Brenda Fruhvirtova has won a W25 final 6-0 6-0 after winning every round in straight sets. Definitely making waves on the ITF circuit.

Borna Coric became the lowest ranked player to win a Masters title last night, by defeating Tsitsipas in Cincinnati. Only dropped one set (to Nadal) en route. He was 152nd at the start of the tournament after coming back from injury, and will now be seeded for the US Open.

incredible for Coric, I used to like him a lot

A fan who Nick Kyrgios said was "drunk out of her mind" during the Wimbledon final is taking legal action against the Australian tennis player.

 

Kyrgios, who lost the final to Novak Djokovic in July, said the woman looked "like she has had about 700 drinks" as he complained to the umpire about her.

 

Anna Palus has now instructed solicitors to bring defamation proceedings against Kyrgios.

 

She accuses Kyrgios of a "reckless and entirely baseless allegation".

Novak Djokovic says he will be unable to travel to New York for the US Open, which begins on Monday.

Surely that's #23 in the bag for Rafa then, can't see Medvedev being as good as last year.

I'm doubtful Rafa has it in him at the moment, it's very wide open this year with five fighting it out for the #1 ranking at the end :o

 

Crying at Emma's draw, facing Alize Cornet in the first round. Grand slam experience doesn't come much more than that and she ended Swiatek's mega winning streak at Wimbledon. #80 in the rankings beckons

Rafa? He's not fully recovered yet... I'm actually surprised he's in, his wife who's like 8 months pregnant had to be rushed to the hospital in Spain

so I doubt Nadal's mind is much in the tournament tbh

 

Agree it's a super open tournament and anyone can win, some underdog probably

No one gave him much hope at the AO and he still won it so...

 

What I would say though is of all the slams it's usually the US open that sees 'surprise' winners. Del Potro in 2009, Cilic in 2014, Thiem in 2020 and Medvedev last year. All have never won any other slams and in the other 3 slams no one outside of the big 5 have won since 2005.

rooting for someone like Sinner or Alcaraz to win... or even Kyrgios :D

Medvedev seems to be playing poorly, his serve is still good so he still wins lots of games cos of that, but he's not playing at the same level as last year

 

agree the US Open is the most unpredictable, you just have to look at last year's women tournament

Edited August 26, 20222 yr by Bjork

US Open Men's Odds (Coral)

 

D.Medvedev 13/5f

R.Nadal 4/1

Carlos Alcaraz 11/2

N.Kyrgios 8/1

S.Tsitsipas 12/1

Jannik Sinner 16/1

T.Fritz 22/1

B.Coric 25/1

F.A.Aliassime 28/1

M.Berrettini 28/1

A.Rublev 40/1

C.Norrie 40/1

H.Hurkacz 40/1

C.Ruud 50/1

P.Carreno Busta 50/1

M.Cilic 66/1

D.Shapovalo 80/1

D.Thiem 100/1

S.Korda 100/1

Bit sad to not see Watson or Broady make the draw. Would they have even had to get through qualifying if their Wimbledon runs had counted?

US Open Women's Odds (Coral)

 

Iga Swiatek 9/2f

S.Halep 9/1

C.Garcia 16/1

Cori Gauff 16/1

A.Sabalenka 18/1

E.Rybakina 20/1

J.Pegula 20/1

E.Raducanu 22/1

N.Osaka 25/1

B.Bencic 28/1

B.H.Maia 28/1

D.Kasatkina 28/1

Leylah Fernandez 28/1

Liudmila Samsonova 28/1

M.Keys 28/1

O.Jabeur 28/1

A.Anisimova 33/1

B.Andreescu 33/1

Ka.Pliskova 33/1

M.Sakkari 33/1

Paula Badosa 33/1

S.Williams 33/1

A.Kontaveit 40/1

P.Kvitova 40/1

V.Kudermetova 50/1

B.Krejcikova 66/1

Danielle Collins 66/1

E.Mertens 66/1

Qinwen Zheng 66/1

S.Stephens 66/1

V.Azarenka 66/1

Clara Tauson 80/1

G.Muguruza 80/1

J.Ostapenko 80/1

A.Tomljanovic 100/1

B.Pera 100/1

E.Alexandrova 100/1

S.Rogers 100/1

Cornet will break the female open era record for consecutive slams played when she takes on ER next week. 16 straight years 2007-2022 inclusive = 63 slams (Wimbledon 2020 cancelled).

US Open Draws

 

 

https://www.usopen.org/en_US/draws/mens-singles.html

https://www.usopen.org/en_US/draws/womens-singles.html

That's a big upset with Daria Snigur from Ukraine beating Simona Halep. I thought she was going to mess it up going from 5-1 to 5-4,0-30 in the final set but she won the next four points.

wow first big upset

Another top 10 seed out, Daria Kasatkina at the hands of Harriet Dart! A great fight back from Dart after being a break down in the decider.

 

Andy Murray managed his first straight sets victory at a Grand Slam since Wimbledon 2017.

Great win for Jack Draper to make round 2 for the first time

 

 

wow and Kasatkina was one of the big big favourites

 

a couple more upsets too with Tsitsipas and Fritz... especially Tsitsipas lost the first 2 sets 6-1, 6-0... weird

but the men's tournaments lately are starting to resemble the women's tournaments with so many going out early

Edited August 30, 20222 yr by Bjork