First round
Djokovic over Carballes Baena in 3, Querrey over Londero in 4
Kudla over Tipsarevic in 5, Lajovic over Darcis in 3
Wawrinka over Sinner in 4, Hurkacz over Chardy in 3
Kecmanovic over Djere in 3, Lorenzi over Svajda in 3
Fognini over Opelka in 4, Koepfer over Munar in 4
Berdych over Brooksby in 4, Basilashvili over Fucsovics in 4
Fritz over Lopez in 3, Nishioka over Giron in 3
Kwon over Dellien in 3, Medvedev over Gunneswaran in 3
Federer over Nagal in 3, Benchetrit over Dzumhur in 5
Mannarino over Evans in 5, Pouille over Kohlschreiber in 3
Carreno Busta over Pella in 5, Vesely over Berankis in 3
Norrie over Barrere in 4, Goffin over Moutet in 3
Coric over Donskoy in 4, Dimitrov over Seppi in 4
Cuevas over Sock in 4, Jarry over Majchrzak in 4
Eubanks over Garin in 4, De Minaur over Herbert in 4
Klahn over Monteiro in 5, Nishikori over Trungelliti in 3
Tsitsipas over Rublev in 4, Simon over Fratangelo in 5
Mayer over Hoang in 4, Kyrgios over Johnson in 4
Gasquet over Berrettini in 4, Sousa over Thompson in 4
Popyrin over Delbonis in 3, Bautista Agut over Kukushkin in 3
Monfils over Ramos-Vinolas in 3, Humbert over Copil in 5
Cecchinato over Laaksonen in 3, Shapovalov over Auger-Aliassime in 4
Edmund over Andujar in 4, Sonego over Granollers in 4
Giraldo over Bublik in 4, Thiem over Fabbiano in 4
Albot over Zverev in 5, Tiafoe over Karlovic in 4
Bedene over Kovalik in 4, Paire over Schnur in 3
Schwartzman over Haase in 4, Gerasimov over Harris in 4
Tsonga over Sandgren in 4, Khachanov over Pospisil in 4
Isner over Garcia-Lopez in 4, Struff over Ruud in 3
Krajinovic over Stebe in 3, Klizan over Cilic in 5
Verdasco over Kamke in 3, Chung over Escobedo in 3
Ivashka over Kokkinakis in 3, Nadal over Millman in 3
Second round
Djokovic over Querrey in 3
Lajovic over Kudla in 5
Wawrinka over Hurkacz in 4
Kecmanovic over Lorenzi in 3
Fognini over Koepfer in 3
Basilashvili over Berdych in 4
Nishioka over Fritz in 5
Medvedev over Kwon in 3
Federer over Benchetrit in 3
Pouille over Mannarino in 4
Carreno Busta over Vesely in 4
Goffin over Norrie in 3
Dimitrov over Coric in 5
Jarry over Cuevas in 5
De Minaur over Eubanks in 3
Nishikori over Klahn in 3
Tsitsipas over Simon in 5
Kyrgios over Mayer in 3
Sousa over Gasquet in 5
Bautista Agut over Popyrin in 3
Monfils over Humbert in 3
Shapovalov over Cecchinato in 3
Sonego over Edmund in 5
Thiem over Giraldo in 3
Albot over Tiafoe in 4
Paire over Bedene in 4
Schwartzman Gerasimov in 3
Khachanov over Tsonga in 3
Struff over Isner in 4
Klizan over Krajinovic in 4
Chung over Verdasco in 4
Nadal over Ivashka in 3
Third round
Djokovic over Lajovic in 3
Wawrinka over Kecmanovic in 4
Basilashvili over Fognini in 5
Medvedev over Nishioka in 3
Federer over Pouille in 3
Goffin over Carreno Busta in 4
Dimitrov over Jarry in 4
De Minaur over Nishikori in 5
Kyrgios over Tsitsipas in 4
Bautista Agut over Sousa in 4
Monfils over Shapovalov in 4
Thiem over Sonego in 3
Paire over Albot in 4
Khachanov over Schwartzman in 5
Struff over Klizan in 4
Nadal over Chung in 3
Fourth round
Djokovic over Wawrinka in 4
Medvedev over Basilashvili in 4
Federer over Goffin in 4
De Minaur over Dimitrov in 5
Bautista Agut over Kyrgios in 5
Monfils over Thiem in 5
Khachanov over Paire in 3
Nadal over Struff in 3
Quarterfinals
Djokovic over Medvedev in 4
Federer over De Minaur in 4
Bautista Agut over Monfils in 4
Nadal over Khachanov in 4
Semifinals
Djokovic over Federer in 5
Nadal over Bautista Agut in 3
Final
Djokovic over Nadal in 4
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picks edited following Raonic withdrawal
Raonic is still there vs Dimitrov R3. Take it you mean Dimitrov d. Jarry?
