Tennis thread: to Winston Salem - and beyond! All your build-up to the US Open here...

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Cincinnati finals tomorrow... Meanwhile Andy Murray travels to Winston Salem (by car ) today...

Welcome one and all

at Zoomed/Zimmer

Well he did zoom under the net that time at Queen's...

Oh, I loved Dzumhur's luge slide under the net. It's something he would never have been able to do intentionally .

I'm not keen on Fed's kit. Not sure what it is about it. Maybe the colour.

I think Keith looks better as Bertie Bassett.

I was surprised about FAA too.
Watching Federer - think goodness for Jim Courier and John McEnroe commentating . Will be interesting to see if Rog can dig himself out .

The slide under the net was great - not a hair out of place IIRC!!

Morgan I like Mac's commentary but courier does drone on a bit. But yes they're better than the excitable blokes from yesterday's Zverev match!

private spidey Stan is due to play Chardy at 10.15pm, weather permitting

Good news on the Grigor front

I think it’s still raining Spidey so they’re only playing on the courts with roofs (rooves?)

Roger’s kids are there - they look a bit bored

JC seems to be hedging his bets and has now moved on to calling him Zhoomer - I’m not quite sure how it should be pronounced actually.

Frankly, Courier doesn't know when to shut up! I didn't much like him as a player but he's even worse as a commentator
If Mac's thoughts in But Seriously are true, I'm surprised he hasn't gagged Jim yet

Courier: Dzumhur's "origin story"?!?! He's not a superhero!

I did think that maybe Mac should follow his own advice sometimes kazza - I do think he’s interesting but he can go on a bit!

Well, Spidey he can slide under nets.

Maybe that's a super skill

Thanks kazza and Fizzy - I'd forgotten about the roof/rain situation!

I might make a new user name of PrivateSpidey - you've inspired me kazza

Yes Courier was so boring to watch, I pretty much went off men's tennis when he was winning stuff. Sorry Jim.

Not if it loses him the point Raahh

true, kazza

ooh, I like PrivateSpidey, I'm getting used to call you Spidey now!

Spidey you’re right about Jim Courier I’d forgotten that he can drone on .

McEnroe just said Thiem had a virus .

Federer has dug well.

Morgan Thiem hasn’t done very well really since the French Open - I know they keep saying that he’s not been well. Hope he’s ok - I like him and thought that he was one of the Next Gen who could maybe win a Grand Slam and challenge the big three.

Roger’s new MO seems to be to lose the first set.

Rafa also said Thiem was ill. I hope he's ok, I like him as well.

Yes Fed looks like he's steaming ahead now.

Well that turned out to be a bit of a damp squib.

I saw that Yorkshire Man journalist (I think he's called Jonathan?) has flown to NYC with nowhere to stay to watch Zverev! Or is it that he doesn't have tickets - I can't remember - anyway it's something like that

Hopefully Sascha can help him out - he can add it to his task list!

Yorkshireman seems to be getting a lot of mileage out of his friendship with Sascha - maybe he can walk the dogs (hope he doesn’t end up sleeping in Central Park!)

aren't they putting another match on before the night session?? We could see the lovely "Danny Evans" as Roger called him v Pouille - that should be a good match as well.

Or shall we just wait for three hours with no play?!

Well I'll be in bed by then, but still!

Danny ?

I can't see any matches being played at the moment. That can't be right, can it
If you have a backlog of matches because it's raining, wouldn't you bung as many matches as you could on the two courts that have a roof?

Or am I being too sensible

That would make sense to me kazza but who knows what goes off at the us open - it will all probably come down to tv and advertising but they’ve got a lot of matches to catch up on.

kazza yes I'm afraid you're being far too sensible with that suggestion.

Amazon is advertising today's coverage with a picture of Kyrgios and a heading: "Watch the bad boy of tennis: live!"

I despair, honestly