Speaking of good serving...
Before Madrid and despite his recent losing streak, Rublev was tied with Dimitrov and Hurkacz in service games won % in 2024 - behind only Sinner. It's his return % that has been awful this season - but not this week.

Rublev now 13-0 against Spanish players on clay courts
(tour level matches)

Смотрите-ка, Sofya Tartakova, Андрей услышал вас и накинул толстовку, а не остался мёрзнуть в футболке)

Though other mathematical possibilities still exist, the main questions regarding Roland Garros seedings on the men's side are:
- does Tsitsipas hold on to #8 thus avoiding potential Zverev/Ruud v Tsitsipas 4R clash?
- does Rune hold on to #12 thus avoiding meeting Top 4 in 4R?

Now that we were denied it in Madrid, the FFT has a moral obligation to rig the Roland Garros draw so that Meddy and Rafa meet in the first round on Chatrier.

Lehecka sitting through the endless speeches in Spanish:

Korda/Thompson straightsetted Bopanna/Ebden in the biggest upset of the day
The other singles teams were pretty much steamrolled. Meddy in particular produced arguably the worst doubles performance ever - and I'm only slightly exaggerating 😭 Seriously, he was unspeakably bad 💀

Shocking development 😂

I appreciate the effort (and not beeping any of expletives, welp) but the translation is mostly off 😭

In the first two 'singles specialists vs doubles specialists' match-ups in Madrid:
Karatsev/Zhang beat Gonzalez/Roger-Vasselin
Hassan/Shelbayh beat Dodig/Krajicek

Medvedev at biggest clay court tournaments:

Rio 500 - never played
Monte Carlo 1000 - SF
Barcelona 500 - RU
Madrid 1000 - QF*
Rome 1000 - WON
Roland Garros - QF
Hamburg 500 - 2R

5-3 vs Top 10
7-5 vs Top 20

Bublik to his box, in the 2nd set: 'Usually I boil (sic!) my opponents. Today I am the one being boiled.' (Also said it to Medvedev after handshake.)
And Meddy said to Bublik he was fed up and dead tired with his relentless dropshotting in the end.

What a fascinating tactical encounter Meddy/Bublik turned out to be! By far the best and -- what is the word I'm looking for? -- most substantial game-wise of all their matches. OF COURSE it had to happen on CLAY! 😂

Doubles order of play tomorrow in Madrid 😭

Tennis: We need to expand our audience, attract casual fans, embrace new means of communication, and generate more viral content.

Also tennis:

10 out of 10 tournaments in 2024 with back-to-back match wins.

Sets won-lost by Medvedev in his last 35 matches against 🇺🇸 players:

6-8 vs Korda
69-8 vs all other 🇺🇸 players