US OPEN, Flushing Meadows, NY, USA, GRAND SLAM (Women)

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i can;t help it -- but i recall

PAM SHRIVER -- in the 1980's when SHE was being groomed by her friends Martina Navratilova and Christ Evert as the top players to become the next ''best player" -- as shriver was herself trying to carve out a challenge to THEM in singles and also playing doubles --

that as , i think, world number 4 or something -- the then-very-young steffi graf suddenly came from almost out of nowhere to ''crash the party" defeating the top -

there was this match in germany -- and as she was losing to steffi - shriver became so upset - that she resorted to literally heckling graf with farcical imitations of how steffi prepared her serves and stuiff like that.

ewe....if i remember correctly - steffi was then so upset herself - after the match which she did win --she was crying in the tunnel exit..

there was always that thinly veiled resentment from ''them" in those years...

firs ttowards steffi - later towards the williamses. while they - along with mary carillo would pump up the importance of any OTHER against steffi in her time or the williamses.

i do not forget such things.

and chris evert herself - while commentating one time during steffi's final years - openly admitted it :

"those early years as steffi challenged us -- we DID treat her unfairly..we did feel her as a threat and didn't really like that she was not as sociable...and it was unfair to her".

and even added :

"so many years later -- as it turned out steffi and i had become neighbors when she moved in to boca raton -- and then i had my baby -- one day the doorbell rang -- and there she was standing and asked me if she could babysit for me knowing that i was looking around as i had a trip ...and i realized what a wonderful person she really is...and how wrong we were about her".

I guess the old guard don't like being challenged by the youngsters. I never really cared for Pam Shriver.

 

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Does Wimbledon -- the TEMPLE of Tennis -- display the Union Jack?

Does FO - the most continental of Tennis - Display the French Flag

Does AO - the ''friendly Gran Slam" - display the Aussie Flag..?


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ORDER OF PLAY FOR MONDAY 29 AUGUST

Arthur Ashe Stadium

11am

7 Roberta Vinci (ITA) v Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)

Polona Hercog (SLO) v 2 Angelique Kerber (GER)

4 Rafael Nadal (ESP) v Denis Istomin (UZB)

7pm

Opening ceremony

1 Novak Djokovic (SRB) v Jerzy Janowicz (POL)

8 Madison Keys (USA) v Alison Riske (USA)

Louis Armstrong Stadium

Rogerio Dutra Silva (BRA) v 7 Marin Cilic (CRO)

Francesca Schiavone (ITA) v 9 Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)

Elise Mertens (BEL) v 3 Garbine Muguruza (ESP)

26 Jack Sock (USA) v Taylor Fritz (USA)

Grandstand

Taylor Townsend (USA) v Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)

20 John Isner (USA) v Frances Tiafoe (USA)

9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) v Guido Andreozzi (ARG)

13 Johanna Konta (GBR) v Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)

Court 17

Samanta Crawford (USA) v 24 Belinda Bencic (SUI)

10 Gael Monfils (FRA) v Gilles Muller (LUX)

Magda Linette (POL) v 12 Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)

Dustin Brown (GER) v 5 Milos Raonic (CAN)

Court 5

Kyle Edmund (GBR) v 13 Richard Gasquet (FRA)

4th Match: 18 Barbora Strycova (CZE) v Monica Niculescu (ROU)

P6/Old Grand Stand

3rd Match: 32 Monica Puig (PUR) v Zheng Saisai

4th Match, not before 1am: Mandy Minella (LUX) v 22 Elina Svitolina (UKR)

Court 13

Carina Witthoft (GER) v 30 Misaki Doi (JPN)

Naomi Osaka (JPN) v 28 Coco Vandeweghe (USA)

Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) v 23 Kevin Anderson (RSA)

Court 6

4th Match: 24 Lucas Pouille (FRA) v Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ)

Court 7

4th Match, not before 1am: Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) v 15 Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)

