US OPEN 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_Singles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_Singles

Ugh not golf not golf reverse

fed/tiafoe is compelling

& sharapova/halep wow

anyone going to this? I am going to week 1! Wanted to go to week 2 but expensive and couldn't get that week off work so have made do with week 1 NOT THAT I MIND ONE BIT

may get to the middle weekend in some capacity idk

We're going the middle Sunday, just got grounds passes for the day session. Psyched.

lol @ Sharapova/Halep

murray w/drawing now is the most murray thing ever

The bottom half of the draw is frankly complete shit.

I'm going Mon/Tues day, and Tues/Wed/Thu night. Maybe Friday day too if I'm not completely zonked.

And we're on. Any good match happening right now?

konta out to krunic

this sharapova/halep match is already amazing as hell

hearing the cts are sorta gritty/slow this yr makes me moreso think nadal can take this

great comeback halep ! onto set 3

I had a fun day today, though I was a bit narked that they'd run out of ground passes so I had to buy an Ashe ticket and the line-up was nothing special.

Watched the following:

Kvitova d Jankovic - Petra still inconsistent and a bit sloppy and her serve just isn't the weapon it is on grass but I thought this was pretty encouraging against an opponent who has given her trouble in the past. The US Open has actually been her best or joint best slam since her Wimbledon win. Funny it used to be her worst, and still is I guess.

Kukushkin d Ferrer. I had no data and the screens around the place don't give you any idea of what's coming up and this court was buzzing so I stepped on with no idea who it was. Ferrer started well but then he WOULD NOT EVER VENTURE INTO THE COURT, and Kukushkin was very happy to mix it up, go to net and finish the points off quickly. Once he got used to Ferrer's patterns, it was a cakewalk.

Shapovalov d. Medvedev. Medvedev has passive body language, the yips on serve and is a massive wimp. Shapovalov thinks he's a rock star. This was so NID, but there were lots of nice flashy shots.

V. Williams d. oh god I can't remember her name. Viktoria K..zova.. from Slovakia. She's a serve bot whose face looks about 10. Venus won this without her serve which was sort of impressive but she looked sloppy as hell I thought.

Tipsarevic d. Kokkinakis. See the Ferrer game. Kokkinakis went in front of the service line maybe once that I saw.

Was tempted to watch Shara/Halep on the screen but I was hungry and wanted to beat the rush. Going ALL DAMN DAY TOMORROW!!!

its such interesting circumstances that were sharapova to pull this out, i wouldnt argue too much if one called her the fav to win the tourney? tho she may lose

the kukushkin result surprised me def, thats interesting; ferrer was coming fwd in cincy i recall

youre getting great weather this week! im jealous

Oh and Ferrer lost a bit of momentum after the match was delayed 20 minutes or so after a crowd member fainted, or something. I found the rubbernecking really creepy. Like, do you need to be staring at this sick woman?

same exact thing happened when i was at new haven last week but it was more like a 50 minute delay

wut the halep

tiafoes 4hand is looking nice

& feds backhand is off

1st set tiafoe

That was pretty fun to be witness to live! Great atmosphere, though I've got to say, the ground staff are WAY too lenient on letting people up during play. Melbourne or Paris spectators and ground supervisors would not allow people to be sitting in aisleways etc

Also I got my photo taken with Venus Williams, which almost made up for not getting a refund on my ground pass for today due to five minutes of matches happening.

Poor Kerber, a few months ago she was #1, now she's out of the top 10. Osaka sure looked good today, and feasted on that powder puff serve.

Also I got my photo taken with Venus Williams

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how has this not been whatsapped yet

wow/lol krygios out to millman

& gasquet bounced 1st rd, same as last yr

Meantime

Little help, please? ...Imagine you're playing recreationally at Central Park today. And this guy rolls up. pic.twitter.com/ZSw1sFIAP0

— Jon Wertheim (@jon_wertheim) August 30, 2017

coric giving sascha all he can handle

zverev needs a wardrobe change outta this 70s style terricloth outfit imo

julia görges into the 3d rd having only dropped 4 games

sascha has had alotta break pts

welp, 1 zverev still alive

all I wanna be is el Shapo

I should probably be beyond celebrating Woz upsets at this point but... lol

A lot of players are wearing really fugly kits. A.Zverev's definitely the worst, not having to see that again almost makes up for the shock of him losing to Coric, who will probably lose the next round. That side of the draw, honestly. Cilic must be laughing so hard right now.

also, TFW you have tickets to Ashe and one of the featured matches is Coco Vandeweghe :(

fed looking bad

ton o errors

war of attrition

cilic/schwartzman is a good battle rn

4th rounder

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lorenzi_WM16_%2810%29_%2828136051350%29.jpg

diego !

cilic hits so clean but was p predictable there imo

Trying to tell myself that Sharapova/who?? and Isner/Zverev will be entertaining tonight.

Nadal/Daniel was at least good fun with some great courtcraft from both.

Isner/Zverev actually was entertaining. Man, it takes balls to S&V on everything on this slow-ass court, but Zverev did that and bossed it. Very impressive to watch it in person.

The Sharapova match was fucking dire, I couldn't at Kenin being in the 3rd round - she'd get to a point mid-rally where she wouldn't know what to do so would hit a moonball mid-court. She said Sharapova was her idol, pshaw to that, looked more like she looked up to Wozniacki. Sharapova was dreadful and still won in straights. Should have been 6-1 6-1.

wow fognini got kicked out of the tournament

i guess said something foul in italian toward an umpire

He called her a cocksucker.

What a jerk, I hope Flavia kicks him square in the balls.

A+++ racquet smash from Coco after Radwanska breaks back when she served for the set.

