Huge Wednesday.....Have to finish Tuesday`s games.
Then we have the Wednesday slate.
Going to be a long day and night.
Weather is going to be nice.....Sunny and 75 in the daytime hours.
Should dip into the 60`s for the night session.
No rain!
Then we have the Wednesday slate.
Going to be a long day and night.
Weather is going to be nice.....Sunny and 75 in the daytime hours.
Should dip into the 60`s for the night session.
No rain!
Many pleased to get that much excitement from a 1st Round Rogermatch. More concerned about his Back. If his intention & Game Plan is to be involved in Loooong Matches. Dang I wish I'd taken that Over. Was it 29 Games?!? I've looked at so many I can't remember....i eyefugged that Over. Well...it was more like just Foreplay, No Penetration. Were there it'd been more Memorable.
No. Freekin. Rain.
Good luck with those plays indy!
[h=1]Roger Federer vs Frances Tiafoe.....Highlights.[/h]
[h=1]Roger Federer on court Interview. [/h]
Day 2 Recap: Osaka reigns, Tiafoe-Federer thrill.
In the history of the US Open, dating back to 1887, only twice had the defending champion fallen in the first round: in 1999, when an injured Patrick Rafter was forced to retire in the fifth set against Cedric Pioline, and 2005, when Svetlana Kuznetsova fell to Ekaterina Bychkova.
Tuesday, with the lid shut on Arthur Ashe Stadium to stave off the rain, Angelique Kerber joined their ranks. The German, who won both the Australian and the US Open a year ago, was upended in shockingly routine fashion by Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka, 6-3, 6-1.
It was another stunning turn in what was predicted to be an unpredictable women’s draw, coming a day after No. 2 Simona Halep and No. 7 Johanna Konta both made premature exits from the 2017 edition of America’s Grand Slam.
It was also one of the few completed matches on a day where poor weather erased most of the schedule, setting up what is sure to be a wild Wednesday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Here’s a look back at Day 2 of the 2017 US Open and a look ahead to a packed Day 3:
Match of the Day
The last time Roger Federer lost a set in the first round of a US Open was 2003, to Jose Acasuso. The last time he went five sets in a US Open opener was in his first Flushing main draw, against Peter Wessels in 2000. Yet there he was, under the lights in Arthur Ashe Stadium, locked in a five-set tussle that no one saw coming, against a man nearly half his age but, for large stretches of this night, his shot-making equal.
The match had an aberrant rhythm, Tiafoe breaking Federer at the jump and holding his serve throughout to claim the first set. Federer re-established control in the second and third sets, winning each effortlessly to take hold of the match. And then, suddenly, the tables were turned, Tiafoe cruising through an easy fourth frame in a tidy 24-minute stretch to force the decider on the strength of his buggy-whip forehand and Road Runner wheels.
The fifth set was high drama. Federer served for the win and held a match point on his racquet, but was, stunningly, broken. But the Maestro, though never at his best on this evening, summoned his good-enough when he needed it, breaking back in the next game to earn a 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 victory that thrilled the capacity crowd until the very last shot.
Player of the Day
For years, the post-Williams U.S. victory plan focused on Madison Keys, a heavy weight for a then-teenager who was still learning to harness her booming strokes. The potential has long been there, certainly, but evolving from a hitter to a player often takes time.
Keys took her first big steps in that direction a year ago, surging into the Top 10 and qualifying for the WTA Finals. But then: left wrist surgery for a woman who relies on a thumping double-handed backhand. She missed the Australian Open and struggled when she returned in the spring, requiring a second surgery ahead of Wimbledon.
But this summer offered a glimmer of hope for the 22-year-old. She defeated Garbiñe Muguruza and CoCo Vandeweghe to win the US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif., then pushed Muguruza to a third-set tiebreak in a narrow loss in Cincinnati.
