Maria Sharapova has a Young Angel
in the grip of her awesome claws
will she show Mercy?
So as to let me Cash?
This Over 18 Games?
For Anastasia, I am begging you Maria
on bended knee here
Girl?
Yes. I am really that desperate. Searching My Van Down beside this River
for any thing I can pray to
in the grip of her awesome claws
will she show Mercy?
So as to let me Cash?
This Over 18 Games?
For Anastasia, I am begging you Maria
on bended knee here
Girl?
Yes. I am really that desperate. Searching My Van Down beside this River
for any thing I can pray to
Well-rounded Anderson rolls past Coric.
WHAT HAPPENED: Those who overlook Kevin Anderson’s ground game, typecasting the 6-foot-8 South African as merely a power-serving machine, do so at their own peril. Andy Murray found that out the hard way at the US Open in 2015, when the then-world No. 3 was simply outslugged by Anderson, who would post a career-best Slam showing by reaching the quarterfinals.
Borna Coric may not have overlooked Anderson on Day 5 in the Grandstand, but the 61st-ranked Croat sure couldn’t hang with the 28th seed from the baseline, falling in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, in one hour and 49 minutes. Anderson, 31, has now reached the round of 16 at all three majors he’s played this year, having sat out the Australian Open in order to rehab from a hip injury.
“I’m really just trying to stick to my game,” said Anderson, whose 32 winners included 12 aces. “It’s built around the serve, but I also want to make my opponent run more than me.”
The 20-year-old Coric – one of the poster boys for the ATP World Tour’s #NextGen campaign – was aiming to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his four-year career.
With Coric serving to stay in the opening set at 4-5, 30-40, Anderson flashed some all-court form, putting away a forehand approach to grab both the break and the set. Trailing 1-2 in the second, Coric called for a medical timeout in order to have his right knee taped. Anderson would break him again eight games later en route to a commanding two-set lead.
With his opponent perhaps not 100 percent, the former University of Illinois standout would strike again in the third with breaks in the third and fifth games to put the match away for good.
Anderson saved all five break points he faced on Friday, and has yet to be broken in three rounds of action.
“It definitely helps,” he said. “I’d love to come out here and not face any break points. They’re difficult situations, but if I concentrate I feel I can handle it. I feel I have a great mindset.”
WHAT IT MEANS: Anderson moves on to face tour vet Paolo Lorenzi, who emerged from an all-Italian third-rounder against countryman Thomas Fabbiano, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Anderson is a spotless 3-0 against the 35-year-old, including a 7-5, 7-6 win on clay earlier this year in Geneva.
MATCH POINT: Anderson last reached the quarterfinals here in 2015. Can he advance to the Elite Eight once again?
WHAT HAPPENED: Those who overlook Kevin Anderson’s ground game, typecasting the 6-foot-8 South African as merely a power-serving machine, do so at their own peril. Andy Murray found that out the hard way at the US Open in 2015, when the then-world No. 3 was simply outslugged by Anderson, who would post a career-best Slam showing by reaching the quarterfinals.
Borna Coric may not have overlooked Anderson on Day 5 in the Grandstand, but the 61st-ranked Croat sure couldn’t hang with the 28th seed from the baseline, falling in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, in one hour and 49 minutes. Anderson, 31, has now reached the round of 16 at all three majors he’s played this year, having sat out the Australian Open in order to rehab from a hip injury.
“I’m really just trying to stick to my game,” said Anderson, whose 32 winners included 12 aces. “It’s built around the serve, but I also want to make my opponent run more than me.”
The 20-year-old Coric – one of the poster boys for the ATP World Tour’s #NextGen campaign – was aiming to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his four-year career.
With Coric serving to stay in the opening set at 4-5, 30-40, Anderson flashed some all-court form, putting away a forehand approach to grab both the break and the set. Trailing 1-2 in the second, Coric called for a medical timeout in order to have his right knee taped. Anderson would break him again eight games later en route to a commanding two-set lead.
With his opponent perhaps not 100 percent, the former University of Illinois standout would strike again in the third with breaks in the third and fifth games to put the match away for good.
Anderson saved all five break points he faced on Friday, and has yet to be broken in three rounds of action.
“It definitely helps,” he said. “I’d love to come out here and not face any break points. They’re difficult situations, but if I concentrate I feel I can handle it. I feel I have a great mindset.”
WHAT IT MEANS: Anderson moves on to face tour vet Paolo Lorenzi, who emerged from an all-Italian third-rounder against countryman Thomas Fabbiano, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Anderson is a spotless 3-0 against the 35-year-old, including a 7-5, 7-6 win on clay earlier this year in Geneva.
