Before i go.....This is what i mean when i say DISTORTED POSTS.
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I feel like the young Canadian can take a Set. I'm a dart-throwing Non-Tsonga fan though so...
...big reason I dislike Tsonga is that IMO he does not Close-Out well enuff for me to consider strongly, backing him his serve though just too powerful for me to Fade Him with confidence so he just generally pisses me off.
Too much Emotion in this one, for me. "Heart" may be too much of whats got me believing the kid takes a Set. 3rd Set at the least: very very possible cuz if Tsonga takes the first 2 for a 2-0 lead his desire wanes, "killer instinct" not present. just my decidedly less-than-sharp opinion.
Missing out on the Eugenie Fade really sucks. I only just became aware that she'd lost recently to the 398th Ranked 21 Year Old player. Jeez Genie.
Elena Vesnina (RUS) [17] vs.
Anna Blinkova (RUS)
Trying a Small Play on Blinkova here at +195.
Another Young Player, I think she is from Khazikstan and I like the word 'Khazakhstan" or whatever it is.
Canadian Dude named: Shopalopalopalev. Or whatever.at least "Blinkova" is easier to spell.
I liked the OVER in this Vesnina/Blinkova at O/U 20 but That Like somehow Died when it moved to 20.5.
Witness. Youth Show Out versus Tsonga & here in 10 minutes or so: Blinkova.
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Two-time champion Venus Williams through to quarterfinals.
WHAT HAPPENED: Venus Williams overcame an inconsistent serving performance to blow past a stunned Carla Suárez Navarro to make the second week of the US Open for the 12th time in her career.
As with her other matches over the first six days of the tournament, it wasn’t a vintage effort. But it had all the hallmarks of what has made Venus so successful: fight, grit and an extra gear when she needed it most.
After dropping the second set and sharing a split of the opening two games in the third, Venus turned up the pressure on Suárez Navarro with a barrage of penetrating strokes, blasting through to win the final six games in a row.
The two-time US Open champion captured the first set behind three breaks of serve, masking the fact that she was missing every other first serve, struggling with her ball toss and losing two-third of her second-serve points when the Spaniard was able to get the first strike in from the back of the court.
Suárez Navarro broke twice in three chances to establish a double break and a 3-0 lead at the start of the second set, and she sent the match to a decider when Venus hit a backhand long in a game she led 30-0 and 40-15.
But if Suárez Navarro had the momentum, it didn’t last long. Venus broke in the third and fifth games of the third set as she took full control of the match to leave little doubt in the final outcome. A third consecutive hold made it 5-1, and a monstrous cross-court forehand return three points later gave the American triple match point.
The 28-year-old Barcelona native saved the first, but an exquisite half-volley pickup at the net put a bow on a perfect final-set performance and brought out a wide smile and her trademark twirl.
WHAT IT MEANS: Venus is into the quarterfinals of the final major of the year for the second time in three years after failing to make it past the third round in four consecutive trips to New York between 2011 and 2014.
The run to the second week continues an outstanding year for the 37-year-old, who reached the final of the Australian Open and Wimbledon earlier this season.
The last time Venus made three quarterfinals in the same year was 2010, also the last of eight semifinals she has appeared in in Flushing Meadows.
She will now play the winner of the first evening session in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday between No. 3 seed and Wimbledon champion Garbiñe Muguruza and No. 13 seed Petra Kvitova. Venus has a 3-2 lead over Muguruza, but dropped their last two meetings, in the Wimbledon final and the Rome quarterfinal. Against Kvitova, Venus is 1-5, her lone win coming in Miami in 2012.
For Suárez Navarro, she was one win from matching her best Grand Slam performance. She has reached the quarterfinals of five majors, including the US Open once before in 2013.
MATCH POINT: Venus can turn up the intensity when she needs it the most, finding an extra burst of energy to see her over the finish line. Is that going to be enough against better opponents as the tournament enters its final few days after Labor Day?
WHAT HAPPENED: Venus Williams overcame an inconsistent serving performance to blow past a stunned Carla Suárez Navarro to make the second week of the US Open for the 12th time in her career.
