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Svitolina has withdrawn with a foot injury

JTContinental wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:46 pm Svitolina has withdrawn with a foot injury

Coric vs Korda is a match up of questionable hairstyles.

skatingfan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:16 pm Coric vs Korda is a match up of questionable hairstyles.

JTContinental wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:46 pm Svitolina has withdrawn with a foot injury

argh!! i really wanted to see the match. Does a LL get in?

JTContinental wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:05 pm Hooray, a straight sets victory for Venus over Kudermetova--she came back from 1-4 down in the first set and 2-5 down in the second set for her first top 20 win since 2019

How did Kudermatova let this one get away? Crazy.

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:25 am

JTContinental wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:05 pm Hooray, a straight sets victory for Venus over Kudermetova--she came back from 1-4 down in the first set and 2-5 down in the second set for her first top 20 win since 2019

How did Kudermatova let this one get away? Crazy.

She lost it after both rain delays, spraying everything wide

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 Day 4

Center Court Starts At 11:00 Am

R64
Jiri Lehecka VS (9) Taylor Fritz
Not Before 12:30 Pm / TBF 6/7(5) 3/4
R64
Sebastian Korda VS (15) Borna Coric
Followed By
(16) Alexander Zverev VS Grigor Dimitrov
Not Before 3:00 PM
(5) Ons Jabeur VS Anhelina Kalinina
Not Before 7:00 PM
Sloane Stephens VS (6) Caroline Garcia
Not Before 8:30 Pm
(1) Carlos Alcaraz VS (Q) Jordan Thompson

Grandstand Starts At 11:00 Am

(9) Petra Kvitova VS Anna Blinkova
Followed By
Victoria Azarenka VS (11) Barbora Krejcikova
Followed By TF 2/3
Karolina Muchova VS (12) Beatriz Haddad Maia
Followed By
Emil Ruusuvuori VS (7) Andrey Rublev
Not Before 7:00 Pm
Adrian Mannarino VS (12) Felix Auger-Aliassime
Not Before 8:30 PM
(15) Madison Keys VS Elise Mertens

Stadium 3 Starts At 11:00 Am

R64
Miomir Kecmanovic VS (14) Tommy Paul
Not Before 12:30 Pm / TBF 3/6 7/6(5) 2/5
R64
(WC) Brandon Nakashima VS (WC) Stan Wawrinka
Followed By
R32
Nikola Cacic/Novak Djokovic VS Jamie Murray/Michael Venus
Followed By
R64
(13) Cameron Norrie VS (PR) Gael Monfils
Not Before 5:00 PM
(Q) Cristina Bucsa VS (13) Belinda Bencic
Followed By
(Q) Linda Noskova VS Liudmila Samsonova
After Suitable Rest
(OSE) Ons Jabeur/Petra Martic VS (WC) Jennifer Brady/Asia Muhammad

Porsche Court Starts At 11:00 Am

(14) Daria Kasatkina VS (WC) Peyton Stearns
Not Before 12:30 PM
(LL) Varvara Gracheva VS (WC) Caroline Wozniacki
Followed By
Petra Martic VS (Q) Emma Navarro
Followed By
(10) Marketa Vondrousova VS Katerina Siniakova
Followed By
Jennifer Brady VS Donna Vekic
After Suitable Rest
(5) Lyudmyla Kichenok/Jelena Ostapenko VS (OSE) Karolina Muchova/Marketa Vondrousova

Court 4 Starts At 11:00 Am

R64
(11) Karen Khachanov VS Lucky Loser
Followed By / TBF 0/0
R64
Daniel Evans VS Lorenzo Musetti
Followed By
R64
Hubert Hurkacz VS (Q) Thanasi Kokkinakis
Followed By
R64
Alex de Minaur VS J.J. Wolf
Followed By
R64
(WC) Mackenzie McDonald VS Yannick Hanfmann

Court And Time After Suitable Rest

(WC) Bethanie Mattek-Sands/Anastasia Potapova VS Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova/Luisa Stefani

