Weeks 35 & 36: US Open, New York (hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Weeks 35 & 36: US Open, New York (hard)

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

As has been mentioned on this thread and I stated on his own thread Dan would have had a great chance of going very deep here, he's more of a contender on hard courts than Kyle in my opinion. I think Shap will probably beat him over 4 close sets is my prediction. The progress since their Davis Cup meeting is marked, Dennis has raised his game considerably, top 20 before year end for him beckons.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
seagull wrote:
indiana wrote:
bet365 odds : Shapolvalov 8/11 vs Edmund 11/10

I thought it would be close in the betting, maybe even closer than those fairly tight odds. And a match that certainly could be very close.
So do you think it might be close?

I rather thought I said that You think differently ?

I think seagull was just making a joke about using 'close' three times in your post

indiana · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
indiana wrote:
seagull wrote:
indiana wrote:
bet365 odds : Shapolvalov 8/11 vs Edmund 11/10

I thought it would be close in the betting, maybe even closer than those fairly tight odds. And a match that certainly could be very close.
So do you think it might be close?

I rather thought I said that You think differently ?
I think seagull was just making a joke about using 'close' three times in your post

I kind of guessed that ( to be fair afterwards, duh ) but then only once did I actually say what I thought would happen. Anyway maybe draw this to a close

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Given how blinkin' hot and humid it has been in France, my only interest in "how 'close' it is" is in pure meteorological terms

Spectator · All-time great

Mr Edmund's match is 2nd on Ashe. Should be interesting ...

And on a US Open related side note (SC, you may wish to avert your eyes at this point) ... I and others - based on my recollection of others' posts - had always assumed that Tennys Sandgren's name was the result of parents with more enthusiasm for tennis than was helpful for their progeny. But in among the US Open tweets, there was one with a video of Mr Sandgren: twitter.com/TennisChannel/status/902523806354350080. And it turns out that his name is actually a family inheritance from his grandfather, who had nothing whatsoever to do with tennis. I'm not clear whether it was his grandfather's first name or the result of what seems to be a fairly common US tradition of using last names as first names ... but either way, his parents are blameless.

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 31st of August 2017 08:57:35 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Schedule is out for tomorrow and Kyle's match is on Arthur Ashe, 2nd match on, not before 1pm local time.

Don't ask me to calculate what time that means for those of you back in Blighty. You will be asking me to calculate the UK time from a New York starting point while sitting in Brazil time with a computer still programmed to Spanish time. So if I tried to get my head around that one, I would be telling you that the match starts a week on Monday at 02.00 hours disbelief

Someone on Twitter saying that it is 6pm UK time, so I'll go with that.

LordBrownof · Futures level

Pleased Kyle has a great court for tomorrow, nice moment for him whatever happens. He needs to use all his relative experience against Denis and play solidly. Dennis will be very confident and flying very high so the first set will be crucial, get that and Kyle could roll through.

JonH · All-time great

Mens draw decimation continues, Berdych and Dimitrov out, Fed just survives in 5 sets. Monfils going to the wire with Young and Goffin on the edge against Pella.

What a weird event - stewards enquiry, anyone?

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Indeed. What is going on. All those who I was relying on to protect Kyle's live ranking have fallen b the wayside, most notably Dimitrov (to Rublev) and Berdych (to Dolgopolov who clearly WAS trying today). So many wins from lower ranked players and is bringing them into the fray. All adds to the fun.

Kedders, you are just going to have to beat the wunderkind.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Thursday 31st of August 2017 10:54:45 PM

JonH · All-time great

I know some on here regard it as the start of a weak era and I guess if I was a paying New Yorker I would be disappointed with the players that might go on the main courts over the weekend, but it does make it v interesting on another level and, I think, gives one or two players a chance to really make a name for themselves in a way we havent seen for quite a few years...I see Nishikori is now out of the top 10 (13th) on live rankings and Monfils is down to 34th (from 22nd), albeit he is still alive and managed to win against Young (which still leaves him in 34th).

Amazing. Anyone got tickets for London O2? going to be a v different field to recent years!

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes going to be interesting to see how quite a number of players react to being thrust into such situations in a Slam. Who steps up to the plate, who cowers when such opportunity beckons?

Hope that at least most of the injured are back fit and well for the Aussie Open, but this indeed is going to be a far from uninteresting week or so ahead.

Who's for a Bautista Agut vs Carreno Busta final to give Vandenburg palpitations?

theemptyvessel · Club Coach

Sam Querrey your time has come!

Spectator · All-time great

The organisers must be gnashing their teeth that, if they both win their next matches, Sam Querrey plays John Isner in the next round (that said, M Zverev has won his last two encounters with John Isner - and one can see where his game would be a real problem for Isner - so it may well be moot!)

In the top half, you still have two former champions + Thiem ... in the bottom half you still have one former champion. And beyond that, it will indeed be interesting to see who surges forward. For Cilic the challenge has to be not looking at the draw and thinking too far ahead.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Like JonH, it's certainly weird but it IS rather interesting.

I managed to watch the Rublev match and, although - as above - I'm a big fan of the skinny and rather gloomy young Russian, I thought Dimitrov was really not at the races and didn't understand why. Zverev jr., I think, put too much pressure on himself - Indy's point about who's going to step up. His comments in his interviews were very much along the lines of 'the prize of doing something big was there, dangling before my eyes, just asking to be taken'. And so he flopped.

Leaving aside the 'Challenger' players (who may win the thing), I've also loved the progress of those who many would think of as more Futures players.

In the last 32, we have 4 qualifiers, a Lucky Loser (he must owe Andy, big time), and many whom even quite ardent tennis fans would never have heard of. Times are a'changing....