On the Mailbag, Gill Gross responds to your comments about Round 1 action at Roland Garros 2025. We discuss Francisco Cerundolo's surprise defeat to Gabrielle Diallo, where the ideal retirement ceremony for Novak Djokovic would be, 4-seed Taylor Fritz losing to Daniel Altmaier, how to beat Carlos Alcaraz on clay based on the Djokovic Olympics Strategy, thoughts on getting hate for predictions, Sebastian Baez's confounding results, why RG won't use ELC, has Alexander Zverev ever played as well as he did at French Open 2022, which Big 4 member would be the best at doubles and coverage of the tournament on TNT. In the notebook dump, we hit on Joao Fonseca's blowout win over Hubert Hurkacz, Djokovic's opening round victory and comments on his scheduling, Daniil Medvedev's exit at the hands of Cameron Norrie, how Paula Badosa beat Naomi Osaka and Ben Shelton's insane stats at major tournaments.
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