US OPEN 2015

Murray/Kyrgios round one BRING IT ON

From qualifying: battle of the ages, 16yo CiCi Bellis beat 44yo Kimiko Date-Krumm in the first round, 46 61 64. Poor Kimiko. That would've been a neat youngest vs oldest match except 15yo wild card Claire Liu, born in 2000, has caused quite the stir - wins over Cepede Royg and Cepelova, just Panova between her and the main draw. Thrilled to see 19yo Mayo Hibi and her 1HBH into the final Q round too. Meanwhile Taylor Townsend and Donna Vekic just keep falling - qualifying losses for both, Vekic stays out of the top 100 but Townsend is now firmly outside the top 250.

In the MD...I'm guessing Serena has her token scare against Lucic-Baroni in round 2? It's hard to predict against her getting that calendar year Slam. Hoping Bencic is her QF opponent, would like to see a rematch.

Sharapova hasn't played since Wimbledon and gets the feisty Gavrilova in round one, that's an upset special in the making.

Bouchard has beaten three players since March and has drawn two of them in her opening two rounds, what luck. Meanwhile Kerber has come into the last three Slams in terrific form only to be rinsed with her R3 draws - Muguruza at RG and Wim, Azarenka here. Speaking of Muguruza, also thinking that she'll fall to Witthoeft in R1.

Nadal/Coric round one! REPEAT YOUR WIN BORNA! Even if Rafa escapes that, a draw of Fognini, Raonic/Lopez and then Djokovic in the QF isn't going to halt his decline.

I keep forgetting Cilic is the defending champion but that's as soft a draw as you could ask for. Slumping Dimitrov, Ferrer who hasn't played in months, permanently injured Nishikori.

Ugh, Nedovyesov is just the kind of journeyman that Hewitt grinds out another ~heroic five-setter over before we're finally rid of him.

Kokkinakis/Gasquet round one is sort of the B version of Murray/Kyrgios.

Murray/Kyrgios round one BRING IT ON

High Drama! I don't even know which outcome I prefer!

Ugh. Looks like Karlovic has a walk thru at least to the 3rd round. How dull.

Digging Bencic lately. Like her game a lot. Flew under my radar for a long time I guess.

Murray/Kyrgios round one BRING IT ON

― lex pretend, Friday, August 28, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You don't skip a beat :-)

Can't wait

Maria's out

:(

Predictions. I made these before the Sharapova w/d!

(1) Serena Williams d. (29) Sloane Stephens
(15) Agnieszka Radwanska d. (19) Madison Keys
(12) Belinda Bencic d. (23) Venus Williams
(8) Karolina Pliskova d. (Q) Anett Kontaveit
Daria Gavrilova d. Kristina Mladenovic
Heather Watson d. (17) Elina Svitolina
(21) Jelena Jankovic d. Roberta Vinci
Dominika Cibulkova d. Polona Hercog
(32) Anna Karolina Schmiedlova d. (5) Petra Kvitova
(18) Andrea Petkovic d. Johanna Konta
(Q) Jelena Ostapenko d. Timea Babos
(4) Caroline Wozniacki d. (26) Flavia Pennetta
(6) Lucie Safarova d. Tsvetana Pironkova
(20) Victoria Azarenka d. (11) Angelique Kerber
Camila Giorgi d. Barbora Strycova
(2) Simona Halep d. (Q) Shelby Rogers

S.Williams d. A.Radwanska
Bencic d. Pliskova
Gavrilova d. Watson
Jankovic d. Cibulkova
Schmiedlova d. Petkovic
Wozniacki d. Ostapenko
Azarenka d. Safarova
Halep d. Giorgi

S.Williams d. Bencic
Gavrilova d. Jankovic
Wozniacki d. Schmiedlova
Azarenka d. Halep

S.Williams d. Gavrilova
Azarenka d. Wozniacki

S.Williams d. Azarenka

(1) Novak Djokovic d. Teymuraz Gabashvili
(14) David Goffin d. Jerzy Janowicz
Fernando Verdasco d. (WC) Mardy Fish
(8) Rafael Nadal d. Steve Johnson
Alexandr Dolgopolov d. Benoit Paire
(19) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga d. (16) Gael Monfils
(9) Marin Cilic d. (17) Grigor Dimitrov
(27) Jeremy Chardy d. Filip Krajinovic
(5) Stan Wawrinka d. (28) Jack Sock
(WC) Frances Tiafoe d. Ernests Gulbis
(Q) Andrey Rublev d. Benjamin Becker
(3) Andy Murray d. (30) Thomaz Bellucci
(6) Tomas Berdych d. Sam Querrey
(12) Richard Gasquet d. (24) Bernard Tomic
(21) Ivo Karlovic d. (13) John Isner
(2) Roger Federer d. (29) Philipp Kohlschreiber