As with her other matches over the first six days of the tournament, it wasn’t a vintage effort. But it had all the hallmarks of what has made Venus so successful: fight, grit and an extra gear when she needed it most.
After dropping the second set and sharing a split of the opening two games in the third, Venus turned up the pressure on Suárez Navarro with a barrage of penetrating strokes, blasting through to win the final six games in a row.
The two-time US Open champion captured the first set behind three breaks of serve, masking the fact that she was missing every other first serve, struggling with her ball toss and losing two-third of her second-serve points when the Spaniard was able to get the first strike in from the back of the court.
Suárez Navarro broke twice in three chances to establish a double break and a 3-0 lead at the start of the second set, and she sent the match to a decider when Venus hit a backhand long in a game she led 30-0 and 40-15.
But if Suárez Navarro had the momentum, it didn’t last long. Venus broke in the third and fifth games of the third set as she took full control of the match to leave little doubt in the final outcome. A third consecutive hold made it 5-1, and a monstrous cross-court forehand return three points later gave the American triple match point.
The 28-year-old Barcelona native saved the first, but an exquisite half-volley pickup at the net put a bow on a perfect final-set performance and brought out a wide smile and her trademark twirl.
WHAT IT MEANS: Venus is into the quarterfinals of the final major of the year for the second time in three years after failing to make it past the third round in four consecutive trips to New York between 2011 and 2014.
The run to the second week continues an outstanding year for the 37-year-old, who reached the final of the Australian Open and Wimbledon earlier this season.
The last time Venus made three quarterfinals in the same year was 2010, also the last of eight semifinals she has appeared in in Flushing Meadows.
She will now play the winner of the first evening session in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday between No. 3 seed and Wimbledon champion Garbiñe Muguruza and No. 13 seed Petra Kvitova. Venus has a 3-2 lead over Muguruza, but dropped their last two meetings, in the Wimbledon final and the Rome quarterfinal. Against Kvitova, Venus is 1-5, her lone win coming in Miami in 2012.
For Suárez Navarro, she was one win from matching her best Grand Slam performance. She has reached the quarterfinals of five majors, including the US Open once before in 2013.
MATCH POINT: Venus can turn up the intensity when she needs it the most, finding an extra burst of energy to see her over the finish line. Is that going to be enough against better opponents as the tournament enters its final few days after Labor Day?
Kvitova takes down Muguruza, earns Elite Eight spot.
WHAT HAPPENED: No. 13 seed Petra Kvitova, in just her second Grand Slam following a career-threatening hand injury, knocked out pre-tournament favorite and No. 3 seed Garbiñe Muguruza, 7-6, 6-3, on Sunday night in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
In a battle of two of the past three Wimbledon champions, Kvitova rallied from 1-4 down in the opening set to knock out the reigning queen of the All-England Club and reach the US Open quarterfinals for the second time in her career.
Whalloping 24 winners to Muguruza's seven, Kvitova found her range after coming off second-best to Muguruza in a series of furious baselines exchanges during the early stages of the match. A crucial sixth game of the opener, where Kvitova saved three break points that would've given the No. 3 seed a 5-1 lead, helped turn the tide in her favor, as she ran off three straight games to knot the match at 4-4 at keep pace.
Though she failed in her first attempt to serve out the set at 6-5 after securing a break, Kvitova hardly put a foot wrong in the tiebreak, as she ran off the last five points to pocket a one-set lead -- her fourth straight set won in the head-to-head.
After being broken to begin the second set, Kvitova sprinted to a two-set victory, getting back on even terms with a love break, and won four straight games to take command of the match.
"I think it's incredible. I think it's incredible that she's playing at this level," said the Spaniard in defeat. "I'm not really familiar about what really happened. I know, of course, what happened, that she got attacked and stuff. I think she's playing very well -- so I don't feel she has changed.
"I think she was serving very good today. She finds in the key moments, big serves. She was playing good, a lot of winners. She was playing very good with the forehand today, moving well, as well."
