The qualification Round for the tournament started on Tuesday and on Tuseay and yesterday 64 matchhes were played. Today there is provision for playing 32 matches and tomorrow 16 matches. The winners of he latter 16 matches will be included in the man draw of the tournament. Officially the main competition is starting on Sunday.
I will on the enxt few ays try to get a breakdown of the seedings and matches on sote by Sunday.
Seedings in US Open:-
1 Danill Medvedev
2 Rafael Nadal
3 Carlos Alcaraz
4 Stefanos Tsitsipas
5 Casper Ruud
6 Felix Auger-Aliassime
7 Cameron Norrie
8 Hubert Hurkacz
9 Andrey Rublev
10 Taylor Fritz
11 J Sinner
12 Pablo Carreno-Busta
13 Matteo Berrettini
14 Diego Schwartzman
15 Marin Cilic
16 Roberto Bautista-Agut
17 Grigor Dimitrov
18 Alex de Minaur
19 Denis Shapovalov
20 Daniel Evans
21 Botic van de Zandschulp
22 Frances Tiafoe
23 Nic Kyrgios
24 Francisco Cerundolo
25 Borna Coric
26 Lorenzo Musetti
27 Karin Khachanov
28 Holger Rune
29 Tommy Paul
30 Maxime Cressy
31 Nikoloz Basilashvili
32 Miomir Kecmanovic
ROUND 2
Top Half of the Draw
1 Danill Medvedev vs Arthur Rinderknech
Ybing Wu vs Nuno Borges
23 Nic Kyrgios vs Benjamin Bonzi
Jeffrey Wolf vs Alejandro Tabilo
12 Pablo Carreno-Busta vs Alexander Bublik
18 Alex de Minaur vs Christian Garin
27 Karen Khachanov vs Thiago Monteiro
6 Felix Auger-Aliassine vs James Darper
Danoel Galan Riveros vs Jordan Thompson
Marcos Fucsovics vs Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Andy Murray vs Eduardo Nava
13 Matteo Berrettini vs Hugo Grenier
Brandon Holt vs Pedro Cachin
21 Botic van de Zandschulp/ vs Corentin Moutet
29 Tommy Paul vs Sebastian Korda
5 Caper Ruud vs Tim van Rijthoven
Bottom of the Draw
8 Hubert Hurkacz ... vs Ilya Ivashka
26 Lorenzo Musetti vs Gijs Brouwer
17 Grigor Dimitrov vs Brandon Nakashima
11 Jannik Sinner vs Christopher Eubanks
15 Marin Cilic vs Albert Ramos-Vinolas
20 Daniel Evans vs James Duckworth
25 Borna Coric vs Jenson Btooksby
3 Carlos Alcaraz vs Federico Coria
7 Cameron Norriee vs Joao Sousa
28 Holger Rune vs John Isner
19 Denis Shapavalov vs Roberto Carballes Baena
9 Andrey Rublev vs Soonwoo Kwon
14 Diego Schwartzman vs Alexei Popyrin
22 Frances Kiafoe vs Jason Kubler
32 Miomir Kecmanovic vs Richard Gssquet/
2 Rafael Nadal/Rinky Hijikata vs Fabio Fognini
At last all the Qualifiers have been brought into Round 1 - however the matches for the said round is only start on MoOnday.
There were 16 seeded players in the Top Half of the Draw who played today - of those 6 went out in Round 1. The big surprises were the elimination of Tsitsipas and Fritz in Round One. Although it were a troubling day of four or five-setters none of he seeded players in the Bottom Hall of the draw have been eliminated in Round 1.
ROUND 3
Top Half of the Draw
1 Danill Medvedev vs Ybing Wu
23 Nic Kyrgios vs Jeffrey Wolf/
12 Pablo Carreno-Busta/ vs 18 Alex de Minaur
27 Karen Khachanov vs James Draper
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs Danoel Galan Riveros
13 Matteo Berrettini vs Andy Murray
Corentin Moutet vs Pedro Cachin
5 Caper Ruud vs 29 Tommy Paul
Another day of upsets in the Top Half of the Draw noted for 5 and 4 setters. Of the 5 seeds to play in this half of the draw only 2 remains. In total there are only 7 seeds still remaining after Round 2.
