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© Paul Zimmer
A solid start
26.05.2008 | Tennis
Roger started his French Open campaign convincingly today with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 victory over American Sam Querrey.
"It's always difficult in the first round at Grand Slams," Roger said. "I'm relieved and I'm looking forward to the second round."
Roger will now face Albert Montanes of Spain or Belgium's Kristof Vliegen for a place in the third round as he seeks to complete a career Grand Slam. He was rarely troubled in his opening match, facing a break in the first set but recording two breaks of his own against the Querrey delivery to move a set up.
He then showed solid tennis with some occasional brilliant shots and was able to wrap up the victory in just over an hour and a half.
You managed to finish the match just in time for me to get to work!!! Felicitations!!!
For all you fans, a couple of thoughts: sorry about the "Leo" talk, but I can't help remarking that Leos hate getting wet. I know it sounds "Cali
Re TonyN's comment on p30--I was just thinking the same thing that dropping a set along the way is good preparation for Roger, since he's getting more and more match practice. No doubt, he's using these earlier rounds as a sort of dress rehe
I'm just now signing on. Thanks again for your very insightful post about Djoko etc. Of course, many journalists do not bother to dig further to get the real stories behind the news. I remember in one article, a cursory mention was made of D
The conversation has moved over to the new
news for today's match. See you there!!!
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I was going to say:
allow yourself to be mad, after you've been up 4-0, and Nadal stole the set. Doesn't matter if it's Nadal, you should be mad just like you were mad after this first set. You have the right to be mad, even wi
God bless you and win the French Open for all of us. Show your fire, like you're mad.
Allow yourself to be mad at Nadal when he steals for set afte
http://roland-garros.france2.fr/index-fr.php?page=videos&id_rubrique=23&id_article=665
Thank you very much for the links
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