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The 2015 US Open |OT| 31th August – 13th September

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TJ Verboten

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Deserved win.
Understandable for Wozniacki to push on one or two match points, just to test the nerves.....but it was pretty clear Cetkovska was playing strong on the do or die points.
Caroline needed more aggression there, but alas, story of her career I suppose.

No worries.....hoping we get Keys/Serena, Bencic/Serena (revenge match), Halep/Azarenka, Kvitova/Stosur, Kvitova/Halep, then Serena/Kvitova (revenge 2.0, plus Kvitova is the best scalp Serena can get in the final with her 2 GSs)
 
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LuuKyK

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What a match. So happy for Petra, never seen such a clutch performance. The way she saved all those MPs was unbelievable.

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Btw this is pretty damn terrible. Poor Stosur.

US Open: Sam Stosur snubbed by the Grand Slam

FORMER US Open champion Samantha Stosur has been snubbed by the Grand Slam, forced to catch a bus to the tournament and shunted between practice courts. The last woman to win the Grand Slam before Serena Williams had to catch a bus from Manhattan to Flushing Meadows when the tournament organisers told her they had no car available on Wednesday morning. The same day, Stosur was shunted between three practice courts over a 45 minute period — unable to secure a solid block of on court preparation — after she said world number one Serena Williams booted her off the first court.

The world No.22 was unaffected by the below par treatment, storming into her second round match this morning to claim victory against Russian Evgeniya Rodina in just 51 minutes, 6-1, 6-1. But later, Stosur said the treatment wasn’t good enough. “When you are still in the tournament you try and book a car and they say you can’t have one before 10am because you don’t have a match, I don’t think it’s good enough,” she said. When asked if she thought Williams — the only woman to win the US Open since Stosur did 2011 — would get a car, she replied: “Yeah”. “She kicked me off my practice court yesterday too. A few issues, but it’s all right,” she said. Stosur said she wasn’t speaking as a former champion, but was speaking for all players. “It’s not just me, there have been many players in that situation,” she said. “It’s a grand slam. It’s one of the biggest tournaments in the world. You’ve got to be able to provide transport to players when they need it,” she said.
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I have to say this made me laugh though.

The scoreboard during her first-round win over Timea Babos listed her as Samantha Stososova.
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lol And on the Australian Open the on court interviewer called her AMANDA Stosur too.
 
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Murray is one match away from having the ATP record for most matches won from 0-2 down.

dem mindgames
 
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Kotetsu534

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Honestly it makes sense that a player from this era should take the record for comebacks from two sets to love down. The men's (though also the women's to a lesser degree) has never been more physical, and a lot of players simply don't have the conditioning to compete for best 3 out of 5 at the level needed to beat the likes of Murray (unless they completely implode). It's a good part of the reason why very few talented teenagers can make breakthrough runs at Slams - they might have the technique and the game sense to succeed, but they don't usually have the physical strength or stamina. The elite players are also the best and most experienced at recovering from exhaustion in time for the next match.

Jon Wertheim, surely one of the best tennis writers around (and probably concensus pick for the best?) has been banging the drum for a rethink of best of 5 at the Slams, certainly during the first week. He brought it up again in his run down of day 4, pointing out the record number of men's retirements at this tournament. Personally, I think any change to the format would be sacrilege - the huge prize money more than makes up for the increase in difficulty. I would bet a lot of money that the AELTC would never accept it at Wimbledon. But I am much more sympathetic to fears about asking players to play in direct sunlight for hours, and would like to see as many matches as possible played in the mornings and at night. I wonder if shading off Louis Armstrong would be possible (like with Ashe). If it could get to the point where a player would never be asked to play during the middle of the day twice in a row that would be a big improvement.
 
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Alternatively, speed up the damn courts so players can actually hit through the damn ball.
 
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IISANDERII

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Kotetsu534 said:
Honestly it makes sense that a player from this era should take the record for comebacks from two sets to love down. The men's (though also the women's to a lesser degree) has never been more physical, and a lot of players simply don't have the conditioning to compete for best 3 out of 5 at the level needed to beat the likes of Murray (unless they completely implode). It's a good part of the reason why very few talented teenagers can make breakthrough runs at Slams - they might have the technique and the game sense to succeed, but they don't usually have the physical strength or stamina. The elite players are also the best and most experienced at recovering from exhaustion in time for the next match.

