (not something you'd normally associate with him), his serve bailing him out of trouble early in the second (with a bit of help from the umpire there...)

Long delay. Hopefully the spectators are alright

They're back out

come on Roger, don't do this, go to the Final.

After the delay, Nishi breaks!

Fed's wife will soon be shouting in Stan's direction. Then the choke will come like in London last year.

Not the same sharp player who beat Monfils yesterday.  W can easily wrap this up soon in straights.

what a disaster, well then if Stan wins the RG, I'm more than happy

Yes, the old man may prefer to fry a bigger fish elsewhere. 

Jo's brain has locked up. Interesting match if Kei can level it up.

Matchpoint wrote:Yes, the old man may prefer to fry a bigger fish elsewhere. 

yeah, he should become the Master of 250/500's for another 10 years.

Set point jo

2 sets to love. Jo just managed it

ok so Stan-Jo should be a cracker.

Tsonga two sets up and Nishikori has no answer. Wawrinka two sets up and Federer looking down both barrels.

100% First Serves won by Stan, Fed had to do more to gain the upper hand. Think this will end in straights

Not sure Tsonga-Nishi is a done deal yet, Tsonga hasn't quite settled since the interruption, and if Kei can just nick this set you never know... Feds needs to go for broke IMO, his tactics of waiting for Stan to miss just aren't working.

Jo not as strong since the restart

Feds still being sooo passive, needs to go for his shots more...

3 minor injuries from the falling metal nobody badly hurt.

FH winners: 20 to Wawrinka, just 6 to Feds.

Feds's serve the only thing keeping the score even reasonably close...

An ever-more frequent refrain, sadly.

Still time for Mats Wilander to declare that Federer is playing better than ever.

Fed needs to get pressure on Stan; he would mentally crumble. But he can't.

15-30 to Tsonga

big hold for Stan, Feds had a look-in there, you sense if Feds can nick this set there'll be life in this one yet, crowd really getting behind him now.

Man the wind on chat is really detrimental

Come on Fed, take the TB, at least a set.

Wawrinka with a bad miss at 1-1, but levels it up with another big FH next point.

Stan in great form, doing everything right. Federer not even at the races today, looks weary, half asleep.

I think this will finish up in 3 and at least I put a big caveat on all my predictions including this one which I thought Fed would sneak in 5.....

But no hope for Roger with the games he & Stan have brought today. No way.

Great performance from Stan, heading for a decisive and well-deserved victory

Feds at last trying to be aggressive with the FH, but eventually Wawrinka gets a look on a BH and murders it down the line for 3-2. Now 3-3 at the changeover.

Nishikori finally holds

just fabulously clean hitting from Stan, three MPs!!

Out of the shadow Stan.. that silenced Mirka !!

fed goes home, a disaster of a show up, unless it's some swiss banking conspiracy to let Stan go to the Final, with bigger chance to take the title

and Stan duly takes it. Crowd booing him, morons

Terrific performance from Wawrinka, outplayed Feds from start to finish, and thoroughly deserved the win.

Well played Wawrinka. Federer to W.

and Nishikori, having staved off multiple breakpoints in the previous game, duly breaks to nick the third set 6-4. Still legs in that one.

Mad for Chelsea wrote:and Stan duly takes it. Crowd booing him, morons

Pretty bad from the crowd, I say.

Haddie-nuff wrote:Out of the shadow Stan.. that silenced Mirka !!

Can't imagine Stan's wife was too happy about it either.

Nish takes the set!  Not over! Three days of tennis too much for rog

Disappointing and predictable match on Lenglen. Stan played great but dipped a bit after the first set; Federer was fairly decent in the first set as well, but then played two dreadful sets of tennis. The writing was on the wall early on.

Well done Stan - just please, please don't choke it away next round. At least give whoever's in the final from the other side some sort of competition.

JuliusHMarx wrote:

Haddie-nuff wrote:Out of the shadow Stan.. that silenced Mirka !!

Can't imagine Stan's wife was too happy about it either.

Maybe it was Mirka leading the booing?

A joke folks by the way.

Anyone think Kei can complete the comeback? Such a long way to go, but he was much-improved that set and did very well to hold off JWT at 4-4.

Huge gap in respective performance levels for that Swiss clash.

Wawrinka looked more like a World No.2 ...... so calm, composed & ruthlessly efficient.

Fed, for whatever reason, looked like someone ranked 45 who has never even spent time in the top ten. But that takes nothing at all from Stan, he was superb, back to his AO-winning best today, and now needs to take that momentum into his semi.

Here's hoping Nishikori can push this to a decider ....... We want a longer match after Stan made such short work of Fed ...

SEPP BLATTER STEPS DOWN!

Whoah ....!!!!

You're right !!

lags72 wrote:Huge gap in respective performance levels for that Swiss clash.

Wawrinka looked more like a World No.2 ...... so calm, composed & ruthlessly efficient.

Fed, for whatever reason, looked like someone ranked 45 who has never even spent time in the top ten. But that takes nothing at all from Stan, he was superb, back to his AO-winning best today, and now needs to take that momentum into his semi.

Here's hoping Nishikori can push this to a decider ....... We want a longer match after Stan made such short work of Fed ...

Fed just can't recover from match to match at this age no matter how fit and fresh he says he is the day before.

These type losses puts into perspective how amazing the Federer semifinal streak was. All those players- in form to make it to quarters and surely many playing blinding levels like Stan was at times today, and Fed beat them year after year for so long. No one stays young forever though.

LuvSports! wrote:SEPP BLATTER STEPS DOWN!

What a time to be alive

LuvSports! wrote:SEPP BLATTER STEPS DOWN!

Reason finally. Why did he do the election in the first place ! Nish a break up now

LuvSports! wrote:SEPP BLATTER STEPS DOWN!

Never thought I'd see the day!