2 of the seeds will inevitably remain to go through to ROUND 4 - they are playing other seeded players, I also cannot see how Khachanov can beat Draper - so the number of seeds going through to Round 4 would be reduced to 4.
Bottom of the Draw
26 Lorenzo Musetti vs Ilya Ivashka
11 Jannik Sinner vs Brandon Nakashima
15 Marin Cilic vs 20 Daniel Evans
3 Carlos Alcaraz/ vs Jenson Btooksby
7 Cameron Norrie vs 28 Holger Rune
9 Andrey Rublev. vs 19 Denis Shapavalov
14 Diego Schwartzman vs 22 Frances Kiafoe
2 Rafael Nadal/Fabio Fognini vs Richard Gssquet
Of the 16 seeds in the Bottom Half of the Draw 13 will go through to Round 3 - where serious problems will be encountered by seeded players - since only 3 unseeded players are still in the mix. Only 1 of those p layers have a chance to go through to Round 3. In the case of the remaining games playing in Round 3 10 seeded players will play other seeded players - reducing the number of seeded players to go through to Round 4 to either 7 or 8.
What about the ladies, Mike?
I'm cheering for Rybakina, Garcia and Konteveit.
I hope Konteveit crushes Serena Williams tomorrow .
CC
It is a gib job to deal with the men and o just do not ahve the time to deal with the ladies as well,
ROUND 4
Top Half of the Draw
1 Danill Medvedev vs 23 Nic Kyrgios/
12 Pablo Carreno-Busta vs 27 Karen Khachanov
13 Matteo Berrettini vs Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
5 Caper Ruud vs Corentin Moutet
Bottom of the Draw
11 Jannik Sinner vs Ilya Ivashka
3 Carlos Alcaraz vs 15 Marin Cilic/
7 Cameron Norrie vs 9 Andrey Rublev
2 Rafael Nadal vs /22 Frances Kiafoe
After Round 2 only 6 of the 10 seeded players in the competition remain in the competition. so lets look at the situation objectively. In the first instance we have the following:-
* Medvedev (1) met weak opposition and is Round 3 going to meet a qualifier - so he is certain to go through to Round 4.
* Nadal (2) needed 4 sets in both Round 1 and 2 with extremely poor opposition and took 4 sets in both rounds to beat them. He is next facing another joke player Gasquest and is certain to beat him
* Alcaraz (3) easily disposed of opponents in Rounds 1 and 2 and his next opponent will be Brooksby. He is sure to beat him and go through to Round 4.
* Norrie (7) did win his round 1 and 2 matches - but was not really all that superior in both matches and in Round 3 he is set to meet Rune - whom he should ebat.
* Ruud (5) had quite a difficult match in Roud 2 and he is playing Paul in Round 3. He will have to be consistently playing in top form to beat Paul. No prediction.
* Norrie (7) struggled a bit in Round 2 and although he won all the matches in three sets he really was not in Top form His third Round opponent will be Rune who he should beat.
* Rublev (9) struggled badly in Round 1 - but was the easiest winner imaginable in Round 2. Rublev can go from good to bad with great ease in one game and more so in matches. Utterly unpredictable - but he has in the past beaten Shapovalov and playing conistentlyand not losing his cool could actually beat him
QUARTERFINALS
Top Half of the Draw/
23 Nic Kyrgios vs /27 Karen Khachanov
5 Caper Ruud/ vs 13 Matteo Berrettini
Bottom Half of the Draw
3 Carlos Alcaraz ns 11 Jannik Sinner
9 Andrey Rublev vs 22 Frances Tiafoe
After the carnage in the first three rounds there are only 3 unseeded players going though to Round 4. None other than perhaps Davidovich Fokina has any chance of winning in the next Round.
Nadl is not the player he used o be - that is for sure. He tried to play a much too slow a game to win and the fact is that is why he went out, Not sure whether Rublev can beat Tiafoe - if he plays like he did today against Norrie he has a real chance to beat Tiafoe..
Against all odds Rublev surprisingly won the match against Norrie and is now set to meet Nadal if the latter beats Kiafoe in the quarterfinals. Norrie has not been able to beat Nadal on any surface and to be quite frank Nadal would have preferred to play Norrie instead of Rublev- who have beaten him before.
