US Open: Classic or Dud?

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I can't believe I neglected to ask about this.

Anyway, Kafelnikov is about to finish of Guga, Sampras got to the semis, and the Serena/Lindsey match is one of the best tennis matches I've seen all year. Anyone else having as much fun with this as I am?

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wish I had been following it more closely, but alas. No Sampras, please. His mortality needs to be exploited.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

say what you will about sampras, but last night's match with agassi was about as good as a four set match can be. the very definition of "going back and forth"! good stuff. more, please.

side question: how is hingis still number one in the world when she's lost in 10 straight majors?

― fred solinger, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Problem is, he seems to have realized that and decided to start playing again rather than letting people repeatedly kick his ass. I didn't see the match with Agassi, but it's already being hailed as one of the best matches of all time. Every set was won on a tiebreak, fer crissake. Besides, I wanted Agassi to lose because he acted like a conceited whale after he beat Federer.

Myself, I'm looking forward to the Hewitt/Roddick quarterfinal. Can the Real A-Rod continue his winning ways? How great would a Sampras/Roddick final be, particularly if Roddick won? (Safin needs to go far away. He was great last year, but somehow I missed the fact that he's really a whiny little bedwetter.)

The women's semis are flawless: Martina vs. Serena/Jennifer vs. Venus. How badly do I want an all-Williams final? More badly than words can say, even though the nerves both display when they play each other would guarantee the ugliest final match imaginable (maybe Ai Sugiyama vs. Anna Smashnova would be uglier).

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hingis is still #1 because she plays 8 million tournaments and regularly gets to the semis or the finals. Monica Seles is in the top 10 for a similar reason.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Loving it, although my favorite players on the men's side (Rafter, Max Mirnyi, Todd Martin) have already gotten knocked out, and I've only been able to follow the matches on Internet radio. Yes, Sampras-Roddick and Williams-Williams would have a lot of people shitting their pants --even leaving the generational and sibling rivalries aside, it'd be Americans all the way 'round. Personally, I was hoping for, say, Rafter-Mirnyi and, I don't know, Tauziat-Seles (!) or something, but having Sampras back in form is nice -- things were getting pretty embarrassing there.

― Phil, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tauziat-Seles would have been great, if only to see Seles lose yet another final, only this time to someone that only the tennis fans know about. :)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is all making me a bit jealous - but even if I had Eurosport I don't suppose I'd have spent 2-5am on the day of two job interviews watching Pete vs Andre chapter 32. So, is it Yevgeny's year? Will he even know what he's won if he wins it? Doesn't it all kinda blur into one gigantic event when you play as many tournaments as YK?

So, for those who've been fortunate to see more than 15 seconds of footage a day - is Safin actually playing well, or just coasting past inadequate opponents? I presume Martina is still #1 because she keeps clocking up tour victories (but does she?), and JC and VW don't approach this kind of consistency (but they do, surely?) despite the big haul of points with the two Slams each. Very odd, because I thought the WTA rankings were a model of good sense (isn't it still an average pts/event thing with the women?) after the rather silly overhaul of the ATP rankings.

Roddick vs Hewitt tonight. Prediction time - Lleyton in four.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The toughest opponent Safin has seen is Thomas Johansson. I don't see him making the final.

I want Roddick to win in 4. That would be fun. (Probably won't happen, but it would be fun.)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hope Hewitt goes down in flames. Unfortunately, he's very, very good when he's on...

Out of curiosity, for how many of you is tennis the only spectator sport you enjoy? I used to follow baseball in elementary school, but when the Red Sox lost the World Series in -- 1985, was it? -- to the Mets, it pretty much did me in as a baseball fan. Tennis, though, I just keep liking more and more...

― Phil, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Pete vs Andre chapter 32" = climax of book!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unbiased account of the overrule that cost Roddick the match? Anyone?

― Michael Jones, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like Roddick and despise Hewitt, but the ball was just over the line. And the point itself didn't cost Roddick the match, but his apeshit reaction to the call blew his concentration and allowed Hewitt to win the match on a rare service break.

No more tennis matches that end at 1am, please. I can't get it together this morning.

― the line judge, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ALL WILLIAMS FINAL! ALL WILLIAMS FINAL!

Am I excited? Just a little bit.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I betcha they'll tiebreak endlessly and end up giving it to both of them. Wait, that makes no sense.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, anyway. Venus racks up another notch (I admit, I'm more a Serena fan), Sampras is now well and truly yesterday's man, though I won't rule out another Grand Slam quite yet.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Serena is a hottie.

― Kris, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As is Venus.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

twenty years pass...

https://open.spotify.com/track/307MAY7sBiSJ57kbIfcVsm?si=jdx2PjDDQP2Kcddx3FAF1w

― calstars, Friday, 2 September 2022 00:13 (three years ago)

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