Djokovic d. Goffin
Nadal d. Verdasco
Dolgopolov d. Tsonga
Cilic d. Chardy
Wawrinka d. Tiafoe
Murray d. Rublev
Berdych d. Gasquet
Federer d. Karlovic

Djokovic d. Nadal
Cilic d. Dolgopolov
Murray d. Wawrinka
Federer d. Berdych

Djokovic d. Cilic
Federer d. Murray

Djokovic d. Federer

kei out to paire is def a decent hedge if he still has any sort of injury concerns

I don't think tiafoe is ready to get that far but would like to be wrong abt that

Letting the basic broadcast online happily wash over me today (as I'm quite tired).

what are ppl using for streaming?

I'm just using the US Open site w/ the ESPN streaming.

Doesn't appear to be free across the pond - Lex?

rip nishikori, ivanovic

those were good lex upset picks, cibu looks back in good form & is gonna be a tough out theres no one in her section she couldn't beat imo

RIP kei, damn

i really hope lex had some money on that kei match

http://static.underthegunreview.net/2014/09/puig.jpg

keep getting a-frames in my head whenever i see raonic

already can't stand the coverage of this, record time espn kudos

First year I haven't had Sky Sports, watching on tiny screens via the Bet365 website :-(

dear god what is this opening ceremony gtfo diblasio

can isner pls come hit a 145 mi serve at josh groban

literally who is this for

like id ask for part of a refund back if i bought a ticket to this irl

sloane out, dolgo out

haider-maurer over pospisil 0/1 in 4th/5th set is kindof crazy what happened there

rip monfils

Tatishvili d. Pliskova 6-2 6-1

lol @ karolina

i really hope lex had some money on that kei match

― usic ally (k3vin k.), Monday, August 31, 2015 6:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup! also the CSN, Ivanovic and Kuznetsova upsets. Shocked that Pliskova lost to Tatishvili of all people. Six retirements on the men's side already?

Doesn't appear to be free across the pond - Lex?

― xyzzzz__, Monday, August 31, 2015 5:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we have Eurosport + this seems to be the new best streaming place - http://www.realstreamunited.com/tennis-live-streaming-video.html

Okay, settling in here, what to watch...

I need to move to a civilised country that allows me to easily bet on tennis - def wouldve had tsurenko/lepchenko today already and timia bacsinszky to get upset

it's surprising to me that the US doesn't have a fantasy sports tennis option.

Murray looked really bad but we've been through that early rounds dance with him before

yea kyrgios prob couldve won that match

Robson's collapse from 4-0 up in the third was kind of sad...her comeback is going very slowly. Bacsinszky losing wasn't a shock either, her good form seems to have evaporated post-Wimbledon. Surprised Muguruza didn't get upset though! She looked a mess in the warm-ups and Witthoeft was a tricky opponent.

Tiafoe was really impressive in patches, but Troicki unexpectedly kept it together.

Rublev needs to work on his returning, but that's pretty much his only major issue from what I can see. Best 17 year old since Rafa imvho

Thanks for the link Lex.

Rublev's temperament is...also a thing. Not necessarily a weakness but not always edifying either.

Dunno how much of this week I'll catch, on a press trip in Toronto

Kasatkina apparently winning that set with 0 winners

bertens up 5-3 on serena o_O

why can't i find a stream with commentary? US tennis coverage is the pits

wow serena takes the set in the tiebreak 7-5 on a forehand off the tape that just catches the line

bertens needs to continue to just get everything back and see what happens, serenas not playing v well

i watched the last 20 mins of that set on mute -- is it windy? serena can't serve for shit

rip bryan bros

tennis people are so corny man

Feliciano López ‏@feliciano_lopez 12 hours ago
Fair to say you @MardyFish were better player 2day but tennis is crazy sometimes.Pleasure playing u 2day and always.The very BEST in ur life

Aww.

Pretty wild how, despite his leg not working toward the end, Mardy able to position himself early so well and rip crazy winners. Sorry to see him go. One of the good ones, as they say. Go rip em up on the PowerShares Tour, dude!

