US open prediction game: Day 1

Lepchenko (33) vs Muguruza (3)
Sandgren (33) vs Cilic (5)
Sharapova (33) vs Halep (2)
Isner (10) vs Herbert (33)
Zverev (4) vs King (33)
Sock (13) vs Thompson (33)
Querrey (17) vs Simon (33)
Almagro (33) vs Johnson (33)
Konta (7) vs Krunic (33)
Vesely (33) vs Coric (33)
Edmund (33) vs Haase (32)
Venus (9) vs Kuzmona (33)

Oh no!!!!!

Muguruza (3)
Sandgren (33)
Sharapova (33)
Herbert (33)
King (33)
Thompson (33)
Querrey (17)
Johnson (33)
Konta (7)
Vesely (33)
Haase (32)
Venus (9)

CHeers Tenez.
Others need to get involved too because atm it is just my mates!

Me: Lep, Sand, sharapova, Isner, King, Sock, Querrey, Johnson, Konta, Vesely, Edmund, Venus
Bulge: lep, cilic, shara, isner, zverev, sock, querrey, johnson, konta, vesely edmund venus
Teddy: lep, sand, shara, herbert, king, thompson, simon, johnson, krunic, coric, edmund, kuzmona 
Mikey: mug, cilic, shara, isner, zverev, sock, querrey, almagro, konta, coric, edmund, venus

I'm in this time.
 Muguruza (3)
Cilic (5)
Halep (2)
Isner (10) 
Zverev (4)
Thompson (33)
Querrey (17)
Johnson (33)
Konta (7) 
Coric (33)
Edmund (33)
Kuzmona (33)

Every day?

luvsports! wrote:Every day?

Yes.. US open time-zone suites me

Good stuff!

who won for Wimby btw?

I won the French Open  but that was just me and my mates really.
In Wimbledon, where we played like 8 days of the 14, I won again  
Tenez you came in third out of five.

Shapovalov wins in Rd1.  He is playing Tsonga next.  Am I too optimistic thinking he has a chance?  And if he could win that, he would have a reasonably open route to the QF.

Fingers crossed.


On a separate note, glad that Ferrer lost.  I was having nightmares about him making the final from the bottom half.

Sock is out to Thompson in five sets.  In the fifth set, he went from a break down to a break up and back to a break down.

Go girl!

yes was pleased for her. Never did I think I would be supporting Shara one day.

Tenez wrote:Never did I think I would be supporting Shara one day.

All she had to do was dope!

DECIMA wrote:

Tenez wrote:Never did I think I would be supporting Shara one day.

All she had to do was dope!

Yeah....the day Nadal gets caught I might defend it too. It's the hypocrisy which i really find difficult actually. Even Lance is more human to me now than then/.

Yep - supporting someone banned for a doping offence. What a martyr she is! It did make me smile when the commentators were (entirely innocently) making reference to the fact they've never seen her get tired in a match. 

She was impressive though, given how long she has been out. Could have a very good run from here.

Slippy wrote:Yep - supporting someone banned for a doping offence. What a martyr she is! It did make me smile when the commentators were (entirely innocently) making reference to the fact they've never seen her get tired in a match....

YOu see they could not have been more wrong. Shara is known for everything but extending rallies. She goes for broke on every shot and has very short rallies on average. Was never known to be a great mover either which is also why she is shortening rallies.

Don;t want to say but unlike your man who moves his huge frame better than Ferrer and last longer than Ferrer himself, Sharapova has none of the typical dopers traits.

Tenez wrote:yes was pleased for her. Never did I think I would be supporting Shara one day.

Same here!

Tenez wrote:

DECIMA wrote:

Tenez wrote:Never did I think I would be supporting Shara one day.

All she had to do was dope!

Yeah....the day Nadal gets caught I might defend it too. It's the hypocrisy which i really find difficult actually. Even Lance is more human to me now than then.

Very true.

I watched the first set of Zverev vs King last night.  Zverev looked very shaky and was very close to losing that set.  King did not do that much.  Watching him reminded me of what someone (maybe Tenez?) once said here about Ferrer - he was trying to hurt with his shots but just could not hurt with them very much.  Even so, Zverev barely edged him.  Zverev was making a lot of errors every time he tried to go for his shots.