Jon Wertheim, surely one of the best tennis writers around (and probably concensus pick for the best?) has been banging the drum for a rethink of best of 5 at the Slams, certainly during the first week. He brought it up again in his run down of day 4, pointing out the record number of men's retirements at this tournament. Personally, I think any change to the format would be sacrilege - the huge prize money more than makes up for the increase in difficulty. I would bet a lot of money that the AELTC would never accept it at Wimbledon. But I am much more sympathetic to fears about asking players to play in direct sunlight for hours, and would like to see as many matches as possible played in the mornings and at night. I wonder if shading off Louis Armstrong would be possible (like with Ashe). If it could get to the point where a player would never be asked to play during the middle of the day twice in a row that would be a big improvement.
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5 setters are way too long, both for the player and viewer. They should do changeovers every 4 games maybe, the players can handle it; a 90 second sit down is small to begin with. At the same time, increase the time between points. It's ridiculous that they try to hurry things along and shorten matches by only allowing 20 seconds instead of 25.
 
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Kotetsu534

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Crab said:
Alternatively, speed up the damn courts so players can actually hit through the damn ball.
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Agree with this strongly too. I think the 4 Slams should pull further apart, whereas over the past 15 years they've consistently moved closer together. Wimbledon, since the 2001 grass adjustments, and the USO with gradually more sand, have got continuously slower, to the point that big servers don't seem to have a large advantage on grass, and there's little difference between the USO and the AO's Plexicushion. Perversely, the French is faster than ever, to the point where there are very few (any?) clay court specialists capable of winning it, like Kuerten and Moya once did, and there's nearly as much net attacking at RG as Wimbledon!

That said, I don't think I could stomach watching Ivo Karlovic win a Grand Slam, so maybe I should be careful what I wish for.
 
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The trouble with court homogenization is that all of the top players, particularly Federer because he's been around for the longest time but also these days Djokovic very much, benefit from it and they make the money, so it won't be changed. It's a very short-sighted thing to do, though, because it's also killing young talent which traditionally broke through on one surface before spreading out to the others if they were really good.
 
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szaromir

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In-form and focused Paire is really entertaining to watch. Shame 3 months of good form are followed by 18 months of clowning.
 
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sam777

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Urgh going to miss the Rafa match as it is on late here in the U.K, pretty dissapointed by that, hope he can get the win as Fognini isn't that good on hard but knowing Rafa's form he may have a decent chance.
 
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Diamond

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IISANDERII said:
5 setters are way too long, both for the player and viewer. They should do changeovers every 4 games maybe, the players can handle it; a 90 second sit down is small to begin with. At the same time, increase the time between points. It's ridiculous that they try to hurry things along and shorten matches by only allowing 20 seconds instead of 25.
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My opinion on the matter : people should stop trying to create some new rules for tennis.The sport is perfect like it is.

Kotetsu534 said:
Agree with this strongly too. I think the 4 Slams should pull further apart, whereas over the past 15 years they've consistently moved closer together. Wimbledon, since the 2001 grass adjustments, and the USO with gradually more sand, have got continuously slower, to the point that big servers don't seem to have a large advantage on grass, and there's little difference between the USO and the AO's Plexicushion. Perversely, the French is faster than ever, to the point where there are very few (any?) clay court specialists capable of winning it, like Kuerten and Moya once did, and there's nearly as much net attacking at RG as Wimbledon!

That said, I don't think I could stomach watching Ivo Karlovic win a Grand Slam, so maybe I should be careful what I wish for.
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I don't know if I agree with your French Open analysis. Nadal is, like, the ultimate clay specialist and he won the FO until this year. The lack of super specialists, as in the guys who could win Roland Garros but nothing else, has maybe a little bit to do with courts changes, but it also has a lot to do with the evolution of the players and the sport in general.
 
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Niraj

I shot people I like more for less.
Venus is playing really well so far. Going to be hard for Bencic to win without a dip.
 
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LuuKyK

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Cilic is such a mug sometimes. So mentally weak. Its a wonder how he won that title last year.

Belinda struggling, she looks more tired than Granny Venus W.
 
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Kuku playing well. That slide into dropshot volley was lovely.
 
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This match is brains vs. brawn right now. Kuku waiting for the right moment, withstanding Cilic's power, and then blam, instant winner.

EDIT: THAT SET POINT WAS GOAT, INCREDIBLE.
 
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now switch to kuku-cilic

it's a great match
 
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John Dunbar

correct about everything
last year cilic didn't activate the godmode until the quarters. will be interesting to see his level if he makes it that far. don't think he can match it, though.

edir: kuku fizzled out in the fifth. shame.
 
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aww, I think Kuku has tired too much to do anything. Still, he played lovely while he was on.
 
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Chumpion

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Bencic was happy shaking hands because now she can get some fucking rest. Girl is pooped.

I predict Rafa will improve today and beat Fognini comfortably. His second round was already better than the first.
 
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John Dunbar

correct about everything
watching djokovic play this year:

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totoro'd

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Bouchard has the on court personality of cardboard, she won that set and didn't have any emotion on her face at all, at least Cibulkova gets fired up
 
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