My full bracket is here if anyone is interested in taking a look:
https://www.tourneytopia.com/racquetbracketusopenatp/usopenatp/pool/entrypicks.aspx?entryid=780903
Notable aspects of my draw:
I have Medvedev beating Djokovic, Fed beating Medvedev, then beating Nadal in the final (if Djokovic beats Medvedev, I think Fed will lose in the semis). I’ve got Jarry making the fourth round and losing to Nishikori. I have Kyrgios losing to Bautista Agut fourth round, but he could either lose first round to Johnson or make a very deep run. I’ve got Khachanov losing to Nadal in the quarters, Thiem losing to Nadal in the semis. Also I have Opelka making the fourth round and Struff beating Isner and Cilic on his way to the fourth round. Currently 11-2 in first round match predictions so far today.
It’s always nice if you do your picks before the tournament starts. Even better if it’s before others give their picks and analysis. 😉
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Likewise 😉
and at least im honest, you guys are nothing short of deceitful which is no surprise.
Also, picks mean nothing. Show us your starting capital and running balance. That’s what I respect and get excited about. Doing picks without money on the line is a waste of valuable time.
Doing picks here won’t put McDonald’s on your table. You’ll be eating baked beans every day if your lucky.
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Wow! Amazing to see my countryman taking it to the maestro though Roger is well below par. But being on the verge of taking a set in his first ever gs match is truly surreal. Fully expect him to be broken back though
WTF!!! Sumit Nagal from india just took a set off the Federer. How!!! Is anyone watching?
I hope that none of you bet on Federer to go far here… Just as I’ve been saying, right on schedule, he is once again struggling immensely right off the bat. For various reasons, Arthur Ashe Stadium has become an absolute nightmare for Federer. It’s the slow court speed. The insane humidity inside the arena. It’s all since the installed the upper facade and roof. It’s turned Ashe into a massive sauna, with high-bouncing tar for a court. Years ago it wouldn’t have been an issue for him. In old tennis age, it simply brings the worst out of him. If he survives this match, against a QUALIFIER, I doubt he will make it past Pouille in the 3rd Round. It’s gotten so bad for him at the US Open, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the last time he plays there.
I don’t think the court is that slow, I see the ball flying around pretty quickly. Fed is not playing well after Wimbledon, as I have suspected, the Wimbledon tournament and esp the final, had taken a toll on him, both physically and mentally, but esp physically imo. He’s misfiring so often both his FH and BH.
I agree that he won’t go far here, with Goffin, Kei and Djoko/Medvedev standing in his way. Both Goffin and Kei pushed him to play his best to beat them on grass this year, I think they may do the same on the USO HC.
How much are you putting on Pouille?
Does he think he is playing Nadal😳😳
Kevin it says it is twenty degree celsius in ny
It’s not the temperature- it’s the humidity. Temperature has nothing to do with it. It’s nearly 70% humidity in NYC right now, which means it’s even higher in that stadium. Trust me, I was there the last two years and will be there this weekend. I found it difficult to breathe in there just watching. Obviously plenty of players aren’t affected by it, but some are. I think Fed is also really suffering from that Wimbledon loss. He’s nervous, and high humidity does nothing to help that. He said himself last year that he felt like he couldn’t breathe. That’s just a part of it, though. I think he is struggling more from that Wimbledon loss than we want to think. I mean, how could you ever expect a guy in that position, at that age, with the chance to seal his legacy, who essentially just choked it away and has likely forever left his legacy in question, to possibly mentally recover from that? It’s not like he’s an up-and-comer who has his whole career to recover from it. That was going to be the massive period on the end of the sentence of his career… and he blew it. And I can’t fathom how he is even still trying. I, personally, can’t imagine going through that. Again, that was no ordinary big loss. That was a CAREER-ALTERING loss. Big difference.
