The Upsets at the French Open Continue
1-liner, Tennis June 2nd. 2009, 5:23pm
French Open: No. 3 seed Andy Murray lost today in the quarterfinals to a guy named Fernando Gonzalez from Chile. Roger Federer, who defeated Tommy Haas (pictured, with gorgeous and friendly fiancee Sara Foster) yesterday, is the only seeded male left that casual tennis fans have probably heard of. On the women’s side, Sharapova lost badly in the quarters, 6-0, 6-2 to this pretty attractive Slovakian. Serena Williams plays in the quarters tomorrow; the finals are this weekend.
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June 2nd, 2009 at 5:38 PM
there may be nobody left, but we’ve all heard of Monfils this week. He’s playing well, home field advantage and everything.
I’m rooting for Federer, for sure.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:45 PM
This is a huge opprotunity for Fed, he could overtake Sampras/Agassi/Laver as the GOAT if he can win this tournament.
On the flip side horrible loss for Rafa, you can’t give back majors on your best surface during your prime.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Fed ties Sampras with one more major right? I hope he breaks the record, and I loved Sampras. Fed was absolutely unreal a couple years ago.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Agassi is in no way a part of the GOAT conversation.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Sampras never won the French, so Fed would pass him in GOAT talk.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Only mens player that has a career slam having to play on 3 different surfaces. That goes a long way. Pete couldn’t do it.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Agassi deserves to be in the discussion simply for introducing acid-wash faux denim to the courts.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:59 PM
didn’t federer’s career end last year?
/mainstream media
got 7/10ths of tomorrow’s posts ready. nerd alert
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Pete owned Agassi everywhere outside of roland garros…and no one holds not having a French title against Sampras because the surface is just so much different from anywhere else. Besides, federer still has a better resume because of his 2nd place finishes in France to the greatest clay court player of all time.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:05 PM
got 7/10ths of tomorrow’s posts ready. nerd alert
saw a lot of hat pics in US Weekly on the plane ride home, huh tbl?
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Yeah he was done after wimbledon, right before he won the US Open
/hate mainstream media
//I will be emailing you about our other topic when I get home from work
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Borg was 49-2 at Roland Garros. He won 6 times, Nadal is at 4; both had a streak of 4 straight wins. Nadal gets a boost because of the quality of competition. But there’s at least a debate there.
Although I don’t know anything about their records in other clay court tourneys.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Pete was 11-9 v.s. Agassi on hard courts, 2-0 on grass, not exactly owning him. On the flip side Agassi is only 3-2 against Pete on clay, they were very evenly matched players. If I had to vote I would vote Pete over Agassi, but Agassi has to at least be in the discussion. The fact that he’s the only man to win a major on all three surfaces (for now at least) shows how versitale a player he was. Although I would vote Fed over them all, especially if he gets the French title.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:23 PM
As far as I’m concerned Federer is the greatest player of all time right now. If he wins tomorrow he will have been in 20 straight grand slam semi- finals. 20! And you can see how hard that is since Nadal didn’t even make the semi on his favorite surface. He’s playing in an era with arguably the greatest clay courter of all time and you can make the case that Nadal is better than ANYONE Sampras had to face.
I think you can also make the case that Federer is a top 5 clay court player of all time. If he played in any other era he would have 2 or 3 French Opens already. to go with 3 Australian Opens, 5 straight Wimbledons, 5 straight US Opens.
Let me put it this way. The last time Federer was not in a grand slam semi Nadal hadn’t even won a tourney title yet of any kind. That is sickening. Federer is the most complete tennis player I’ve ever seen, Sampras included.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:39 PM
One last point on Agassi, he is the current record holder in the Master series for both career wins and for having won 7 of the 9, doesn’t mean much to the non tennis fan, but it is a pretty big deal to tennis people.
Well said rs27, I guess my point was there won’t be a discussion at all if he wins.