Weeks 35-36 - US Open main draw (men)

Maza1987 · Challenger level

RE: Weeks 35-36 - US Open main draw (men)

indiana · Tennis legend

My livestream was going reasonably OK until Mad mentioned problems, almost at which time mine totally froze, then my comp was playing up. So I restarted and then it took ages.....

Anyway after having watched the 3rd and half a 4th set of err not very good stuff by our man I finally got back at 2 - 1 up in the tiebreak and watched him see it out very well. Hope the seond half of the fourth set was fun smile

Well at least he's through which is the main thing, just a bit disppointing drop in standard and maybe focus after the first two sets. Isner was certainly there to be taken in 3.

I heard a rather impressive stat at the beginning from American commentators that an Andy win today would make him just the 7th guy in the open era to reach at least the semis in all 4 slams in a calendar year ( oh, beaten to that one smile )

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 9th of September 2011 08:18:09 PM

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
Hope the seond half of the fourth set was fun

At 4-4 he dug himself into a hole at 15-40. Saved the first BP with an ace, the next point was a second serve on the line where he serve volleyed and hit an peach of a low volley.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

4 wins tonight - and all into semi's. That has got to be the best evening's tennis I can remember.

steven · Tennis legend

Maza1987 wrote:
just the 7th man in the open era to reach at least the semis of every grand slam in a calendar year.

Includes all of the current big four of course (you can read all kinds of things into that, e.g. best top 4 ever ... or 'no depth' ... or homogenisation of surfaces) and Tony Roche is the only one of the seven who failed to win a grand slam title in the year they made all 4 semis.

Muzz has also now made 8 semis in the last 13 slams, which is pretty spectacular in itself.

RJA · Hall of fame

Nadal *4-1 up.

Come on A-Rod do something useful and at least push him to 4 sets.

RJA · Hall of fame

This is nothing more than a gentle afternoon stroll for Nadal furious

6-2, *4-1 (just over an hour thus far)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Nadal super impressive, its going to take a super human performance from Andy to get the job done.

wolf · Tennis legend

Nadal would not be looking this good against Murray, Roddick is just horribly limited in all departments except serve.

RJA · Hall of fame

philwrig wrote:
Nadal super impressive, its going to take a super human performance from Andy to get the job done.

Nadal has been great tonight but Roddick has been dire. No way that Murray will play into Nadal's hands the way Roddick has.

indiana · Tennis legend

I think the Roddick / Isner axis may have helped the poor old bottom half of the draw and that postponement of the final, but Mr Roddick you had further good work you could be doing and you're not doing it well enough.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 9th of September 2011 09:56:46 PM

RJA · Hall of fame

Partial OOP out for tomorrow. Murray second on Ashe, not before 19:45 BST.

Kerber v Stoser are playing their semi-final on Grandstand disbelief

indiana · Tennis legend

Roddick may be finding the groove, just hit his first winner off the ground in the match disbelief

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 9th of September 2011 10:13:45 PM

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Roddick may be finding the groove, just hit his first winner off the ground in the match

Is Rozza the new Wozza? wink

Worrying that Rafa is going into killer mode just as Muzz appears over the horizon.

indiana · Tennis legend

Rafa wins 6 - 2 6 - 1 6 - 3 and for the 3rd slam semi in a row ( would probably have been all 4 slam semis this year if Rafa hadn't got injured in Aus ) we have :

Andy vs Rafa

PS : Don't know if it's just me, but my "preview" isn't working.