SEMIFINALS
5 Caper Ruud vs 27 Karen Khachanov
3 Carlos Alcaraz vs 22 Frances Tiafoe
Only 3 of the Top 10 seeded players are still around - so the results are wide open. I can see Kyrgios beating Khachanov - but that is as far as I think one can forecast the results. Ruud struggled to win against Moutet and Berretini was in the same boat. Both Alcaraz and Sinner got through in 5-setters - Alcaraz against a seeded player - while Sinner played the only remaining unseeded player - so there is very little to choose between them
Rublev is totally unpredictable - against Norrie he played a near to flawless game and he had no brain turbulence that effected his game - but will it last?
It's the quarters, Mike ...no the semis.
Ruud destroyed Moutet in 4 easy sets and Norrie was out of sorts against Rublev.
Rublev implodes under pressure and facing the crowd support behind Tiafoe is going to test his resolve.
I think Tiafoe will take him out and move into the semis to face Sinner.
Sinner is on fire currently and leads the head to head 2-1 against Alcaraz. This is going to be a cracker of a match. Could go either way.
Kyrgios should take Khachanov out in straight sets.
It's hard to predict the winner between Berretini and Ruud.
Berretini has just come back from injury so one would expect Ruud to have the advantage. Ruud is leading the head to head 3-2.
Either way this too will be a cracker of a match ... and could go either way.
I would like to see Kyrgios in the final to face Sinner.
CC
It is indeed the quarters - but I use the above as a but i use the players in the Quarters to make sure for the semies, by eliminating the losing players and you have the semies without a lot of extratyping. typing
I agree with you about Sinner - facing anyone other than Alcaraz I would have backed him. With both of them not playing at their best in the series thus far the result si going to be a toss-up.
Rublev is by far technically a better player than Tiafoe - but he has a serious problem and that is he get himself totally mentally mixed up during games and then he start serving double faults. He has played Tiafoe a number of times - also in the USA - and I think he leads 3/1 in matches against him. What I wrote is real - Rublev has a mental problem and he mostly beat himself in matches. If Rublev plays and the mental issue is not in evidence he will beat Tiafoe. - but still I would have preferred it for him to have played Nadal and not Tiafoe..
Rublev has beaten Djokovic and Nadal in the past - Djokovic early this year in a tounrament in Belgrade - Djokovic's home town.
By the way Rublev playing against Norrie has always had a distinct advantage over him. I took a bet combining a number of players and stood to win over R600 on a R50 bet. Rublev was top of my lost for winning. Nadal - whom I should never have included took me out of the bet. The rest were Sinner, Alcaraz, Berrettini. Swiatek,Ruud and Kyrgios in the match against Khachanov.
I think the winners in the Quarterfinals may be as follows:-
1 Kyugios
2 Ruud
3 Alcaraz
4 Rublev
Personally looking at performances only and with odds at 6,87 return a bet on the four players winning is really worthwhile.
SS
You better listen to my advice about tennis. I never gave Berrettini a remote chance to win and that was correct. I am now hoping for a Kyrgios win - am pretty confident about that one. If he wins I will collect about R700 from the bookmakers.
Since Ruu d has already won if Kyrgios, Alcaraz and Rublev win another R500 will come my way as well.
I joined the US Open Fantasy competition on Superbru and 3 pools as well. After Round 4 I was as follows on the leaderboard:-
Southern Otters - 1 out of 18 members
Killing floors - 3 out of 39 members
2022 US Open - 1 out of 67 members.
My choices for the Quarterfinals are -
Ruud Alcaraz, Swiateck and Garcia. - Ruud has already won - so I hope they all three win.
Am pretty chaffed about the situation as well.
I opted out of the bets mentioned making much more money than I bet. Kyrgios to my own disappointment owed out to the much lower ranked Khachanov..
I also think that Rublev will beat Tiafoe and it is indeed ironic that in the US Open there may be two Russians.
Yes, I too would have lost money on Kyrgios.
He climbed into his shell and played like I've never seen him play before ... defensively.
Very disappointed to see him lose and I must admit I'm rather tired of his tantrums.
I am delighted to see Garcia go through so easily. I expected more of a fight from Gauff..
