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

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Results from the U.S. Open Women's Singles Round 2 matches on Thursday

6-Venus Williams (U.S.) beat Julia Goerges (Germany) 6-2 6-3
31-Timea Babos (Hungary) beat Richel Hogenkamp (Netherlands) 6-2 6-4
Johanna Larsson (Sweden) beat Denisa Allertova (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-1
10-Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) beat Montserrat Gonzalez (Paraguay) 6-1 7-5
5-Simona Halep (Romania) beat Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-4
Ana Konjuh (Croatia) beat Kurumi Nara (Japan) 6-3 6-3
Yaroslava Shvedova (Kazakhstan) beat Wang Qiang (China) 6-0 6-1
17-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) beat Kristina Mladenovic (France) 6-2 4-6 7-6(5)

 

[Moxie]

Venus played well today, and wore a very pretty tennis dress.

 

[teddytennisfan]

Venus played well today, and wore a very pretty tennis dress.

i like SERENA'S get up right now -- that SKIRT black and pink like that looks so nice on her.

BUT i will NEVER forget the famous CAT SUIT!!

 

[teddytennisfan]

Ivanovic and Bouchard...*sigh.* They're as disappointing as Dimitrov, who at least is resurging.

Moxie --maybe the question now between the THREE of them is :

'who is the prettiest'.

 

[teddytennisfan]

Muguruza has failed to go past 2RD at Wimbledon and now the USO,I gave her a pass at Wimbledon after winning her first Major at RG,mentally she just goes away,also she needs to address her defense.

great point . considering that it was half her defense that gave her her FO against serena, isn't it? i guess it does take time for many to do well again to get to the late rounds in majors once they win their first. we do have examples;;

sampras, serena herself, nole too, sam stosur also, capriati, we;re still waiting for both delpo and cilic, ...

 

[Moxie]

Moxie --maybe the question now between the THREE of them is :

'who is the prettiest'.

If by that you mean "compared to anything interesting about their tennis," you may be right, and including Dimitrov.

 

[Moxie]

ESPN graphic tells us that Roger has the most Major wins (Open Era) with 307, Martina has 306, and Serena 305. I'll be surprised if Serena doesn't pass them both at this USO.

EDIT: So I guess now she has tied Martina.

 

[Moxie]

i like SERENA'S get up right now -- that SKIRT black and pink like that looks so nice on her.

BUT i will NEVER forget the famous CAT SUIT!!

I think this was a different year, but this one was very kick-ass:

 

[teddytennisfan]

If by that you mean "compared to anything interesting about their tennis," you may be right, and including Dimitrov.

exactly == hehe.

of course it's great that one of them actually DID win the FO.

but over-all - it's a contest between ''mirror, mirror on the wall -- who is prettier than DIMITROV? "

and mirror says _ -= no one my queens....

 

[teddytennisfan]

I think this was a different year, but this one was very kick-ass:

uhuhmmm!!!! mad kick ass!!!

 

[teddytennisfan]

ESPN graphic tells us that Roger has the most Major wins (Open Era) with 307, Martina has 306, and Serena 305. I'll be surprised if Serena doesn't pass them both at this USO.

EDIT: So I guess now she has tied Martina.

and soon -- MOST WEEKS AS NUMBER ONE!!

 

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Order of Play - Friday on the Showcourts

Arthur Ashe Stadium

Monica Niculescu (Rom) v Caroline Wozniacki (Den),
(8) Madison Keys (USA) v Naomi Osaka (Jpn),
(1) Novak Djokovic (Ser) v Mikhail Youzhny (Rus),

(4) Rafael Nadal (Spa) v Andrey Kuznetsov (Rus),
Catherine Cartan Bellis (USA) v (2) Angelique Kerber (Ger)

Louis Armstrong Stadium

(7) Roberta Vinci (Ita) v Carina Witthoeft (Ger),
(26) Jack Sock (USA) v (7) Marin Cilic (Cro),
(14) Petra Kvitova (Cze) v (22) Elina Svitolina (Ukr),
(20) John Isner (USA) v Kyle Edmund (Gbr)

Grandstand

(9) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) v (23) Kevin Anderson (Rsa),
(13) Johanna Konta (Gbr) v (24) Belinda Bencic (Swi),
(10) Gael Monfils (Fra) v Nicolas Almagro (Spa),
Jonathan Erlich (Isr) & Santiago Gonzalez (Mex) v (3) Bob Bryan (USA) & Mike Bryan (USA)

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

MADISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! down 1-5 in the 3rd set against Osaka,remembered how to play tennis again took it to a t/breaker and won.............Huge Kudos to 18yr old Osaka who took her game to Madison,nerves got the better of her,when she tried twice to serve for the match,great learning curve for her,she is a future player to watch.

 

[teddytennisfan]

MADISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! down 1-5 in the 3rd set against Osaka,remembered how to play tennis again took it to a t/breaker and won.............Huge Kudos to 18yr old Osaka who took her game to Madison,nerves got the better of her,when she tried twice to serve for the match,great learning curve for her,she is a future player to watch.

PERFECTLY summed up! i dont' think i ever saw Osaka play ...

sh ? ...she's cute and NICELY bult for the game, i kept thinking watching her.

 

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MADISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! down 1-5 in the 3rd set against Osaka,remembered how to play tennis again took it to a t/breaker and won.............Huge Kudos to 18yr old Osaka who took her game to Madison,nerves got the better of her,when she tried twice to serve for the match,great learning curve for her,she is a future player to watch.

Incredible turnaround. I missed it all!

Kudos also to Madison for turning it around.

 

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Results from the U.S. Open Women's Singles Round 3 matches on Friday

14-Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) beat 22-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 6-3 6-4
8-Madison Keys (U.S.) beat Naomi Osaka (Japan) 7-5 4-6 7-6(3)
13-Johanna Konta (Britain) beat 24-Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) 6-2 6-1
Lesia Tsurenko (Ukraine) beat 12-Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) 3-6 6-3 6-4
7-Roberta Vinci (Italy) beat Carina Witthoeft (Germany) 6-0 5-7 6-3
Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat Monica Niculescu (Romania) 6-3 6-1
Anastasija Sevastova (Latvia) beat Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukraine) 6-4 6-1

 

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8-Madison Keys (U.S.) beat Naomi Osaka (Japan) 7-5 4-6 7-6(3)

 

[Billie]

I was able to watch only Angie tonight, and she looked really good. Young Bellis gave a valiant effort but Angie was like a wall.

She faces Kvitova next. It should be a good match.

 

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