~murray~

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/mardy-fish-us-open/

Great read. I never knew about Mardy's struggles.

damn kontaveit bagels brengle in 3d set to advance to play venus

loser of this genie/cibu match has to forsake their neon kicks

great first set.
simultaneously surprising and unsurprising that these 2 have never met before

Goffin retires with stomach flu that is apparently going around, Djokovic's draw becoming one of the easiest I can remember in recent times.

really admire Raonic for giving it his all down two sets with a bad back

i forgot who sands was for a sec but now that i remember she is terrible

so of course it will be who serena loses to

nah we've been through this with serena 20x this year

obv yea but idk

mr. mattek-sands is a huge dude

with a huge wad of tabaccy lol

serena would still have to be like what 50-1 to win this yea common pattern

or i mean beth would be those odds

tf is with this chick's hair

goodness, who could have seen this coming

serena dropping a set is just a favor to the usta for the buzz

fognini seems much more interested in blasting low-percentage winners than he does winning this match, but it's pretty entertaining nonetheless

super sick break just there

that point just there where he stood inside the baseline and ripped 3 straight 100 mph backhands without moving his feet was hilarious

this strikes me as the natural progression tho when 2 clay ct players meet on hard court and its best of 5

fognini has 43 winners and 40 UEs in 3.5 sets lmao

dude is out there just blasting away

hope fabio pushes this to 5th set

damn fab

^^

A+ net play from foggy all match

whoa, nadal has never lost up 2 sets?

50/42 winners/UEs for foggy now

fabio be steady crushing

the crowd gasps @ fabio 4hands is dramatic and expressive

sick dip from rafa

this match is so good

little gamesmanship from fab returning that long serve right back at nadal on break point

total brick of a game by foggy

yeah

jeez no one can hold

that serve looked wide

wow great touch

5 straight breaks i think?

damn fab cant close his service games

holy shit that pt

fab is hitting more errors than rafa is winners

wow @ this game

that swinging volley and then the drop volley...

lol 6 straight breaks

fognini to his credit has stuck to his game plan

jmac "thats not even possible"

holy shit

un fucking real

fognini seems much more interested in blasting low-percentage winners than he does winning this match, but it's pretty entertaining nonetheless

― usic ally (k3vin k.), Saturday, September 5, 2015 12:14 AM (1 hour ago)

fognini now will try to win the match

u mean no proceeds to dump another servize game

wow mp

foggy gotta use these challenges a little more wisely

epic comeback fab

what a match

jesus 70 winners

wow. To lose from two sets up as well..

that kerber drop shot to take 2nd set <3

some really sick tennis here

donald young is a fun player 2 root for ime

dunno what I've done to end up in my hotel room for all of Bouchard's victories so far, and then that amazing climax of the Kerber/Azarenka match that went the wrong way

That said I did catch the end of Cetkovska/Woz, hahahahahaha at Wozniacki's sour face after she went 2R, 2R, 4R, 2R in this year's Slams. You'll always have the Kuala Lumpur title Caroline.

Rafa! The decline is truly real. Not so much that he lost to Fognini but from two sets up...

Your last 16s!

(1) Serena Williams vs. (19) Madison Keys
(23) Venus Williams vs. (Q) Anett Kontaveit
Kristina Mladenovic vs. (13) Ekaterina Makarova
Roberta Vinci vs. (25) Eugenie Bouchard
(5) Petra Kvitova vs. (Q) Johanna Konta
(22) Samantha Stosur vs. (26) Flavia Pennetta
Varvara Lepchenko vs. (20) Victoria Azarenka
(24) Sabine Lisicki vs. (2) Simona Halep

(1) Novak Djokovic vs. (23) Roberto Bautista Agut
(18) Feliciano Lopez vs. (32) Fabio Fognini
Benoit Paire vs. (19) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
(9) Marin Cilic vs. (27) Jeremy Chardy
(5) Stan Wawrinka vs. Donald Young
(15) Kevin Anderson vs. (3) Andy Murray
(6) Tomas Berdych vs. (12) Richard Gasquet
(13) John Isner vs. (2) Roger Federer

beautiful stan bh down the line to win 3d set

halep chases down everythign

loving this match wow

been watching stan/young for about 20 mins now and i don't think i've seen a winner yet

yess 3rd set

really weird match. stan seems to be tanking points. young just aced him on an 84mph first serve

rip dy :(

anderson has three left feet

114mph second serve from anderson

murray down a set and a break...

:-(

two sets down - fkn hell man, against this wuss

wow that would have been a monster chokejob by anderson

there's still time. But Stan awaits so I don't know what kind of win this might be.

Murray broken in the 3rd

118mph second serve on break point, jesus

breaks back!!

for a dude who can't do anything really but serve this dude's second serve is a mess

This is a good match. I don't really care who wins, but they're scrapping. Agree that whoever goes through ought to be easy pickings for Stan.

