US Open 2014 - Men's Draw

US Open 2014 (also for bogbrush)

[1] DJOKOVIC, Novak SRB / SCHWARTZMAN, Diego ARG
MULLER, Gilles LUX / MATHIEU, Paul-Henri FRA
GONZALEZ, Maximo ARG / QUERREY, Sam USA
LU, Yen-Hsun TPE / [28] GARCIA-LOPEZ, Guillermo ESP
. [22] KOHLSCHREIBER, Philipp GER / (Q), Qualifier
. (W) LLODRA, Michael FRA / GIMENO-TRAVER, Daniel ESP
. KUKUSHKIN, Mikhail KAZ / STRUFF, Jan-Lennard GER
. (W) GIRON, Marcos USA / [13] ISNER, John USA

[9] TSONGA, Jo-Wilfried FRA / MONACO, Juan ARG
(Q), Qualifier / NEDOVYESOV, Aleksandr KAZ
CARRENO BUSTA, Pablo ESP / (Q), Qualifier
PAIRE, Benoit FRA / [24] BENNETEAU, Julien FRA
. [31] VERDASCO, Fernando ESP / ROLA, Blaz SLO
. KLAHN, Bradley USA / KUZNETSOV, Andrey RUS
. (Q), Qualifier / STEPANEK, Radek CZE
. HAASE, Robin NED / [8] MURRAY, Andy GBR

[3] WAWRINKA, Stan SUI / VESELY, Jiri CZE
BELLUCCI, Thomaz BRA / MAHUT, Nicolas FRA
KAVCIC, Blaz SLO / YOUNG, Donald USA
FALLA, Alejandro COL [30] / CHARDY, Jeremy FRA
. [21] YOUZHNY, Mikhail RUS / KYRGIOS, Nick AUS
. STAKHOVSKY, Sergiy UKR / SEPPI, Andreas ITA
. BOLELLI, Simone ITA / POSPISIL, Vasek CAN
. ROGER-VASSELIN, Edouard FRA / [16] ROBREDO, Tommy ESP

[10] NISHIKORI, Kei JPN / (W) ODESNIK, Wayne USA
ANDUJAR, Pablo ESP / SOCK, Jack USA
EBDEN, Matthew AUS / KAMKE, Tobias GER
MONTANES, Albert ESP / [23] MAYER, Leonardo ARG
. [29] ROSOL, Lukas CZE / (Q), Qualifier
. ESTRELLA BURGOS, Victor DOM / SIJSLING, Igor NED
. (Q), Qualifier / BECKER, Benjamin GER
. (Q), Qualifier / [5] RAONIC, Milos CAN

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[6] BERDYCH, Tomas CZE / HEWITT, Lleyton AUS
(Q), Qualifier / KLIZAN, Martin SVK
DONSKOY, Evgeny RUS / (Q), Qualifier
GABASHVILI, Teymuraz RUS / [27] GIRALDO, Santiago COL
. [19] LOPEZ, Feliciano ESP / DODIG, Ivan CRO
. JOHNSON, Steve USA / (Q), Qualifier
. LACKO, Lukas SVK / THIEM, Dominic AUT
. DE SCHEPPER, Kenny FRA / [11] GULBIS, Ernests LAT

[14] CILIC, Marin CRO / BAGHDATIS, Marcos CYP
(Q), Qualifier / (Q), Qualifier
JANOWICZ, Jerzy POL / LAJOVIC, Dusan SRB
CUEVAS, Pablo URU / [18] ANDERSON, Kevin RSA
. [26] SIMON, Gilles FRA / (Q), Qualifier
. (W) RUBIN, Noah USA / DELBONIS, Federico ARG
. (W) TOMIC, Bernard AUS / BROWN, Dustin GER
. DZUMHUR, Damir BIH / [4] FERRER, David ESP

[7] DIMITROV, Grigor BUL / (W) HARRISON, Ryan USA
BERLOCQ, Carlos ARG / SELA, Dudi ISR
(Q), Qualifier / GOFFIN, David BEL
DANCEVIC, Frank CAN / [32] SOUSA, Joao POR
. [20] MONFILS, Gael FRA / (W) DONALDSON, Jared USA
. GONZALEZ, Alejandro COL / TURSUNOV, Dmitry RUS
. (Q), Qualifier / LORENZI, Paolo ITA
. ISTOMIN, Denis UZB / [12] GASQUET, Richard FRA

[15] FOGNINI, Fabio ITA / GOLUBEV, Andrey KAZ
RIBA, Pere ESP / MANNARINO, Adrian FRA
(Q), Qualifier / (W) SMYCZEK, Tim USA
HAIDER-MAURER, Andreas AUT / [17] BAUTISTA AGUT, Roberto ESP
. [25] KARLOVIC, Ivo CRO / NIEMINEN, Jarkko FIN
. MELZER, Jurgen AUT / GRANOLLERS, Marcel ESP
. RAMOS-VINOLAS, Albert ESP / GROTH, Sam AUS
. MATOSEVIC, Marinko AUS / [2] FEDERER, Roger SUI

biugo, who are you? Present yourself, age ± 5y, fav player, shoe size,  what does your nick mean, etc etc.

