US Open 2024

Comfortable wins for Draper (likely Alcaraz next!) and Machac (very impressive against Korda)

seems an odd question? She’s ranked 70 in the world , won 18 out of 30 matches. She’s also won eh a grand slam

Big shock alright!

Reports using the words erratic and error strewn...

I would say maybe he needed a bit of a longer break after the Olympics tbh

Last year Alcaraz's form dropped after Wimbledon and he didn't win another tournament. Maybe he's got too high an intensity game to be able to keep it up for a whole year. Someone here compared him to a puppy during Wimbledon.

De Minaur looks best placed to benefit from Alcaraz's (and Hurkacz's) early exit. There's a path to a Grand Slam semi final there for him. A run which would help cement his place in the top 8 in the Race to Turin. Before the US Open, he'd have been looking over his shoulder at Tsitsipas who also bombed out early.

Surprising that he lost so early, and so badly. But he apparently doesn't like fast hard courts*, and the USO courts are faster this year than they have been for some time.

*Odd for someone who has won the last two Wimbledons, but there it is.

Djokovic gone as well

That's a shocker. I guess Djokovic put everything into winning the Olympics, and had nothing left in the tank, mentally anyway. It's like 2016: After he finally won the French, he lost in the 3rd round at Wimbledon to Querrey.

Draper playing very solidly against van de Zandschulp two sets up.

Draper very comfortable in the end Machac next, could be fun!

Watched the first set and a half of Evans vs De Minaur thought Evans was competitive but De Minaur always seemed to have a bit more. Seen the score this morning 6-3, 6-7, 6-0, 6-0 to De Minaur, can only guess that Evans finally ran out of steam in the final 2 sets.

Zverev has a good chance of winning this, he is on the opposite side of the draw to Sinner and Medvedev. Even though Sinner is looking very strong but Medvedev might catch him.

Hard to watch Gauff fall apart like that. Can't even say Navarro played particularly well, was very much a self-destruction.

Some chickens came home to roost for Gauff. Her forehand has never been solid, and her serve is a disaster waiting to happen. Navarro really should have won in straight sets, just as she did at Wimbledon.

Draper very good against Machac.

6-3, 6-1, 6-2.

Medvedev looks to be in the process of blowing away Borges (6-0 first set)

Lost first set to Fritz...

Fritz in the semis

Played his game and Zverev looked very flat