“I’m just so surprised and angry that, you know, we have to play in the rain”, Radwanska told the media.
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“I mean, it’s not a 10,000 tournament, it’s a Grand Slam”, said Radwanska, referring to the lowest-level event in profession tennis.
Pironkova advanced to her third career Grand Slam quarterfinal after reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon in 2010 and making it to quarters at the All England Club the next year. And to play tennis matches during the rain, I think it’s a bit too much … “They really don’t care what we think”. I think they care about other things, I guess.
“I can not comment about the conditions”.
“I think she came on court and she had nothing to lose”, said the world number two. The Polish player had treatment for an arm injury and lost 10 consecutive games on the way to a 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 defeat to Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria, ranked 102 in the world.
Radwanska concluded, according to ESPN: “So, well, I’m just pissed. We have played in all sorts of conditions”, Pironkova said.
“I know what it feels like out there and I know it was raining for the first time we went out today, but the court was okay for the most part”.
A match that lasted just two hours and 12 minutes on court finally finished on Monday, nearly 46 hours after it had started on Sunday.
“[It’s] not our fault”. She doesn’t face the absolute toughest players on the WTA Tour.
The more dramatic reversal came on Court Suzanne Lenglen, where second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska led 102nd-ranked Tsvetana Pironkova, 6-2, 3-0, when play was halted on Sunday.
Pironkova, renowned as a unsafe player on grass and other fast surfaces, won the first 10 games either side of another lengthy rain delay and eventually ran out a 2-6 6-3 6-3 victor.
There were stretches where action proceeded despite drops falling.
Both the rain and the cold played their part, and after a solid opening set on Monday, Radwanska started making mistakes from the baseline she usually never makes on Tuesday. The players who played the day after the washout which is on Tuesday did not appreciate the organizers’ decision to push through the plays even with a damp weather. If it gets too wet you’ve got to say something. “It’s not good out there, but it was fine for us”.
AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA: “Yeah, well, also in the morning, like, the second set it was – we play pretty much in the rain”.
And it was built on a blistering start on Tuesday, when Stosur took out her frustrations of a two-day rain delay on the world No.6.
Q. This might seem like a stupid question, but when the rain is coming down like that and the conditions are like that, how does that affect play for you?
Only four of the top 11 seeded players remain in the women’s tournament: No. 1 Serena Williams, No. 4 Garbine Muguruza, No. 8 Timea Bacsinszky and No. 9 Venus Williams.
But the matches that did get completed were huge upsets and the women’s singles bracket is going to look a whole lot different going into the quarterfinals.
Djokovic was leading 4-1 in the third when they were interrupted for good Tuesday, along with the other men’s fourth-round matches: Tomas Berdych vs. David Ferrer, David Goffin vs. Ernests Gulbis, and Dominic Thiem vs. Marcel Granollers.
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Australian Stosur trailed 2014 French Open runner-up Simona Halep 5-3 when their contest was halted on Sunday, but the 21st seed broke the Romanian as she tried to serve out the first set on Tuesday before racing through the tie-break.