Has Murray had a successful challenge yet? Seems like he keeps losing them and just making himself madder.

amazing how anderson gets away with standing in no-man's land after every serve. at least roddick had pretty good footwork

He can sort of reach all corners from there. But yes, he's not much of a mover.

omg @ anderson in this tiebreak

what a joke

murray's my fav player and i'm going to the men's final so u___u

on the bright side, you have a 0% chance of seeing anderson/isner

break pt down, isners drop volley hits and bounces back on his side of net O_O

FED

dare to say isner would not be down 2sets to 0 to anyone but roger (or novak maybe) playing like this

shame the crowd for gasquet/byrd is so sparse but it'd be cool if it went late and filled up after the fed match

so Isner finally got broken here!

fell asleep midway through the first Anderson/Murray set and sort of shocked Murray managed to lose to such a limited player who didn't seem to be treeing

Halep/Lisicki...lol @ Sabine's collapse, Halep showed good fighting spirit but god everything else in her game needs to be stepped up. She hasn't played Vika since she became good but I still don't think she'll win.

your QFS:

(1) Serena Williams vs. (23) Venus Williams
Kristina Mladenovic vs. Roberta Vinci
(5) Petra Kvitova vs. (26) Flavia Pennetta
(20) Victoria Azarenka vs. (2) Simona Halep

so nutty that Vinci and Pennetta do so disproportionately well here...third USO QF for Vinci (none at the other Slams), sixth for Pennetta (one at the other Slams). Neither of them have games that are any more suited to hard courts than anything else. Very kind draw for Mladenovic but she's improved a ton this year so I guess the Slam breakthrough was inevitable.

H2Hs:

Serena 15-11 Venus (9-8 on hard, 1-0 this year)
Mladenovic 0-0 Vinci
Kvitova 3-3 Pennetta (2-1 on hard)
Azarenka 2-0 Halep (both on hard)

going with Serena, Kiki, Flavia, Vika

(1) Novak Djokovic vs. (18) Feliciano Lopez
(19) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. (9) Marin Cilic
(5) Stan Wawrinka vs. (15) Kevin Anderson
(12) Richard Gasquet vs. (2) Roger Federer

Djokovic 5-0 Lopez (4-0 on hard)
Cilic 4-3 Tsonga (Tsonga 3-2 on hard, Cilic 1-0 this year)
Anderson 4-3 Wawrinka (3-3 on hard, Anderson 1-0 this year)
Federer 14-2 Gasquet (8-0 on hard, 1-0 this year)

Haha I'd forgotten about that Wawrinka/Anderson h2h, Anderson's won the last 4, all since Stan became a Slam champion. Wouldn't be shocked if it happened again, Stan pulled himself together well vs Young but he seems pretty in-and-out mentally...not the best against a servebot

Let's not forget Gasquet's perfect record in Slam QFs. It's only the sixteens he has trouble with. ;)

Vinci! First Slam SF at the age of 32. That match was shit to start with and got better and better - a bit sublime-to-ridiculous-and-back-again in the last set, that epic 3-3 game...Kiki was just out of gas by the end.

y'all heard a drone crashed into an empty section the other night, right?

The Sunday Times had an op piece lamenting the price of tickets. The writer's first name was Sloane.

I did not know that! I've been following the results but know none of the off-court talking pts bc I've been away

Well this match is turning crazy as it goes.

Tsonga looked like he was gonna totally flop at 4-5 but saved two MPs brilliantly, another at 5-6 and dominated the TB...he was def the better player in that set, it always felt like this would go 5

nice comeback here by tsonga

Cilic DFs on his fourth MP when serving for the match...

i think cilic can give novak some problems

please god no

His spirited defence of an unlikely Slam title is reminding me of Costa @ RG 2003. And it was a pretty soft draw to the QF but that was impressive an impressive performance indeed there

there's a weird sort of buzz on twitter for this match among people who don't usually pay that much attention to tennis

poor venus

only saw the first six games before I fell asleep, brilliant quality though

Glad we're heading towards a popcorn final - any of Vika, Petra and Simona should be good, a worthy final opponent for the Grand Slam

3rd set was mostly serving, and serena has the best serve in history when its working so

crazy that someone who is practically undefeated this year seems so shaky at these events, but Serena on her A-game is basically impossible to beat so yeah

only saw the first six games before I fell asleep, brilliant quality though

there was a pretty massive drop off in quality after the first half of the first set, so you didn't miss much

so tired of the dish network 'this is how we do it' ad

I legitimately only just realized those Heineken light ads offer an actual money back guarantee

made 0 sense anyways to play chang/mac v courier/fish before the qtrfinal so good - http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/articles/2015-09-09/earlier_start_for_mens_quarters.html?promo=media_wall

isn't there a roof now anyway

mm yes and no

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Okay what is happening here

ugh I'm so annoyed I didn't realise Halep/Azarenka resumed, that was great quality until the rain delay and I def did not expect a Halep win!