On Tuesday, Keys brought her newfound confidence and maturing game to her opening match at the US Open, turning aside a set point in the second stanza to handle the underrated Elise Mertens, 6-3, 7-6, in the opener of the evening session. A year ago, Keys struggled to put away countrywoman Alison Riske in the same round and on the same stage, but this appears to be a new Keys, one capable of a deep run – perhaps even a title run – this year in New York.
Upset of the Day
A year ago, Naomi Osaka was on the verge of her breakthrough professional victory, up 5-1 in the third set against the eighth-seeded Keys in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Then the wheels came off. Keys steadied herself and Osaka unraveled, spraying unforced errors and breaking down in tears at the end of a 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 defeat.
What a difference a year makes. On Tuesday, back in Arthur Ashe Stadium, against No. 6 seed and defending champion Angelique Kerber, Osaka was hardly overwhelmed. Rather, she was overwhelming. She blasted winners past one of the best defensive players on tour, and instead of faltering with a big lead in the second set, she surged, sending the former world No. 1 tumbling out of the draw on a rainy Tuesday afternoon in New York, 6-1, 6-3.
Suddenly, Osaka looks like a force to be reckoned with, a burgeoning star with the bubbly personality and blistering ground strokes to make this tournament her own – which, at least on Day 2, it most certainly was.
Quote of Day
“Nothing is easier. Everything is easier with 20.” – Rafael Nadal, on what is easier about competing in his 30s than it was in his 20s, after his straight-sets win over Dusan Lajovic
Day 3 Preview
The Wednesday attendees will reap the benefits of Tuesday’s rain, with great matches scattered throughout the grounds as the US Open wraps up the first round and kicks off the second. In fact, a whopping 87 matches are on the docket, in a schedule-maker’s nightmare but a fan’s delight.
Headlining play will be two of the leading lights in women’s tennis, players still title threats more than a decade after they last lifted the trophies here: Maria Sharapova, who will attempt to back up her upset of No. 2 Halep against Timea Babos in the last match of the day session in Arthur Ashe Stadium, and Venus Williams, who will lead off the evening session against Oceane Dodin.
For the men, two days after 20-year-old Sascha Zverev made his US Open night session debut, 18-year-old Canadian phenom Denis Shapovalov will get his shot against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a matchup of flashy ground-strokers, with Juan Martin del Potro, Nick Kyrgios and Marin Cilic among the other big names in action.
The U.S. contingent, meantime, will attempt to make their way through on the outer courts, with three all-American contests highlighted by CoCo Vandeweghe versus Alison Riske playing a rain-delayed first-round contest, plus Ryan Harrison working to unseat Tomas Berdych and John Isner and Sam Querrey looking to win second-round matches and continue their paths toward a round-of-16 showdown.
In the history of the US Open, dating back to 1887, only twice had the defending champion fallen in the first round: in 1999, when an injured Patrick Rafter was forced to retire in the fifth set against Cedric Pioline, and 2005, when Svetlana Kuznetsova fell to Ekaterina Bychkova.
Tuesday, with the lid shut on Arthur Ashe Stadium to stave off the rain, Angelique Kerber joined their ranks. The German, who won both the Australian and the US Open a year ago, was upended in shockingly routine fashion by Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka, 6-3, 6-1.
It was another stunning turn in what was predicted to be an unpredictable women’s draw, coming a day after No. 2 Simona Halep and No. 7 Johanna Konta both made premature exits from the 2017 edition of America’s Grand Slam.
It was also one of the few completed matches on a day where poor weather erased most of the schedule, setting up what is sure to be a wild Wednesday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Here’s a look back at Day 2 of the 2017 US Open and a look ahead to a packed Day 3:
Match of the Day
The last time Roger Federer lost a set in the first round of a US Open was 2003, to Jose Acasuso. The last time he went five sets in a US Open opener was in his first Flushing main draw, against Peter Wessels in 2000. Yet there he was, under the lights in Arthur Ashe Stadium, locked in a five-set tussle that no one saw coming, against a man nearly half his age but, for large stretches of this night, his shot-making equal.
