Some of the eye catching first round match ups…
39 year old Venus Williams vs 15 year old qualifier Coco Gauff. If that isn’t the biggest age disparity match up at a major, what is?
Su-Wei Hsieh vs Jelena Ostapenko.
Taylor Fritz vs Tomas Berdych.
Rafa Nadal vs Yuichi Sugita, with a second round date with Kyrgios most likely. If Kyrgios can get by Jordan Thompson, no given.
Roger Federer vs dangerous South African Lloyd Harris.
Noah Rubin vs Brit Jay Clarke.
John Isner vs Casper Ruud.
Novak Djokovic vs Philipp Kohlschreiber.
Kiki Mladenovic vs Vitalia Diatchenko, battle of the beauties.
Serena Williams vs Gatto Monticone.
Doubles – Lleyton Hewitt and Thompson vs two Indians.
Bernie Tomic vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Grigor Dimitrov vs Corentin Moutet.
Monfils vs Ugo Humbert.
Kevin Anderson vs Pierre Hugues Herbert.
Janko Tipsarevic vs Yoshihito Nishioka.
Feliciano Lopez vs Marcos Giron.
Alex Zverev vs Jiri Vesely.
Dominic Thiem vs Sam Q Ball Querrey.
Fabio Fognini vs Frances Tiafoe.
Marin Cilic vs Adrian Mannarino.
Denis Shap vs Richard Berankis. to play Tsonga or Tomic next.
Danielle Collins vs Zarina Diyas.
American teen qualifier Caty McNally vs Heather Watson.
Naomi Osaka vs Yulia Putintseva.
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Hartt · June 28, 2019 at 9:55 am
As I said on the other thread, 2 Canucks, FAA and Pospisil, will face each other in the first round. Not only is Vasek rusty, but FAA is the better player, so I expect the youngster to win.
Also, 2 Aussies, Kyrgios and Thompson, meet in the first round. As Scoop said, it is not a given that Nick will win that match.
Is Harris that dangerous? He is ranked No.87.
Scoop Malinowski · June 28, 2019 at 10:37 am
Harris is a threat and he practiced with Anderson today for the first time, but that’s another story😉 Anderson surely gave Harris tips how to beat rf.
Ali · June 28, 2019 at 6:44 pm
I have Center Court tickets for Monday – the match I’d most like to see? Su-Wei Hsieh vs Jelena Ostapenko. Don’t think I’m going to get it though 😂
Scoop Malinowski · June 28, 2019 at 8:16 pm
Ali, good luck with that match on Monday and center court. Hsieh is always top value. Hsieh beat her in 3 sets in AO in 2016 36 75 61. Lucky you to have center court on opening day. I had that same special experience around 15 years ago from sleeping on the sidewalk the night before – well I tried to sleep, only got about 15 minutes of sleep that night – but the experience was the best. Saw Sampras vs Black and Capriati. Looking forward to you sharing your observations of Monday here. Welcome to the site.