*continues to ignore Petra forever*

i forgot that Halep was capable of that level of aggressive tennis

such an important win for her, one of her best ever; too many times of late she's looked kind of helpless in her defeats

I read that this is the first Slam where all the women's QFs have gone three sets since the USO 1982.

roger is so ruthless

freakin' amazing

Federer/Wawrinka is pretty intriguing I think...they both looked brilliant in their QFs.

H2Hs:

Williams 4-0 Vinci (2-0 on hard, 1-0 this year)
Pennetta 3-1 Halep (1-1 on hard, Halep 1-0 this year)

Vinci has never taken a set off Serena and I think a similar 4 and 3 scoreline to Toronto the other week is her best case scenario. Pennetta beat Halep en route to her first SF here two years ago - the first Slam where Halep was really expected to go deep, and Halep's first week two appearance. If Halep comes back down to earth after the Azarenka heights or if the Halep of round 4 shows up, she'll be in trouble...

Djokovic 13-0 Cilic (9-0 on hard, 2-0 this year)
Federer 16-3 Wawrinka (11-0 on hard, 1-1 this year)

Wawrinka's h2hs against the elite are so lop-sided because they've been beating him for most of his career - credit to him that he's improved so much that his matches against them are real toss-ups now. Federer's net-charging tactic is a bit overrated by the commentators, brilliant that he's adding more dimensions to his game but he lost most of the ones I saw him try vs Gasquet. A lot of it is the fear tactic, players who fear what they perceive he's capable of at net and who then flop the pass, to me it's an opportunistic temporary tactic but something that most will cotton on to quickly. Rather like how Radwanska never repeated her receiving stance from the time she beat Sharapova here.

Pennetta gon' rue being so casual on that point for 5-1, I think

Or not! 5-1.

Halep has gone from the depths to the heights and back to the depths in her past three matches

This has a scoreLiNa written all over it. *cheerleading for 16 61 76*

OK this is p great from Flavia again.

Halep raised her level and then Pennetta PEAKED THE FUCK OUT OF HER MIND. She's on a mission

jeez

Did not expect it! Good stuff.

omg

!!!!!

19 of the last 21 points I think? I feel like she was 1-3 down, I blinked, and then it was 6-3

At this point I'd like to believe Halep isn't too lightweight to win a Slam but she's not offering a whole lot of evidence for that.

I think she's got a decent chance at the French

whoa Vinci, what a set. One in the eye for everyone who thought she was a joke SFist - would much rather watch this contrast than Serena against Sharapova or Mladenovic or Bouchard or whatever hard hitter

This third set!

bloody hell

Vinci. Point of the tournament

ITALIA

I guess you failed to predict the Vinci/Pennetta finals Lex. I'm disappointed.

Phew.

crazy

Bloody hell. Vinci's volleying was peaking in the last game, so appropriately. Can't believe that's how the Calendar Slam dream died

wtf

This is only Serena's 4th ever semifinals loss, vs. 25 semi-final wins. Out of 30 career singles semifinals, she has 21 titles

yanks, what channel is this on?

wtf squared

lol twitter so full of anti-drake tweets over this bc memeified concepts must be maintained at all costs

If this gets people REALLY hating Drake, at least some good will have come from this

Has this thread gone all Italians Do It Better or what?

serena charming and gracious as always in the post match presser

i heard vinci was 300-1 to win 0_0

espn showed a graphic tryna include it w/ miracle on ice, buster douglas, giants over pats idk some other crzy ones

Vinci was def not 300-1 to win lol, that was the announcer lying and fabricating. 7-1, iirc.

This loss really exemplifies why the Calendar Slam is different to four-in-a-row, it's why Serena's USO last year (zero top 10 opponents) is rated better than her Cincy title a couple of weeks ago (two top 10 opponents). It's just...the external mental pressure regardless of the actual level of tennis required.

On which note, Vinci has never been considered a choker. You can't be, in the 21st century with her game. Those two volleys in the last game, no one else on the tour can make, and Serena would have chased down their attempts and probably won the points.

First women's Slam final since 1979 without a top 20 player. Insane that they're two BFFs who've known each other since childhood. The 1999 RG girls' doubles champions!

novak is looking fierce

Awesome to have an all Italian slam final!

actually not really...wtf - just trying to process this.

