{"id":15642,"date":"2019-06-06T15:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T19:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=15642"},"modified":"2019-06-06T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:04:07","slug":"roland-garros-friday-scheduling-is-an-embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/06\/06\/roland-garros-friday-scheduling-is-an-embarrassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Garros’ Friday Scheduling Is An Embarrassment"},"content":{"rendered":"

When rain washed out all of Wednesday\u2019s play at Roland Garros<\/a>, the schedule became very messy. Instead of Thursday being women\u2019s semi-finals day, fans were left with two men\u2019s and two women\u2019s quarter-finals. As a result, instead of Friday being reserved for two men\u2019s semi-finals, it will now include both women\u2019s last four matches with them still playing catch up. With these additional matches added to the schedule you would think Roland Garros would have made an effort to create some sort of fairness for the remaining eight players, but what they\u2019ve done is to many unacceptable and embarrassing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The women\u2019s semi-finals<\/a>, on paper at least, are perhaps the weakest we\u2019ve had at a Grand Slam for a very long time. They do feature world number eight Ashleigh Barty and the seeded Brit Johanna Konta, but the\u00a0the upcoming 19 year old Marketa Vondrousova<\/a> and 17 year old Amanda Anisimova<\/a>\u00a0not be well known to most tennis fans. Regardless of this all four women are in the semi-finals of a Grand Slam and deserve to have the spotlight on them, therefore playing on Philippe Chatrier, as originally scheduled.<\/span><\/p>\n

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