Never seen Dan attempt to hit over his backhand so much

Without beating around Bush at botb1 he looked lean, mean and keen. Botb2 he looked tubbier and , well out of shape again. Here he, to be fair, looked leaner again but clearly not sharp or on his game.

Other than apparently a French / Mannarino issue which left Zverev hanging plus delaying the following Tsitsipas vs Coric match, details seem yet to emerge.

First set to Mannarino on a TB.

Bob in Spain wrote:

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As I didn't have a live stream, what happened? Did he hit the wall physically or did Davidovich just up his game ? After what was a close match for just over 2 sets, Cam lost 11 of the last 12 games.

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Dehydration, according to Stu Fraser (extract from his article headed "Cameron Norrie feels the heat as dehydration undoes all his hard work"):

While it was a hot day in New York, the temperature was not particularly excessive at 30C. After levelling the match at one set all, Norrie, 25, was a break up at 2-1 in the third set, but then lost 11 of the last 12 games.

"I usually love the heat," Norrie said. "I think it was the moment, with a big match and the first two sets being real physical. It was a strange one. I remember going to the bathroom after the second set and I was drinking as much as I could.  I was just really dehydrated and my vision got a little bit blurry at the start of the third set. I was not really seeing the ball that clearly. Towards the end I managed to drink a little bit more, but it was too late. I felt good this morning, but there are definitely a lot of lessons to be learnt from it. Having not played best of five sets back to back for a while, I need to get more used to that."

Perhaps Norrie's efforts in the week caught up with him, having contested a five-set first-round match lasting almost four hours against Diego Schwartzman, the No 9 seed from Argentina. He now departs New York with the biggest cheque of his career, for £122,000, and is set to enter the world's top 70 before the European clay-court swing leading into the French Open.

Stircrazy wrote:

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Bob in Spain wrote:

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As I didn't have a live stream, what happened? Did he hit the wall physically or did Davidovich just up his game ? After what was a close match for just over 2 sets, Cam lost 11 of the last 12 games.

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Dehydration, according to Stu Fraser (extract from his article headed "Cameron Norrie feels the heat as dehydration undoes all his hard work"):

While it was a hot day in New York, the temperature was not particularly excessive at 30C. After levelling the match at one set all, Norrie, 25, was a break up at 2-1 in the third set, but then lost 11 of the last 12 games.

"I usually love the heat," Norrie said. "I think it was the moment, with a big match and the first two sets being real physical. It was a strange one. I remember going to the bathroom after the second set and I was drinking as much as I could.  I was just really dehydrated and my vision got a little bit blurry at the start of the third set. I was not really seeing the ball that clearly. Towards the end I managed to drink a little bit more, but it was too late. I felt good this morning, but there are definitely a lot of lessons to be learnt from it. Having not played best of five sets back to back for a while, I need to get more used to that."

Perhaps Norrie's efforts in the week caught up with him, having contested a five-set first-round match lasting almost four hours against Diego Schwartzman, the No 9 seed from Argentina. He now departs New York with the biggest cheque of his career, for £122,000, and is set to enter the world's top 70 before the European clay-court swing leading into the French Open.

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Thanks SC.

Bravo to Canada - three men into the last 16 - one only aged 20, another only 21.....

And doesn't even include Raonic.

Brilliant effort from them....

Last 16:

3 Canada
2 Spain
2 Australia
2 Russia
1 Belgium
1 Serbia
1 American
1 German
1 Croatia
1 Italy
1 Austria

And, overall, with some of the 'big names' not there, the youngsters have really stepped up:

Only 2 players over 30 years old (one of which only just).
10 players under 25, of which 4 are 21 or younger.
Average age: 24.75

Also, all the players are 6 foot tall or over, except one (at 5'11)
But none over 6'6
Very homogeneous