Weeks 35 & 36 - US Open, Flushing Meadows - Men's Singles (Hard)

flamingowings · All-time great

RE: Weeks 35 & 36 - US Open, Flushing Meadows - Men's Singles (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Four retirements already today in the men's.

No wonder with the weather.

Makes Kyle look quite good to have even managed to finish his match.
+ at least one withdrawal (Vesley) for whatever reason meaning Mahut gets into the MD.

Which is nice in that Mahut has many fans.

Shame he has to play Moutet.

In fact, he's old enough to be Moutet's father (just).

So it's the two ends of the French spectrum....

Jaffa · Challenger level

GGL withdrew as well with Bemelmans now playing Minaj instead

flamingowings · All-time great

Mahut is a set up on the young Frenchman.

indiana · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
Mahut is a set up on the young Frenchman.

Mahut won in 4 sets.

indiana · Tennis legend

Andy is 2nd on Ashe tomorrow, not forgotten

Cam is 3rd on Court 10.

( Ashe kicks off an hour later than the other courts, ie at noon local, 5 pm BST, 1st match there is a Sloane Stephens singles match ).

JonH · All-time great

Still 25 seeds left, as with ladies v different to Wimbledon mad house of seeds falling. Sadly kyle one of the 7 to go.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The 'big' countries certainly are out in numbers.

10 French players through, 7 Americans, 5 Spaniards, 5 Aussies, 4 Italians .....

Conditions certainly looked brutal, especially for anyone prepared to go the distance. Only two full five sets matches got played yesterday.

As per the post in the women's from Peter, great to read about Novak and Fuks. jumping naked into an ice bath together in their ten minute heat break.

Vandenburg · Futures level

Murray vs Fiasco,

Anything is possible, Andy in 3 or Verdasco in 3.

If Verdasco shows up, Andy is toast, but more often that not, Tobasco does not show up.

JonH · All-time great

Tsitsipas is 2 sets down to Medvedev. I had hoped he could go deep into this one, but Medvedev is a decent player so tough match

-- Edited by JonH on Wednesday 29th of August 2018 04:27:38 PM

flamingowings · All-time great

Vandenburg wrote:
Murray vs Fiasco,

Anything is possible, Andy in 3 or Verdasco in 3.

If Verdasco shows up, Andy is toast, but more often that not, Tobasco does not show up.

Some say Fernando Fiasco.

JonH · All-time great

flamingowings wrote:
Vandenburg wrote:
Murray vs Fiasco,

Anything is possible, Andy in 3 or Verdasco in 3.

If Verdasco shows up, Andy is toast, but more often that not, Tobasco does not show up.
Some say Fernando Fiasco.

the TIU perhaps?

flamingowings · All-time great

Sloane finally got it done so Andy is up next.

If the preceding match to Cam continues to go the way it is (Wang is 6-3, 2-0 up on Begu) he shouldn't be too much longer either.

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
Tsitsipas is 2 sets down to Medvedev. I had hoped he could go deep into this one, but Medvedev is a decent player so tough match

-- Edited by JonH on Wednesday 29th of August 2018 04:27:38 PM

Medvedev won in 4, following up his Winston-Salem ATP 250 title last week without dropping a set and his straight sets R1 win here against Donskoy. So he has won 18 of his last 19 sets and bagged a title. Not bad form.

indiana · Tennis legend

I see Andy recovered an early break. Now 3-2*