MATCH POINT: Anderson last reached the quarterfinals here in 2015. Can he advance to the Elite Eight once again?
Pouille continues to impress, reaches fourth round.
WHAT HAPPENED: Lucas Pouille's more flamboyant and established compatriots Gael Monfils and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga have historically carried the French flag to tennis glory for many years.
But, now it might be Pouille's turn to do some of the heavy lifting in carrying the Tricolore.
The No. 16 seed rolled into US Open fourth round for the second consecutive year with a workman like 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Kazakhstan qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin on Friday on a sun-splashed Court 17.
This was a rematch from last year's opening round won by Pouille and almost an exact replay. Both matches went four sets. Kukushkin won the first set last year. There were 37 games in this year's match, last year there were 35.
Pouille's breakout year came in 2016 and featured two Grand Slam quarterfinals - the Australian and US Opens. During the year he notched wins over top players Juan Martin del Potro and Bernard Tomic, but by far the highlight of the year was his five-set upset of Rafael Nadal in the fourth round here at Flushing Meadows.
The 23-year-old Frenchman has quietly put together another strong season with two tour wins, a runner-up, two semifinals, a third-round result at Roland Garros and a starring role in his country's quarterfinal Davis Cup win over Great Britain.
Pouille has as a sturdy game with no glaring weakness. The score sheet reflected that with 39 winners and 33 unforced errors. He had nine aces, got in only 54 percent of his first serves but did win 72 percent of his first serve points.
Except for the opening set when Kukushkin broke serve twice, there was just one service break in the next three sets.
WHAT IT MEANS: Pouille is the highest remaining seed in the wide open bottom quarter that was expected to be anchored by world No. 2 Andy Murray before the Englishman pulled out with an injury. No. 5 Marian Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion, was on paper expected to be Pouille's next opponent but he was upset earlier in the day by No. 29 Diego Schwartzman of Argentina.
MATCH POINT: With a possible favorable path ahead of him, can Pouille make his first Grand Slam semifinal?
WHAT HAPPENED: Lucas Pouille's more flamboyant and established compatriots Gael Monfils and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga have historically carried the French flag to tennis glory for many years.
But, now it might be Pouille's turn to do some of the heavy lifting in carrying the Tricolore.
The No. 16 seed rolled into US Open fourth round for the second consecutive year with a workman like 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Kazakhstan qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin on Friday on a sun-splashed Court 17.
This was a rematch from last year's opening round won by Pouille and almost an exact replay. Both matches went four sets. Kukushkin won the first set last year. There were 37 games in this year's match, last year there were 35.
Pouille's breakout year came in 2016 and featured two Grand Slam quarterfinals - the Australian and US Opens. During the year he notched wins over top players Juan Martin del Potro and Bernard Tomic, but by far the highlight of the year was his five-set upset of Rafael Nadal in the fourth round here at Flushing Meadows.
The 23-year-old Frenchman has quietly put together another strong season with two tour wins, a runner-up, two semifinals, a third-round result at Roland Garros and a starring role in his country's quarterfinal Davis Cup win over Great Britain.
Pouille has as a sturdy game with no glaring weakness. The score sheet reflected that with 39 winners and 33 unforced errors. He had nine aces, got in only 54 percent of his first serves but did win 72 percent of his first serve points.
Except for the opening set when Kukushkin broke serve twice, there was just one service break in the next three sets.
WHAT IT MEANS: Pouille is the highest remaining seed in the wide open bottom quarter that was expected to be anchored by world No. 2 Andy Murray before the Englishman pulled out with an injury. No. 5 Marian Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion, was on paper expected to be Pouille's next opponent but he was upset earlier in the day by No. 29 Diego Schwartzman of Argentina.
MATCH POINT: With a possible favorable path ahead of him, can Pouille make his first Grand Slam semifinal?
Goerges reaches new heights in New York.
WHAT HAPPENED: No. 30 seed Julia Goerges advanced to her first-ever US Open fourth round by serving her way past Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia, 6-3, 6-3, on Court 5.
The German seized control early in the first set. With Krunic serving at 1-1, Goerges employed a defensive lob to force her opponent off the net and extend a point that looked finished. When a Krunic forehand error ended the highlight-reel point, it seemed to momentarily break her spirit, and Goerges reeled off the next two points to secure the early break.
From there, Goerges relied on strong serving to stay ahead in the set, eventually closing it out with a two-break cushion at 6-3. She would win a staggering 84 percent of her first-serve points in the match.
