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

oh, he could be on the come back trail. Especially if Medvedev hasn't much left in the tank.

Yes it's looking like it. Medvedev is hanging in there for now though.

How did the fig rolls turn out?!

Spidey mixed results .

Blimey this is a tense game.

Wrap up the set, Stan!!

Finally!

Painful!!

Jane you just reminded me I was going to merge my usernames so I've done it now - will answer to anything!!

No surprise about the fig rolls btw - that definitely sounds like something that would be way too much effort to make!

Oh, Medvedev just won't go away!

Will he have any energy left for the semi final, if he gets there?

I knew I should have trademarked it privatespidey

Noooooo Stan

Can someone please shoot Courier.
If Mac followed his own advice in his autobiography, he should have shoved Courier's mic down his throat two hours ago

Well this is a turn up isn't it? Medvedev looks like he should be barely walking!! But somehow he's still winning. Really strange match.

PS kazza yes I'm indebted to you

How many of them are in the commentary box? Just three?? It feels like they never stop talking!!

It's pure torture private
I feel like I'm being inanely commentated to death, slowly.....

commentated to death

SOS, somebody, please!!!

kazza that made me laugh so much. What a way to go!!

Mac proving all those years watching Sesame Street weren't wasted.

Respect- a word that starts with 'R'

Wow Medvedev

Fair play to him.

If he plays Fed, can you imagine him vs the crowd then?!?

I managed to tune Courier out at RG but then DS started impersonating him so I couldn't escape.

Poor Stan.

But at least the crowd are not booing Medvedev today.

Raahh

Private the crowd will be against him in so many ways- but he will probably thrive on being the underdog.

Medvedev is looking quite Shaggy-esque in his on court interview.

Aw he's getting a nice reception now actually.

Private he does- the little goatee beard is back.

That interviewer was annoying. He was desperately trying to provoke a reaction, and I'm glad Medvedev didn't rise to it.

I think he seems nice really. He's apologised for snatching the towel etc - Mac said earlier it was from a ball l-man not ball-kid, so that's not quite as bad. But at least he has accepted it was wrong and apologised unlike some people

Yes I agree Raahh - it was a bit mean of the interviewer, and he basically asked the same question twice