US OPEN 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_US_Open_(tennis)

nakashima straight setting rune is impressive

big time win for thanasi! going into the 3rd set, i didn't think he had the juice. and osaka about to take out osta with relative ease.

Dan Evans beats Karen Khachanov (23) (6)6-7 7-6(2) 7-6(4) 4-6 6-4

Evans was 4-0 down, 15-40 in the fifth

DAN EVANS WINS THE LONGEST MATCH IN US OPEN HISTORY! pic.twitter.com/n8pS6HjrRN

— US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 27, 2024

wow li tu wins set 2 vs alcaraz

several good 5 setters today, on the hottest day of the tourney

musetti played some wild defense to ultimately break kecmanovic in the 5th and then served it out

rublev came back from 0-2 down to rinderknech & lehecka came back from 0-2 vs krueger

etcheverry over cerundolo in 5

Wow Botic

Amazing

Alacaraz and now Djoko out. This is a good opportunity for er, Sinner.

For some reason, I occasionally wake up during the night session in New York, at crucial moments. It's usually been Federer (double mp down to Monfils in 2014 qf, the late period losses to Millman and Dimitrov). This morning I was awake at 4:35am, just in time for the Popyrin double-break in set 4. Squinting at a score app in the dark (is that 30 or 40? Am I actually awake?), it's a great way to start the day.

Last time we had a year without a Big Three Slam win: 2002. Johansson, Costa, Hewitt, Sampras. A lifetime ago.

My concern about that side of the draw: Zverev. (And Etcheverry really could've beaten him last night).

Zverev is just the kind of player that would've had no chance when the Big Three were ruling, and it would've been delicious.

tommy paul is playing the absolute best tennis of his life. down two sets to sinner

nuno borges got his entire personality destroyed today

When was the last time a male player did three straight bagels in a Slam? De Minaur looking to buy a stake in Iga's bakery.

I'm not sure I can call any of the men's qf. There are obviously favourites based on seeding, but counterbalanced by other factors.
I don't love having the billionaire kids still in the women's draw. Surprised this is Badosa's 2nd ever GS qf, and she only has four career titles. She's a former #2! It's my failing for not following WTA tour as closely as the ATP, but sometimes I wonder if the maths works differently over there :)

When was the last time a male player did three straight bagels in a Slam? De Minaur looking to buy a stake in Iga's bakery.

good Q. close last year US Open, medvedev beat atilla balazs 1-1-0. likely would have to be over two matches cuz its reasonably likely if you've been double bageled you may retire before the next bagel completes

for billionaire kids, navarro and pegula seem to be abt as grounded ppl as possible, i dont count their privilege against them

not sure if this is most recent but
1993 french open rd 2

S Bruguera 6 6 6
T Champion 0 0 0

xp Badosa's had a similar career arc to Svitolina: Solid week-in, week-out player, but with an underwhelming record in the slams. Svitolina eventually started playing deeper into the majors on a more consistent basis, but Badosa's had some unfortunate injuries and has never gotten that same momentum. Maybe this turns in thag direction for her.

Agree that Navarro and especially Pegula seem as grounded as could be expected of someone with their privileges. They're both a far sight from Coco Vandeweghe, who was just heinous on and off court.

Sabalenka's looking ferocious this summer. Among the women remaining, I have a hard time picking against her.

Weirdly finding myself rooting for Meddy on the men's side, though "anyone but Zverev" among those left is also fine. I didn't think Alcaraz would win the title based on form, but I'm still shocked he went out as early as r2. Sinner doesn't seem to have let the doping story get into his head the way I thought it might.

this match vs navarro is badosa in a nutshell.. she is such a confidence player.. looks strong when playing well, sulks when playing bad

from 5-1 up in set 2, badosa won 5 more pts the rest of the match

goodbye you skarsgard-looking bastard!

wow fritz

so a finalist will be one of

fritz
grigor
tiafoe

Great stuff!

wait whaaaaaaaat omg

Tiafoe is looking sharp right now. It's fun to see him be this consistent, he's always been capable of good-to-great play, just not reliably enough.

Looks like Zheng was the latest victim of shitty scheduling at slams, though its hard to see how anyone beats Saba until she meets Swiatek in the final.

