2019 US OPEN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_Singles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_Singles

fed/nagal rd 1

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/felix-auger-aliassime-is-trying-to-stay-calm

also was a ny mag venus piece

USTA is a rent scofflaw

fuck this elitist sport

keep an open mind

and an open wallet

i knew of the h2h serena/sharapova (19-2 williams) but im surprised this is their 1st meeting @ the us open

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/billie-jean-king-tennis-center-owes-city-rent-20190822-namnyiptyrborhvruh6gufmcdm-story.html

wild, nagal isnt playing scared & fed looks not in sync; 1st set nagal

swiss splitscreen, stan survives 18 yr old jannik sinner whos burst into the next gen group

I see 16yo wildcard Zachary Svajda (ranked 1400+) eventually fell in 4.5 hours to Lorenzi after being two sets up (Lorenzi being a LL replacement for Anderson). I remember teenage Murray and Edberg suffering similar reversals in their early Slam appearances. Character building, yada yada.

https://www.usopen.org/images/pics/large/b_USTA1167165_20190826_USO_D1_AO2_0457.jpg

tsitsy, bautista agut & thiem all knocked out~

these belorussians are just screaming at each other

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDB4RgDXkAI9raK?format=jpg&name=small

dzumhur the chunterer

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/aug/28/roger-federer-damir-dzumhur-us-open

londero giving a compromised novak all he wants

Fed had already got over the hump when I tuned in - up 3-6 6-2 3-0 and threatening a double-break. Dzumhur was pretty good from then on. Courier and McEnroe discussing Slam totals, and the usual talking point about no-one playing Australia in '70s/'80s, the pre-Open era, yada yada. JC: "How many would you have won if everyone had committed to all four Slams?" JMcE: "Er, 26!" He later said "I'd have hoped to make the teens." So, er, six straight Aussie titles from '78, yeah? Or a re-imagined career in which he didn't drop out for half of '86.

So it just sort of... drizzled all day in NYC? About ten points total played across the each of the uncovered courts.

p damp all day, some harder rain but basically no chance for cts to dry at all; full card tday

Halep-Townshend is a cracker. Pretty conflicted here. Want Simona to stick around but got to love a net-rushing leftie. Townshend just let 2MPs slide by.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDK1jGYXYAEMvKK?format=png&name=large

Ha!

cori gauff was born in 2004 ffs

Then Cori Gauff is almost exactly 50 years younger than I am. I don't envy him for that. I've gotten full value for punching my ticket in 1954.

https://e1.365dm.com/19/07/768x432/skysports-cori-gauff-tennis_4709756.jpg?20190704144639

weird to see fed playing a match @ noon

I don't envy him her for that.

fixed

feli vs medvedev is already p wild

meds wins the 3rd set tiebreak getting to a great feli drop shot

medvedev is really showing some mettle - crowd is 95% against him (which i think he thrives on tbh) & feli is playing well

love these older guys just competing tooth and nail, lorenzi earlier was an inspiration also

assuming it happens, medvedev/djokovic in the qtrs is going to be absolutely phenomenal

I fuckin love kyrgios man

and my other favorite player, monfils, is poised to win his third round match

lefty german quallie domi koepfer takes the 1st set off medvedev!

after meds hard court run this truly will be a cruel summer if he goes out to this guy

This guy's playing fantastic though

Trouble with the Underdog taking out the Form-Player ahead of Form-Player's shot at the Champ, is that Underdog gets stomped by Champ and no one goes home happy. Curren-Lewis '83 left an impression on me :)

One more time, Stan.

still think we're ~90% likely to get med/novak; medvedev is gonna get thru this guy, and while ill be rooting stan, its too big an ask; i havent been overly impressed w stans level the first 3 rds, he'd have to really level up

stan is still super solid, hes pushing novak back early on here & just broke

novaks style allows his opponents to look and play well, ive been thinking and noticing that this whole tourney; stan needs to keep gettting free pts on his serve

stans backhand is beautiful & on point

wow novak retirement

helluva job by stanimal

what the!!

looking good for Roger now eh

Curren-Lewis '83 left an impression on me :)

MJ you are a traet. (There are highlights of this match on YT, I'm watching now)

Holy shit Stan!!

This is great too btw:

Medvedev 2, US Open crowd 0 pic.twitter.com/mKNngZFik5

— Charles Jabaley (@Charles_Jabaley) September 2, 2019

Michael - are you watching the US open through amazon?

I am. Though work, domestic life and, y'know, sleep gets in the way of much of it. Most I've seen so far was Townsend vs Halep.