Set two stayed on serve until Krunic, serving at 3-4, commited a pair of untimely unforced errors – one off of each baseline wing – to concede the decisive break.
There would be one final test for Goerges, as she was forced to save three break points in a 14-point game to close out the match. They were the only break points the German faced.
WHAT IT MEANS: Goerges matches her career-best Grand Slam result with the victory. She reached consecutive fourth rounds in Melbourne and Paris in 2015 but has failed to get past the second round at a major since.
The German continues to ride the momentum from a strong US Open Series. She reached her ninth career WTA singles final in Washington, D.C., before defeating a pair of Top 10 opponents (No. 10 Radwanska and No. 4 Svitolina) en route to a quarterfinal appearance in Cincinnati.
In that quarterfinal, she fell to American Sloane Stephens, 6-1, 7-6.
The American awaits in round four, and a last-eight matchup with Maria Sharapova potentially lurks beyond that.
MATCH POINT: Goerges has dropped just 10 games in her opening three matches. Can she maintain that level as she fights both the crowd and Stephens on Day 7?
WHAT HAPPENED: No. 30 seed Julia Goerges advanced to her first-ever US Open fourth round by serving her way past Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia, 6-3, 6-3, on Court 5.
The German seized control early in the first set. With Krunic serving at 1-1, Goerges employed a defensive lob to force her opponent off the net and extend a point that looked finished. When a Krunic forehand error ended the highlight-reel point, it seemed to momentarily break her spirit, and Goerges reeled off the next two points to secure the early break.
From there, Goerges relied on strong serving to stay ahead in the set, eventually closing it out with a two-break cushion at 6-3. She would win a staggering 84 percent of her first-serve points in the match.
Set two stayed on serve until Krunic, serving at 3-4, commited a pair of untimely unforced errors – one off of each baseline wing – to concede the decisive break.
There would be one final test for Goerges, as she was forced to save three break points in a 14-point game to close out the match. They were the only break points the German faced.
WHAT IT MEANS: Goerges matches her career-best Grand Slam result with the victory. She reached consecutive fourth rounds in Melbourne and Paris in 2015 but has failed to get past the second round at a major since.
The German continues to ride the momentum from a strong US Open Series. She reached her ninth career WTA singles final in Washington, D.C., before defeating a pair of Top 10 opponents (No. 10 Radwanska and No. 4 Svitolina) en route to a quarterfinal appearance in Cincinnati.
In that quarterfinal, she fell to American Sloane Stephens, 6-1, 7-6.
The American awaits in round four, and a last-eight matchup with Maria Sharapova potentially lurks beyond that.
MATCH POINT: Goerges has dropped just 10 games in her opening three matches. Can she maintain that level as she fights both the crowd and Stephens on Day 7?
Nadal in day, Federer at night highlight Day 6 schedule.
Two-time US Open champion and world No. 1 Rafael Nadal and five-time titlist and world No. 3 Roger Federer are back in action on Day 6 in third-round matches as they work toward a much-anticipated semifinal showdown.
Nadal, the reigning French Open champion, anchors the afternoon program in Arthur Ashe Stadium, playing lucky loser Leonardo Mayer. Federer, meantime, opens the prime-time evening schedule against No. 31 Feliciano Lopez of Spain. Federer is the reigining Australian Open and Wimbledon champion and looking to win a Open era record sixth US Open crown.
But it is not just the Nadal and Federer show as there are plenty of third-round matches scattered around the USTA Billie Jean National Tennis Center grounds on the first weekend of the fortnight,with matches featuring Karolina Pliskova, Madison Keys, CoCo Vandeweghe, Jelena Ostapenko, Juan Martin del Potro and Gael Monfils.
Women's top seed Pliskova reached her first Grand Slam final here last year and opens the day program in Arthur Ashe Stadium against No. 27 Zhang Shuai of China, followed by hard-serving American No. 20 Vandeweghe against No. 10 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.
In the temporary Louis Armstrong Stadium, Latavian 20-year-old sensation Ostapenko, the reigning French Open champion, plays unseeded Russian Daria Kasatkina.
No. 15 Keys closes out the evening program against No. 17 Elena Vesnina of Russia.
The fan favorite 2009 US Open champion del Portro is in Grandstand. The Argentine plays No. 11 Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain. And the charismatic Frenchman No. 18 Gael Monfils, who was stretched to the limit in a five-set win in the second round, will be in Louis Armstrong against No. 9 David Goffin of Belgium.
Two-time US Open champion and world No. 1 Rafael Nadal and five-time titlist and world No. 3 Roger Federer are back in action on Day 6 in third-round matches as they work toward a much-anticipated semifinal showdown.
