TENNIS- US OPEN finals weekend continues. Then it's onwards to Japan and China.

[Raahh]

Not the most exciting title.

I suppose Laver Cup and Davis Cup must be happening too soon.

Shame for Matteo - I’m out so can’t watch at the minute - I’m not a big fan of GMP servebot

DS2 has been sumo wrestling

Sumo

Come on Lore!

Ugh.

Into a 3rd set.

Come on Lore!

Think he’s got it in the bag 😀

Had to go out before the last couple of games, so glad he won that.

Very good day for results. ( imo)

Sascha

Great shot Lorenzo!

Sinner match , getting interesting

Atmane is amazing! I still think Jannik will win though.

@IceandIndigo Yeah, it is looking that way .

ADF and AdM are playing doubles. AdM has already had a tough singles match today, he must be so fit.

I was surprised (ish) to see Carlos is playing his match- reports yesterday were that his ankle was still a problem. He must feel ok with it though.

No surprise Jannik has turned the third set around, though.

Poor Atmane

Yeah, me too, heard that report .

Nice meeting at the net.

Well done Jannik.

Well done Jannik. Really a shame that Atmane started cramping.

Carlos’ ankle is clearly not 100%, his movement is reduced and he’s not pushing off that foot on serve as much as usual. He’ll probably still win the match.

Just turned on to see Sonay has almost won her match, great result for her.

I was surprised he played- ultimately, it's not a 'major' tournament for him, and he risks ending his season early (which has happened before) if he makes it worse. Shanghai is the Masters event - surely it would be better to rest for that? If clinching the year end number 1 means that much to him- there are still opportunities to come.
It's not his strongest period of the year though, indoors, I suppose.

Sonay is having a great year. Some really good results over higher ranked players.

Flying through the matches , today .

Great win for Sonay, good to see her backing up her Wimbledon success.

Yeah, I was a bit surprised he played. Maybe he feels obligated to justify what was probably a whopping appearance fee? He got through today against a player he’s simply a lot better than, but if he wants to win the tournament he’ll have to play 3 days in a row now which seems a stretch.

I saw that Carlos is down to play another exhibition in Miami in December (with Emma again- their management are really pushing that). In fact, he's playing 2 exhibitions - he's playing another with her in New Jersey.

I just hope all those involved don't subsequently complain about having to play too many tournaments, and not having a proper winter break. (and I like Carlos- but they can't have it all ways).