WHAT IT MEANS: The best comeback story in tennis this season saw another chapter written on Sunday, as the Czech, who peaked at a career-high world No. 2 back in 2012, was playing her first match against a Top 10 opponent after returning to tennis in May following a home invasion where a knifed intruder slashed her left, playing hand.
Kvitova has never reached the last four in New York despite doing so at each of the other three Grand Slams on the calendar, including twice raising the trophy at Wimbledon.
She will face off for a spot in her first semifinal against Venus Williams, who advanced to the last eight after a three-set victory over Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro earlier on Sunday.
MATCH POINT: Kvitova and Williams have played three sets in each of their five career meetings. Is another dramatic battle in the cards with a spot in the US Open semifinals on the line?
WHAT HAPPENED: No. 13 seed Petra Kvitova, in just her second Grand Slam following a career-threatening hand injury, knocked out pre-tournament favorite and No. 3 seed Garbiñe Muguruza, 7-6, 6-3, on Sunday night in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
In a battle of two of the past three Wimbledon champions, Kvitova rallied from 1-4 down in the opening set to knock out the reigning queen of the All-England Club and reach the US Open quarterfinals for the second time in her career.
Whalloping 24 winners to Muguruza's seven, Kvitova found her range after coming off second-best to Muguruza in a series of furious baselines exchanges during the early stages of the match. A crucial sixth game of the opener, where Kvitova saved three break points that would've given the No. 3 seed a 5-1 lead, helped turn the tide in her favor, as she ran off three straight games to knot the match at 4-4 at keep pace.
Though she failed in her first attempt to serve out the set at 6-5 after securing a break, Kvitova hardly put a foot wrong in the tiebreak, as she ran off the last five points to pocket a one-set lead -- her fourth straight set won in the head-to-head.
After being broken to begin the second set, Kvitova sprinted to a two-set victory, getting back on even terms with a love break, and won four straight games to take command of the match.
"I think it's incredible. I think it's incredible that she's playing at this level," said the Spaniard in defeat. "I'm not really familiar about what really happened. I know, of course, what happened, that she got attacked and stuff. I think she's playing very well -- so I don't feel she has changed.
"I think she was serving very good today. She finds in the key moments, big serves. She was playing good, a lot of winners. She was playing very good with the forehand today, moving well, as well."
WHAT IT MEANS: The best comeback story in tennis this season saw another chapter written on Sunday, as the Czech, who peaked at a career-high world No. 2 back in 2012, was playing her first match against a Top 10 opponent after returning to tennis in May following a home invasion where a knifed intruder slashed her left, playing hand.
Kvitova has never reached the last four in New York despite doing so at each of the other three Grand Slams on the calendar, including twice raising the trophy at Wimbledon.
She will face off for a spot in her first semifinal against Venus Williams, who advanced to the last eight after a three-set victory over Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro earlier on Sunday.
MATCH POINT: Kvitova and Williams have played three sets in each of their five career meetings. Is another dramatic battle in the cards with a spot in the US Open semifinals on the line?
[h=1]Nadal, Keys play on Day 8.[/h]
Women's top seed and 2016 finalist Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic kicks off the action in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Day 8 at the Open, facing off against American Jennifer Brady in the fourth round at 11 a.m. ET. Brady, ranked No. 91 in the world, is making her second fourth-round appearance at a Grand Slam tournament this year, having also reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open in January.
Men's No. 1 Rafael Nadal is the second match on in Ashe, and the two-time champion will be looking to secure a spot in the quarterfinals when he takes on Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov. Dolgopolov, currently ranked No. 64, has reached one Slam quarterfinal in his career at the 2011 Australian Open and has equaled his best performance ever in New York by reaching the fourth round, also in 2011.
Rounding out play in Ashe for the day session, No. 20 seed and home-country favorite CoCo Vandeweghhe will face off against Czech Lucie Safarova. Vandeweghe has reached her career-best result at the Open this year, advancing past the third round for the first time.
In other singles action Monday, No. 9 seed David Goffin of Belgium will take on unseeded Russian Andrey Rublev in the second match in Louis Armstrong Stadium, and then Russia’s Daria Kasatkina will follow against Kaia Kanepi of Estonia.