KAIA KANEPI :D :D :D - and Kasatkina is beatable for her.

delpo looked good, straights over bautista agut

wow amazing returns by anderson

this 1s going awhile

that 2nd set tiebreak will probably be the best part of this match

So sad I missed Petra/Venus.

Q. People are obviously fascinated by the rivalry. What do you admire most about Roger on court and what do you admire most about him as a man off the court?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don't want to look like I gonna be his boyfriend, no? (Laughter.) We don't want to talk these kind of things before important match.

all us semis w/o serena is kinda crazy

fuck these guys are both so tough

am at work and listening to a radio stream... so much more stressful somehow than actually watching it on TV.

Wow Delpo <3

seeing the replay, the pt at rog up 7-6 that delpo awkwardly floated back short w fed at net... really looked like rog couldve come fwd and slammed a winner 2 me

delpos backhand !

delpo is actually going @ feds backhand & being smart & patient, feds a bit on tilt

yeah he is. cant belive he missed that overhead smash

that reflex forehand sheesh

wow that miss by federer at 30-30

some really bad fed miss-hits in the last set

love del potro's confidence

I am so ridiculously happy right now

woohoo Delpo!! I like the symmetry too - prevented Nadal from meeting Fed at USO in '09, and the other way round this time.

Nasty RT @cjzer0 Del Potro nearly earholes Federer with a return pic.twitter.com/y2JAycxdhd

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) September 7, 2017

Delpo's run has been the one good thing for the thrash that men's tennis has now become.

the momentum swings in this match. :/

Well the Keys/Vendeweghe match was super satisfying

Sloane/keys is a great final

The Sloane/Venus match was great, or at least the last set was. My kids don't even know anything about tennis but they got totally sucked into it, wouldn't go to bed til it was over. I was torn because I've loved Venus' late-career run, but I like Sloane and we got to see her play live last Sunday so I feel invested in her here. I'll be happy for Keys too if she wins, though (which looks likely after the way she's played).

Last night was the first time I've seen evidence of the Keys that American commentators have been hyping. No choking, no inexplicable letdowns, no sudden tentativeness, just full-on "I am going to hammer you off this court now" tennis and it was glorious.

I will admit that I felt a little charity towards Vandewedge when I saw her congratulate Keys warmly at the net afterward; fortunately it didn't last and I'm now back at "lol you got stomped".

Stephens' last three matches have all followed the same template -- win the first relatively easily, total nosedive in the second, recover in the third. If Keys plays the way she has been, I don't know that Sloane will get an opening to do that again.

rafa is teeing off

it would be something if Kevin Anderson one a single set against Nadal (which he hasn't done, on 4 occassions)

When was the last time someone won a Slam without beating anyone in the top 20? As Rafa seems poised to do.

u could say im a bit conflicted, on a lark before the draw even i bet $10 on kev anderson to win that would pay $1250 o_o

feel bad for keys (but good for sloane !)

madison only winning 3 games is brutal as hell

watched the nadal/del potro semi yesterday. will probably always root against nadal but i really wanted to see juan martin cap off this run with a title. he just didn't have it

no idea who kevin anderson is and don't care tbh, he's 31. pretty embarrassing that he's in the final

only watched the last game of the women's final. does keys not have a first serve? or had she abandoned it

Nadal is 31!

Kevin Anderson is a servebot noteworthy for being capable of beating Wawrinka and nobody else. Nadal will liquefy him.

I am sad Stephens, not Keys or Venus, won this. I guess she's not actually worse than Ostapenko (albeit without her astonishing peak) overall but... meh. The women's game really does need Serena back ASAP, Kvitova to consolidate her recovery, Kerber to get her shit together, and, I hate to say this, Sharapova and Azarenka.

i think the recent trend of guys coming out of nowhere in their late 20s and early 30s is really bad for tennis

Why?

tennis is a star- and personality-driven sport. people want to watch the best players they've actually heard about play the biggest matches. when marcos baghdatis (to pick an example of another went on that run a decade or so ago it was exciting because it was a young guy with a fun game that we hoped could be sustainable and carry the sport into the future. i don't think anyone outside of australia expects to be thinking much about kevin anderson in a month from now

whoops forgot to finish my parenthetical thought

main point is it's just lame when nobody journeymen are playing on the biggest stage. i like tennis a lot and there 0% chance i will watch the final tomorrow

One of the most bored crowds I've ever been in was watching Anderson being beaten easily by Berdych in Melbourne one year.

I think you mean nobody outside South Africa.

I mean it's a nice story for him I guess. But his path to the final wasn't that much harder than Nadal's.

Anderson's boring because he's boring, nothing to do with his age or career achievements to date

yeh i see that. i kinda like it with dudes like del potro who are good then fade then come back but i guess thats a diferent thing. would be nice if the US could produce a good fun male player.

the list of players age 30 or older with <5 career titles that would actually put on a show during a grand slam run is probably pretty short

xp

yeah del potro is a different story, he's inarguably a grand-slam quality talent, his career's just been marred by injury

parallel to just the age convo -- tennis channel aired indian wells 1999 steffi graf vs serena yesterday and i watched some - steffi was 29 serena was 17, steffi retired from the sport ~5 months later o_0

steffis form also sortof reminded me of modern day fed

i like watching journeymen break thru / go on runs @ majors but do agree in general abt k3vs pt for the casual tennis fan & the overall visability of the sport

Watching a journeyman break through is cool, but this is a half that was meant to have Murray in it, and some subset of Djokovic, Nishikori, Raonic, Wawrinka. If he'd got through the best in the game, I'd applaud. But his run was ridiculously easy (and you wouldn't say Gulbis was a hard R2 opponent if you'd seen his R1 match) for a maiden GS, and definitely doesn't stack up well with the first runs to the final by most others (cf Wawrinka's '14 AO. That's a tougher run.)