Coming into this thread having watched almost nothing to point out that Lex actually predicted a Pennetta slam title a la Schiavone some years ago on one of these threads. As amazing as Vinci's win is, I'm definitely pulling for Flavia tomorrow.

This loss really exemplifies why the Calendar Slam is different to four-in-a-row, it's why Serena's USO last year (zero top 10 opponents) is rated better than her Cincy title a couple of weeks ago (two top 10 opponents). It's just...the external mental pressure regardless of the actual level of tennis required.

oh i think you're overplaying this aspect of it. serena easily could have lost in any of her 11 (!!) other three-setters in slams this year. she can't win every match, even if the sorry state of the tour makes it seem like it

And in another shocker oh wait. Novak through.

that's got to be the worst a defending champion had lost ever?

yea i was wondering abt that

gutsy hold from stan down 0-40 there

stan's imploding

and fed is in god mode

apparently martina hingis just won the mixed doubles finals and is playing in the women's doubles finals tmw? for some reason that makes me incredibly happy

this fed match is kinda w/e tho

Cilic was an embarrassment, 60 61 62 actually flatters him bc Novak was bored to tears in the third set, as was I

Stan/Fed is fun though pretty one-way right now

Schiavone, Pennetta, Vinci and Errani make quite a quadrumvirate of Italian tennis underdogs coming into their own as veterans.

Hey look it's Flavia and Roby in an Italian junior team in 1998

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COeiiEpWwAAtr3b.jpg

And with their girls' doubles trophies from RG '99...the Slam when it was Steffi who failed to win #22

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COpuM7TXAAAGEaO.jpg

so...fed/novak

well the semis have sucked

No, that was #22 for Steffi, Lex. The Hingis meltdown.

stan has zero heart, smh

xp of course, duh. For some reason I thought she got #22 at Wimbledon but must have blocked out the Davenport win.

11 games combined for the men's SF losers. The eternal question of which is better, the WTA's chaos or the ATP's NID deference

Vinci v Pennetta feels a bit like Myskina v Dementieva crossed with Schiavone's first Slam final. Childhood friends vibe x veteran Italian spirit. Hopefully the quality is more like the latter.

apparently martina hingis just won the mixed doubles finals and is playing in the women's doubles finals tmw? for some reason that makes me incredibly happy

otm & she won wimby too!

vinci was really cute/goofy in that post-win interview

just put the ball in the court and run

i watched a lot of the re-air just recently too -- serena fucked up more than i thought she had

obv

<q>Vinci was def not 300-1 to win lol, that was the announcer lying and fabricating. 7-1, iirc.</q>

For a few minutes, you could get 16-1 at Pinnacle.

The 300-1 quote could possibly be pre-tournament odds to win the whole thing? Which she hasn't done yet, obv.

gah bbcode sorry

Federer hasn't dropped a set since he turned 34.

Picking up now and Vinci-Pennetta on serve

Vinci survives a cpl of break points: 6-5

watching w/Italian commentary too. #ITALIA

TB

he slices from vinci's bh are straying away a bit: 4-2 Pennetta

Two SPs P

Only needs one

good match so far!

feeling poorly actually means I get to be awake for this - hadn't been able to watch any tennis at all this slam thanks to inconvenient time zones

all these gorgeous drop shots and volleys

yeah, want to see a 3rd set.

wow Pennetta just got everything back!!

that was a v nice point

nice at the net vinci then UE: 15-30. 2BPs

15-40

early break

fairly good match so far, albeit some nerves showing

hitting back with that one-handed backhand but then another UE vinci: 30-30

one bp for break back

fantastic stuff from P to keep her serve: 3-0

this is drifting to a conclusion fast :-(

thumping down the line for dbl break

there it is! 4-0

Pennetta has had more firepower at the odd moment.

And the 2nd set is looking like a step too far for Vinci

:/

They've both been playing well but Flavia has just been a bit more composed on the key moments

oh Roberta, that miss :(

manages to break back anyway!

Vinci gets a break back but surely too little too late

seeding doubts...4-2

Fantastic point by Flavia to serve one of these games out. One away..

0-30, come on Vinci make her serve for it

3 CPs

does it!!

Wanted to see this go three but Flavia is a badass and this is amazing

yup

love her and Vinci just laughing and chatting as they waited for this championship ceremony, friendliest final ever

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Flavia just retired, wow! What a way to go out.

