Talk About Tennis 2.0

It is not that Walton beat him. It was the quality of the game that Medvedev brought.
I said it in the Toronto topic: Medvedev is done. He is suffering in every match, the moment it gets a bit tough. I really would not be surprised if he retires in a couple of years.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 8:06 am QF lineup likely: (by my reckoning)

Sabalenka vs Rybakina
Swiatek vs Alexandrova
Kessler vs Bencic/Tauson
Osaka vs Gauff

all look like good matches.. looking forward to them.
Third quarter looks the hardest to call, with Pegula, Tauson and Bencic all present..i certainly think it will be Bencic..simply because her style suits a fast surface..
Sabalenka may not even get there, has to beat Leylah, may not do it.

From what I have seen thus far, court doesn't seem very fast...just above medium..they must have redone the courts as well..

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 10:56 pm It is not that Walton beat him. It was the quality of the game that Medvedev brought.
I said it in the Toronto topic: Medvedev is done. He is suffering in every match, the moment it gets a bit tough. I really would not be surprised if he retires in a couple of years.

Wonder what is wrong with him...anyone know?

I don't think his athleticism is up there with the top players. It used to be normal to decline around 30 in the pro tennis world, which I imagine he has to be pushing.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 09, 2025 5:02 pm There is another Navarro? Margaret..?

I did a quick Google search and it looks like she goes by Meggie, will be a senior at Virginia this fall, and will be Emma's doubles partner for the forseeable future.

must have gotten demoralized !

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 11, 2025 4:30 am must have gotten demoralized !

Must have also been left thinking "How do I get to THAT level?!"

JTContinental wrote: ↑Mon Aug 11, 2025 1:03 am I don't think his athleticism is up there with the top players. It used to be normal to decline around 30 in the pro tennis world, which I imagine he has to be pushing.

Could be. I also say that when you have such weird strokes, starting to miss the precision of hitting the ball may come earlier in life.
But the way I saw the match, it was totally mental. Sure, you had the expected whining and exploding towards the coaches' box, but he also seemed unable to accept that it was a tough match, and that Walton was not going away. So HE went away.

Sabalenka has got to be the most brainless player in a long time. She makes Mary Pierce look downright cerebral.

Raducanu just evened the third set at 4-all by holding serve in a game with 13 deuces.

Sabalenka held, now 5-4. TV shows the third set has already been 67 minutes long. Was there an injury timeout (or maybe it was a heat break before the set). That seems very long, even if that one game was 15 minutes.

Saw a couple more matches on YouTube...highlights..the courts do seem fast..Alcaraz mentioned it too

Tuesday Order of Play

P&G Center Court - 11AM
1. Men's Singles - Round 3
USA Reilly Opelka vs ARG Francisco Comesana
2. Men's Singles - Round 3
SER Hamad Medjedovic vs ESP Carlos Alcaraz [2]
3. Women's Singles - Round 3 (Not before 3PM)
UKR Dayana Yastremska [32] vs USA Coco Gauff [2]
4. Women's Singles - Round 3 (Not before 7PM)
POL Magda Linette [31] vs USA Jessica Pegula [4]
5. Men's Singles - Round 3
USA Ben Shelton [5] vs ESP Roberto Bautista Agut

Grandstand - 11AM
1. Women's Singles - Round 3
USA Iva Jović vs CZE Barbora Krejčíková
2. Women's Singles - Round 3
ITA Jasmine Paolini [7] vs USA Ashlyn Krueger [26]
3. Men's Singles - Round 3
RUS Karen Khachanov [14] vs USA Jenson Brooksby
4. Men's Singles - Round 3 (Not before 7PM)
USA Brandon Nakashima [27] vs GER Alexander Zverev [3]
5. Women's Singles - Round 3 (Not before 8:30PM)
DEN Clara Tauson [16] vs RUS Veronika Kudermetova

Court 3 - 11AM
1. Men's Singles - Round 3
AUS Alexei Popyrin [21] vs RUS Andrey Rublev [9]
2. Men's Singles - Round 3
CZE Jakub Menšík [16] vs ITA Luca Nardi
3. Women's Singles - Round 3
FRA Varvara Gracheva vs CZE Karolína Muchová [11]
4. Women's Singles - Round 3
ITA Lucia Bronzetti vs LAT Jeļena Ostapenko [23]

Champions' Court - 11AM
1. Women's Singles - Round 3
GER Ella Seidel vs USA McCartney Kessler [29]
2. Men's Doubles - Round 1
MON Roman Arneodo/USA Robert Galloway vs USA Alex Michelsen/NED Tallon Griekspoor
3. Men's Doubles - Round 1
USA Evan King/USA Christian Harrison [7] vs UKR André Göransson/NED Sem Verbeek
4. Men's Singles - Round 3 (Not before 5PM)
CZE Jiri Lehecka [22] vs AUS Adam Walton
5. Women's Doubles - Round of 16
USA Peyton Stearns/CZE Marketa Vondrousova vs HUN Timea Babos/BRA Luisa Stefani [7]

Court 10 - 11AM
1. Men's Doubles - Round 1
ITA Andrea Vavassori/ITA Simone Bolelli [6] vs USA Nathaniel Lammons/NED David Pel
2. Women's Doubles - Round of 16
MEX Giuliana Olmos/INA Aldila Sutjiadi vs CAN Gabriela Dabrowski/NZL Erin Routliffe [2]
3. Women's Doubles - Round of 16 (Not before 1:30PM)
RUS Irina Khromacheva/RUS Kamilla Rakhimova vs USA Nicole Melichar-Martinez/RUS Liudmila Samsonova
4. Women's Doubles - Round of 16
JPN Shuko Aoyama/ESP Cristina Bucsa vs USA Caty McNally/CZE Linda Noskova
5. Women's Doubles - Round of 16
CHN Hanyu Guo/RUS Alexandra Panova vs USA Asia Muhammad/NED Demi Schuurs [5]

Court 4 - 11AM
1. Men's Doubles - Round 1
POR Nuni Borges/CZE Tomáš Macháč vs GBR Julian Cash/GBR Lloyd Glasspool [2]
2. Men's Doubles - Round 1
ITA Lorenzo Sonego/ITA Lorenzo Musetti vs ARG Andrés Molteni/ARG Maximo Gonzalez
3. Men's Doubles - Round 1
GRE Stefanos Tsitsipas/ITA Luciano Darderi vs MON Hugo Nys/FRA Édouard Roger-Vasselin [8]
4. Men's Doubles - Round 1
BRA Fernando Romboli/AUS John-Patrick Smith vs GBR Neal Skupski/GBR Joe Salisbury [5]
5. Men's Doubles - Round 1
IND Yuki Bhambri/AUS Michael Venus vs POR Francisco Cabral/AUT Lucas Miedler

Released 1:46PM local time (finalized 9:20PM due to women's doubles)

The Raducanu vs Sabalenka match was horrific. Sabalenka played brain dead tennis gifting Raducanu points while making horrible decisions when it came to returns or serving. Yes she won 7-6(3), 4-6, 7-6(5) but she obviously came out with no coherent strategy. If Raducanu was a different player she would've won the match.