2009 US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro is also on the schedule and will play No. 6 seed Dominic Thiem fourth in Grandstand.
Five-time champion Roger Federer will open up night-session play in Ashe, taking on No. 33 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in the fourth round. No. 15 seed Madison Keys of the U.S. will follow, squaring off against No. 4 seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine.
Women's top seed and 2016 finalist Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic kicks off the action in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Day 8 at the Open, facing off against American Jennifer Brady in the fourth round at 11 a.m. ET. Brady, ranked No. 91 in the world, is making her second fourth-round appearance at a Grand Slam tournament this year, having also reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open in January.
Men's No. 1 Rafael Nadal is the second match on in Ashe, and the two-time champion will be looking to secure a spot in the quarterfinals when he takes on Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov. Dolgopolov, currently ranked No. 64, has reached one Slam quarterfinal in his career at the 2011 Australian Open and has equaled his best performance ever in New York by reaching the fourth round, also in 2011.
Rounding out play in Ashe for the day session, No. 20 seed and home-country favorite CoCo Vandeweghhe will face off against Czech Lucie Safarova. Vandeweghe has reached her career-best result at the Open this year, advancing past the third round for the first time.
In other singles action Monday, No. 9 seed David Goffin of Belgium will take on unseeded Russian Andrey Rublev in the second match in Louis Armstrong Stadium, and then Russia’s Daria Kasatkina will follow against Kaia Kanepi of Estonia.
2009 US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro is also on the schedule and will play No. 6 seed Dominic Thiem fourth in Grandstand.
Five-time champion Roger Federer will open up night-session play in Ashe, taking on No. 33 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in the fourth round. No. 15 seed Madison Keys of the U.S. will follow, squaring off against No. 4 seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine.
| Monday, Sep 04, 2017 - ATP US Open Match | ||||||||||||
| Rublev, Andrey | +3½ | -102 | +168 | Ov | 38 | -105 | ||||||
| Goffin, David | -3½ | -114 | -193 | Un | 38 | -111 | ||||||
| Thiem, Dominic | +1½ | -118 | +100 | Ov | 40 | -109 | ||||||
| Del Potro, Juan Martin | -1½ | +102 | -116 | Un | 40 | -107 | ||||||
| Dolgopolov, Alexandr | +7 | -118 | +529 | Ov | 33 | -116 | ||||||
| Nadal, Rafael | -7 | +102 | -679 | Un | 33 | +100 | ||||||
| Kohlschreiber, Philipp | +6½ | +101 | +508 | Ov | 34 | -111 | ||||||
| Federer, Roger | -6½ | -117 | -658 | Un | 34 | -105 | ||||||
| Schwartzman, Diego Sebastian | +3½ | -108 | +161 | Ov | 40 | +100 | ||||||
| Carreno Busta, Pablo | -3½ | -108 | -186 | Un | 40 | -116 |
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| Monday, Sep 04, 2017 - WTA US Open Match | |||||||||||||
| Kanepi, Kaia | +3½ | -103 | +171 | Ov | 21 | -116 | |||||||
| Kasatkina, Darya | -3½ | -113 | -196 | Un | 21 | +100 | |||||||
| Brady, Jennifer | +5½ | -112 | +495 | Ov | 19½ | -105 | |||||||
| Pliskova, Karolina | -5½ | -104 | -620 | Un | 19½ | -111 | |||||||
| Safarova, Lucie | +1½ | -103 | +117 | Ov | 22 | -115 | |||||||
| Vandeweghe, Coco | -1½ | -113 | -133 | Un | 22 | -101 | |||||||
| Sevastova, Anastasija | +2½ | -105 | +141 | Ov | 22 | -108 | |||||||
| Stephens, Sloane | -2½ | -111 | -161 | Un | 22 | -108 | |||||||
| Keys, Madison | +1½ | -113 | +107 | Ov | 22 | -111 | |||||||
| Svitolina, Elina | -1½ | -103 | -123 | Un | 22 | -105 |
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