September 2009

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US Open Day 4 Summary

September 4th 2009 04:38

17 Year Old Christina Mchale

Pretty much all that happened since I last posted was three matches.

Sharapova, Roddick and Djokovic all won. Convincingly.

Sharapova had a GREAT match against Mchale (pictured above...duh). I think that was the best I've ever personally seen her, and I really think that with Venus' knee, that Sharapova is definitely in contention, and I really think she's one of maybe four people (Sharapova, both Williams, Safina) that could win the US Open on the Women's side. I think that Safina has the lowest chance too. From what I saw, Maria looked just plain old strong.

Djokovic trounced his opponent, so there isn't much to say here.

Roddick was GREAT. He played Marc Gicquel tonight, and won pretty convincingly. Ironically, it was the exact same score as their match in the French Open this year. Roddick was looking clean, smart and very good. I think he's one of the only guys that could win the US Open. In my opinion, he has the greatest chance outside of Federer or Murray.

Draws are here.

And the scores from today are here.

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US Open Day 4 Halfway Summary

September 3rd 2009 22:13

So, we're halfway through the day and something pretty big has happened on the women's side, while the men's side has barely gotten on the courts. Roddick and Djokovic are scheduled to play later today, and more on that later.

Melanie Oudin

On the Men's side, we had a couple of interesting matches involving American's. I saw some parts of these matches. Robert Kendrick lost to Tommy Haas, which isn't too surprising, but I was rooting for the American as always.

Americans Sam Querrey and Kevin Kim played earlier, and Sam Querrey won in four. He's going to play Robin Soderling, who advanced to the round after playing two games. His opponent retired pretty quickly. Soderling won the last two meetings with Querrey and made it to the Finals of the French and is famous for being the first person to beat Nadal at Roland Garros.

The big story is Jesse Witten on the men's side. He's ranked around 250 in the world and is in the 3rd round of the Open. His next match could be Djokovic, so there might not be too much of a chance of him going to the 4th, but even if it's not Djokovic, I saw Ball's first match (the person playing Djokovic tonight), and he's a pretty good player. He won convincingly at the end of his match.

Verdasco and Davydenko won a bit too easily, but I think they'll have more challenging rounds in the future (Verdasco is playing Tommy Haas next, which'll be a good match).

On the Women's side, the number 4 AND 5 seed are OUT. Dementieva (4) and Jankovic (5) both lost today, opening up the women's draw a bit. American Oudin (pictured above) beat Dementieva in a great match, and show of her will and determination. She fought off what looked to be a moderate to severe cramp in the thigh to beat the hardened veteran. Jankovic lost in a tiebreak, which I think was less a physical loss, and more a mental one. She just looked like she couldn't find her game at the end of the match.

So, later today, Maria Sharapova will play a very, very good young American, who might actually have a shot of winning. I'm putting my money on the American. If she wins, there'll be a match between two 17 year old Americans.

Right now, Robredo just won, and will hopefully play Blake, who's playing Rochus right now. I'll post later tonight summarizing the rest that happens.

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US Open Day 3 Summary...

September 3rd 2009 06:06

Sorry guys, but I watched pretty much none of any of today's tennis. I was a bit busy (look at the September 3rd post).

Here's a bit of the summary from what I see, and I watched the Nadal match, but it was pretty uneventful in my opinion.

All the seeded players won. The only notable things were that Mardy Fish's match got canceled and Marat Safin lost.

Nadal looked great and I'm sure Federer did too.

Gael Monfils was also flying around the court today.

I'm kind of glad I missed today other than some other day's tennis since tomorrow will be sure to have GREAT matches and yesterday had a really nice Murray match.

11AM tomorrow, tennis starts again and I'll be sleeping until then.

Click here to see individual match results

Click here to see the draws

More results tomorrow (obviously).

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US Open Day 2 Summary, Murray over Gulbis, Djokovic over Ljubicic

September 2nd 2009 04:27

Murray at last year's US Open

I'll start from the top

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US Open Day 2 Start and Dinara Safina

September 1st 2009 18:55

Dinara Safina

Not much has happened today. A couple of matches have been finished and no surprises, other than Women's #1, Dinara Safina, losing the first set in her first round match. Honestly, I don't care if she loses a set or two (well, not two, since it's women's...), but when she loses in a tiebreak, because of her double fault, what are we supposed to think

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