‘I also think Rublev will beat Tiafoe’… gosh and there I was thinking Roob bombed in straight sets.
Very tight match arsehole. At least two of the sets went to tiebreakers and the oter one was by one service break. You call the Nadal match tight, which is was far from being the case - so idiocy supreme applies to you in this case as well.
FINAL
3 Carlos Alcaraz vs 5 Caper Ruud
The final is between Alcaras and Ruud
I am very happy about my forecasts on Superbru as to the US Open. I am at present as follows in the groups and overall leader boards:-
# Southern Otters - 1 out of 18 competitors
* Killing floor - 1 out of 39 competitors
* 2022 US Open - 1 out of 67 competitors
* Overall Competition - 1 out of 2291 competitors
I did not tip one player who lost a match in the competition thus far and hope to retain my lead in the competition since for the semies -
* I picked Swiatek and Jobour to win - they won already ; and
* picked Ruud and Alcatraz to win in their matches.
But you picked Kyrgios and Rublev to be in the semis….you only mention your picks when they win. What a buffoon.
That shows you still do not know what is happening dimness. I had none of the two in the competition - the two players I had was Ruud and Alcaraz in the quarterfinals. So I did better than you could ever dream to do in anything when it comes to sport forecasting. But then you would never participate in anything like that because you do not know anything bar prejudice in whatever you write on site. What a BSter you are bumbrain. Your demeaning attacks on Alcaraz was always evident and your latest BS is typical.
Mozart
So you have no idea about sport anyway. the final is between th e two players I punted all along. My forecast in the final is for Alcaraz to win dimness and become the new World no 1 player. I forecasted about 8 months ago that Alcaraz will be in the top 10 ranked players in the world - while you were HA-HA howling against him. Remember that idiotic post?
I’m not interested in your pathetic betting for chump change….you picked Kyrgios and Rublev to win. And then you pretend you didn’t. There is no way to track your supposed bets, all we can see is what you say here. So stop faking it,
This is what I said about Alcatraz’ chances:
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Sep 01, 2022, 14:18I don’t despise any of the youngsters….I just want them to prove themselves before they get anointed. I actually think wee Alcatraz might have a good run at the Open….some of the pressure of expectations is off and the field is weak and decimated.
0 0And far from confidently pick Alcaraz, this is what you said:
‘I agree with you about Sinner - facing anyone other than Alcaraz I would have backed him. With both of them not playing at their best in the series thus far the result si going to be a toss-up.’
Here goes - again fiddling around. Mozart did not realize what he is doing so he called the result of the final - with both players not playing at their best a toss-up. When Nadal lost against Tiafoe it was a "tight match" which is not so at all - Tiafoe won 22 games as against 17 won by Nadal - not a tight match at all. In total Tiafoe broke the service of Nadal at least 3 times. as against one break by Nadal.
So what is Lord Haw-Haw now saying. Both players are not up to standard so the result is a toss-up. He obviously does not know that the bookmakers odds on the 2 are as follows:-
* Alcaraz - 1.43 ie 4.3/10
* Ruud - 2.85 or 1,85/10
When I took the double of Swiatek and Alcaraz the odds was Alcaraz 1,47 - that represents a flood of money placed on Alcaraz causing the odds on Ruud to go up from 2,75 to 2.85 In other words if you put on a R100 on Alcaraz you get R143 back if you put a R100 on Ruud you get R285 back. The odds are not tight and Mozart must be a fool to even call the match a toss-up.
Anyway our resident fool got all mixed up in this case - as he is mixed up on all sport issues. He tries to wiggle himself out of when he condemn Alcaraz all the time over the last 9 months. Still remember the HA-HA nonsense in the case of Murray - in the case of our resident Lord Haw-Haw an unforgettable load of BS.
Fact is I am like most reasonable people confident Alcaraz will beat Ruud and am looking forward to the match.
What a CHAMPION and what a match. It was played at a higher tempo and more hard hitting than was the case last year. I suppose Mozart is as mixed up as ever and will now try and write himself out of the shit he caused for himself.
The new World number 1 has arrived and he will not easily give up that ranking. Cingratulations to Alcaraz - he really is a fantastic tennis player.