US Open Round 4 (Day 8)- with Game Fixtures

US Open Day 8:

Schedule: http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/schedule/index.html
Live Scores: http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/index.html?promo=subnav

Meanwhle,
Central Game Thread: https://ourtennisforum.forumotion.co.uk/t421-us-open-prediction-game-leaderboard

These are picks for tomorrow, the points next to each name is how many points  you get if that player wins:
Gasquet (5) vs Raonic (5)
Ferrer (2) vs Tipsarevic (8)
Nadal (2) vs Kohlschreiber (8)
Federer (1) vs Robredo (9)




Good luck  

Raonic, tipsarevic, nadal, robredo.

Raonic, Ferrer, Nadal, Robredo

Raonic, Tipsarevic, Kohlschreiber, Federer

Gasquet 
Ferrer
Nadal
Federer

The difference between Nadal and Federer is not due to them (infact I'd accept nadal is in better form recently as Tenez said), but due to the difference in Kohli and Robredo.
Kohli played superbly against isner, but Robredo struggled against Evans for a bit.

luvsports! wrote:Raonic (5)
tipsarevic (8) 
nadal (2)
robredo (9)

Cheers and 

noleisthebest wrote:Raonic (5)
Ferrer (2)
Nadal (2)
Robredo (9)

Cheers and 

summerblues wrote:Raonic (5)
Tipsarevic (8)
Kohlschreiber (8)
Federer (1)

Cheers and  

Hope all your picks lose though  (especially the third one)

Tenez wrote:Gasquet (5)
Ferrer (2)
Nadal (2)
Federer (1)

Cheers and 

raiders_of_the_lost_ark wrote:Gasquet (5)
Ferrer (2)
Nadal (2)
Federer (1)

Cheers and 

I find USO scheduling so odd, in Wimbledon, this would have been the second Monday when top and bottom draws merge, the best day in the tournament, and USO is still an entire round behind...
Still, some exciting matches today and let's hope for an upset, after Darcis, can Kholi have an inspired day?

And since   is the flavour of the thread..well...  to Giorgi, Riske and Halep, all gutsy, human looking attacking-minded "surprises", go for it and make those huge bashers run and scramble!!!  

My Picks:

Julia Santamaria wrote:Raonic (5)
Ferrer (2)
Nadal (2)
Federer (1)

The crunch match today really is:

Raonic (5) vs Gasquet (5)

Both are perennial Round 4 losers.
At the moment 2/3s of people here have chosen Raonic.

Ohh .. Giorgi loses and very quickly ran off the court after the match. Her game completely fell apart after she was leading 4-1 in the 1st set.  Still she should take a lot of positives from the match.

Its pouring rain in NYC now.

raiders_of_the_lost_ark wrote:Its pouring rain in NYC now.

Just as I made myself a nice cup of coffee and sat down to see some tennis action..

noleisthebest wrote:I find USO scheduling so odd, in Wimbledon, this would have been the second Monday when top and bottom draws merge, the best day in the tournament, and USO is still an entire round behind...

I like Wimbledon's scheduling pattern the best, but maybe it is just because that is what I grew up with.  Otherwise, all slams have their own quirks but I do not think this year's USO is all that bad.  They are not an entire round behind - really just a half a round as they will start playing R4 today (and that on the men's side only, women will be done with R4 just like they would be at Wimby).  On top of that, they are finishing one day later this year, so I do not think being half a round behind is so bad.

I don't know...USO has been quite neglected and really gone down  recently (no rain covers for the courts, terrible scheduling that led to unfair finals in the past, poorly paid B list umpires not to mention the more serious issues)...
It has compromised on many levels and almost completely lost its character, only the night crowd makes it stand out now a bit.
I can't remember a decent match played there for a long time, AO will soon take over.

The US scheduling is pretty poor at the beginning but it gets ridiculous at the end with the super saturday/weekend.

But I still like the USO....well at liked it before they started to slow things down there too.

Apparently, the rain having its last spell for today after which play should resume.
I used to hate rain delays until I sat through one in RG - two and a half solid hours of hard rain in my seat under the umbrella....and the time went really quickly, I actually enjoyed it!

Latest update from USO website:

"Rain has delayed play at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The rain has now stopped, the courts are being dried and play is expected to resume shortly."  

That's another few hours then.

The play resumed, yaaaaaaay!!!  

Let's hope the rain stays away for the rest of the day...

Scheduling changed because of the rain and Federer & Lopez now warming up on Armstrong, go Feddy!!!! 

Tipsarevic serving for the first set, him and Ferrer grinding the gizzards out of each other!
They actually played a great 5 setter in the QF in USO last year.

Tipsarevic chokes and Ferrer breaks...5 all.
Over to Armstrong.

That FHDTL.....dear me!!!
It's just out of this world
After the wobbly start, Federer in demolishing mood, fasten your seat belts, here we go woooo-hoooooo!!!  

Wooaahh.....Federer playing really well despite starting with a bad service game.

The rhytm of play is really fast. Woudl be worth comparing it with the 2006 matches.

And being broken again....despite amazing shots and volleys. I am also very impressed by Robredo's game.

Agree on Federer. In spite of not so clean scoreline, he looks pretty good. Hitting both FH and BH with conviction. Let's hope he keeps it up.

Yes, Robredo played really well against Evans, incredibly fit for an "oldie".
Fed back to his wonderful, healthy self put me in such good mood, I am going to have a glass of my special rose.

To the one and only, magnificent Fed!

Oops. Hopefully just a blip.

High quality set of tennis.

What a decent match it is when two SBHs play....

Mind you, I don't remember ever seeing Robredo being so fast on his feet, like he is a different player!

Wowzers Tipsarevic really impressing here against Ferrer.

Robredo hits so much harder than pre-injuries time. The game has changed again as players topspin more than ever.

Kohli is 1-9 vs Nadal. They played four times on clay and he got destroyed every time. Outside clay, however, he never lost in straight sets, so that is my silver lining in that match-up.

Federer missing many BPs...Putting him on more pressure every time.

Tenez wrote:Federer missing many BPs...Putting him on more pressure every time.

Robredo painting the lines though...surely can't last much longer!

summerblues wrote:Kohli is 1-9 vs Nadal.  They played four times on clay and he got destroyed every time.  Outside clay, however, he never lost in straight sets, so that is my silver lining in that match-up.

I would respond to this with a witty quip but everyone would become furious and LS would go into an apoplectic fit of rage  

Go on Julia, surprise us all, I could do with a laugh!

This match reminds me a lot the Fed Hass FO 09 match....where both were playing really well but in particular the opponent giving 100% and not missing but Fed still managed to lose the 2 first sets.

I second nitb, JS go ahead with your witty quip. You raised the expectations, so it had better be a good one.

Robredo trying to buy every spare second available, by lying on the ground unnecessarily, by taking ridiculous challenges, next thing he'll be doing is icing his leg, did anyone watch Robredo vs Evans?
I reckon he'll run out of steam soon, he cannot sustain this tempo against Federer!

Once again, Fed missing 3 BPs...which woudl give him a bit of a breezer!

COME ON ROGEEEEER !!!  

I think this could go 5.

Gasquet from 2:0 to 2:4.

summerblues wrote:Gasquet from 2:0 to 2:4.

Brilliant!
How are Ferrer and Tipsarevic going, someone will have to be taken out on stretchers there, I guess...