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US Open 2024

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  • #32
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,921 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


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



  • #33
    Augme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Augme


    Good win for Jordan Thompson in 3 sets over Hurkacz. Rybakina had to withdraw and her qualifier opponent through to the thirs round. Her grandslam record was 0-5 before this tournament. Katie Boulter out in the second round too.



  • #34
    ledwithhedwith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭ledwithhedwith


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122553242#Comment_122553242

    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



  • #35
    Jack Daw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    Alcaraz gone in straight sets. Couldn't believe it when I saw the result this morning.



  • #36
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,921 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122560955#Comment_122560955

    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



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  • #37
    Royale with Cheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,380 ✭✭✭Royale with Cheese


    I haven't seen it but Alcaraz has those kind of sets in him in most matches he plays, looks like he strung 3 of them together this time though.



  • #38
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,829 ✭✭✭✭josip


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122561015#Comment_122561015

    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.

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  • #39
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,152 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    A good chance for Jack Draper to make the quarter finals of a grand slam.



  • #40
    klr87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭klr87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122560955#Comment_122560955

    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.



  • #41
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,921 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Djokovic down a set and a break to Popyrin..

    Now two sets

    Post edited by gmisk on


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  • #42
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,152 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Djokovic gone as well



  • #43
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,921 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Djokovic gone in 4.



  • #44
    klr87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭klr87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122564953#Comment_122564953

    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.



  • #45
    Jack Daw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    Sinner winning (which looks very likely now) would surely be a PR nightmare for tennis.



  • #46
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,921 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


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



  • #47
    Jack Daw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    Just saw that the wheelchair tennis isn't on at the US Open this year due to the clash with the Paralympics and this has happened a few times before as well.

    Poor form if you ask me, surely they could have organised the wheelchair event for last week to give the players the opportunity to play a US Open and Olympics.



  • #48
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,921 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


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



  • #49
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 787 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Zverev will be nr 2 after this tournament

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_US_Open_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_singles



  • #50
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,152 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    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.



  • #51
    Jack Daw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    Coco Gauff as truly horrific tonight, incredible number of double faults and unforced errors particularly on her forehand.



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  • #52
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,452 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


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



  • #53
    whiterebel
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,546 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    I have to agree with Henman, I think it's Zverev's to lose this year. If he is firing on all cylinders he is almost unstoppable.



  • #54
    klr87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭klr87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122572463#Comment_122572463

    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.



  • #55
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,921 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Draper has taken first set against Machac solid first set, good on serve.



  • #56
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,921 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    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)



  • #57
    klr87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭klr87


    Oh dear, Hawkeye has gone down everywhere, all courts stopped. There's a lesson there somewhere.



  • #58
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,921 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122573453#Comment_122573453

    Lost first set to Fritz...



  • #59
    klr87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭klr87


    Fritz takes the third, and gets to serve first fourth set.

    If Zverev is going to win, he'll need to play his umpteenth five-setter in slams.



  • #60
    BionicRasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭BionicRasher


    Fritz in the semis

    Played his game and Zverev looked very flat



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  • #61
    klr87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭klr87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122573453#Comment_122573453

    But fire on cylinders all he didn't, and he's out. There's a guaranteed new slam finalist from this side of the draw: Fritz vs Tiafoe/Dimitrov.



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