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Andy v Donald Young 1st on Arthur Ashe 4pm (I think)

Awaiting Indiana telling us just how abysmal Andy's record is when he's started the day time session on Ashe. 



-- Edited by kundalini on Monday 5th of September 2011 09:35:55 PM


 And after everyone's complaining on his behalf David Ferrer gets the night match on Ashe.



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Night match for Ferrer has more to do with his opponent, I suspect, than with justice for Ferrer.

But who do you think will be the doubles match on Ashe? What will they be playing? If women's, King/Shvedova? Huber/Raymond? If mixed, Oudin/Sock?

And if men's .... no American men left, and Bopanna/Qureshi possibly the best-known team after last year .... 



-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 5th of September 2011 10:24:40 PM

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kundalini wrote:

Andy v Donald Young 1st on Arthur Ashe 4pm (I think)

Awaiting indiana telling us just how abysmal Andy's record is when he's started the day time session on Ashe. Or have the horror shows been on another court ?



-- Edited by kundalini on Monday 5th of September 2011 09:37:48 PM


 

Wow, that  was messy.  If I had known there would be such further fascination over Andy's when and where court performances I wouldn't have chucked my sheets with the info into the bucket  smile 

Anyway, apart from in 2008 concluding his interrupted semi final win against Nadal on the Sunday and of course losing the final on the Monday ( both these actually started quite late in the afternoon ), Andy has never played 1st off on Arthur Ashe,  i.e. never in a regular day's schedule.

To save any future wonder,  his losses have been :

2005  Grandstand  3rd  -  R2  -  Clement in 5

2006  Louis Armstrong 1st  -  R4  -  Davydenko in 4

2007  Grandstand 4th  -  R3  -  Lee in 4

2008  Arthur Ashe  -  only  -  the final !  -  Federer in 3

2009  Arthur Ashe 3rd  -  R4  -  Cilic in 3 

2010  Louis Armstrong 3rd  -  R3  -  Wawrinka in 4



-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 6th of September 2011 11:49:16 AM

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Spectator wrote:

Night match for Ferrer has more to do with his opponent, I suspect, than with justice for Ferrer.

But who do you think will be the doubles match on Ashe? What will they be playing? If women's, King/Shvedova? Huber/Raymond? If mixed, Oudin/Sock?

And if men's .... no American men left, and Bopanna/Qureshi possibly the best-known team after last year .... 



-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 5th of September 2011 10:24:40 PM


 

Turned out to be Oudin/Sock



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From Muzz last night:

"I'm enjoying being tucked up in bed getting slammed by the commentators hahah"

That must be a surreal experience!

It sounded like the US commentators were trying to hype up Donald Young's chances of winning in order to get more viewers or listeners. LOL

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I hope this means Andy is now meeting commentators inane chatter with "I'll show 'em!" rather than letting it get under his skin.

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This schedule could turn out to be very good. The weather forecast is rotten for today so being first up gives Andy the best chance of completing his match.

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There is a reasonable chance that Andy could get his match completed before the forecast rain sets in for the day around 2pm local time.

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Forget that last post, it's raining already :(

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The umbrellas are up in Times Square :

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/



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Bottom half of the draw are going to be at a major disadvantage, if no play today, likely to have to play 4 best of 5 set matches in 5 days if make finals.

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I think everyone is going to be affected. If they get any play in today, good. But a rainy front has come in, and then the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee are making their way up the East Coast, which means that it's due to rain both today and tomorrow. Actually, glancing at the latest forecast, it's due to rain at some level every day until Saturday. Roof for Arthur Ashe, anyone?

 

PS: It could be worse -- fortunately Katia (the large hurricane east of Florida) is due to recurve over the Atlantic rather than come up the East Coast. 



-- Edited by Spectator on Tuesday 6th of September 2011 04:01:04 PM

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Yes, really depends how it works out.

The bottom half arguably starts off with a slight disadvanatge, which can be compounded.  But if they did get their R4 in and then the top half didn't get their QF in tomorrow then they would have actually evened things a bit for later in in the tournament. 

Luck of the draw ( and the weather ) really, as long as the US Open folk don't compound anything by some of their occasionally rather odd scheduling decisions 



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The whole day's play has been abandoned.

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Murray first up on Grandstand tomorrow.

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