The match had an aberrant rhythm, Tiafoe breaking Federer at the jump and holding his serve throughout to claim the first set. Federer re-established control in the second and third sets, winning each effortlessly to take hold of the match. And then, suddenly, the tables were turned, Tiafoe cruising through an easy fourth frame in a tidy 24-minute stretch to force the decider on the strength of his buggy-whip forehand and Road Runner wheels.
The fifth set was high drama. Federer served for the win and held a match point on his racquet, but was, stunningly, broken. But the Maestro, though never at his best on this evening, summoned his good-enough when he needed it, breaking back in the next game to earn a 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 victory that thrilled the capacity crowd until the very last shot.
Player of the Day
For years, the post-Williams U.S. victory plan focused on Madison Keys, a heavy weight for a then-teenager who was still learning to harness her booming strokes. The potential has long been there, certainly, but evolving from a hitter to a player often takes time.
Keys took her first big steps in that direction a year ago, surging into the Top 10 and qualifying for the WTA Finals. But then: left wrist surgery for a woman who relies on a thumping double-handed backhand. She missed the Australian Open and struggled when she returned in the spring, requiring a second surgery ahead of Wimbledon.
But this summer offered a glimmer of hope for the 22-year-old. She defeated Garbiñe Muguruza and CoCo Vandeweghe to win the US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif., then pushed Muguruza to a third-set tiebreak in a narrow loss in Cincinnati.
On Tuesday, Keys brought her newfound confidence and maturing game to her opening match at the US Open, turning aside a set point in the second stanza to handle the underrated Elise Mertens, 6-3, 7-6, in the opener of the evening session. A year ago, Keys struggled to put away countrywoman Alison Riske in the same round and on the same stage, but this appears to be a new Keys, one capable of a deep run – perhaps even a title run – this year in New York.
Upset of the Day
A year ago, Naomi Osaka was on the verge of her breakthrough professional victory, up 5-1 in the third set against the eighth-seeded Keys in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Then the wheels came off. Keys steadied herself and Osaka unraveled, spraying unforced errors and breaking down in tears at the end of a 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 defeat.
What a difference a year makes. On Tuesday, back in Arthur Ashe Stadium, against No. 6 seed and defending champion Angelique Kerber, Osaka was hardly overwhelmed. Rather, she was overwhelming. She blasted winners past one of the best defensive players on tour, and instead of faltering with a big lead in the second set, she surged, sending the former world No. 1 tumbling out of the draw on a rainy Tuesday afternoon in New York, 6-1, 6-3.
Suddenly, Osaka looks like a force to be reckoned with, a burgeoning star with the bubbly personality and blistering ground strokes to make this tournament her own – which, at least on Day 2, it most certainly was.
Quote of Day
“Nothing is easier. Everything is easier with 20.” – Rafael Nadal, on what is easier about competing in his 30s than it was in his 20s, after his straight-sets win over Dusan Lajovic
Day 3 Preview
The Wednesday attendees will reap the benefits of Tuesday’s rain, with great matches scattered throughout the grounds as the US Open wraps up the first round and kicks off the second. In fact, a whopping 87 matches are on the docket, in a schedule-maker’s nightmare but a fan’s delight.
Headlining play will be two of the leading lights in women’s tennis, players still title threats more than a decade after they last lifted the trophies here: Maria Sharapova, who will attempt to back up her upset of No. 2 Halep against Timea Babos in the last match of the day session in Arthur Ashe Stadium, and Venus Williams, who will lead off the evening session against Oceane Dodin.
For the men, two days after 20-year-old Sascha Zverev made his US Open night session debut, 18-year-old Canadian phenom Denis Shapovalov will get his shot against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a matchup of flashy ground-strokers, with Juan Martin del Potro, Nick Kyrgios and Marin Cilic among the other big names in action.