Did laugh at this from Tiafoe. Its an excellent opportunity as Sinner or Med could be beatable on their day:

"“It’s only a matter of time,” Tiafoe said. “You put yourself in positions, it’s only a matter of time, and the game is open. It’s not like it once was where you make quarter-finals, you play Rafa, and you’re looking at flights. That’s just the reality"

muchova cruising

her skirt kinda looks like a trash bag tho

Muchova isn't even 100℅ fit, apparently

Draper into the semis, Raducanuing it so far.

Thoughts turn to... Kyle Edmund, AO semifinalist 2018. And Edmund (#452) gets a rematch with Cilic (#1082) tomorrow in a Challenger in Cassis.

i guess pegula had no choice about being a nepo baby, and despite her advantages, it takes a lot to become a top-ten player in the world

still not rooting for her tho. go muchova

I like Pegula partly because her mom (who had the stroke) is my age and grew up outside Rochester like me. Maybe we were in Model U.N. together, who knows. Also, go Bills. (But OK, there is the fracking, yes.)

No big issues with nepo babies in tennis. You are not going to become much of a player, nevermind win a slam, unless you are really really good.

But I almost always back Czech players. Love them.

You are not going to become much of a player, nevermind win a slam, unless you are really really good.

True of course, but it's about opportunities and being allowed to develop. Pegula didn't crack the top 100 until she was 25. Most players can barely make a living playing WTA125 and below, but she had that cushion and could stick around, and work with great coaches. I guess the flipside of that is: why bother to improve if you don't need the money? It wouldn't be surprising to see the rich kids just drift around the 300s and then go do something else. So, yeah, there's definitely something special there with these two, to achieve what they have.

Yeah there are real country club origins to tennis so I am sure plwnty of rich kids try it out.

Kinda feel that if you show some talent players in all four grand slam holding countries (plus another 20 or so around the world) there is an infrastructure set-up that will pick up and invest in talent for a while. Tennis, like most sports, needs sone level of infrastructure to refine what a player shows.

But I haven't read enough on player journeys (sounds like a mixture of talent, sacrifice, luck, pushy families).

impressive by navarro to make that match as close as it was; equally impressive by sabalenka for controlling the entire match and not cracking from 5-6 down second set

Pegula on quite a roll after getting demolished in the first set.

dislike

She is playing like a demon, though

boo

That was an impressive win, but she seems like a long shot against Sabalenka.

Quite a test for Saba as the crowd can get to her at times, I think...that is Pegula's chance

Saw last night’s matches in person, my first US Open. Sabalenka looked incredible. Would have to favor her in the final. Pegula was hard to get a read on - I thought Muchová made more astounding plays but Pergula seemed to wear her down in some way.

88 min second set, 2-3 draper vomits

This match is like watching two sickly Victorian children try to fight off the plague

— 🗣 (@RYBKR) September 6, 2024

great, competitive 1st set sabalenka v pegula

props to sabalenka, she didnt serve very well today, pegula pushed her p hard

And Edmund (#452) gets a rematch with Cilic (#1082) tomorrow in a Challenger in Cassis.

gasquet has taken the cassis title!

meanwhile in queens, sinner never looked bothered, not even when down for a bit in the 3rd. onto indoors!

So the year ends with 2 majors each for Sinner (age 23) and Alcaraz (age 21). Squarely into a new mens' era here.

Here’s hoping Djokovic never wins another Slam

Djoko might get to a final next year but that's pretty much it for that lot xp

need that sinner vs. alcaraz major final expeditiously (hoping wimbledon, but any will do)

djokovic has been talking about retiring, and while i don't believe him, if he has a successful aussie run, he might want to go out on top

So the year ends with 2 majors each for Sinner (age 23) and Alcaraz (age 21). Squarely into a new mens' era here.

First year since 2002 that Roger, Rafa or Djokovic didn’t win at least one major, which is basically Sinner and Carlos’ entire lives.

Current entirely fictitious and repulsive talking anti-immigrant point being circulated by people including Elon and Jim Jordan is that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are eating good honest white Americans' pet cats and dogs.

lol wrong thread!

lol, it was fun reading that sentence and clinging to the assumption that it was going to come around to relevance somehow, i must say.

Yeah I was like “did someone interview Coco Vandeweghe”

lol well Springfield’s only 80 miles from Cincinnati, somebody could’ve snuck up for a snack during the tourney.