US OPEN 2015

Thanks for the link Lex.

Rublev's temperament is...also a thing. Not necessarily a weakness but not always edifying either.

Dunno how much of this week I'll catch, on a press trip in Toronto

Kasatkina apparently winning that set with 0 winners

bertens up 5-3 on serena o_O

why can't i find a stream with commentary? US tennis coverage is the pits

wow serena takes the set in the tiebreak 7-5 on a forehand off the tape that just catches the line

bertens needs to continue to just get everything back and see what happens, serenas not playing v well

i watched the last 20 mins of that set on mute -- is it windy? serena can't serve for shit

rip bryan bros

tennis people are so corny man

Feliciano López ‏@feliciano_lopez 12 hours ago
Fair to say you @MardyFish were better player 2day but tennis is crazy sometimes.Pleasure playing u 2day and always.The very BEST in ur life

Aww.

Pretty wild how, despite his leg not working toward the end, Mardy able to position himself early so well and rip crazy winners. Sorry to see him go. One of the good ones, as they say. Go rip em up on the PowerShares Tour, dude!

~murray~

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/mardy-fish-us-open/

Great read. I never knew about Mardy's struggles.

damn kontaveit bagels brengle in 3d set to advance to play venus

loser of this genie/cibu match has to forsake their neon kicks

great first set.
simultaneously surprising and unsurprising that these 2 have never met before

Goffin retires with stomach flu that is apparently going around, Djokovic's draw becoming one of the easiest I can remember in recent times.

really admire Raonic for giving it his all down two sets with a bad back

i forgot who sands was for a sec but now that i remember she is terrible

so of course it will be who serena loses to

nah we've been through this with serena 20x this year

obv yea but idk

mr. mattek-sands is a huge dude

with a huge wad of tabaccy lol

serena would still have to be like what 50-1 to win this yea common pattern

or i mean beth would be those odds

tf is with this chick's hair

goodness, who could have seen this coming

serena dropping a set is just a favor to the usta for the buzz

fognini seems much more interested in blasting low-percentage winners than he does winning this match, but it's pretty entertaining nonetheless

super sick break just there

that point just there where he stood inside the baseline and ripped 3 straight 100 mph backhands without moving his feet was hilarious

this strikes me as the natural progression tho when 2 clay ct players meet on hard court and its best of 5

fognini has 43 winners and 40 UEs in 3.5 sets lmao

dude is out there just blasting away

hope fabio pushes this to 5th set

damn fab

^^

A+ net play from foggy all match

whoa, nadal has never lost up 2 sets?

50/42 winners/UEs for foggy now

fabio be steady crushing

the crowd gasps @ fabio 4hands is dramatic and expressive

sick dip from rafa

this match is so good

little gamesmanship from fab returning that long serve right back at nadal on break point

total brick of a game by foggy

yeah

jeez no one can hold

rich too

novak has had a really incredible year, props

oh no I'm rich

sweet

saw the first set-and-a-half before falling asleep, felt a lot like the Wim final. Commentators fawning over Federer's surprise returns making me cringe now, can't even bring myself to acknowledge their name for it and knew that it wouldn't be successful against Djokovic a second time - it's a mental tactic more than anything else. Awesome year for Novak, feels routine at this point. RG is the question now...

I saw three sets and went to bed at 3am. I am thanking the gods for the existence of coffee..

It was closer than Wimbledon and the 'surprise return' was deployed every now and then - it did seem to seed bits of doubt in Djokovic. Overall it was quite a thing to see in a slam final, from someone like Federer who is thought as the height of elegance. He'll do what it takes, and we all know that.

Overall though it was a brilliant match - the way D answered some of that stuff from Fed (those remarkable back-to-back lobs), the 20-shot game where Novak held on for dear life and really was under the cosh for most of the 3rd set before - really almost out of nowhere - turning around with some magnificent tennis to break Fed's serve. Knew the game was up at the end of that.

btw people who yell during someone's toss should be waterboarded

― usic ally (k3vin k.), Monday, 14 September 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosign

Only criticism of Fed is he didn't seem to carry those kinds of tactics in the 1st set.

But its stil head-scratching how he can keep defying his age (all the questionable strength of the tour aside) and doing all of this. Maybe 35 year old slam champions will be the norm in 20 years.