The U.S. contingent, meantime, will attempt to make their way through on the outer courts, with three all-American contests highlighted by CoCo Vandeweghe versus Alison Riske playing a rain-delayed first-round contest, plus Ryan Harrison working to unseat Tomas Berdych and John Isner and Sam Querrey looking to win second-round matches and continue their paths toward a round-of-16 showdown.
[h=1]Day 3 is teeming with talent.[/h]
With rain putting a damper on yesterday’s schedule of play, Day 3 of the 2017 US Open will see the courts of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center teeming with talent, as the conclusion of the first round shares the bill with the start of the second. A total of 87 matches are scheduled for the day, featuring seven players who’ve know Grand Slam glory, including Marin Cilic, Juan Martin del Potro, Venus Williams, Petra Kvitova, Maria Sharapova, Garbiñe Muguruza and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Also featured in today’s loaded lineup are John Isner, Sam Querrey, Alexander Zverev, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Denis Shapovalov, Caroline Wozniacki, Sloane Stephens and Dominika Cibulkova. Whether they’re taking their first or second steps toward their ultimate goal of a US Open crown, each share a similar aim – just keep stepping.
Isner, the men’s No. 10 seed, is into the second round here for the ninth consecutive year, coming off a sizzling summer in which he won back-to-back titles on grass in Newport and on hard courts in Atlanta, then reached the semis in Cincinnati. At No. 15 in the world, the 32-year-old Isner is the top-ranked American man, but despite his obvious tall talents, he’s never been more than a minor factor at the majors. Isner’s best career Slam showing was a run to the quarterfinals here in 2011; since then, he’s only reached the fourth round once. This year, his best major performance was a third-round finish at Roland Garros, losing in the second round at both the Aussie Open and Wimbledon.
This tournament’s second round brings Isner face-to-face with Hyeon Chung, a 21-year-old from South Korea who’s into round two here for the second time in his young career. Chung, who picked up tennis as a child on the recommendation of a doctor who felt the sport would help to improve his weak eyesight, now has his sights set on a continued climb up the ATP rankings. At No. 47, Chung has this year notched impressive wins over the likes of Zverev, Gael Monfils and Querrey – the latter in the first round at Roland Garros, where he reached the third round. Isner and Chung have met just once, with the American triumphing in the quarters of April’s Houston event. This figures as a good one, an entertaining battle between an established talent with unlimited power and a coming star with unlimited potential. In a ferocious five, Isner is on to Round 3.
Isner’s countryman and Davis Cup teammate Querrey played his way into his first career Slam semifinal this summer, taking out Andy Murray in reaching the penultimate round at Wimbledon. The 29-year-old Californian backed up that solid showing by winning his 10th career title at the hard-court event in Los Cabos, Mexico, the following week. All told, 2017 has been a pretty solid year for Querrey, who also knocked off Rafael Nadal in the final of Acapulco earlier this year – also a hard-court event. At this point, it’s hard to say whether Querrey’s south-of-the-border success can translate into a deep run on Flushing’s hard floors. In 10 previous US Open appearances, he’s only been as far as the fourth round twice. But his half of the draw appears eminently conquerable, and the American is playing with the sort of quiet confidence that suggests he’s well aware of that fact.
Wednesday, Querrey faces off against Dudi Sela, a 32-year-old tour veteran who’s into the second round of the Open for the sixth time in his career. Ranked No. 71, the Israeli’s biggest win of this year was a five-set thriller over Isner in Wimbledon’s second round, a win in which Sela rallied from two-sets-to-one down. Querrey owns a slim 3-2 edge in career meetings with the Israeli, the most recent win coming earlier this year at Delray Beach. With the road in front of him looking so wide open, it’s hard to fathom that this is a match that could stall Querrey’s advance. In three, the American advances.
