PARIS — It’s Wednesday, which means mailbag day…so let’s do some quick Q/A.
But first, here’s my conversation with Lindsay Davenport on the Beyond the Baseline podcast.
Jon,
I’ve been finishing a project at work and have only seen a little bit of the French Open. What do I need to know so far?
—Mark T., Columbus, Ohio
• Well….in 10 nursery rhyme sentences:
Rafael Nadal has set an impossible bar;
With grandma in the backseat, Marco Trungellitti had to drive far,
Serena Williams played in the suit of a cat;
The defending women’s champ has already gone splat
Zopp beat Sock in a match, onomatopoetic
Djokovic looked solid, and in no way splenetic
“Lucky loser” is a cruel designation
But it’s a subset with an abnormally large population
Sharapova can fight—that we all knew
No major upsets, we’re on to round two….