Yikes.....Americans getting crushed at the French Open......

[a kennedy]

https://federalnewsradio.com/sports-news/2017/06/french-open-how-americans-fared-2/

[Freedomofspeech]

1. It's all that bad Karma coming from Washington DC.

[shenmue]

5. Le Trump, le stink

[tazkcmo]

2. Crushed?

I prefer mine freshly squeezed.

[spooky3]

3. Clay is not their best surface. The only real surprise

Is Jack Sock's first round loss.

[joeybee12]

4. I'm surprised Isner

Is doing well. He's a hard court only guy. Maybe not after this.

[spooky3]

6. Actually, he's said that he likes clay, because

he has more time to get to his opponents' shots.

[joeybee12]

7. Well, he's out

He's a serve and volleyer. Clay slows down his shots and he really doesn't have a game to slug it out.

[spooky3]

9. He doesn't come to the net often. I would not call him a

serve and volleyer.

On edit: neither would John McEnroe.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/jun/23/wimbledon-2012-john-mcenroe-serve-volley

John can't compete with the people who are best on clay because he's not fast and agile enough, either for the baseline rallies or to come to the net. But the point is that he himself noted he likes it/plays on it better than you would expect for someone with that good of a serve.

[a kennedy]

8. Venus plays today.....hope she can pull out a win.

Keeping fingers crossed. Happy Caroline won.

[spooky3]

10. Go Venus!

[Iggo]

11. If it's not the Olympics or the Davis or Fed Cup, it doesn't matter what countries they're from.

It's just tennis, man.

[a kennedy]

12. and shoot.....spoiler

Venus just lost.