At 37, women’s No. 9 seed Williams has put together a spectacular season, highlighted by two Slam final showings, at the Aussie Open and Wimbledon. Although her post-Wimbledon results are less than stellar – losing in the third round of Toronto and the second round of Cincinnati – in this year’s wide-open Open, the two-time Flushing champ has still got to be considered among the favorites. Williams looked sluggish in struggling through her first-round win over Viktoria Kuzmova, but she’ll have another chance to get her game into gear tonight against France’s Oceane Dodin, who’s into the second round here for the second time in her career. Dodin, ranked No. 48, reached the semis of this summer’s Washington, D.C., event last month – her best tour showing of the year. The two women have never faced each other, and under the lights on the big stage of Ashe this evening, their first encounter figures to be an overwhelming one for the Frenchwoman. In two, Williams is on to Round 3.
Another woman who clearly has designs on a second-Saturday showing here is Sharapova, who just may turn her wild card into a royal flush. The former No. 1 and owner of a career Grand Slam brilliantly demonstrated her trademark toughness in planting this tournament’s second seed, Simona Halep, in round one, rallying back after losing the second set to secure a three-set win. Now inheriting this tournament’s bottom line, the 2006 US Open champ would appear to have pretty clear sailing through the next few rounds, especially if she can maintain the level of play she showed in defeating Halep. That, of course, remains the largest of questions for a woman who is competing in her first major since the 2016 Australian Open.
Today, Sharapova will look to take another step along the comeback trail against Hungary’s Timea Babos, a solid slugger ranked No. 59 who this year captured her second career singles title at the hard-court event in Budapest. Babos, 24, reached the third round here last year – her best career showing in a major to date. This year, she’s lost in the first round of each of the season’s first three majors. This is the first meeting between the two, and it doesn’t shape up to be a lengthy one, as the tournament’s most accomplished wild card seems out to prove she’s the real deal. In two, Sharapova advances.
With rain putting a damper on yesterday’s schedule of play, Day 3 of the 2017 US Open will see the courts of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center teeming with talent, as the conclusion of the first round shares the bill with the start of the second. A total of 87 matches are scheduled for the day, featuring seven players who’ve know Grand Slam glory, including Marin Cilic, Juan Martin del Potro, Venus Williams, Petra Kvitova, Maria Sharapova, Garbiñe Muguruza and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Also featured in today’s loaded lineup are John Isner, Sam Querrey, Alexander Zverev, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Denis Shapovalov, Caroline Wozniacki, Sloane Stephens and Dominika Cibulkova. Whether they’re taking their first or second steps toward their ultimate goal of a US Open crown, each share a similar aim – just keep stepping.
Isner, the men’s No. 10 seed, is into the second round here for the ninth consecutive year, coming off a sizzling summer in which he won back-to-back titles on grass in Newport and on hard courts in Atlanta, then reached the semis in Cincinnati. At No. 15 in the world, the 32-year-old Isner is the top-ranked American man, but despite his obvious tall talents, he’s never been more than a minor factor at the majors. Isner’s best career Slam showing was a run to the quarterfinals here in 2011; since then, he’s only reached the fourth round once. This year, his best major performance was a third-round finish at Roland Garros, losing in the second round at both the Aussie Open and Wimbledon.
This tournament’s second round brings Isner face-to-face with Hyeon Chung, a 21-year-old from South Korea who’s into round two here for the second time in his young career. Chung, who picked up tennis as a child on the recommendation of a doctor who felt the sport would help to improve his weak eyesight, now has his sights set on a continued climb up the ATP rankings. At No. 47, Chung has this year notched impressive wins over the likes of Zverev, Gael Monfils and Querrey – the latter in the first round at Roland Garros, where he reached the third round. Isner and Chung have met just once, with the American triumphing in the quarters of April’s Houston event. This figures as a good one, an entertaining battle between an established talent with unlimited power and a coming star with unlimited potential. In a ferocious five, Isner is on to Round 3.
