ATP M1000 WTA 1000 Cincinnati 8/13 - 8/20 2023

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Ed Salmon
@fogmount@mas.to
Vekic retires during the rain delay, down 2-5 to Jabeur. #tennis

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Magenta Rocks
@MagentaRocks@mastodon.coffee
OMG total chaos in Cincinnati at the Sabalenka v Kasatkina match. Now they just announced day ticket holders need to leave and let the night ticket holder take their seats. Everyone has sat through the delay. Seems a bit harsh to kick everyone out before the match finishes. @tennis #tennis

[JTContinental]

Lajovic retires down 0-5 to Taylor Fritz

[JTContinental]

Having seen Bejlek, Fruhvirtova the elder, and Noskova play a few times now, one downside of the this upcoming group of Czech teen phenoms is that they all have the same nonexistent second serve.

[ashkor87]

Maybe Cincy should sue Montreal...

[ashkor87]

Strange strange results..Pegula losing to Bouzkova? She doesn't lose to tier 2 players except the very best...

[JTContinental]

Gauff over Noskova 6-4, 6-0--Noskova didn't hold serve once during the match. Her less-than-enthusiastic handshake at the net looked more like a botched high 5.

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Friday, August 18, 2023 Day 7

Center Court Starts At 11:00 Am

(1) Iga Swiatek VS (10) Marketa Vondrousova
Not Before 1:00 Pm
Hubert Hurkacz VS (LL) Alexei Popyrin
Not Before 3:00 Pm
(1) Carlos Alcaraz VS (Q) Max Purcell
Not Before 7:00 PM
(5) Ons Jabeur VS (2) Aryna Sabalenka
Not Before 8:30 Pm
(9) Taylor Fritz VS Gael Monfils Or Novak Djokovic

Grandstand Starts At 11:00 Am

Nikola Mektic/John Peers VS Maximo Gonzalez/Andres Molteni
Not Before 1:00 PM
Karolina Muchova VS Marie Bouzkova
Not Before 3:00 PM
(Q) Jasmine Paolini VS TBD
Not Before 7:00 Pm
Adrian Mannarino VS (16) Alexander Zverev
Followed By
TBD VS TBD

Stadium 3 Starts At 11:00 Am

(OSE) Alycia Parks/Taylor Townsend VS (4) Desirae Krawczyk/Demi Schuurs
Followed By
Jamie Murray/Michael Venus VS (WC) Lorenzo Musetti/Lorenzo Sonego
Followed By / To Be Arranged
(WC) Christopher Eubanks/Ben Shelton VS Max Purcell/Andrey Rublev Or Santiago Gonzalez/Edouard Roger-Vasselin
Followed By / To Be Arranged
Marcelo Melo/Alexander Zverev VS (2) Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek

Porsche Court Starting At 1:00 PM

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova/Luisa Stefani VS (2) Storm Hunter/Elise Mertens
Not Before 2:00 PM
(1) Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova VS (7) Hao-Ching Chan/Giuliana Olmos

Court And Time TBA
TBD VS TBD

[skatingfan]

Strange strange results..Pegula losing to Bouzkova? She doesn't lose to tier 2 players except the very best...

Bouzkova is very capable of pulling out these types of results. That is her 4th top ten win this season.

[JTContinental]

Bouzkova now out with a leg strain--she retired after 3 games in her match with Muchova

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The Tennis Podcast
@TennisPodcast@sportsbots.xyz
Soooo many mid-match retirements in Cincinnati this week.

In the last few days: Rybakina, Rune, McDonald, Lajovic, Vekic, ADF, Bouzkova.

[meganfernandez]

The Tennis Podcast
@TennisPodcast@sportsbots.xyz
Soooo many mid-match retirements in Cincinnati this week.

In the last few days: Rybakina, Rune, McDonald, Lajovic, Vekic, ADF, Bouzkova.

I think they won't risk a real injury before NY if they don't think they can win the tournament. I'm half-convinced that some players book plane tickets for Friday or Saturday anyway and won't stick around if their chances are low. I wonder if NY beckons for some of them, too. Some people are in no hurry to get there but some are.

[mick1303]

I can't speak for the men's side, because I don't really follow men's tennis that closely, so your theory could hold true there. But on the women's side, it's an outlier to win this unless you were a top level player: Barty, Serena, Azarenka, Sharapova, Clijsters, Muguruza, Pliskova, Li Na, Jankovic, Davenport all were ranked 1 at some point, and the rest of the winners have all been ranked 2-7 (including Garcia, who was top 5 once before years ago) in their careers.

I know you don't put much emphasis on ranking but even without rankings, no one would find their winning a Masters to be random.

Cincinnati on WTA side of things has much shallower history. It became Tier I only in 2009.

[jazzyg]

There is too much money at stake at events like Cincinnati for players to bale without a legitimate injury, and it's only the truly top players who treat the slams as the only relevant tournaments.

What's gone on this year does not happen most years at Cincy. It's been a bizarre tournament.

On another note, I like Hurkacz to beat Alcaraz tomorrow and ruin the expected final between Alcaraz and Djokovic. Hurkacz is the biggest mystery player on tour for me--capable of outstanding tennis but more content to play mediocre tennis for most of the year. He also has a lot of trouble breaking serve, and I have no idea why with his game. I think he's slightly more talented than Sinner but is nowhere near as good mentally, except on those rare occasions when he looks really good mentally. A true enigma. I only saw the first two games of his match today, but I see he blew a 6-1 lead in the second-set tiebreak before saving a set point and winning it 10-8. That sound about right for him.