Mashed Potatoes
Posted by Brodie under: Justine, Masha, Roland Garros

Masha and Justine finished up their silliness today with a pretty unsurprising result. Justine took it 6-3.
The most surprising thing was the start. It looked like a continuation of the second set with Maria blasting and playing a more straight forward power game. She was up 0-2, 0-40 with Justine serving, got another break point at Ad, but couldn’t convert. Justine would take the game, break, hold, and then break again and that was pretty well it.
Not much to say. Crap conditions, and even crappier play. Justine was getting balls deep and Masha seemed like she was over compensating a bit and the forehand got hella wild. Still, the play from the other side of the net wasn’t exactly overwhelmingly kickass, but she definitely flipped it up another knotch after the first couple of games. She’ll take on Superhero Sam in the fourth round, which should be a hell of a match.
I was shocked that Masha started so strongly. She looked like she had the killer instinct. To be fair, she kept up the intensity through the set, IMO, but Justine is still more solid on clay I guess.
What do you think are Sam’s chances against Justine?
They’re on Lenglen so… low. Hopefully it’s a nice day out but I don’t think that’s gonna happen. She’s gonna have to be patient, keep the errors down big time. She might take a set. Actually have a hard time seeing anyone stopping Justine right now.
Actually there were a couple shots in that set before the momentum solidly turned in Justine’s favor, that Masha did not take her chances. It was specifically in an area inside the baseline in the middle, which Masha knew she should have jumped all over that for an approach shot. I really hope Masha spends a lot of time imitiating in the next few weeks how Fed hits that FH topspin approach shot. It will win you Wimbly.