Isner’s countryman and Davis Cup teammate Querrey played his way into his first career Slam semifinal this summer, taking out Andy Murray in reaching the penultimate round at Wimbledon. The 29-year-old Californian backed up that solid showing by winning his 10th career title at the hard-court event in Los Cabos, Mexico, the following week. All told, 2017 has been a pretty solid year for Querrey, who also knocked off Rafael Nadal in the final of Acapulco earlier this year – also a hard-court event. At this point, it’s hard to say whether Querrey’s south-of-the-border success can translate into a deep run on Flushing’s hard floors. In 10 previous US Open appearances, he’s only been as far as the fourth round twice. But his half of the draw appears eminently conquerable, and the American is playing with the sort of quiet confidence that suggests he’s well aware of that fact.
Wednesday, Querrey faces off against Dudi Sela, a 32-year-old tour veteran who’s into the second round of the Open for the sixth time in his career. Ranked No. 71, the Israeli’s biggest win of this year was a five-set thriller over Isner in Wimbledon’s second round, a win in which Sela rallied from two-sets-to-one down. Querrey owns a slim 3-2 edge in career meetings with the Israeli, the most recent win coming earlier this year at Delray Beach. With the road in front of him looking so wide open, it’s hard to fathom that this is a match that could stall Querrey’s advance. In three, the American advances.
At 37, women’s No. 9 seed Williams has put together a spectacular season, highlighted by two Slam final showings, at the Aussie Open and Wimbledon. Although her post-Wimbledon results are less than stellar – losing in the third round of Toronto and the second round of Cincinnati – in this year’s wide-open Open, the two-time Flushing champ has still got to be considered among the favorites. Williams looked sluggish in struggling through her first-round win over Viktoria Kuzmova, but she’ll have another chance to get her game into gear tonight against France’s Oceane Dodin, who’s into the second round here for the second time in her career. Dodin, ranked No. 48, reached the semis of this summer’s Washington, D.C., event last month – her best tour showing of the year. The two women have never faced each other, and under the lights on the big stage of Ashe this evening, their first encounter figures to be an overwhelming one for the Frenchwoman. In two, Williams is on to Round 3.
Another woman who clearly has designs on a second-Saturday showing here is Sharapova, who just may turn her wild card into a royal flush. The former No. 1 and owner of a career Grand Slam brilliantly demonstrated her trademark toughness in planting this tournament’s second seed, Simona Halep, in round one, rallying back after losing the second set to secure a three-set win. Now inheriting this tournament’s bottom line, the 2006 US Open champ would appear to have pretty clear sailing through the next few rounds, especially if she can maintain the level of play she showed in defeating Halep. That, of course, remains the largest of questions for a woman who is competing in her first major since the 2016 Australian Open.
Today, Sharapova will look to take another step along the comeback trail against Hungary’s Timea Babos, a solid slugger ranked No. 59 who this year captured her second career singles title at the hard-court event in Budapest. Babos, 24, reached the third round here last year – her best career showing in a major to date. This year, she’s lost in the first round of each of the season’s first three majors. This is the first meeting between the two, and it doesn’t shape up to be a lengthy one, as the tournament’s most accomplished wild card seems out to prove she’s the real deal. In two, Sharapova advances.
not going to litter this thread with beautiful candlestick charts. It indeed ended as a bullish engulfing pattern and higher volume- green light. Today's close will be interesting as will volume
keep an eye on USO. it's forming a bullish engulfing pattern- BUT, how will the candlestick look near the close.
Monica Niculescu scores the first upset of the day,she takes out #14 Kristina Mladenovic.....6-3...6-2
Dominic has no problem with Alex De Minaur.....6-4...6-1...6-1.
Leonardo Mayer takes down Richard Gasquet.....3-6...6-2...6-4...6-2.
Bye Bye Genie.....Genie was talking shit about Maria.....See you next year.....Evgeniya Rodina easy winner.....7-6...6-1.
