Weeks 35-36 - Grand Slam US Open-Main Draw - Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Weeks 35-36 - Grand Slam US Open-Main Draw - Hard

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Similar incident to the recent Jack one from Haddad Maia

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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

She clearly hits it into the ground, the call is ridiculous. As per Jack, players clearly know when these things happen, this was poor / dishonest. She has a bit of a rep!

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Erm, that went to a video review and they still got it wrong? Huh?

9vicman · Satellite level

I wonder how much it costs to cover eight courts with video review and is it worth it when the umpire still can make a mistake.

Paullow B · Social player

Her draw opened up a fair bit the past 2 rounds and she had to survive a match point in R3, but it's brilliant to see Badosa back into a slam QF after all her injury struggles. She was ranked 139 when she faced Katie B at the French Open just 3 months ago, ranked 93 at Wimbledon, but after going 14-2 in the North American hard court swing, including a title, she's now amazingly 14th in the race and 20th in the live rankings with nothing to defend for the rest of the year. I genuinely thought the dreaded R word was looming sooner rather than later earlier in the year when she retiring left and right and couldn't get anything going, so it's pretty surreal to see her not only back looking healthy, but stringing wins together again like it was late 2021. She'll play the winner of Gauff or Navarro in the QF and her first ever match on Ashe.

indiana · Tennis legend

Was waiting to hear from you, Paullow B

It's great to see, and particularly for you.

Although Paula has been WR 2, I see that it is just her 2nd time into a Slam QF after the French Open 2021

Paullow B · Social player

indiana wrote:
Was waiting to hear from you, Paullow B
It's great to see, and particularly for you.
Although Paula has been WR 2, I see that it is just her 2nd time into a Slam QF after the French Open 2021

Haha, I made it sound better than it was when I said another, really meaning only a 2nd one biggrin , but yeah her slam record doesn't really match her career high, although that said, this time 5 years ago she was a LL in New York, at the 2020 pandemic US Open she was ranked 93, with a CH of only 88 despite turning 23 later that year, and she of course missed 3 slams in 2023 (should have missed all 4 but came back far too soon at Wimby, subsequently retiring, which set her back 6 months), so a combo of being a late developer and then being plagued with injuries, she's only really had a 6 or 7 slam window between 2021 and 2022 where she would have been expected to do well, but, given the CH it obviously doesn't look great, so it is nice to see her pad her GS resume out a bit more at the moment, those highlighted ones on Wiki certainly look nice smile , and I thought those days were long gone.

Peter too · Tennis legend

The final is between 6th seed Pegula and 2nd seed Sabalenka. They have played 7 times before with Pegula winning twice. If Emma had beaten Kenin she would have played Pegula in R2, having beaten her in Eastbourne earlier in the year. Life is full of might-have-beens and missed chances.

Neil Gee · Club Coach

My heart backs Pegula (because she needs the prize money, obviously) but I'm picking Sabalenka.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Neil Gee wrote:
My heart backs Pegula (because she needs the prize money, obviously) but I'm picking Sabalenka.

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indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Sabalenka, winning the final 7-5 7-5.

I increasingly thought the whole thing would get away from her during the time she went from having a BP to lead *4-0 in the second set to losing 5 games in a row to be down *3-5.