Court 7 Starts At 11:00 Am

Jelena Ostapenko VS Karolina Pliskova
Not Before 12:30 PM
Qinwen Zheng VS (Q) Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Followed By
Irina-Camelia Begu VS Marie Bouzkova
Followed By
(WC) Danielle Collins VS Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Followed By
Ekaterina Alexandrova VS Sorana Cirstea
Followed By
(OSE) Elisabetta Cocciaretto/Mayar Sherif VS (OSE) Irina-Camelia Begu/Sara Sorribes Tormo

Court And Time TBA

Gabriela Dabrowski/Erin Routliffe VS (8) Shuko Aoyama/Ena Shibahara

Court 8 Starts At 11:00 Am

Ugo Humbert VS (Q) Arthur Fils
Followed By
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina VS Tomas Martin Etcheverry
Followed By
Lorenzo Sonego VS (Q) Alexander Shevchenko
Followed By
(PR) Lloyd Harris VS (Q) Max Purcell

After Suitable Rest
(OSE) Magda Linette/Bernarda Pera VS (7) Hao-Ching Chan/Giuliana Olmos
Followed By
Victoria Azarenka/Beatriz Haddad Maia VS (WC) Emma Navarro/Peyton Stearns

Court And Time TBA
Miyu Kato/Aldila Sutjiadi VS Laura Siegemund/Vera Zvonareva

Court 11 Starts At 11:00 Am

Bernarda Pera VS (Q) Martina Trevisan
Followed By
(Q) Xiyu Wang VS Mayar Sherif
Followed By
Magda Linette VS (Q) Ann Li
Followed By
Francisco Cerundolo/Tomas Martin Etcheverry VS (6) Santiago Gonzalez/Edouard Roger-Vasselin
Followed By
Marcelo Arevalo/Jean-Julien Rojer VS Alejandro Davidovich Fokina/Stefanos Tsitsipas
Followed By
(OSE) Alycia Parks/Taylor Townsend VS Latisha Chan/Zhaoxuan Yang

Court And Time TBA

(6) Su-Wei Hsieh/Xinyu Wang VS (OSE) Anna Blinkova/Varvara Gracheva

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2023 7:02 am based on videos of last year, court looks slow to medium, a tad faster than Montreal but not anywhere near the USO.. and the list of champions bears that out - Pliskova, Keys.. since it is not extreme, anything could happen, I guess..should suit Alcaraz, I uppose.. and Rybakina

now that I have seen clips of the Venus match, it actually looks a bt slower than Montreal... not that it matters, this entire tournament doesnt really matter (for the USO, I mean).. but good for people like Venus, Jen Brady etc. who need some good matches to make their way back..
Venus would certainly prefer a faster court, Brady, I dont know...

I do not believe Taylor Fritz has played a single good set of tennis this summer.

From 6-5 up in the first-set tiebreak against Lehecka, he double faulted three times on his next four service points and somehow still won the set because of Lehecka's mistakes. But he is not hitting the ball clean from the baseline at all, is volleying poorly and is up and down on his first serve.

I thought I was the only one thinking that way. But I was not able to pinpoint any deviations from his game.
I don't see him as a factor against any other top 10.

I am generally disappointed with all the American men...hoping for Eubanks now..Tiafoe is OK but not a future champion...

I pretty much agree with that assessment, although you can forget about Eubanks. He was amazing on grass for a month but has done zilch in his career otherwise.

I expected more from Korda. He's had injuries and is still young, but he loses a lot of matches because of his own mistakes.

At times last summer and again last week, Paul was rock solid, but his upside is limited.

Tiafoe, Paul and Fritz all are in tennis player's prime years (ca 24-28). This is it for them. They could get lucky here or there results wise, but you can't expect seriously higher level in the future.

They all are solid, all are very, very good. None has a definitive weapon, a shot that the opponents try not to go to.
I say a Slams' SF or a possible MS1000 (if the draw breaks in their favor) is their ceiling. Fritz already has one, so he can repeat there.