This isn't filling me with confidence. She's a little too impatient, because Svitolina is retrieving everything. Serve isn't working either. We are still safely in the trenches.

It's past 10 pm local time and they're doing a random concert?

Best match Coco has played on clay this season. She's coming for her things.

This cheap Windows 95 like sound they're doing at break points has got to be annoying. I thought it was on the broadcast, but nope on the court.

Coco's playing incredibly well.

Sinner's cruising so much that Rublev breaking his serve once is news.

Stadio Olympico next door finished their football match and started fireworks, so naturally there's a smoke delay at Campo Centrale. Tennis keeps clowning itself.

Just noticed from the umpires announcing scores here in Rome that they use 'conducce' in Italian to indicate who is leading in the score. That's just perfect for when someone is driving away with the match.

Hope is a very dangerous thing.

I would lose the will to live after a match like this. The Great Wall of Coco is a psychological test as well as a physical one.

Mark Petchy(?) talking about Basilashvili being like the Dominican Republic "great for 7 days, but not year around." Very colonizer vibes and all around yuck.

That falling back forehand dtl she just hit that spun in on the sideline? Don't give me hopes, girl.

Djokovic in his Swiatek era.

Broken serving for the match. Here we go . . .

Roig ruptured his Achilles tendon???

"Words were insufficient for the elevation of his feelings, and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences." Why don't people write like this anymore?

Peach-perfect 📸 #IBI26

Carlitos (via IG dump) is giving such a baby brother energy here.

That despicable man thinking he is at the same level as Carlitos and the anti-vaxxer, hahahahaha, he should quit tennis and try standup.

Kostyuk has completely gone away now. Neither of these two is beating the petulant child, let's be real.

Just hand the trophy to Screamy. All the trophies at this point, and cancel tennis.

I've never seen Kostyuk play this well consistently throughout a match. Pace, depth, movement, all stellar. Serve is a bit shaky, but she's finding the bog serves when she needs them. Pegula hasn't found her backhand at all today.

Forgot how hilarious it is to watch a PliskoBot match. It's a wonder she won as much as she did.

Broken first up. So many backhand errors and all due to footwork. Oh Iga.

Matthew McConaughey in a Park Chan-Wook movie before Choi Woo-Shik is criminal.

McNally is playing a very clean match, serving well, defending incredibly, changing pace and direction, including slices and dropshots. Mboko has not adapted to clay yet in her first match of the season on clay, trying to accelerate too early, and arriving a tad late to her groundstrokes.

That sucks for Carlitos. Really hope it's not carreer threatening. Between this and whatever Iga is doing, let's cancel the clay season.

Buse vs Fils was highly entertaining. Well done, lads.

Serve still a mess, shots flying to the moon, and Iga is promptly down 0-40 in her opening service game of set 2.

Every service set up for public benefit is being dismantled and being treated like it's a business.

Rybakina is slicing and drop-shotting now. It's truly over for everybody.

At least she's not bashing anymore in this match. The inability to put away balls at the net continues to be a problem. I did like that one loopy forehand off a short ball for one of those game points.

Great, now Iga is going to think she might beat Ostapenko. Thanks for feeding the delusion, Muchova.

I'm almost at the end of Chapter 9 of 13 and yet have no idea what 'Audition' by Katie Kitamura is about . . .

Physician May Chinn was born 130 years ago today. In 1926 she was the 1st Black woman to graduate from Bellevue, but then spent 14 years looking for a hospital that would allow her full practicing privileges on account of her race, practicing privately until she found a cancer research position. ⚕️

Carlitos up a break in the 2nd is content to wait for Sinner errors and that's going about as well as you would expect.

The skill and coordination it takes for Carlitos to return the dropshot for another one with such soft touch and precision that it bounces twice before Bublik could get to it. 🤌🏾

Berretini double bagels Medvedev on clay?? I can't tell which word in that statement is the wildest . . .

I finally solved the mystery of who made random cuts off my spare bedspread. Trungelliti has made a shirt out of it.

@jewellislate.bsky.social Have you read Yellowface? If not, it's so crazy that I think you'll like it. The POV is an unreliable narrator and reminds of the Agatha Christie short story 'Absent in the Spring'.

Anisimova is going to hire Fissette, isn't she?

So we're looking at a sunshine quadruple . . .

Oh my... I turned it off at 2-5 in the TB. FILS!!

Lehecka wins the battle of the ultra aggressive game styles. Landaluce has lots to build on. Still only 20.

Loving Coco's use of dropshots today.

Landaluce!

"The rest of my team remains unchanged." Saddest line in tennis right now.

The forehand slice from Landaluce was nuts. Vaguely remember watching this kid at Junior Wimbledon.

Good on Korda. He was returning like a mad man today, and Carlitos felt pressured on serve throughout the match.

I want to see how they match up if they both play well in this 3rd set.