French Open results

 

These two brush up pretty well don't they and both of them brushed up the opposition on the claycourts of Roland Garros.  

Iga Swiatek seemed a safe bet for the title but it could have been soooo different as she very nearly lost to an inspired Naomi Osaka in her opening match.  Naomi could and probably should have won!  That was perhaps the fright that Iga was needing though and there was no looking back after that as she cruised through the competition in double quick time making light work of Jasmine Paolini in the final.  Reaching the final itself was a huge achiement for the likeable Italian who is having an inspired season and is now a top 10 player. 

There was a lot of concern about the fitness or Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner for the French Open prompting many of us to leave one or both out our teams.  We needn't have worried as both looked fresh and on form from the off and would ultimately set up a semi final showdown where Carlos was to prevail.

Alexander Zverev went into the final with high hopes of winning his first Grand Slam final and looked in a great place when he was leading 2 sets to 1 but Carlos took total control in sets 4 and 5 to win his first RG final. His 3rd Grand Slam at such a young age.

So to FTL and here are the final standings for the French Open where of course some big points were to be made in the ranking chase.

Congratulations to Adnan (Advantage Infinity) for winning the RG slam.  It was a closely contested slam with less than 15 points separating the top 6. 

Jenny (Ospreys) was only 4 points in 2nd place. TonyTonicTeam, The Champs, Thunder Turkeys and the Macedonian make up the top 6.

Here is the head to head between Adnan and Jenny.

This was a week where you needed a strong team and you needed your dark horses to perform and Adnan had exactly that.  He had Iga as Captain and Carlos as a KP and also had finalist Alexander Zverev.  He also had 3 semi finalists in Gauff, Ruud and Sinner and quarter finalists Tsitsipas and Rybakina. Adnan also had Ons Jabeur who was the pick of the dark horses (making the quarter finals) and a half decent return from Sebastian Baez as well.