US open 2012: ATP Matches of the Day: Day 4

We move on to the 2nd round of the US open, Murray has already played his R2 and now moved on to R3. Clijsters retired for the 2nd time. No wonder it didn't look very emotional, just a formal goodbye. Federer is playing today evening session.

Matches for the Prediction game are the following:

1. Marcel Granollers (ESP)[24]
vs.
James Blake (USA)

2. Nicolas Almagro (ESP)[11]
vs.
Philipp Petzschner (GER)

3. Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)
vs.
Milos Raonic (CAN)[15]

4. Albert Ramos (ESP)
vs.
Fernando Verdasco (ESP)[25]

5. Pablo Andujar (ESP)
vs.
Feliciano Lopez (ESP)[30]

6. Jeremy Chardy (FRA)[32]
vs.
Matthew Ebden (AUS)

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All the matches can be discussed here as they go on.

My take:

1. Granollers
2. Almagro
3. PHM
4. Verdasco
5. Lopez
6. Ebden

Blake, Almagro, Raonic, Verdasco, Lopez, Chardy

1. Marcel Granollers (ESP)[24] (d'love to see Blake win though)

2. Nicolas Almagro (ESP)[11]

3. Milos Raonic (CAN)[15]

4. Fernando Verdasco (ESP)[25]

5. Pablo Andujar (ESP)

6. Jeremy Chardy (FRA)[32]


Another very tough choice!

1. Marcel Granollers (ESP)[24] Going with the age

2. Petzchner deserve to win, Almugro is annoying to watch.


3. Milos Raonic (CAN)[15]

4. Verdasco- he will win this one, Ramos seems to be out of form.


5. Lopez (ESP) more experienced at this level

6. Jeremy Chardy (FRA)[32]- he is on the roll,Ebden is a better grass court player and had an easy first round.

1. Blake
2. Almagro
3. P-H M
4. Verdasco
5. Lopez
6. Chardy
I really deserve to get back to 6/6 today... Consolation in case it does not happen, I'll be watching Federer play tonight on Arthur Ashe stadium and the seats should be good!

I must say that ROTLA is doing a fantastic job with all this.

ROTLA

Still a long way to go, this game reminds me of the F1 season of 2010 in which Vettel came back to win it from 5th place with only 3-4 races to go.

sphairistike wrote:1. Blake
2. Almagro
3. P-H M
4. Verdasco
5. Lopez
6. Chardy
I really deserve to get back to 6/6 today... Consolation in case it does not happen, I'll be watching Federer play tonight on Arthur Ashe stadium and the seats should be good!

Oh, wonderful!!!!!

Don't forget to share with us who can't be there, and whatever you do, even if that tricky Phau takes a set or two off Fed...


HAVE A FABULOUS TIME !!!!

noleisthebest wrote:
Don't forget to share with us who can't be there, and whatever you do, even if that tricky Phau takes a set or two off Fed...

I like your sense of jest.

Blake, Almagro, Raonic, Verdasco, Lopez, Chardy.

Tenez wrote:1. Marcel Granollers (ESP)[24] (d'love to see Blake win though)
Another very tough choice!

... stop moonballing (like Raonic in Raonic v Giraldo) in the desire to win then, and take some risk.

laverfan wrote:

Tenez wrote:1. Marcel Granollers (ESP)[24] (d'love to see Blake win though)
Another very tough choice!

... stop moonballing (like Raonic in Raonic v Giraldo) in the desire to win then, and take some risk.

Good one!

Wasn't picking Gulbis a risky stroke?

wow3 wrote:I must say that ROTLA is doing a fantastic job with all this.

ROTLA

Anything for friends.

Points standings have been corrected. I made a mistake in calculations in the morning.

Standings as on 30-Aug-2012:

Points:
rotla: 67 - 38 = 29
tenez: 149 -38 = 111
nitb: 77 + 28 = 105
laverfan: 80 - 104 = -24
wow: 85 -38 = 47
sphairistike: 121 - 38 = 83

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No. of correct predictions

rotla: 8/12 +3/6 = 11/18
tenez: 10/12 + 3/6 = 13/18
nitb: 9/12 + 4/6 = 13/18
laverfan: 9/12 +2/6 = 11/18
wow: 9/12 + 3/6 = 12/18
sphairistike: 9/12 + 3/6 = 12/18

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Tenez wrote:

laverfan wrote:

Tenez wrote:1. Marcel Granollers (ESP)[24] (d'love to see Blake win though)
Another very tough choice!

... stop moonballing (like Raonic in Raonic v Giraldo) in the desire to win then, and take some risk.

Good one!

Wasn't picking Gulbis a risky stroke?

Law of Averages caught up with Haas.

Almagro a set up.. Petzy is playing poor.

This US open is going to have a record no. of 5-setters

The most pathetic, one dimensional player wins. Another fixed reult. Well played Petszchner, I wish I could say the same thing for his opponent. Disgraceful result.

Tsonga needs to hire a coach,too many bad habits creeping into his game

allez taxi! tosnga going home

Klizan doing Rosol.

Veejay wrote:Tsonga needs to hire a coach,too many bad habits creeping into his game

Now that I'm playing this guessing game, I've been watching livescores like a hawk , just had a look ow and the first thought that went through my head was: What's the matter with Tsonga

Petzsch does not have a very good five-set record. He had control of the match being up 2-1 sets. He has himself to blame. He did the same when playing Nadal @W.