Nadal, the reigning French Open champion, anchors the afternoon program in Arthur Ashe Stadium, playing lucky loser Leonardo Mayer. Federer, meantime, opens the prime-time evening schedule against No. 31 Feliciano Lopez of Spain. Federer is the reigining Australian Open and Wimbledon champion and looking to win a Open era record sixth US Open crown.
But it is not just the Nadal and Federer show as there are plenty of third-round matches scattered around the USTA Billie Jean National Tennis Center grounds on the first weekend of the fortnight,with matches featuring Karolina Pliskova, Madison Keys, CoCo Vandeweghe, Jelena Ostapenko, Juan Martin del Potro and Gael Monfils.
Women's top seed Pliskova reached her first Grand Slam final here last year and opens the day program in Arthur Ashe Stadium against No. 27 Zhang Shuai of China, followed by hard-serving American No. 20 Vandeweghe against No. 10 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.
In the temporary Louis Armstrong Stadium, Latavian 20-year-old sensation Ostapenko, the reigning French Open champion, plays unseeded Russian Daria Kasatkina.
No. 15 Keys closes out the evening program against No. 17 Elena Vesnina of Russia.
The fan favorite 2009 US Open champion del Portro is in Grandstand. The Argentine plays No. 11 Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain. And the charismatic Frenchman No. 18 Gael Monfils, who was stretched to the limit in a five-set win in the second round, will be in Louis Armstrong against No. 9 David Goffin of Belgium.
No bets for me....Just some rooting interests.
I`ll be pulling for CoCo Vandeweghe tomorrow.
It won`t be easy......But i`ll be rooting like crazy...lol
Go CoCo!
I`ll be pulling for CoCo Vandeweghe tomorrow.
It won`t be easy......But i`ll be rooting like crazy...lol
Go CoCo!
Well-rounded Anderson rolls past Coric.
WHAT HAPPENED: Those who overlook Kevin Anderson’s ground game, typecasting the 6-foot-8 South African as merely a power-serving machine, do so at their own peril. Andy Murray found that out the hard way at the US Open in 2015, when the then-world No. 3 was simply outslugged by Anderson, who would post a career-best Slam showing by reaching the quarterfinals.
Borna Coric may not have overlooked Anderson on Day 5 in the Grandstand, but the 61st-ranked Croat sure couldn’t hang with the 28th seed from the baseline, falling in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, in one hour and 49 minutes. Anderson, 31, has now reached the round of 16 at all three majors he’s played this year, having sat out the Australian Open in order to rehab from a hip injury.
“I’m really just trying to stick to my game,” said Anderson, whose 32 winners included 12 aces. “It’s built around the serve, but I also want to make my opponent run more than me.”
The 20-year-old Coric – one of the poster boys for the ATP World Tour’s #NextGen campaign – was aiming to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his four-year career.
With Coric serving to stay in the opening set at 4-5, 30-40, Anderson flashed some all-court form, putting away a forehand approach to grab both the break and the set. Trailing 1-2 in the second, Coric called for a medical timeout in order to have his right knee taped. Anderson would break him again eight games later en route to a commanding two-set lead.
With his opponent perhaps not 100 percent, the former University of Illinois standout would strike again in the third with breaks in the third and fifth games to put the match away for good.
Anderson saved all five break points he faced on Friday, and has yet to be broken in three rounds of action.
“It definitely helps,” he said. “I’d love to come out here and not face any break points. They’re difficult situations, but if I concentrate I feel I can handle it. I feel I have a great mindset.”
WHAT IT MEANS: Anderson moves on to face tour vet Paolo Lorenzi, who emerged from an all-Italian third-rounder against countryman Thomas Fabbiano, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Anderson is a spotless 3-0 against the 35-year-old, including a 7-5, 7-6 win on clay earlier this year in Geneva.
MATCH POINT: Anderson last reached the quarterfinals here in 2015. Can he advance to the Elite Eight once again?
Andy looks gooooooood
I`ll watch that match over any football game tomorrow....lol
It`s the guys like Andy who no one is talking about....Guys like that sneak in.
Like this Julia Goerges no one is talking about her.
I have a funny feeling about her.
She`s just flying under the radar.
I`ll be watching her.
I have a funny feeling about her.
She`s just flying under the radar.
I`ll be watching her.
Madison Keys can bring a good game.
She`s a better player then CoCo.
CoCo is a head case......But when her head is on straight she can bring it also.
She`s a better player then CoCo.
CoCo is a head case......But when her head is on straight she can bring it also.
