US OPEN 2016

draws

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/draws/2016_WS_draw.pdf
http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/draws/2016_WS_draw.pdf

Am I alone in thinking Serena is going to go out in the first round?

whoops one of those shd be

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/draws/2016_MS_draw.pdf

order of play for day 1 is up, i will be attending :)

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/schedule/index.html?promo=subnav

nice!

when i went last year for the final weekend i saw the men's wheelchair final, which was AMAZING. haven't seen early-round play so i'm not sure how deep the sport is, but definitely watch that japanese dude if you can

heh hm not sure if theres wheelchair action day 1 but thx

nadal is 3rd on ashe, and will likely crush istomin, but im hyped to see rafa

Poor Little Rich Girl CoCo Vandeweghe on Naomi Osaka: "The fact that she's won matches at slams surprises me." And that is why you will not be missed, CoCo. Thrilled that Osaka sent her on her merry way in r1.

was ctside for gasquet, he looked awful!!

Zheng Saisai has a charmingly ugly game

https://twitter.com/CauldronICYMI/status/771104756991270912

never change, gael

/!\roof closing/!\

forgot to mention how hideous the nike mandated fluorescent gear for this season is, gddamn

Serena's dress is great though!

yea agree

super impressed with Naomi Broady earlier, went toe to toe with Aga in the first set

really enjoying these Roddick periscope commentaries https://twitter.com/andyroddick/status/771495764799295488

damn i didnt get to see any of it but was hoping tipsy would advance

this delpo/stevie johnson match cld be p good

damn stevie w the sick running forehand xcourt off delpos forehand

looking like a karlovic/jared donaldson matchup to get to the 4th rd o_O

baghdatis/ryan harrison winner similarly gets 4th rd

theres kindof a soft middle of the mens tour rn

5th set tiebreak simon/lorenzi

evans/zverev is on ct 4, a really small ct that must be sick to watch irl

IVO

another late nite foggy match, going 5

i love both fab and ferrer btw hard to know who im rooting for

both these guys are so tuff

its hard for me to believe sock handled cilic as easily as the scoreline appears

One point shy of three British men in the last 16. I'm not sure that's happened in the Open era - maybe during the ATP boycott (Wimb '73) or maybe Chris Wilkinson strung three wins together in the Tim'n'Greg years.

Just watched highlights of Venus on Eurosport website; she won one and two and almost every point in the highlight reel was one she lost. Bit too Euro.

Djokovic goes into Edmund match with 30min competitive court-time in the last five days. I'm not sure what this means. Rusty? Rested? Probably wins in three anyhow.

insane monf/baghdad pt rn

god i fucking love monfils

i like this latvian girl

hadn't paid too much attention to her story before now but liked her post-match interview. Konta had a shocker today

cant believe woz is back in this good form

damn pouille

this rafa/luca pooey match has been sick

yup great stuff

3 frenchmen in the qtrs!

watching Venus- Pliskova through my fingers. that net chord to give Pliskova the break was brutal

and Venus saves 3 MPs to take it to a tie break

feel like now Pliskova's started reaching slam quarter finals she'll never stop

WS the chair ump for karlovic/nishikori

i was hoping ivo could stay w nishi a lil more

i just watched the jimmy connors 1991 30 for 30 while high, highly recommended

good insights from johnny mac on dimitrov's footwork

oh man what defense from murray

murray's on another level right now, dimitrov doesn't stand a chance

yea grigor isnt playing terribly, murray just looks super tough rn

absolute dismantling

I haven't been able to watch a second of this.

However, I have placed 3 bets so far. Allertova d. Ivanovic. Marchenko d. Kyrgios. Konjuh d. Radwanska.

And now I'm going out to buy myself all the things. Wish I'd put enough on that I could have taken the month off work!

obv theres a lot of history on the Louis Armstrong court, but it is def time for it to go, its interior and seating are v outdated

some hideous tennis on ashe right now...

looking forward to monfils/pouille tho!

lmao vinci foot faults at 5-6, 0-40 to give kerber the set. neither player deserved to win

embarrassing effort from vinci. gtfoh

crazy that with all his talent monfils has a chance to reach only his second slam semi

oh man what a pass from gael

monfils is hitting the ball twelve feet behind the baseline. this is incredible

omg sick sick sick FH chop pass from pouille

monfils came to play today

where has lex been?

smart betting is 'on a boat somewhere in the dodecanese'

mcenroe has brought up 'biorythms' twice in two days

im p confident novak is still gonna beat andy but itd prob be a great match

nole into the semis having lost 9 games total, that has to be a record

he's only won 8 sets!

Gah. I was thinking this was a bit like McEnroe in '79 (John Lloyd withdrew from a 3rd round match after a marathon vs McNamee the previous day, Eddie Dibbs retired from their quarter-final three games in), when he only had to complete five matches for his first Slam. But it's now worse. I guess this was at least a best-of-three win.

Come on, Gael!

ive played more tennis the last ~10 days than nole

Nish squanders 3 break points in the opening game :/

can't remember -- was there a shadow like this before the roof was installed?

murray beasting again -- the djokovic showdown is gonna be epic

kei bringing it -- this match has been great since the first set

terrible service game from kei immed after breaking andy

murray's gotta get his head back in the match

P much into a 5th..

murray just killed the butterfly that's been bothering him and now the crowd's REALLY against him

i love when murray gets mad at his box during the match lol

crazy comeback from murray down *4-3, 40-0 to even the set. kei really tightening up

that nishikori volley into the net . . .

yeah that was pure nerves

damn

jesus fuck this set

absolutely sick hands from kei there, that was a really great pass from murray too

2 MPs

nice

Done - well done.

these post-match spots always make me feel better about my own interviewing skills

Wanted Kei to win the Gold in Rio. This will have to do.

this halep/serena set has been epic

stan/delpo is a fun as hell matchup, im bummed i cant stay awake for this

the hell is stan wearing tho

feel like ive seen him in that before, he can pull it off imo but yea id obv never rock that

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150608090420-wawrinka-shorts-large-169.jpg
never forget

both murray and delpo going down tonight, i'm gutted

go monfils!

