Roland Garros 2010: Day 5: Roddick v Kavcic

Now I’ve seen Duck Boy play a few times now at Wimbledon and have always been a bit meh about him – his attitude can suck bigtime (his meltdown and loss against Tipsy) and the lack of variation in his game at that time made watching him boring as hell!
Until last year and the Stepanki effect (sigh – Wimbly semi/final)… so I was curious to see what he was going to be like on clay – and was NOT disappointed. For someone who once upon a time had NO backhand to speak of – I was totally discombobulated to see him backhand slicing, coming to the net – dropping back – unreal!







That’s not to say Kavcic was outclassed – he took a set off Andy and there were some real flashes of brilliance – but just not consistent enough.
But … hey some more about that rain. The second bout was UNREAL! The clouds came over so fast and the brollies shot up – Roddick started to bitch and moan about the movement in the crowd – uh huh buddy – I’m gonna get double pneumonia for you? Just NO!
And it rained HARD! I was soaked through in seconds! And there was treally nothing you could do/go to get out… so I stayed put. Wet.
Mum came back from having been wandering with a hot dog. Not hot. Wet.
Getting the picture?
Note to self - next time the apartment-hotel offer you the loan of one of their umbrellas - freakin' TAKE IT! 'Cos let me tell y'all - a commuter-sized mini-brolly ... NO USE IN A DELUGE! Just sayin'.....

Then to our immense surprise – in a brief let up to light spitting – the guys came out to sweep the rain off the covers, and they were off!! Unreal – at Wimbledon the stroke the grass and sing it soothing songs and buy it a clotted cream tea before letting the players back on it… here … covers swept, covers off, players on – ALLEZ!





Well ok – actually – their weather cover states percentages of money back depending on how many hours of play. Over two hours – no euros back – so they had had 1 and a half before the rains came down – so play started up toute de suite!

Roddick came out very very much on the back foot at the restart. Those flashes of brilliance from Kavcic started to be a lot more consistent … hence the loss of that 2nd set – but again – the rain – and at this point we all decided that we’d had enough for the day!

Of course – sod’s law – by the time we’d walked back to the bus-station and gotten back to the hotel – the shower had passed and they were off again… I got a reminder from the RG iPhone app that Bartoli’s match was about to start!!! Ah well… I could live without Cakeoli!

I took my soggy self off to bed... ready for better weather à demain