Welcome and hope you have as much fun as we do  

Thanks for this, a fitting start to the US Open thread.

I'll be pleased to see Berdych go out before the semi.

The other side is a nest of vipers; Djokovic, Murray, Stan, Tsonga, Raonic, even Isner.

Jahu - I've been reading 606 tennis for a while (since forum's asterisked wee keira) and somehow, as I've been stuck home for a couple weeks, I finally took time to write something (hence I might not post often).
Around 35, size 10 (whatever is used in UK... I'm not a subject of HMLiz  ).

About tennis, I like shot making, sportsmanship, underdog stories or hot heads - I like the show of tennis I'd say (in my favourite: Nalbandian, Kuerten, Ivanisevic, Santoro, Berasategui, Safin... probably Tsonga for the current crop) and although I like Federer and Nadal producing incredible stats (making us feel how lucky we are to witness it) I'm looking forward a take over by a new generation...*
Oh and I'm in favour of keeping the court very different, and setting a grass masters (even if it won't ever happen and don't fit the calendar anyway)

(*as another poster suggested, I like the idea of Federer doing a Connors. After all, I read he said he wanted his daughters to see him succeed and understand, so it could be the same for the boys...)

biugo wrote:Jahu - I've been reading 606 tennis for a while (since forum's asterisked wee keira) and somehow, as I've been stuck home for a couple weeks, I finally took time to write something

Sorry bro, I have heard this exact statement from several new posters who sounded like pseudo of some past posters.   

Anyways welcome to the board and we hope you bring us some great threads in the near future.   

Can you edit your thread and post the draw in a bit more clearer fashion, I certainly don't understand who Djoko will face in QF.

Just checked the draw, finally Djoko got something of a decent draw, he has been enjoying paper draw for a quite a few years, lets see his progress this year.

biugo, keep it up buddy

invisiblecoolers wrote:a bit more clearer fashion, I certainly don't understand who Djoko will face in QF.

Any idea to make it clearer? I actually tried to highlight parts by 4 to make it easy to read (although maybe it was sarcasm? )

Clear enough to me.

Hey biugo, looking good, welcome to the madhouse

Ireland's James McGee just qualified for the main draw, fair play to him! Hope he gets the coverage he deserves over here

biugo wrote:

invisiblecoolers wrote:a bit more clearer fashion, I certainly don't understand who Djoko will face in QF.

Any idea to make it clearer? I actually tried to highlight parts by 4 to make it easy to read (although maybe it was sarcasm? )

What I wanted was who faces who in rounds? and possible match ups in upcoming rounds.

There are also ways to form tables in phpbb, so you could table out your work, there are threads like points table which actually does this, but not sure we really need it thou as many people do recognize your work and love it, however something you can add it in your work to make it even better.

You see quality is one side and marketing is the other side   , anyways forum is more healthy with newbies like you showing interest to present us some valuable info.  

IC what you mean.. But I actually just don;t have a clue how to make a nice clean table
About the possible match-ups, I simply couldn;t think why possible match-ups to highlight as I like to look outside of the usual suspects, and in the end it's all guesses...

That's actually why I didn't name the thread "US Open discussion thread" as I'd expect it in another thread, from a senior user who could follow up on the news better (it's been done well, I've always liked to see the updates on the stakes of the current rounds, etc...)

I'm planning to update the Qualifiers when they're up though - highlighting the Brits

By the way, was it Cogen who made a thread for some "pronostic / betting" contest (like, you pick 5 games at given odds etc. and the OP was compiling the scores of the posters...) That was fun! Is there anyone around to do this?   

The picking game? That was CJB, sadly missed these days. I don't see why we couldn't do it if someone could figure out a formula.

Welcome to the forum, by the way!

@Biugo , for the tables, you can copy that thread, use the quote option of the author and convert that to HTML and you will see how it was actually done.

Yea Picking game was so fun, I entered and it died, yea somebody has to take effort to bring that back, it also stopped me from gambling, as I found out myself I was more interested in winning something and not just winning money.