Great news to wake up to. Skipping through the replay now while I work on other laptop.

And Medvedev is something else.

Cool. I was hoping there were illegal means. Dying to see Stan - Medvedev.

There must be dubious streams out there. I watched (some) of every US Open men's final from 2008-16 without any TennisTV/Eurosport subscription... I think Delpo vs Fed in '09 was 320x240 resolution and about 5min behind live :) Great days. I didn't go anywhere near this corresponding thread for Djoko vs Murray in '12 because I knew there'd be spoilers.

Just to show my age, ITV World of Sport had highlights of Borg-McEnroe in 1980 *the following Saturday*. That's how long you had to wait. In-between Giant Haystacks and the horse-racing from Chepstow. BBC had USO live/highlights intermittently 1981-92. Then it was the satellite era, over here at least.

All of a sudden - with Medvedev's run and Djoko's falling off - the men's draw is quite exciting. Cilic can hopefully do Nadal and Fed is always prone to a loss (although not against fucking Dimitrov please lol).

Ah Dimitrov is in good spirits lately, wouldn't mind him beating Federer

Zverev tends to open himself up to winners fairly often, doesn’t he?

is it finally time

for gaël monfils

Wouldn’t that be something? We are all waiting for the NextGen to break the Big Three hegemony but for it to actually come from a wildly popular 33yo whose career looked to be limping to an end a couple of years back... I am fully onboard with this, just ahead of Fed #21, Diego and StanReborn as acceptable alternates.

been burned too many times but I’d be ecstatic

Medvedev hate-surfing through his next three matches to the title and getting heckled as he receives the trophy is going to provoke some sort of international incident :) It remains a less favoured outcome.

Medvedev's heel turn is incredibly entertaining to me

MEDS

feel pretty bad for this wang person who is going to lose 1 and love to serena in 45 minutes

she won 15 total pts

oof

grigor has played really well tnight

high-level stuff

i believe fed has amazingly never retired mid-match in his career, is this his first medical timeout ??

holy hell we are so close to dimitrov/medvedev semis

Can’t believe fed’s gonna lose. I don’t follow the sport closely enough to know anything about his opponent but before the match McEnroe was straight up just saying the dude should just be happy to be here

welp

i watched the match a lil over 2 months ago when dimitrov lost 1st rd to 421 ranked kevin king in atlanta & now this

Woke up around 3:50am and checked my score app. I saw how tough it was getting for Fed to hold in the fourth (something like 7 BPs at 2-4?) and figured it was going away from him. Oh well.

Please Medvedev. From what I read it was pretty impressive last night.

lol injured Fed is what it took - Dimitrov is such a waste!

not the whole story, it was dimi playing near his peak id say to push rog to that extent to exacerbate the injury

Fair enough just going on reports. Be an interesting semi as Medvedev has been injured for most of this tournament.

monfils looks ready to be done w this match

rip gael quarterfils

idk berrettini is dorfing some surefire points here

but whenever he gets his first serve in, monfils is basically done

and a double-fault on match point for the italian

how u say nerves in italian

omg poor berrettini

fuuck this could be soo brutal for matteo

unbelievable get by monfils, obviously, but still

whoever loses this match is going to cry

sickening drama

absurd.

what a point

best match of the tourney so far

That was so good. And the Amazon stream was broken for most of the day! Glad I got to see the 5th.

sigh

So now all my hopes have been dashed I guess I’m cheering for... Matteo and Andreescu?

Diego did well enough to cancel out double-breaks in each of the first two sets last night, but Rafa broke again as he always does.

Reckon Medvedev could do it but I just love a troll.

these bv andreescu holds are p wild

Hoping to catch some of the women's final. Rooting for Andreescu even though I want Serena to get another slam at some point.

Serena's stalled at 23 Grand Slam wins, but her recent string of Grand Slam Finals appearances since her return to tennis (now in the books as losses except this one) would be enough of an achievement to make for a great career for almost any other player. She is beyond a god. How can you root against a transcendent being?

there are some good reasons

Medvedev in control.

"How can you root against a transcendent being?"

Lol, erm, easily?

clinical

crazy that meds/nadal & serena/bibi are both rematches from canadian open final

assuming berrettini doesnt pull off somethign wild

Y’all gonna miss Serena when she’s gone.

