US OPEN TENNIS Thread! Let the late nights commence.

[Raahh]

New thread for the US open.

Am hoping to get round to seeing some of it, but in the meantime, I am limbering up my refresh finger.

It is indeed the shirt of doom.

Apparently this Gojo bloke has beaten him before.

Now- Come on Milos. !

Raonic appears to have lost the ability to serve.

Come on!

I see Verdasco is out. Think the end is in sight for him now sadly. The end of his tennis career that is, not anything more serious! Good win for Kyrgios too.

I did wonder what was up with Verdasco then!

I hope Ferrer gets through today, but Tomic is unpredictable, it could be an upset. Dimitrov ought to be ok, and I liked what I saw of Klingon at RG, so would like him to do well against Berdych. Cannot warm to Berdych.

Federer shouldn't have any problems- but selfishly (from a rankings point of view)I would like him to lose.

And I see Thiem is playing Gulbis. Bollocks.

Usually is Dogs playing either one of them. i miss Dogs. Not as much as i miss Nadal. He had better get better soon!!

Thiem v Gulbis will be interesting, they have the same coach and spend a lot of time together. They will both want to win that one a lot! And, yes, I'm with you re Berdych v Klingon. Wouldn't be too surprised if Klingon pulled it off. How I wish tennis was easier to watch on mainstream tv. And all tennis tournaments were played in British time :)

Yes, we need all the tournaments to be in Europe. Cos we are selfish, like that. No more than 2 hours +/- GMT, or BST or whatever we are at the moment.

I managed to watch Raonic for a bit last night, but Eurosport was only on til 12.30, I think. I went to bed anyway.

I remember last year, all of Rafa's matches seemed to be in the middle of the night . i had to keep getting up around 3am, to check he'd won.

Grigor has started well, and Monfils is looking good too.

who is Klingon?

and well done Andy. about time!

Klingon = Martin Klizan.

Just read an article about Pot being investigated for tax evasion . It's all a misunderstanding and has been sorted now according to his PR people. But just in case - what are the visiting hours in Argentine prisons like, anyone know?

Martin Klizan is Klingon He played a great match at RG, made a big impression. not too bad looking either .

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Pot -noooooooo! That can't be right. I'm sure it will be sorted.

You can send him a nail file in a cake

ooooh- just seen that Sara Errani has bagelled Venus in the first set. Go Sara!

oh no. Venus has returned the favour

Ferrer is through- thanks to a walkover against Tomic. Shame

oh rubbish- Halep seems to have lost it.

the Errani/Williams match appears to have had a tie break in the 3rd set. That's not normal in a slam, is it???

Raahh If I was to go to the great efforts of baking a cake (and for Pot, I would seriously contemplate it :)) then, with or without nail file, I would have to hand deliver it :)

For anyone with Eurosport - are they showing live tennis at the minute? I can only get yesterday's Murray match which a) isn't live b) I know who won and c) I don't want to watch. If you won't let me cancel my subscription at least let me watch bloody live tennis.

It is in us open raahh I think but not other slams.

I thought that must be the case, but can't believe all these years I've never noticed before.

Probably to do with tv schedules- everything else they do there is

I'm not able to watch at the mo- but there have been a lot of repeats.

Hi Juan. No, Eurosport only seems to be showing a repeat of the Murray match. Sky is showing live matches. Don't know why Eurosport isn't.

Bloody Eurosport. Thanks for answers though.

You've prob never noticed Raahh cos it's difficult for us over 'ere to watch many matches.

Juan True- plus I don't really watch the women much.