Jon Wertheim answers your questions from Roland Garros, unpacking the early-round results.
• Let’s bang out some questions from Roland Garros, cherry-picking for Q&A that won’t be obsolete before you know it.Lose and it’s still ok, well done for doing your best against a top 4 player when we all know you are physically compromised.you have to realize that elite athletes are not normal. You might say,They didn’t get to where they are with rational thinking. You need a certain level of delusion.
My friend Robbie Koenig put it nicely today: “Time is a thief, Jon. He’s not subtle, he’s a thug … ” I would go even further. Time is not just thuggish, but cruel. He messes with your mind before, inevitably, winning in the end. Tabilo beat Novak Djokovic in Rome, which is supposed to be predictive. He took out Karen Khachanov before taking a set off Alexander Zverev in the semis. And, as a seeded player … loses in Paris to a qualifier, Zizou Bergs? Jarry reached the Rome final, beating Stefanos Tsitsipas along the way … and lost to highly talented but highly temperamental Corentin Moutet at Roland Garros?B) The difference between best-of-three and best-of-five matches can be akin to a difference in surface.
An underrated factor in the early rounds of these events is timing. There are so many matches, that it’s easy for results to get lost in the proverbial shuffle. Especially when there are tentpole events like Nadal-Zverev. Sometimes this is interpreted as fans or media “ignoring” certain players. It’s never intentional.
I saw the Fedal Louis Vuitton ad on YouTube. Touching and funny. “I can’t feel my ears!”. Got me thinking about their legacy not only as individuals but as Fedal. For me personally it’s the civility, respect and affability the players show each other. They fight like crazy to win a match and then the loser has to take that long walk over to shake hands with the winner. And most of the time they do so with grace.
And I’m ready to have a life that would be easier. I'm not going to say that I'm going to be a granny now, but I gave my all. I gave it my all and even more. So I deserve it. What I will miss and not miss are pretty much the same thing.
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