Dan goes 1-2* down final set. Too impatient. A bit mean to talk in terms of Dan giving this match away by allowing too many UEs, given such windy conditions.......but frankly he's being too aggressive and not showing enough respect to the conditions. Still good chances to win of course.

Dan breaks back. Horrid tennis apart from a monster fh pass at bp. 

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Interesting to learn that Dan is known to not play well in the wind. Thanks, RJA.

I can accept more that he probably needs to show more respect for the conditions and realise how he needs to adapt. Maybe very rare conditions, but they can blow up, as it were, on important occasions such as US Open semi finals. So, something for Evo and his people to work on.

I still have great difficulty concluding that it is likely that he disrepected his opposition. Well, I simply don't think you can.

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I didn't say that, and I didn't use the word disrespect - which has an entirely different and more negative conotation IMO. Disrespecting someone I think implies being rude or somehow looking down on them. I don't mean that at all! Not giving enough respect to the conditions or a player is a different thing entirely. It really means not adapting your own preferred game at all due to the weather or who is over the net.

Andy deliberately made the first 6 games against Coric as long and tiring as possible recently because of who he was playing, even though he could have probably overpowered him instead: a double GS champion adapting his game specifically because of the situation and the fact he was playing a 16 year old boy. That's what I mean - not letting ability or pride get in the way of doing the right things to ultimately win the matc.

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4 more UEs from Dan and his loses his serve to love.  I'm concerned that he is not focussing as he is so hacked off with the conditions. He can still win this, but needs to tighten up his play.

JJ wins.  His focus and desire was much better than Dan's in the final set.  A shame......

Oh dear - Dan's serve went to pot. His made lots of errors on the backhand, but fair play to his opponent who played solid and wanted it more.

All Jenkins did was repeatedly return the ball up the middle of the court. The only time he changed his shot was when Dan came to the net. Dan came to the net after a mediocre approach shot far too often but if he was suffering from blisters you can understand his attempt to shorten the points.