USO 2012: Week 2

... is in full flight!

Claws are out, feathers will be ruffled.

Last night Raonic failed to deliver on his pre-match glove slap:

"Q: How difficult is it playing against Andy, one of the best returners in the game, despite your big serve? How do you have to change your game against Andy?

MILOS RAONIC: If I serve well, if I hit the lines, it's tough to get my serve back. It's really him adjusting more to me than myself to him. If I'm serving well, I'm hitting my spots, it's about making him feel as uncomfortable as possible. If I serve well, that's sort of what sort of happens. It's a ripple effect."



Berd, too has started the talk, let's see how he delivers on the walk

"Tomas Berdych appears confident that he can topple Roger Federer in the
quarterfinals of the U.S. Open. While Federer owns an 11-4 lifetime
record against Berdych, they have split their last six matches. Two of
Berdych’s last three wins over Federer have came on North American
outdoor hard courts.


“It's a quite nice statistic,” Berdych said. “But this is another one.
He played some incredible tennis again, won another Grand Slam, become
No. 1 again, so probably there is no better player at all to play right
now. When I saw the draw in the beginning, it was like, ‘Yeah, that
would be the goal to get into play a match with Roger.’ I was able to
beat him three times. He's now strong again, but I think it's gonna be
quite different match than the matches before. I'm different player as well. I'm getting more experience and feeling good.”

Hope to hear more of this talk esp after today

If all goes to plan today, we are in store for some great matches for the 4 semi-final sports.

Yes, it's really interesting from now on. I actually enjoyed the RAO v Murray match. Really weird tennis from Murray.