Running tennis thread for 2023

https://www.si.com/tennis/2023/08/23/u-s-open-tennis-tips-tricks-transportation-food-hacks

 

Dominic Thiem resurfaces in the U.S. Open, rolling over 25th-seeded Alexander Bublik in straight sets in a first-round match.

Just three years ago, he won this thing (albeit with help from a Djokovic DQ), but this is the first match he's won in a major tournament since the 2021 Australian, as he's battled injuries.

 

Shocker in the first round: Fourth seed Holger Rune ousted by 63rd-ranked Roberto Carballes Baena of Spain in four sets.

Not quite as shocking: Women's No. 8 Maria Sakkari taken out by another Spaniard, No. 71 Rebeka Masarova, 6-4, 6-4.

 

Wasn't Rune bitching about being on one of the "bad" courts?

 

How nice of ESPN to superimpose an equal-pay logo on our televisions that's not actually there on court.

 

If you're not watching the Gauff-Siegemund match on ESPN, turn it on. Siegemund is giving a tennis clinic and is up a set on Coco.

This is a master class.

 

My kids have had fish which have had shorter lifespans than the first game of this set.

 

Coco isn’t a killer.

 

26 minutes.

 

Great power, great all-court action in this match. I'm guessing that Siegemund, like Gauff, plays a lot of doubles.