It must be a lot less humid tonight than Wednesday because Rafa isn’t pouring buckets of sweat between every single point

matteos drop shots have been just lovely

ok not that 1 on set pt in the tiebreak eek

hes feeling nerves like a human again, im worried for him

brutal

Lol BBC already writing in their excuses if Nadal gets to pass RFs record:

"Nadal is already known as the 'King of Clay' after a record 12 victories at Roland Garros, but is setting his sights on overhauling Roger Federer in the race to be considered as the greatest of all time across all surfaces - at least by using the clearest, objective indicator of Grand Slam titles."

Not that it would have made much difference in the end, but a couple of bad challenges last night flipped those first sets. Dimitrov (who was sharper for an hour) ran out of challenges before he clipped the line in the 12th game with a forehand called out. Would likely have broken there for the set. Berrettini led 4-0 in the t/b vs Nadal and failed to challenge a long serve later as Rafa came back.

Suspect Medvedev is going to emulate Lendl '82 (w Washington, N Conway, Cincinnati, r/u Toronto) and Agassi '95 (w Washington, Montreal, Cincinnati, New Haven) as a player who goes on a tear post-Wimbledon but comes up one match short at Flushing Meadow.

I think Serena will win in two quick sets vs Andreescu but I'd love to see a battle.

Andreescu early break and holding: 4-2

Broken again for the set: 6-3 for the teen!!

Another break. UE and DFs. Has 10 or do mins to rescue this final: 2-0

Breaks back. Could have a final now?

waiting for serena to kill an umpire to distract everyone from her sucking

Just slip away quietly now..

Breaks from the brink!!

Now holds, has to break again

Andreescu now making all the errors lol

Fuck me

uh oh

5-4, how does Andreescu hold it together

DFs, aces..

30-30 fucking hell

Gets through with her serve to 5-5

Relieved Andreescu has got her game going again to hold 40-30

15-30

2 CPs Andreescu!! Serena tight again

Ace!!

Does it on the 2nd serve return!!

she the north

serena loses in the final again. you just hate to see it

^^

Was golfing this afternoon and wasn't able to watch, but way to go, Bianca. I want Serena to pass Margaret Court, so either result would have been okay, but this was the better of the two.

Andreescu has not lost a completed match since March 1st(!), is now 45-4 this year and on a 14 match winning streak.

had she been/stayed healthy for the clay season and wimbledon its not crazy that itd be an all-time great year

What is she like on clay and grass?

I think the fair answer at this point would be: we don't know?

She won a $25k ITF event on clay in Italy in Mar 2017, and she's racked up a few match wins in $100k ITF events in Ikley and Manchester on grass, and some WTA qualies. Barely played a WTA main draw on either surface though. She's almost having a late-period Nadal year: almost unbeatable, except when she can't physically finish the match, and misses entire months with injury.

I think this was a fairly major dip in Serena's form, especially serving, compared to her run to the final. Each of these Slam final defeats in isolation looks like just a case of running into someone playing lights-out great, but SW's fall-off on the final weekend is a pattern now.

Andreescu is phenomenal though. She's not even surprised by her own success. I was on the fence before the match but couldn't stand the idea of BA (or anyone) losing from 6-3 5-1 mp, so I was cheering her home.

meds has hit some costly errors on m/l rally balls that have really hurt him

I think this is about where I bailed on last year’s final, and Delpo was a little closer to Novak over those two sets. Medvedev won’t go away easily but Rafa is so dialled in it’s ridiculous.

rafa never looks tired

i could use fewer tight closeups of rafa’s face-touching ritual

incred fighting by daniil, v few players dont lose this 3rd set meekly rn

Glad I didn’t immediately bail! 3rd set standard is glorious.

wow

I have to sleep. And yet.

match is getting srs

meds shdve been playing like this set 1

holy hell one set to decide it

wow x2

this is intense stuff

med has him on a string

squanders triple break!!

Even on the points nadal wins, it feels like med is in control

i was not expecting to find myself rooting for medvedev

some pretty shitty gamesmanship by nadal on these med serves

wild

naturally he blows a 40-0 game once i type that

He’s certainly lost control

welp

rip meds, hell of a tounament

That was a fantastic match

great match, meds needed to be a lil more aggressive early on prob

Given the outcome probably best that I missed half a classic for sleep. Weirdly, I did wake up at 2:10am and checked the score. That would have been pretty much exactly when it finished, right?

Shame that Rafa appears be playing such a light schedule from here (though autumn is rarely his best season) as he could pass Novak for #1. May still do so.

But it’s Carousel time now. No one born before 1990 is allowed to win any more Slams. Come on.

I think that will end soon enough (lol at this post next year all you like) but I went to bed with Rafa 2-0 down and it was great to see Med fighting back. Get a great feeling that he can win a few, and start on that soon.