Geneva and Lyon Open tournamnts

These two are the final two Clay court tournaments before Roland Garros.

GENEVA TOURNAMENT  

ROUND 2

Top Half of the draw

1    Danill Medvedev                 vs    Richard Gasquet

Kamil Majchrzak                       vs    Marco Cecchiato

3    Denis Shapovalov                vs     Ilya Ivashka

5    Nikoloz Basilashvili            vs     Joao Sousa

Bottom Half of the Draw

Tallon Griekspoor                      vs    Leandro Reidi/Johan Nikles

4    Reilly Opelka                       vs    Christopher O'Connell

7    Federico Delbonis                vs    Thanasi Kokkinakis

2    Casper Ruud                        vs     Benoit Paire

LYON TOURNAMENT

ROUND 2

Top Half of the Draw

1     Cameron Norrie                 vs         Francisco Cerundolo

7     Sebastian Baez                   vs        Oscar Otte

3     Gael Monfils                      vs         Manual  Guinard

Adrian Mannarino                    vs         Holger Rune

Bottom Half of the Draw

Yosuke Watanuki                     vs          Soonwoo Kwon

4    Alex de Minaur                  vs           Ugo  Humbert 

5    Karen Khachanov               vs          Alex Molcan

2    Pablo Carreo-Busta              vs          Federico Coria       

GENEVA TOURNAMENT

QUARTERFINALS

Top Half of the draw

Richard Gasquet                         vs         Kamil Majchrzak

Ilya Ivashka                                vs          Joao Sousa

Bottom Half of the Draw

4    Reilly Opelka                       vs          Tallon Griekspoor

2    Casper Ruud                        vs           Thanasi Kokkinakis

LYON TOURNAMENT

QUARTERFINALS

Top Half of the Draw

1     Cameron Norrie                 vs         7     Sebastian Baez

Manual  Guinard                      vs         Holger Rune

Bottom Half of the Draw

4    Alex de Minaur                  vs            Yosuke Watanuki  

Federico Coria                         vs             Alex Molcan        

After an absence of more than a month  from tennis due to injury Medvedev ried to start a comeback in Geneva and his performance was shockingly bad.     His serving was shockingly poor - making strings of double faults  and the accuracy has gone out of his game.     He is not a good clay court player anyway  and that is going to present a problem in the bottom half of the draw leaving it wide open.   

We will know by Friday what the main draw would look like in the Roland Garros  Tournamentbut Medvedev is in my opinion not really a contender to win the tournament and will be extremely lucky to reach the quarterfinals.         

What is going on here?   In the Geneva Tournament there are only  2 seeded players remaining out of the 8 quarterfinalists  with no seeded  players in the top half of the draw and the two seeds at best could meet each other in the semi.  

In the case of the Lyons Tournament  the situation is lightly better with 3 of the 8 seeds reaching the quarterfinals with 2 of those playing each other in the quarterfinals.  After that there 

It seems to me that  most of the  16 seeded players in both tournaments saw these two tournaments as just training exercises before decamping to Paris for Roland Garros starting on Monday .     

GENEVA TOURNAMENT

SEMIFINALS

Richard Gasquet                         vs          Joao Sousa

2    Casper Ruud                        vs           4    Reilly Opelka

LYON TOURNAMENT

SEMIFINALS

1     Cameron Norrie                 vs         Holger Rune

4    Alex de Minaur                  vs          Alex Molcan   

GENEVA TOURNAMENT

FINAL - GENEVA

2    Casper Ruud                        vs          Joao Sousa          

FINAL  - LYON

1     Cameron Norrie                 vs         Holger Rune  -   Alex Molcan  

Congrats to Ruud and Norrie in winning the two tournaments.    .