French Open Day 1 & 2

Sunday 24th May.

The schedule is here :-
http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/schedule/index.html

So Fed gets the honor to open up the 2015 RG on Chatrier for Men.

Add to it his Illuminati sponsored easy draw, one has to ask does it ever end for this big nosed messiah? 

Some good matches to see how the clay at RG is playing after Fed's comments, including, Stan, Tsonga, Ninja, all big hitters.

Match of the day Ivo-Baghdatis, hope baggy has brought enough racquets with him.

Let the games begin.

Is he taking on the same falla from wimby 10 fame?

Ah good. Means I'll be able to watch all of the Monaco Grand Prix then.

He's got granollers next up too quite likely.  This isn't as spongy as I've been led to beleive

Last time he was in Rd 1 against Falla he went two sets down and had to break serve to stay in the event.

In the non-Novak half of the draw I will be rooting for Foggy and Nishi. I feel they play the most enjoyable tennis to watch out of all the players in that half.

Federer, Nishi, Stan

I hope all three will play well this RG.

silver, where did your F1 post go? I had sort of responded to it but then I realized it was gone.

Youzhny doing a Miami!

ITV poll 37% think Nadal will win the FO. Would've thought it would be more.

Fed struggling on his serve early but holds.

Fed looking fairly rubbish in rallies. He can still end them well but against any 'wall' he'd be in a right mess already.

BB, agree. Very ordinary and insecure in rallies. Hopefully he improves along the way.

Fed looking a bit better now and breaks.

It's only 1st round lads. If he gets his serve in he'll be fine

You can't serve your way to the French Open.

By the way, which perv decided the ball girls outfit?

Fed not looking particularly impressive but takes the first set relatively easily anyway.

The main aim is survival and Fed would hope to crank it up through the gears as the tournament goes on. A straight sets win is what is always the aim in these First Rounders to keep energy in the tank for later and that looks on the cards for Fed today.

Wawrinka likewise, won the first set by virtue of one service break against the Turk.. but somewhat unconvincingly.. seems happy to use it as a practise session..thus a very boring match

I think Stan has had enough.. he has gone up a gear and is now 5-1 in the second.. time for an early shower !!!

Fed looking better in this second set.

Fed floating by.

Yeah, looking a bit better now.

Fed 2 sets up, not bad to loosen up, but the court looks like mud, balls barely going.

And he steps it up in this game to break again. Hopefully smooth sailing from here.

Chris Evert is the new ES lady, she is looking great  

This is 66'th or 67'th (did not hear it clearly) of Fed straight GS play.

Stan has already broken in the 3rd and is serving for 3-1
Get it over with Stan..its so booooooooooooring.

The downside of a GS just has to be.. a lopped sided match and you have to suffer three sets instead of two

It's 1st week. The matches with big guys are rarely good contests in the first week. The good matches at this point are to be found lower down the rankingd

The thing is though ..where I am at least.. I don't get a choice in what is available to view.. I would have thought I might have got the Fed match but ??

Yeah, agree. I usually go to the USO during the first weekend - 3rd round maybe - and even then I find that the most interesting matches usually involve lower seeds.

Stan on fire, takes the match.

Eurosport player haddie. You get a live stream of nearly every court

Fed wins, a decent match.

Ok match from Fed. Not great but ok. Good enough for a first round match.

Watching more than one match using picture-in-picture is an interesting experience.

They probably do not have Eurosport in Canada. Here in the US they show it on ESPN3. I am surprised Canada would not have something similar.

Yeah LF,  welcome to PiP and Interactive Multistream TV

Baggy has done pretty well v Karlovic, Jahu, without any broken racquets so far.

Is granollers on yet? Fed might want to up his game if he's through

Im watching ESPN1 ..but you get no choice of matches.. Should I complain, there are times when they don't show anything at all and when they do they switch it off half way through a match.. what Canadian was it that said to me they thought that SPAIN was a third world country...?????
Seriously

Canada should have TSN, IIRC, or ESPN3 may also work, using your ISP subscription.

O hang on... Ive actually got the Nishi match.. things are looking up

Gulbis is on Court 1.

HN, have you tried espn3 in Canada?

In the US, it comes under this link:

http://espn.go.com/watchespn/index

Also, when I type "espn3" into my browser, it directs me there automatically.

Yeah Baggy has been good today, dismantled Ivo nicely, serving for the match now.

I am watching Ivo vs Baggy now. Not surprised, I expected him to win fairly easily.

Ninja breaks with some magic shots.

Mahut doing well 5-2 up in the first