1. Serena Williams v Li Na Li Na Both playing extremely well this week, all things look rosey for a fine womens semi-final between Serena Williams and Li Na. Serena showed absolutely no mercy against Carla Suarez Navarro, who was served up a double bagel on her birthday in their quarter-final match. Li lost her…
I don’t know if it is just me but I am starting to lose interest in this year’s US Open. The poor scheduling, the lacklustre matches and crowds on Ashe and no stand-out quarter-finals have made me feel a bit meh about this tournament right now. Flavia Pennetta making the semi-finals is a huge headline,…
My predictions have gone extremely wobbly this week, but then again some of the results have been very surprising. It is nice to see a few notable mens matches and I enjoyed the end to the Hewitt-Youzhny match tonight. Lleyton Hewitt still managing to compete at the top level is pretty magnificent, but he had…
I really thought there was an error with the US Open app when I saw a tick next to Tommy Robredo‘s name this morning. I know Federer has been struggling all year, but to lose in straight sets to Robredo, a player he has a 10-0 head-to-head record against was a real upset. Richard Gasquet…
The third quarter of the women’s draw has lost both it’s top eight seeds promising a first Grand Slam semi-final for either Simona Halep, Flavia Pennetta, Roberta Vinci or Camila Giorgi. I think it is always exciting to see a new player reach a big milestone at a Grand Slam and all four are highly…
The top half of the womens draw has produced four really strong match-ups and I thought each deserved a preview so here goes… 1. Serena Williams v Sloane Stephens Serena Williams The most anticipated match-up in the ladies draw so far will see Serena Williams take on Sloane Stephens in an all-American blockbuster clash. Sloane…
I feel like I have come down pretty hard on the mens tournament this week so I thought it was fair to at least preview some of the third round matches for Sunday. I am not going to lie though that the line-up is still rather pedestrian because of a surprising number of upsets from…
1. Maria Kirilenko v Simona Halep Maria Kirilenko Many, including me, had picked out Simona Halep as the dark horse to watch at this year’s US Open and she faces her first substantial test of the fortnight against Maria Kirilenko. Halep was rusty in her opener against Heather Watson, but had no such problems against…
After a rain affected day three that seemed to create more talking points centred around the US Open’s idiotic scheduling rather than the actual tennis, day 4 has been a complete jam packed affair. The biggest talking point from day 3 was probably the match between Venus Williams and Zheng Jie, which I was not…
Three days in and there have been a fair splattering of seeds exiting the competition. By far the biggest of those was the departure of Sam Stosur, who fell in three sets to the young American, Victoria Duval on Tuesday night. I really thought Stosur would enjoy a solid US Open having peaked at this…
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