Flavia announces her retirement in the speech!
that is beautiful

wow!!!

glad she is finishing the season at least

wow good 4 her :)

Flavia got her Schiavone moment :)

What a way to go out too, so happy for her. I feel like Roby was way happier to be runner-up than Flavia would have been.

i'm at the U.S. open rn and if anyone has the chance to watch a top-level wheelchair match, do it because it's amazing

nice!

rain doesnt matter to wheelchair players? its been a p light rain prob hasnt it?

so whens this shit start anyway

Right? You would think this would be on the home page of the U.S. Open site but no

Every year weather fuckery with the US Open

JUST START IT EARLIER

lol no the wheelchair matches were earlier.

they're finishing up drying the courts, between the national anthem (aloe blacc...) and warm ups play should start around 730

these utterly idiotic pre-match questions would drain half my energy

not looking great for fed here early

however hes looking great love the pink accents

remember when he used to wear like tuxedo tennis clothes lol that was so wack

ouch

good

really weird hard leftward stride w his rt foot there on the slip

ya hes usually so nimble

did they towel his skin off the court or

find the skin... find the skin

3 breaks!

the quality of play this set has not been very good

there is some combo of this hardct not being fast enough/rog not presently hitting clean enough whereby fed is going 2 have to try diff shit here

level much higher in this set

Federer no longer serving like a chump

for a few years(?) now, novak has def gone at rogers backhand

enormo swing that pt

ya wth

novak coming fwd is really sick

ugh

crazy intense game

that was dramatic. feels like a pretty even set but it's roger who's blown a bunch of chances

keep it down up there in the cheap (expensive) seats, k3vink

roger killin me

wow that second set was fantastic stuff

there it is

btw people who yell during someone's toss should be waterboarded

f yesssssss

yess / haha xp

*not to the waterboarding torture is bad imo

btw if u watch this on espn online there r no commercials p cool

petition for 50% fewer shorts of stoic celebrity coaches tho

tennis review system drives. me. nuts.

it's so efficient! compare it to like the NBA lol

they cld just play a beeping noise when the ball is out and get the call right 100% of the time the technology exists no review necessary no dumb ass animation no fallible humans no losing a point u shdve won even when u do win the review

bp save by djoko was great

god that scrambling

novak was made for this shit, so amazing

h8 u djokobitch

harsh

everyone hates djoko he is despicable.

couldnt be more impressed w him rn tho

lag∞n
Posted: September 13, 2015 at 6:56:52 PM
roger killin me

win a break point maybe wth

whats he eating dates

xp obv vs anyone else he would have, djoker has played most of those insanely well

seems like people mostly dislike him cos he's eastern european and has a weird face

his face is def bad, also the uniqlo

djoko plays good but roger straight up nerfed a bunch of breaks

hopefully it doesnt break down that rog loses cuz he chose to hit that weird reflex running overhead that was sailing out and then was broken

when i really started hates djoko tho is when i saw his terrible impressions of other players

obv personality wise roger is superior to every athlete ever p much

interesting both these guys earlier in their careers were somewhat combustable now theyre both so stoic

fed has been a unmitigated disaster at the net

you know who has had the best match out of anyone -- aside from one of the ball boys who's nonchalantly caught several 130mph errant burners -- is the chair umpire, she's made several overrules and has been right every time

yup

does fed play this aggressively against everyone now or djust djoker?

everyone

fuck this bullshit world

I like djokovic. Explain why I shouldn't.

hes bad

I want Roger to win this set tho

yea finally a killer volley @ net

prob too late

holy

almost

gdamn

Disclosure: Djokovic looks a little like (a younger more handsome more athletic smarter more well rounded idealized better version of) me

lol

rich too

novak has had a really incredible year, props

oh no I'm rich

sweet

saw the first set-and-a-half before falling asleep, felt a lot like the Wim final. Commentators fawning over Federer's surprise returns making me cringe now, can't even bring myself to acknowledge their name for it and knew that it wouldn't be successful against Djokovic a second time - it's a mental tactic more than anything else. Awesome year for Novak, feels routine at this point. RG is the question now...

I saw three sets and went to bed at 3am. I am thanking the gods for the existence of coffee..

It was closer than Wimbledon and the 'surprise return' was deployed every now and then - it did seem to seed bits of doubt in Djokovic. Overall it was quite a thing to see in a slam final, from someone like Federer who is thought as the height of elegance. He'll do what it takes, and we all know that.

Overall though it was a brilliant match - the way D answered some of that stuff from Fed (those remarkable back-to-back lobs), the 20-shot game where Novak held on for dear life and really was under the cosh for most of the 3rd set before - really almost out of nowhere - turning around with some magnificent tennis to break Fed's serve. Knew the game was up at the end of that.

btw people who yell during someone's toss should be waterboarded

― usic ally (k3vin k.), Monday, 14 September 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosign

Only criticism of Fed is he didn't seem to carry those kinds of tactics in the 1st set.