Didn't realise that Monfils has *never* defeated Nole :/

A couple of 3rd-set tie-breaks (Paris 2009, Montreal 2014) and a five-setter right at the start of their careers (USO R1 '05), but mostly a catalogue of beatings. Stan and Kei have beaten Nole at Slams, of course.

Woulda been happy with either Stan or Delpo. So excellent to see Delpo competing at such a level again! No shame in going down to Stan in the QFs like that.

On the kit front, all the Nike people (on men's side) are now out so we don't have to suffer the yellow and black attack any more! Hated it.

thoght delpo's outfit was pretty sharp!

if serena can push this to the 3d, shes reallly gonna be in rough shape

plish not hitting that cross ct was crazy

def less fluky than the vinci loss, serena showed her age imo ~ 24 hr turnaround from the halep match

gael abt to get bageled o_o

great comeback, nole has to hold this or gael will serve for 5-5!

so just caught the end of djokovic/monfils and apparently something was weird about it and the commentators were bagging on monfils for being unprofessional but i don't really "get" tennis so i don't know what happened

*first set of

God what the hell is monfils doing

that's what i'm trying to figure out! i can't hear the commentators v well

so just caught the end of djokovic/monfils and apparently something was weird about it and the commentators were bagging on monfils for being unprofessional but i don't really "get" tennis so i don't know what happened

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*first set of

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i only caught the last couple of points of the set, but my guess is that once monfils fell behind he started playing purposefully erratically, basically tanking the set, in order to 1) conserve energy and/or 2) serve first in the second set

OMFG what a point

he's playing very...casually. his shot selection has been pretty bizarre. even for him!

tennis is exciting!

lol otm

it's clear that monfils feels he needs to junk up the match a little because he knows he'll never outslug djokovic from the baseline (he's something like 0-12 in his career against him), but i'm not sure djokovic is the kind of player these little chip shots are going to work against. he's just too solid and too mentally strong

omg this lil fans that those ppl had plugged into their phones

mcenroe is really mad an monfils, lol

im not listening but mcenroe is terrible w things like this, he was the same way w krygios

djokovic just demoralizes ppl

now gael is limping....lol

i love monfils but...

monfils showing some life!

don't tell me gbx stopped watching!

can't watch rn but yes to the mcenroe stuff. he gets relentlessly negative some matches. it gets to be a bit much. during the nole-dimitrov it was obvious cliff was getting annoyed with it too in the booth. kept pulling him back to center.

oh i'm watching doggy

this is the most monfils set of all sets

like sometimes he just doesn't give a shit? i'm having a tough time following without sound

he does do that a lot, but he's been pretty focused this set! i mean the general roller coaster nature of the set, the bizarre decision to serve and volley on SECOND SERVES against the best returner of all time, the drop shots, the court coverage, the crazy angles...this is what makes him so exciting to watch

i'm pulling for him

also, i am now noticing for the first time something that dfw pointed out in one of his tennis essays: the pros really do have hypertrophic serving/favored arms!

oh yeah they're huge, any semi-serious player will have hypertrophic forearm muscles but the pros, if you ever see them in person, are alien-like

monfils is such a ham

what in the heck

uh oh, novak calling the trainer now

mcenroe is still bagging on monfils!

there's no quit in this young man

has been a battle

does stan have a zit on his nose y/n

mercy roof closing for the a/c

stan impresses me often

12 straight points

i meant 10, but still

stan/novak is the most boring semi result :(

who doesn't think kerber will win the third set 6-1 or something

I don't

hmm you're right

was some wishful thinking tbh, pliskova has a really, really dull game

the fuck are these unforced errors

this is more like it, brilliant hold

and there's the collapse. took longer than i thought, but the way pliskova celebrated getting to 4-4 as if she'd won the whole thing...didn't get another point

broken at love is a tough way to lose

good job by herb

lmao kerb*

stan/novak is the most boring semi result :(

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makes for the best final though

that prize money! jesus

yeah that was genuinely surprising to me -- i am learning so much

she and whoever wins tomorrow should keep 300k and split the rest amongst the tour

i turn this on for one minute and it's the best point ever lol

oh my, wawrinka stepped up there

this is kind of a great final

wawrinka is playing some GOAT tennis y/n

this stan fellow is pretty good

lol jinx

this is an incredible match, so much so that it's kind of exhausting

yea i only just tuned in but this is a heavyweight fight

probably gonna dream about stan's down-the-line backhands 2nite

another one

Amazing that Stan has only beaten Nole 4 times in 23 attempts but causes him SO MUCH trouble at the Slams.

and another one

Nole still ahead on points - he built up quite the lead with that first set of love-holds and fistful of b-ps on Stan's serve.

Stan finally up 122-120 in that category.

god i wish i could watch this

Well, well.

Win Wimbledon next year and that's a Career Slam in 3.5 years.

unbelievable level

stans amazing

11 final wins in a row for Stan is the maddest thing. gotta say, to counteract all the hate he gets, Djokovic is consistently a v gracious loser

And Dan Evans had a match point against this guy. Dan Evans.