Court 9

31 Albert Ramos (ESP) v Julien Benneteau (FRA)

Court 12

14 Petra Kvitova (CZE) v Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)

27 Sara Errani (ITA) v Shelby Rogers (USA)

32 Benoit Paire (FRA) v Dusan Lajovic (SRB)

Court 14

Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) v 28 Martin Klizan (SVK)

3rd Match: 21 Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) v Lesia Tsurenko (UKR)

 

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I guess the old guard don't like being challenged by the youngsters. I never really cared for Pam Shriver.

this is normal of course -- old guard can often be reluctant -

but there was probably seldom in tennis that a new big challenger to the STILL top of the line ''old guard" was so viciously ganged up on than it was in the early years of graf. that's why they were all so happy when Seles showed up -- almost as if ''by default" doing what they no longer could do -- keep steffi from showing SHE was the queen by taking THEM down. lol.

u know thee's a little known story:

when steffi -- already then the world number one - and had won the GOLDEN SLAM of 1988 -- and had defeated NAVRATILOVA -- the greatest on grass in wimbledon again -- in 1989...

MN was of course very upset as -- if steffi had not been around MN would likely have won 10 wimbledons - simply beyond anyone to achieve even in a reasonably successful career....

but after that finals -- MN'S doorbell rang - her butler opened the door -- and there standing was Steffi Graf -- the now successfully defended champion over MN.

her visit? TO offer MN A GAME in MN'S own private court - just between two athletes but MN already left for the day to play some golf...-- and although little reported - a journalist found out about it - and YEARS later asked steffi why she did that...since it was nothing ''real" as in tournaments...

and steffi answered she was very serious about it -- to play as good a game as they could --

because it was her way of telling MN - the predecessor "that I thought she could have won the title and any game just as much as i Did, and things just went my way on that day...and that i wanted to tell her , what a privilege it was to have played her. "

 

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I'm liking Bencic. Looks to be a force for the future.

 

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Results from the U.S. Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday

12-Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) beat Magda Linette (Poland) 6-2 6-3
Lesia Tsurenko (Ukraine) beat 21-Irina Begu (Romania) 6-0 6-4
3-Garbine Muguruza Blanco (Spain) beat Elise Mertens (Belgium) 2-6 6-0 6-3
Wang Yafan (China) beat Alison Van Uytvanck (Belgium) 6-3 7-6(4)
Duan Yingying (China) beat Maria Sakkari (Greece) 6-4 4-6 6-3
Anastasija Sevastova (Latvia) beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Slovakia) 6-3 6-3
Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan) beat Sabine Lisicki (Germany) 6-1 6-2
Naomi Osaka (Japan) beat 28-CoCo Vandeweghe (U.S.) 6-7(4) 6-3 6-4
Catherine Bellis (U.S.) beat Viktorija Golubic (Switzerland) 6-2 6-3
Shelby Rogers (U.S.) beat 27-Sara Errani (Italy) 6-4 7-6(3)
Christina McHale (U.S.) beat Mona Barthel (Germany) 6-2 6-2
9-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) beat Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 6-1 6-2
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Croatia) beat Alize Cornet (France) 6-4 6-1
Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat Taylor Townsend (U.S.) 4-6 6-3 6-4
Cagla Buyukakcay (Turkey) beat Irina Falconi (U.S.) 6-2 6-1
2-Angelique Kerber (Germany) beat Polona Hercog (Slovenia) 6-0 1-0 (Hercog retired)
Andrea Petkovic (Germany) beat Kristina Kucova (Slovakia) 7-6(3) 6-3
24-Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) beat Samantha Crawford (U.S.) 6-7(6) 6-3 6-4
14-Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) beat Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) 7-5 6-3
Carina Witthoeft (Germany) beat 30-Misaki Doi (Japan) 6-4 6-1
7-Roberta Vinci (Italy) beat Anna-Lena Friedsam (Germany) 6-2 6-4
Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulgaria) beat Virginie Razzano (France) 6-1 6-2
Evgeniya Rodina (Russia) beat Danielle Collins (U.S.) 6-1 6-2

 

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Does Wimbledon -- the TEMPLE of Tennis -- display the Union Jack?

