US Open Day 10 - Is Penetta the Flavia of the month? How much does Vandeweghe? Is Dellacqua fortis?

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Watched Roberta Vinci yesterday, holy mama, attacking tennis, at the net, SHBH, amazing.

Hope she makes the final, not seen quality WTA tennis since Henin quit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW12Mp2S7d4

Really hoping Anderson can back up his performance from Monday. If he does, he will beat Stan, who has a poor record even against the normal Kev. Got to imagine though that a brutal 4 hour match will take a toll on his huge frame. Going for Stan in 4.

Federer to win in 3.

Wawrinka has been struggling, for example, Young. I too would like to see Anderson come through.

Gasquet made it to the SF @USO in 2013 and seems to be doing well, but Federer is yet to lose a set, maybe Gasquet can take one?

to the Amazons.

If Anderson hadn't taken 4+ hrs to beat Murray I'd be backing him here, Wawrinka hasn't impressed me. Still, on balance, Anderson might still do this.

All logic says Federer should do this in 3 but NuGasket is a more competitive player. The big question is whether he's still playing 10 yards behind the baseline. Any one know? Unless he's standing right up he has no hope.

It would be good to see Anderson convert his victory over Murray into a win over Wawrinka. First set crucial as I see neither losing from that point. Stan hasn't been firing on all cylinders this tournament.

Federer should come through in 3. I still don't think Gasquet has the game to take it to Federer if Federer is on form, but if Federer goes walkies he could make a fist of it.

I think this will be a battle of the baseline. We know Federer is going to plant his heels on it and push on at every chance. If Gasquet is true to form he'll step further and further back and he'll be killed. His only chance is to step in but there is no way he'll make Roger go backwards, it would turn into a half-volley contest.

Its perhaps somewhat telling that they have out both the womens Quarters on back to back first up, not much confidence in the WTA outside Serena.
Kvitova and Azza, get in done quick!

Azarenka Halep should actually be match of the day unless Halep is still injured.

Penetta forces a third set.

Unless and until they develop an option that allows you to mute Azarenka but retain commentary and crowd noise, then no Azarenka match will be my match of the day.

Wawrinka has never beaten Anderson in 4 previous attempts, I would say Kevin fancies his chances to be honest particularly given the confidence from his Murray win. It can be hard to back it up though

Penetta does it!  Storms are coming, so they're pushing the fed match forward. Disruption imminent?

Thing with stan is he's a big match player. I'd put him favourite

Kvitova out! There goes any remote chance of anybody stopping serena, oh well

Here comes the rain. If the forecast is right both the men's quarters might be put back a whole day

temporary21 wrote:Here comes the rain. If the forecast is right both the men's quarters might be put back a whole day

With the semi finals still on Friday?

That's a bit of a blow for the bottom half of the draw.

I'm not sure. If they need to come out Thursday would they push then to Saturday? They do have another day...

They've moved Wawrinka-Anderson to Armstrong (n/b 6pm local) so if there is an opportunity to play today, they should both get done. If not, surely they'd play QF Thurs, SF Fri so that the finalists from both halves get a day off before Sunday. I've seen suggestions that the forecast is not good for the next 3 days so I guess it's possible someone will have to play 3 days running which would really give the advantage to Djokovic/Cilic.

Azza is back on so theres a chance it might all get doen with that switch

Welcome to the scheduling fun at USO.

I've just realised that Richard Gasquet has a perfect record in slam quarter finals (3-0 unless I've missed any). I wonder if that run can continue tonight .....

YvonneT wrote:I've just realised that Richard Gasquet has a perfect record in slam quarter finals (3-0 unless I've missed any). I wonder if that run can continue tonight .....

Are you hoping or asking?

laverfan wrote:Are you hoping or asking?

I would be stunned if that run continued, but I don't think he'll have much support on here so I will give him a little Allez!!

Gasquet has been playing much better than in the past, so he is capable of an upset.

Watching Wawrinka v Anderson, almost all returns are being sliced making Anderson work harder, till Wawrinka can hit a winning FH, very simple strategy from the minds of Luthi and Norman.

Stan with the early break!

Anderson's first serve is not working very well.

6-4, allez!

Wawrinka wins the first set.

Thx sky. I don't have the red button...  Who are the commentators Sky use for the night sessions? They're awful

This being why I wanted to watch stan Anderson. Nice groove but gasquet has nothing here to even slightly hurt rog. Looks routine

Allez le Suisse!

KA imploding. Swiss army knife sharpened.

Wawrinka through, Federer up 2 sets. Looks like a SUI SF.

Just got home.

I see Stan won already - cool, good to see him in yet another SF.  He has become rather consistent in slams this year.  I expected just the opposite after his last year's AO title.

How is Fed playing?  Score seems to be straightforward enough - at least so far.

Gasquet is abjectly surrendering.

Federer has 40 winners to 5 from Gasquet. Wow!

Even the former mayor of NY, David Dinkins is yawning.

Come on Gasquet, show something!

laverfan wrote:Federer has 40 winners to 5 from Gasquet. Wow!

LOL

Fed is looking rather comfortable out there.

The three current slam holders (Cilic, Nole and Stan) are all in the SF.

Feds to serve for the match. Hammering.

2 thoroughly uncompetitive quarters. Hopefully the Swiss number 1 and 2 can put in some kind of blockbuster in the semi. Can't say u imagine the other one being a classic

That was easy. Fed dropped even fewer games in this QF than Stan did in his.

I would much rather see a 5-set blockbuster in the Nole vs Cilic SF.

They are saying that Stan also tried the half-volley return today?

Not quite SABR but took it v early.

SABRE on both courts, very interesting. Cahill thinks Federer timed the ball well, but IMVHO, it was a bad performance.

The interesting part is that the strategy used by Federer in Federer v Isner was almost identical to Wawrinka's in Wawrinka v Anderson. Luthi needs (and deserves) some credit too.

The loss of 7 games, 50 winners, 21 ue's and 16 aces is a bad performance??

Yeah LF, I hope you are wrong. That would be sad if Fed was not playing well going into final weekend. I only saw the third set but I thought he looked pretty good. Really the only weak-ish performance I saw from him this HC summer was in his match against Kohli.

I can't imagine someone can find fault with that fed performance. What aspect of it was bad?

Stan will be a real test but I think fed should. My greater concern is they usually really battle in recent times and what that will take from Fed for the finals. The last two times Feds back has really flared up badly was against stan during long battles- iw and wtf.