Sunday 15 May 2022

The final lap to Roland Garros ATP 250, WTA 250


 Gonet Geneva Open ATP 250
Tennis Club de Geneve
Geneva, Switzerland
May 15-21, 2022


Open Parc Auvergne-Rhone Alpes Lyon ATP250
Velodrome Georges Preveral
Lyon, France
May 15-21


Internationaux de Strasbourg WTA 250
Tennis Club de Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
May 15-21, 2022


Grand Prix Sar La Princesse Lalla Meryem WTA 250
Club des Cheminots
Rabat, Morocco
May 15-21, 2022


The Hills are alive in Switzerland.....Field of Alpine flowers 


Congratulations to the BNP Paribas Italian Champions -

ATP Singles    -  Novak Djokovic
ATP Doubles   - Nikola Mektic / Mate Pavic

WTA Singles   - Iga Swiatek
WTA Doubles  - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova / Veronika Kudermetova

The final sprint to Roland Garros will play out this week. Story lines as to who will lift that RG trophy abound.  Clear favorites have emerged for the Roland Garros slam.  Obvious ones are Iga Swiatek WTA and Carlos Alcatraz ATP.   Let's see who and what we have in this final go round.....


Gonet Geneva Open ATP 250
Geneva, Switzerland

Lake Lemon, Geneva

Surface:  clay

Draw:  Singles 28, Doubles 16

Tennis returned to Geneva in 2015 for the first time since 1991. The venue, Tennis Club de Geneve, is the oldest and largest tennis club in Switzerland.

Defending Champion:  Casper Ruud (vs Denis Shapovalov)

Most titles:  Stan Wawrinka won the tourney in 2016 and 2017. Swiss players have won it four times.
Seeded players (in order of seeding) Daniil Medvedev, Casper Ruud, Denis Shapovalov, Reilly Opelka, Nikoloz Basilashvili, Tommy Paul, Federico Delbonis, Alexander Bublik

The top four seeds receive a bye for the first round.

Other notables include: Fabio Fognini, Richard Gasquet, Dominic Thiem

Wildcards:  Swiss player Leandro Riedi, plus Ricardas Berankis and Danill Medvedev. (This marks Medvedev’s return after surgery.)

Withdrawals include: Roberto Bautista Agut, Laslo Djere, Marton Fucsovics, Mackenzie McDonald, Jan-Lennard Struff



Open Parc Auvergne-Rhone Alpes ATP 250
Lyon, France

The real capitol of French food - Lyon, France


Surface: Clay

Draw : Singles 28, Doubles 16

Lyon returned to the calendar as a clay-court tournament in 2017. Benoit Paire and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga have won two of the last four editions.

2021 Champion: Stefanos Tsitsipas (vs Cameron Norrie)

Seeds (in order of seeding): Cameron Norrie, Pablo Carreno Busta, Gael Monfils, Alex de Minaur, Karen Khachanov, Aslan Karatsev, Sebastian Baez, Pedro Martinez

The four top seeds receive a first-round bye.

Other notables include: Soonwoo Kwon, Adrian Mannarino, Arthur Rinderknech, Holger Rune

Withdrawals include: David Goffin, Dusan Lajovic, Lorenzo Musetti, Jiri Vesely


Internationaux de Strasbourg WtA 250
Strasbourg, France

La Petite France - Strasbourg, France

Surface: Clay

Draw: Singles 32, Doubles 16

2021 Champion: Barbora Krejcikova (defeated Sorana Cirstea) this was Krejcikova’s first singles title after achieving considerable success as a doubles player. 

Seeds (in order of seeding): Karolina Pliskova, Angelique Kerber, Sorana Cirstea, Elise Mertens, Zhang Shuai, Sloane Stephens, Magda Linette, Viktorija Golubic

Wildcards: French player Carole Monnet, plus Angelique Kerber, Karolina Pliskova, Samantha Stosur

Withdrawals: You would expect a lot of withdrawals from a tourney in the week before RG, but there have been a whopping 15. They include last year’s champ Barbora Krejcikova, Jelena Ostapenko, Katerina Siniakova, Clara Tauson, Jil Teichmann


Grand Prix Sar La Princesse Lalla Meryem WTA 250
Rabat, Morocco

The Big Mosque, Casablanca

Surface : Clay

Draw : Singles 32, Doubles 16

The tournament has been held in Rabat since 2016. It is the only WTA tournament taking place in Africa. 

2019 Champion: Maria Sakkari (defeated Johanna Konta)

Seeds (in order of seeding): Garbine Muguruza, Ajla Tomljanovic, Nuria Parrizaz Diaz, Mayar Sherif, Anna Bondar, Arantxa Rus, Anna Kalinskaya, Rebecca Peterson

Wildcards: Petra Marcinko, Garbine Muguruza, Lulu Sun

Withdrawals include: Ann Li, Yulia Putintseva, Laura Siegemund


Thank you Missy Hartt




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