But its stil head-scratching how he can keep defying his age (all the questionable strength of the tour aside) and doing all of this. Maybe 35 year old slam champions will be the norm in 20 years.

Roll of honour:

Men's singles: Novak Djokovic
Women's singles: Flavia Pennetta
Men's doubles: Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Nicolas Mahut
Women's doubles: Martina Hingis & Sania Mirza
Mixed doubles: Martina Hingis & Leander Paes
Boys' singles: Taylor Harry Fritz
Girls' singles: Dalma Galfi
Boys' doubles: Felix Auger-Aliassime & Denis Shapovalov
Girls' doubles: Viktoria Kuzmova & Aleksandra Pospelova

Auger-Aliassime is the youngest player in the ATP top 1000, born in 2000...

New women's rankings...

1. Serena Williams (1)
2. Simona Halep (2)
3. Maria Sharapova (3)
4. Petra Kvitova (4)
5. Lucie Safarova (6)
6. Caroline Wozniacki (5)
7. Ana Ivanovic (7)
8. Flavia Pennetta (26)
9. Garbine Muguruza (9)
10. Karolina Pliskova (8)
11. Angelique Kerber (11)
12. Carla Suarez Navarro (10)
13. Timea Bacsinszky (14)
14. Agnieszka Radwanska (15)
15. Belinda Bencic (12)
16. Elina Svitolina (17)
17. Andrea Petkovic (18)
18. Madison Keys (19)
19. Roberta Vinci (43)
20. Ekaterina Makarova (13)
21. Sara Errani (16)
22. Samantha Stosur (22)
23. Victoria Azarenka (20)
24. Venus Williams (23)
25. Jelena Jankovic (21)
26. Eugenie Bouchard (25)
27. Sabine Lisicki (24)
28. Kristina Mladenovic (40)
29. Alize Cornet (27)
30. Irina-Camelia Begu (28)
...
33. Sloane Stephens (29)
58. Johanna Konta (97)
80. Bethanie Mattek-Sands (101)
96. Anett Kontaveit (152)
97. Aleksandra Krunic (65)
104. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (48)

I saw about 5 minutes of this in a bar last night. What has Robert Redford got on his head these days?

Also I bet Boris Becker still has awesome thighs.

great tourney imo

didn't know pennetta and fognini were dating/engaged, that's cool

anyone who missed the late nite fab/nadal match shd check out @ least the last few sets. I mean I saw it and I want to rewatch it

petition for 50% fewer shorts of stoic celebrity coaches tho

about two of you remember Becker as a player, right?

that's the one I most regret missing

New men's rankings...

1. Novak Djokovic (1)
2. Roger Federer (2)
3. Andy Murray (3)
4. Stan Wawrinka (5)
5. Tomas Berdych (6)
6. Kei Nishikori (4)
7. Rafael Nadal (8)
8. David Ferrer (7)
9. Milos Raonic (10)
10. Gilles Simon (11)
11. Richard Gasquet (12)
12. Kevin Anderson (14)
13. John Isner (13)
14. Marin Cilic (9)
15. David Goffin (15)
16. Feliciano Lopez (19)
17. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (18)
18. Ivo Karlovic (21)
19. Grigor Dimitrov (17)
20. Dominic Thiem (20)
21. Viktor Troicki (22)
22. Roberto Bautista Agut (23)
23. Bernard Tomic (24)
24. Gael Monfils (16)
25. Andreas Seppi (25)
26. Jeremy Chardy (27)
27. Tommy Robredo (26)
28. Fabio Fognini (32)
29. Jack Sock (28)
30. Thomaz Bellucci (30)
...
32. Benoit Paire (41)
42. Nick Kyrgios (37)
51. Donald Young (68)
92. Nicolas Almagro (114)

about two of you remember Becker as a player, right?

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, September 14, 2015 10:23 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um hello thats why hes a celebrity

Having congratulated myself at getting the kids to bed by 9:40, the rain delay totally ruined any chances I had of streaming this so I was left with fitful dreams in which Federer went 6-1 6-3 up, only to wreck his ankle stepping on a stray ball. Woke at 1:45am to see (through my ScoreFlash phone app only - no video) that Fed was still capable of walking, but actually a set down. Woke again around 3:15 to see Djokovic go a double-break up in set 4. Drifted in and out of sleep as Fed mounted his comeback. If he'd taken any of the bps in the last game I may well have sat up and tried to find a stream on the laptop, sleep be damned.

Looking fwd to the roof next year - though the USTA will probably go with 8pm local Monday night or something idiotic for the men's final.

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