Does FO - the most continental of Tennis - Display the French Flag

Does AO - the ''friendly Gran Slam" - display the Aussie Flag..?


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I completely agree with you. There is no reason for the display of nationalism that the US Open goes for. Flags, anthems, and now the tug at everyone's heart-strings with the 9/11 thing. As one, like you, who went through it, I find it cheap that they keep trading on it. New York remembers in its own way. It doesn't need a tennis tournament for that.

 

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Good win for Madison Keys.

 

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Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat Taylor Townsend (U.S.) 4-6 6-3 6-4



Tough win for Caro.

 

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Naomi Osaka (Japan) beat 28-CoCo Vandeweghe (U.S.) 6-7(4) 6-3 6-4

 

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Results from the U.S. Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches on Tuesday
Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) beat Mariana Duque (Colombia) 6-4 6-1
Julia Goerges (Germany) beat Yanina Wickmayer (Belgium) 6-3 6-2
17-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) beat Louisa Chirico (U.S.) 6-1 6-4
Naomi Broady (Britain) beat Laura Robson (Britain) 6-7(4) 6-3 6-4
19-Elena Vesnina (Russia) beat Anett Kontaveit (Estonia) 7-6(4) 4-6 6-3
11-Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) beat Teliana Pereira (Brazil) 6-0 6-0
Katerina Siniakova (Czech Republic) beat Eugenie Bouchard (Canada) 6-3 3-6 6-2
Johanna Larsson (Sweden) beat Karin Knapp (Italy) 6-4 6-2
Kurumi Nara (Japan) beat Stefanie Voegele (Switzerland) 6-0 7-5
Annika Beck (Germany) beat Nadia Podoroska (Argentina) 7-6(6) 6-3
16-Samantha Stosur (Australia) beat Camila Giorgi (Italy) 7-5 6-7(4) 6-1
15-Timea Bacsinszky (Switzerland) beat Vitalia Diatchenko (Russia) 6-1 6-1
Nicole Gibbs (U.S.) beat Aleksandra Krunic (Serbia) 6-1 6-0
Zhang Shuai (China) beat Ellen Perez (Australia) 6-1 6-1
31-Timea Babos (Hungary) beat Barbara Haas (Austria) 5-7 6-3 7-5
25-Caroline Garcia (France) beat Pauline Parmentier (France) 4-6 6-3 6-4
Wang Qiang (China) beat 23-Darya Kasatkina (Russia) 6-4 2-6 6-2
Ana Konjuh (Croatia) beat 20-Kiki Bertens (Netherlands) 6-3 2-6 6-4
Richel Hogenkamp (Netherlands) beat Heather Watson (Britain) 6-2 7-5
Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) beat Daria Gavrilova (Australia) 6-4 6-4
Denisa Allertova (Czech Republic) beat 29-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) 7-6(4) 6-1
5-Simona Halep (Romania) beat Kirsten Flipkens (Belgium) 6-0 6-2
Yaroslava Shvedova (Kazakhstan) beat Lara Arruabarrena Vecino (Spain) 6-2 6-3
Varvara Lepchenko (U.S.) beat Peng Shuai (China) 4-6 7-6(9) 6-3
Kristina Mladenovic (France) beat Nao Hibino (Japan) 6-4 7-5
6-Venus Williams (U.S.) beat Kateryna Kozlova (Ukraine) 6-2 5-7 6-4
Vania King (U.S.) beat Antonia Lottner (Germany) 7-6(2) 6-3
Montserrat Gonzalez (Paraguay) beat Danka Kovinic (Montenegro) 7-5 6-2

 

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Naomi Broady beats Laura Robson in the Battle of the Brits - 6-7(4) 6-3 6-4

Ana Ivanovic and Genie both leave the facility.