Talk:1972 French Open – Men's singles

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Missing rounds?[edit]

per the itf page, this tournament draw list is missing the first two rounds. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:02, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And according to this article, Stanley Matthews Jr. knocked out Nastase in the second round before losing to Goven, but there is no mention of this in the article. Confused. - Dudesleeper talk 20:30, 1 January 2013 (UTC) - Dudesleeper talk 23:13, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Preliminary rounds[edit]

Per this discussion, I have added the missing 1st preliminary round and renamed rd 1 → 2nd preliminary round, and rds 2-4 → rds 1-3. I will be updating the players' timelines/infoboxes accordingly. As with qualifying, wins in the preliminary rounds will not be counted as part of players' win-loss records in the timelines. P#, e.g. P1, will be used in the players' timelines/infoboxes where necessary to represent these preliminary rounds, see also Template talk:Performance key#Preliminary rounds. The players with articles who lost in a preliminary round and needed this are as follows:

--Somnifuguist (talk) 23:24, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]