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

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

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

steven · Tennis legend

murray_2k9 wrote:
I liek Mike's interpretation a lot. This is a tough one. To me, Murray this year has been brilliant in the big events- I used to be very nervous about him fulfilling his seeding but now I take it almost for granted that Murray will be in the quarters at the very least.

Of all the QFs, it looked on paper that Murray had the 2nd best draw after Djok, but Isner is a much tougher ask IMO than Roddick; full of confidence and on the way up rather than down and I saw a fairly Del Potro-esque player on the court. I feel Federer played the best of all the top 4 which surprised me since his form has come out of nowhere. To me, its a Federer v Nadal final but I just pray Murray will get the win. I think if making all 4 semis doesnt instill that extra belief in him nothing will and I dont see him going down without a spectacular fight.

Out of interest, do we think Murray will overthrow Federer as solid #3 soon?

It seems an odd thing to say the way Fed has been playing at this tournament, but yes, I think he will, if only because Fed can't really be bothered outside the slams any more.

indiana · Tennis legend

Novak wins the 3rd set.

Fed leads 2 sets to 1 : 7 - 6 (7) 6 - 4 3 - 6

RJA · Hall of fame

Federer starting to crumble and surrenders a break in the first game of the fourth.

indiana · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Federer starting to crumble and surrenders a break in the first game of the fourth.

Oh, oh, and Fed's got a surprisingly relatively overall poor record in 5th sets compared to the rest of the top 4.

Haven't really been able to make my mind up about who I'd like Andy to meet ifff he reaches the final. Probably the loser wink

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Haven't really been able to make my mind up about who I'd like Andy to meet ifff he reaches the final. Probably the loser

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too!

indiana · Tennis legend

4th set to Novak as he takes it 6 - 2 on his 4th set point of game 8

Onto the 5th...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
RJA wrote:
Federer starting to crumble and surrenders a break in the first game of the fourth.

Oh, oh, and Fed's got a surprisingly relatively overall poor record in 5th sets compared to the rest of the top 4.

But according to the Beeb, he's never beaten Rog after falling two sets behind in a five-setter... wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Interesting message sent to the Beeb team providing live text commentary on the match:

Anon via text on 81111: "Watching this match makes it quite obvious to me that Murray really lacks two things compared to Roger and Djoko. The first thing is the high first-serve percentage and the second is the length that they hit the ball in the court. Both of those things can be worked on and when they are corrected I see no reason why Murray can't get right amongst the other three."

indiana · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
indiana wrote:
RJA wrote:
Federer starting to crumble and surrenders a break in the first game of the fourth.

Oh, oh, and Fed's got a surprisingly relatively overall poor record in 5th sets compared to the rest of the top 4.
But according to the Beeb, he's never beaten Rog after falling two sets behind in a five-setter...

True, but Novak's never come back to level from 2 sets down to Fed and in their one 5 setter ( last year's US Open semi ) Novak was the winner wink

RJA · Hall of fame

Djoker broken to love. Fed to serve for the match

RJA · Hall of fame

Unbelievable, Fed had 40-15 but made a mess of it and served a DF on BP.

Fed 5-4*

RJA · Hall of fame

And Djoker takes it 7-5 in the fifth. I have said for a while that Fed has a couple of slams left in him but I am not sure how he will pick himself up from this.

Drew · Sep 10, 2011

Anyone got livestream url for Andy's match?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Just for the record, the match lasted for three hours & 51 minutes... About time Djoko had a marathon session! wink