It's May 15 and I slept with the heat on yestarday because it was 8ºC (46F). One month without playing tennis outside because of the cold. We were robbed.

It feels like it could have rained for three days non‑stop in Rome and the tennis tournament would still have wrapped up on the presumed date. They have built so much idle time between rounds that the schedule is now waterproof.

Roland Garros without the defending champion and with all these new guns rising will be chaotic. So bring the chaos.

6:3 my people

Why bother?

Landaluce will serve again: another marathon.

IN!???!!

Landaluce

Oh no, another dropshit from Andaluce.

Hard to believe Landaluce is a lucky loser in this tournament given the way he’s playing now.

Italy is always trendy. The latest thing is that if you are going to lose a match, a 6–0 is apparently in vogue.

It's impossible to have a tennis match in these conditions.

Is that a fog all over the courts in Rome?

So dark this court in Rome at night.

Svitolina closed the match with an unreturned serve, a shot that had long been considered her weakest point. And that to beat a fellow champion in Rome, the best server in the circuit.

Svitolina turned the whole match around and handled Rybakina’s power. It is not for nothing that she is a two‑time champion in Rome.

Slam Jr. titles in order Landaluce: USOpen'22 Blocx: AusOpen'23 Prizmic: Roland Garros'23 Fonseca: USOpen'23 Jódar: USOpen'24

After Jódar and Blockx in Madrid, Jódar and Landaluce reached QFs in Rome. Landaluce made QF in Miami too.

Rome will be the only Master in the year that Sinner will win without beating Zverev.

Zverev loses in 2026 Hurkacz (United Cup) Alcaraz (AusOpen) Kecmanovic (Acapulco) Sinner (Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Madrid) Cobolli (Munich) Darderi (Rome)

Easy job for Sir Andrew Baron Murray, since the player he is going to coach, Jack Draper, spends most of his time not playing because he is persistently injured.

Ladies and gentleman, Carlos Alcaraz decided to show his butt to Vanity Fair.

When Djokovic won all those matches, it didn't feel odd because: - he beat Nadal on clay; - he had strong opposition from Andy Murray on hard courts at the end of the year. Plus, he was challenging the supremacy of Federer and Nadal. Sinner is just cruising, which makes the whole thing pointless.

Medjedovic trolling the heckling Brazilian crowd after the win vs Fonseca

Rome OOP Tuesday 12th 5am Khachanov X Prizmic Musetti X Ruud 6:10 Jódar X Tien 7am Cirstea X Ostapenko 8am Darderi X Zverev 9am Sinner X Pellegrino Rublev X Basilashvili 11:30 Medjedovic X Landaluce 1pm Gauff X Andreeva 2:30 Tirante X Medvedev

What was supposed to be a big battle is going to be a 6-2, 6-2 win from Swiatek.

I’m here for the drama. #roma #swiatek #osaka #tennis

7th deuce between Navone and Medjedovic. It’s also torture, not only tennis.

Bartunkova looks younger than 20 years old.

Pellegrino X the winner of Sinner X Popyrin.

Ma che hai fatto Andre? 🤯 Pellegrino elimina il numero 22 del mondo e va ottavi di un Masters 1000 per la prima volta in carriera. Sfiderà il vincente tra Sinner e Popyrin 🔜 @BMWItalia | #IBI26

Na Li (AusOpen) and Flavia Pennetta (USOpen) retired right after winning a Slam. Marion Bartoli too, although not immediately after Wimbledon, but in Cincinnati, a little more than a month later. They all walked away from the money that comes with it and from the status of being Top 10 players.

The coffee is finally ready, and Fokina broke right back.

My coffee is not ready yet, and Fokina is already broken.

Monday 11 OOP Day 5am Cirstea X Nosková Bellucci X Landaluce Rublev X Fokina 6:30 Gauff X Jovic Kalinskaya X Ostapenko Tiafoe X Pellegrino Nakashima X Basilashvili 9am Svitolina X Bartunkova Mertens X Andreeva Sinner X Popyrin Navone X Medjedovic 10:30 Llamas Ruiz X Medvedev Pegula X Potapova

Well, the match point sums the whole match: Cerúndolo played better, but still lost because of the points like that.

Cerúndolo should have won this match already if he hadn't hit so many unforced errors in key points. And he keeps making silly mistakes, because he is clearly nervous on court.

Just saw now that Karen Khachanov is now with Wilson. He always was a Nike athlete since the beginning of his career.

Wondering here if Musetti will be able to finish this match.

I don't know about you, but my tennis feeds on Deck Blue seem dead. TennisSky is no longer showing my own posts. The last one in Tennis is from seven days ago. It looks like there was some kind of algorithm change that killed the feeds.

I wish umpires would start giving warnings to Francisco Cerúndolo for spitting on the court. It's disgusting.

d. Sönmez 6-4, 6-0 d. Masarova 6-0, 6-0

Svitolina 6-1, 6-2 Baptiste Pegula 6-0, 6-0 Masarova Osaka 6-1, 6-2 Shnaider These women are not kidding.

Musetti X Cerúndolo has just started.

Potapova went to #96 to #28 in three tournaments: F in Linz SF in Madrid R4 in Roma* (still playing) She went for almost playing the quali to be a seed in Roland Garros in a month.

Lucky loser Nikola Bartunkova into R4 after beating [17] Madison Keys. She'll meet [7] Svitolina. +29 —> #65, a career high for the 20 yo Czech.

Dino Prižmić +11 —> #68, a career high after reaching R4 in Roma by beating #57 Fucsovics, [3] Djokovic and [31] Humbert as a qualifier. He defeated #166 Rodesch and #344 [Q] Bondioli in the quali. Next up: [13] Khachanov or #54 Botic van de Zandschulp. Good look to who draw him in Roland Garros.

Sunday May 10 5am Svitolina X Baptiste Keys X Bartunkova Ruud X Lehecka 7am Samsonova X Potapova Pegula X Masarova Humbert X Prizmic Blockx X Zverev 9am Musetti X Cerúndolo Osaka X Shnaider Kachanov X van de Zandschulp 11am Eala X Rybakina 2pm Cocciaretto X Swiatek 4pm Arnaldi X Jódar

Seeds who lost their first match in Roma: [3] Djokovic [4] Aliassime [5] Shelton [6] de Miñaur [14] Vacherot (withdrew) [15] Fils (retired) [17] Norrie [22] Rinderknech (withdrew) [24] Etcheverry [26] Mensik [27] Fonseca [28] Moutet [29] Griekspoor