Roll of honour:

Men's singles: Novak Djokovic
Women's singles: Flavia Pennetta
Men's doubles: Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Nicolas Mahut
Women's doubles: Martina Hingis & Sania Mirza
Mixed doubles: Martina Hingis & Leander Paes
Boys' singles: Taylor Harry Fritz
Girls' singles: Dalma Galfi
Boys' doubles: Felix Auger-Aliassime & Denis Shapovalov
Girls' doubles: Viktoria Kuzmova & Aleksandra Pospelova

Auger-Aliassime is the youngest player in the ATP top 1000, born in 2000...

New women's rankings...

1. Serena Williams (1)
2. Simona Halep (2)
3. Maria Sharapova (3)
4. Petra Kvitova (4)
5. Lucie Safarova (6)
6. Caroline Wozniacki (5)
7. Ana Ivanovic (7)
8. Flavia Pennetta (26)
9. Garbine Muguruza (9)
10. Karolina Pliskova (8)
11. Angelique Kerber (11)
12. Carla Suarez Navarro (10)
13. Timea Bacsinszky (14)
14. Agnieszka Radwanska (15)
15. Belinda Bencic (12)
16. Elina Svitolina (17)
17. Andrea Petkovic (18)
18. Madison Keys (19)
19. Roberta Vinci (43)
20. Ekaterina Makarova (13)
21. Sara Errani (16)
22. Samantha Stosur (22)
23. Victoria Azarenka (20)
24. Venus Williams (23)
25. Jelena Jankovic (21)
26. Eugenie Bouchard (25)
27. Sabine Lisicki (24)
28. Kristina Mladenovic (40)
29. Alize Cornet (27)
30. Irina-Camelia Begu (28)
...
33. Sloane Stephens (29)
58. Johanna Konta (97)
80. Bethanie Mattek-Sands (101)
96. Anett Kontaveit (152)
97. Aleksandra Krunic (65)
104. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (48)

I saw about 5 minutes of this in a bar last night. What has Robert Redford got on his head these days?

Also I bet Boris Becker still has awesome thighs.

great tourney imo

didn't know pennetta and fognini were dating/engaged, that's cool

anyone who missed the late nite fab/nadal match shd check out @ least the last few sets. I mean I saw it and I want to rewatch it

petition for 50% fewer shorts of stoic celebrity coaches tho

about two of you remember Becker as a player, right?

that's the one I most regret missing

New men's rankings...

1. Novak Djokovic (1)
2. Roger Federer (2)
3. Andy Murray (3)
4. Stan Wawrinka (5)
5. Tomas Berdych (6)
6. Kei Nishikori (4)
7. Rafael Nadal (8)
8. David Ferrer (7)
9. Milos Raonic (10)
10. Gilles Simon (11)
11. Richard Gasquet (12)
12. Kevin Anderson (14)
13. John Isner (13)
14. Marin Cilic (9)
15. David Goffin (15)
16. Feliciano Lopez (19)
17. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (18)
18. Ivo Karlovic (21)
19. Grigor Dimitrov (17)
20. Dominic Thiem (20)
21. Viktor Troicki (22)
22. Roberto Bautista Agut (23)
23. Bernard Tomic (24)
24. Gael Monfils (16)
25. Andreas Seppi (25)
26. Jeremy Chardy (27)
27. Tommy Robredo (26)
28. Fabio Fognini (32)
29. Jack Sock (28)
30. Thomaz Bellucci (30)
...
32. Benoit Paire (41)
42. Nick Kyrgios (37)
51. Donald Young (68)
92. Nicolas Almagro (114)

about two of you remember Becker as a player, right?

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, September 14, 2015 10:23 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um hello thats why hes a celebrity

Having congratulated myself at getting the kids to bed by 9:40, the rain delay totally ruined any chances I had of streaming this so I was left with fitful dreams in which Federer went 6-1 6-3 up, only to wreck his ankle stepping on a stray ball. Woke at 1:45am to see (through my ScoreFlash phone app only - no video) that Fed was still capable of walking, but actually a set down. Woke again around 3:15 to see Djokovic go a double-break up in set 4. Drifted in and out of sleep as Fed mounted his comeback. If he'd taken any of the bps in the last game I may well have sat up and tried to find a stream on the laptop, sleep be damned.

Looking fwd to the roof next year - though the USTA will probably go with 8pm local Monday night or something idiotic for the men's final.

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