Veejay wrote:Tsonga needs to hire a coach,too many bad habits creeping into his game

He has an 'unofficial' one, in Guy Forget.

LF, did you not take ur pics today?

laverfan wrote:

Veejay wrote:Tsonga needs to hire a coach,too many bad habits creeping into his game

He has an 'unofficial' one, in Guy Forget.

Well he should forget that guy
Credit to Klizan though,he is playing some incredible tennis

I'm glad Davy's dancing on Ashe nicely

Aurevoir Tsonga, bientot. Klizan = Rosol.

wow3 wrote:Aurevoir Tsonga, bientot. Klizan = Rosol.

Rosol played much better but Klizan was certainly up there
Who is this Stephens girl...just saw the highlights with Schiavone...looks like someone who could really challenge Serena

Stephens is touted as next Williams. She is rapidly rising on the scene. Good to see Lopez scrapping through, my bet was quite right on Petzy but Spanish endurance got better here.

wow3 wrote:Stephens is touted as next Williams. She is rapidly rising on the scene. Good to see Lopez scrapping through, my bet was quite right on Petzy but Spanish endurance got better here.

She's really good...she's like a combination of Serena and Venus
Moves really fast like Venus did when he was younger and is really powerful like Serena

order of play out for tomorrow:

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/schedule/schedule11.html

Tsongaaaaaaaaaaaaa you plonga.

Veejay wrote:She's really good...she's like a combination of Serena and Venus
Moves really fast like Venus did when he was younger and is really powerful like Serena

Was not Oudin supposed to be next Serena, then McHale, now Stephens... desparate Yanks?

Did not see the match of Tsonga....what happened? sad really. Must be a physical niggle...don't you think? I don;t even know who he was playing.

Tsonga was completely out of sorts against Klizan. Klizan played some pretty good attacking forehands.

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/match_reports/2012-08-30/201208301346355885484.html

Veejay wrote:[

She's really good...she's like a combination of Serena and Venus
Moves really fast like Venus did when he was younger and is really powerful like Serena

But does she have The Serve ?

What an amazing player Blake is. A joy to watch. Such a talent. With faster balls he woudl still be top 5...but the head will always be his problem.



So nice to see that kind of tennis back! Remember he was one of the very few players who could stay with in-the-zone Federer.

laverfan wrote:

Veejay wrote:She's really good...she's like a combination of Serena and Venus
Moves really fast like Venus did when he was younger and is really powerful like Serena

Was not Oudin supposed to be next Serena, then McHale, now Stephens... desparate Yanks?

Oudin had one run at the U.S Open..I agree the Americans were getting a little carried away but this Stephens girl is quite talented...she looks really promising,the most promising up and coming female player I have seen in a very long time

noleisthebest wrote:

Veejay wrote:[

She's really good...she's like a combination of Serena and Venus
Moves really fast like Venus did when he was younger and is really powerful like Serena

But does she have The Serve ?

Shes got a good serve..and she's only 19,lots of time to improve it

Is anyone watching? A joy to watch tennis again!!! Allez Blake!!!

Tenez wrote:Is anyone watching? A joy to watch tennis again!!! Allez Blake!!!

What do you mean: Allez?! You chose Granollers, you T-line moonballer

noleisthebest wrote:

Tenez wrote:Is anyone watching? A joy to watch tennis again!!! Allez Blake!!!

What do you mean: Allez?! You chose Granollers, you T-line moonballer

I don't mind paying the price of seeing such a great game winning those real moonballers.

I did not know Blake could still play like that. Just confirms that players improve till their 30s.

I watched The Party after a very long time again, and can't get Peter Seller's silly grin out of my head, it's just hovering above the service line

This is why I am so convinced the greatest era was actually 2002-2007 when all those great shot makers had faster conds and tennis was really untertaining (Blake, Federer, Nalby, Coria, Ljubo, Davydenko.....) all getting qualified for the Year end masters.

laverfan wrote:

Veejay wrote:She's really good...she's like a combination of Serena and Venus
Moves really fast like Venus did when he was younger and is really powerful like Serena

Was not Oudin supposed to be next Serena, then McHale, now Stephens... desparate Yanks?

Who is British number 1 ? Heather Watson- crashed out to Li Na in the very first round. When was the last time Britain had a decent single player in female tennis? At least Williams have been flying the flag for past 15 years. And on top of that players like Konta and Keothavong are not even British. Even Boggo was an import

Forgot to mention legendary Robert Dee

Tenez wrote:This is why I am so convinced the greatest era was actually 2002-2007 when all those great shot makers had faster conds and tennis was really untertaining (Blake, Federer, Nalby, Coria, Ljubo, Davydenko.....) all getting qualified for the Year end masters.

mmmmmaybe....but I like a lot of players from this era. You seem to be judging the players rather than the playing conditions. We can see the "oldies" play now, but I'm just as SO convinced, most of today's players would be fantastic 10 years ago )and , no , just don't mention HIS nams).

Blake really trusting his forehand, great to see

Blake is not winning this one. Moonballer will win this one like the Almaggot's result.

What's wrong with frenchies today? First songa and now simone

3 Frenchies in the draw today and most likely all will be taking the flight back. Verdasco getting a facile win over Ramos as expected.

Fickin Almaggot, I could have come back to the top of the rankings