US Open Qualies 2024 Starts Monday With Intriguing Duels

Not 100-1? ) Cuevas is gonna get trounced.

Sorry I can’t give any analysis of Paire vs Tseng or Shortman vs Pellegrino but Virtanen should handle the Brit veteran lefty.

Cory! Look for me I’ll be wearing all white long sleeve, orange miami open fedora, beige pants. Cuevas might have some trick up his sleeve and be ready to rumble also, and pull off a Raducanu ten in a row )

Cory, I got stuck in traffic and arrived just after it ended, a friend reader Ryan Balon saw it and said he was off, forehand off too. Probably just came for the $25 via injury exemption, like Amir Weinstein did at the end. Gasquet was down 0-3 but then he started grunting in desperation and turned it around 64 75 vs Kudla who he only played one other time in 2018 and won then 76 63. Pierre Hugues Herbert came to watch at the end of the first set and then left. Looked like he came from practice with his big Yonex bag. Nobody recognized him in the tenth row. I saw Danilovic have game points for 5-0 in the third vs Xinyu Gao but failed to get that game, 4-1, then rain came and after delay she lost five in a row. My friend is coaching Maxime Janvier but he got rolled by young American Ethan Quinn 61 60, had game points in four games in the first set and lost all four. Garin and Wong had a great battle, a lot of emotional adrenaline and yelling, Wong prevailed despite the vocal Chilean support, 46 76 63. Wong’s coach from Nadal academy jots down notes after every single point. He was doing that in Newport too. The longest name in tennis history played today Guiomar Maristany Zuleta De Reales but she lost a short one to Kartal 36 36. Kukushkin vs Trungelitti went the distance with the Argentine prevailing 16 64 76. Paire lost another heartbreaker to Tseng 76 67 46 and a few guys were getting on Paires serves in the first set by overly cheering Tseng chanting his name, why? Probably a bet on Tseng is my only guess. Best outfit was Sasnovich in a long sleeve body suit with cool colors by K Swiss, I’m sure you’ll be seeing a lot of it in the coming days with other players wearing it too. At the Mochizuki vs Damm Jr match won by Shintaro 76 in the third was a notable former player in the row ahead of me – Jared Donaldson, wearing a faded Stanford t shirt. He retired about 4 years ago with a knee problem and is now an intern investment banker in NYC. He was with two friends watching as a fan, looking like some guy who plays at the local public park. I saw Romanian Todoni save five match points in the last game, all after deuce vs Hibino but finally succumbed to the much smaller player. Keep an eye on Todoni. The day had two rain delays.

Sunday is the secret great day. everybody is there training.

From my view it looks very bad for Sinner. The excuses story sounds very weak. Cahill’s defense sounds phony and cliched. But most damning is that Sinner is in hiding, he still hasn’t shown up at US Open. An innocent man would not be hiding like Sinner is now. His image and rep are taking a massive hit from this episode, he may not recover from this.

Sam, yes Cahill involved with Halep, Agassi and Sinner, all three have PED histories. Though it’s unfair to blame Cahill for this coincidence. Cahill is a loyal coach and friend who automatically defends his players even if they are/were guilty. A good coach will take the bullet for the player. No comment on Fed or Rafa but I think Djokovic has always been clean. Early in his career he faked injuries and illness and fatigue as he was figuring out how to get to the top but then he found his way and ended that monkey business. I know Djokovic was always super fit because I saw him beat Monfils at US Open in five sets as a teenager (2006) after he collapsed twice for ten minutes each in the fifth, got up and won. So I think he had a tricky habit to trick opponents with trickery. As Roddick famously accused Djokovic of faking 16 or whatever injuries, etc. Once it was spotlighted, Djokovic stopped it which is around the time of the gluten free diet change. Djokovic became the ultimate physical beast but he was always super fit, super serious. Just took a few years to figure out how to get to the mountain top.

Sam, Cahill is reading off the script, same old tired cliches. I’m fairly certain Djokovic is clean and always was clean – the tennis deep state would have found something on him and used it to end his career. Unless Djokovic has some kind of inside info on Federer and Nadal that he uses as leverage to protect himself. You never know. I think Djokovic is as fit as he possibly could be. When he was tired in the Cincy final last year, I think he feigned it for a mind game because he was in a desperate precarious losing position. Desperate players make desperate moves. Anything to try to change the match flow. I’ve seen both opponents fake cramps. I’ve seen a player fake a leg injury, hop on one leg and still rifle forehand winners and close out a match on one leg (this year in Sarasota Open).

Sam, these players are wizards with racquets, they can do anything.