Sorry, I meant legacy-altering, rather than career-altering.
Miami has one of the highest humidities and Roger seems to do well there. It could be the air circulation if he finds it difficult to breathe..
You’re wxactly right, vmk. Fed typically does fine in open-air humidity. That’s what I was trying to say when I called Ashe a “giant sauna”. There is no air circulation. So when the humidity is high, it becomes sweltering and difficult to breathe. The humidity tonight there is nothing compared to last year. I was at the Thiem-Nadal match, as well as at the day session that day, and it was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. It was just horrific, and I was sitting the whole time haha! I was definitely thinking to myself after about the 3rd set, “Whoever wins this match, they’re retiring in the next round.” And I was right. I actually felt sorry for them that they had to endure it.
Omg what a rally.. sumit is making a name for himself alright … win or lose…
Bit of a slow start for Rog there but he’s righted the ship in the 2nd set. He does not appear to be sweating. Just a very slow start, I think, against an in form (for him) new guy. His serve was way off in the first set, low % and lots of errors. He’s well on his way to serving up a bagel in the 2nd at 5-0. Doubt the first set loss means anything in the long term.
Sumit Nagal has been playing some excellent shots. Some serious winners in that game. How good must the top 10-20 be that they manage to keep their razor thin margins over the rest of the field consistently yoy. In case of the big 3 they manage to keep this edge for a decade now
The old TOP ten I must say, not the current young TOP ten who are yet to prove they can do so. The likes of Ferrer, Berdych, Murray, Delpo when he’s fit and later Stan, they’re the consistent old guards in addition to the big three.
The big three are consistently in the top ten for more than a decade, from 2007 ( from 2002 for Fed and from 2005 for Rafa; and Rafa hasn’t dropped out of TOP ten since). Djoko dropped out of TOP ten in one year – 2017 – and Fed in 2016, that’s about it.
There’s a big gap between the big three and the rest (their ranking points and positions tell us the big difference there). In the past there’s still a Murray then the rest of the field, now there’s no one there when Murray left.
For the rest of the field, their level may be very close, with one or two ranking points deciding the ranking positions. On their good day(s), the 100+ ranked players may cause big upsets, catching the TOP players on their off days, like Rafa (and even Fed) at Wimbledon… or Djoko at the AO.
Awesome to see Nagal playing the way he did albeit against a sub par roger. Hoping he can crack the top 100. That will super for indian tennis after somedev burman and yuki bhambri failed to live up to expectations
Haven’t seen Fed’s match and not sure how to interpret it. I hope the young Indian was playing well and Fed was just relaxed.
I am glad Medvedev has a few easy rounds. He deserves to have a smooth start after playing so much recently.
Maybe ‘Nagal’ was an intimidating name for Fed 😄.
Nagal was playing well (relative to my expectations), striking a solid forehand and moving well around the court. He needs to improve his serve to break into the top 50. Fed was playing quite badly in the first set, a lot of UE which changed after Set 1, so yeah wouldn’t read too much into it.
Thanks AVN
Petra kvitova doesn’t like humidity either…can’t see her going far
Gut feeling tells me Rafa takes this USO. Djo may not reach the final and Fed looks vulnerable too.
Rafa was tactically poor against Fed at Wimby and that was rare coz he is usually very clear headed coming into these big matches.
Let’s see how the draw evolves but Rafa winning is a good bet esp given the odds available.
Hi VR, me too is having that kind of feeling that Rafa is very likely to win here.
Both Fed and Djoko have each other to contend with plus a red hot Medvedev. Fed is making lots of errors, just like at Cincy and I’m not sure he could improve quickly as he moves through the early rounds. There’ s Goffin and then Nishikori who may take advantage if Fed keeps making those errors.
Djoko just played well enough to win his R1 but he has Stan and then Medvedev potentially his R4 and QF opponents, so not an easy path either.
Fed has to beat Rafa in SF to face Djoko in the final at Wimbledon; Djoko may have to beat Fed and then Rafa here if he wants to win the title.