Us open mens day 12- Time to Stan and Deliver. Do Fed ex deliver Sabr's or am I Rogered? Erm... Cleaning with Novak-umn is hard... Something related to Cilic.

Mens place, someone wanted a half hearted attempt at a mens thread, so here she is.

Djokovic in 4.

Federer in 3. Or Stan in 3. Or one of them in 5. Or maybe 4.

Think that's about right.

Cilic winning 15 percent of second serve points... That's quite scary

Thank goodness for the WTA.

Henman Bill will be displeased. At this rate the second match will be finished before he's back

JuliusHMarx wrote:Thank goodness for the WTA.

To think they get equal prize money for this sort of uncompetitive stuff.

Mercer said it good: this does not look like a SF.

Serbian secret services have corrupted the Croat today (no libel stuff please )

Happy for Vinci to beat that Serena whale.

Hope she takes the AO

Hingis/indian guy played a great TB and won the mixed doubles. Very nice match.

Djoko wins against a ghost.

Come on Fed, a quick 3 sets.

Well whoever wins the second semi, Kudos to you if you can beat that...

Just got home. Was Nole that good or was Cilic that bad?

Both. Cilic with injury but novaks return was really frightening. If fed makes it there he'll need a miracle serving day

Just saw the effectiveness of sabr with that break. Stan got rattled, overplayed

Ok, thanks falzy. Did not realize Cilic was injured. I do not think Fed has too much of a chance in the final (if he gets there) regardless of how Nole played today.

Well he's got the early break with stan overpressing. What I can see though Feds current serving level doesn't look good enough

Fed not looking as sharp today as he has been lately. Not just the serve but all-around. Plus he looks very underpowered against Stan.

He is up a break but was under all kinds of pressure to hold.

Yeah, Stan looks seriously 'big'

Fed needs both the first two sets. More than anything to take on THAT Novak

But Roger is so clever, such smart and varied play.

I suspect Novak would rather play Roger than Stan.

Lovely fast play and fast points. Tennis as it should be played!!

summerblues wrote:I suspect Novak would rather play Roger than Stan.

Yes, but no.

I mean Stan is an awesome beast....... who misses.

He could lose or win to either.

Yeah, I was just going to say how watchable this match was. Points do not look all the same, with people running left and right on the baseline.

Don't think it matters. Novak would eat rogers serve right now. Stan doesn't look consistent enough. Plays like today he butchers either of them

bogbrush wrote:

summerblues wrote:I suspect Novak would rather play Roger than Stan.

Yes, but no.

I mean Stan is an awesome beast....... who misses.

He could lose or win to either.

I don't know. I am not sure Roger has it in him to beat Nole. At the very least, I think the odds are low.

Stan may be all over the place and lose worse than Roger ever would, but he can also destroy Djokovic if he is really on.

So far so good. First set in the bag without too much fuss.

Here's the key set.  Fed needs this just as much as stan does. From wanting a classic standpoint. I'd like to see a stan fightback

Bp saved. Come on Stan. This is good stuff, let's have more than 90 minutes of it

Not this time. An easy and important hold for stanimal

Not sure how Fed won that set, Stan looked more menacing, the hold at 0-40 was huge!

Fed is looking more menacing this set but Stan holds from 0-40 this time.

Phew. Still a match

Nice break, very smooth. Still all to play for.

...but not this time. Hopefully Fed can finish this set off.

Sigh. Match done it is. Couple of uncompetitive semis, hope the finals are more tense

Federer reading Stans serve like a cheap paperback.

Wawrinka frustrated now, but this is some seriously cool stuff from Roger.

Hopefully Fed can keep it up one more set.

Wawrinka started so well, but seems to have fallen off. The FH and serve seem to have gone AWOL. At least should have forced Federer to serve. Federer serves first, so the pressure will be on Wawrinka.

At least this is a better contest than 0,1,2 earlier (which is a record, IIRC).

Game done. Nothing much to sink my competitive teeth into, especially after the previous match...

Stan was 0-40 his last three service games.

Fed was also quite impressive against Isner. Isner's last three service games started 0-40, 0-30, 0-40 (though he managed to hold the first two of them).

If Federer does his business in three sets, he will recover a lot better for Sunday.

Stan served far better there. Tennis always demands you win more, no clock to run down.

Fed needs to keep his focus. It is all going so well - almost too well, he would not want to drop a service game through lack of concentration, and then end up in trouble.

laverfan wrote:At least this is a better contest than 0,1,2 earlier (which is a record, IIRC).

More one-sided than 2008 RG final.

Blimey it was wasn't it. That was a boring match, only interesting from a historical PoV. Fed playing at this point for some rest. Stan playing to not look an idiot

Good. Please hold from here.

Fleming said it right: "I want to see the birth certificate."

So much for. Classic nail biter. Roger and Novak better make amends in the final