Talk About Tennis 2.0

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:55 am

They should put a Cheesecake Factory right in the middle, and then all the players will want to move in.

For context: Unlike Montreal, they did a player survey awhile back as to their favorite tournament venues, and Cincinnati was one of the top stops, mainly due to its proximity to a Cheesecake Factory.

JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Aug 06, 2025 6:54 pm

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:55 am

They should put a Cheesecake Factory right in the middle, and then all the players will want to move in.

For context: Unlike Montreal, they did a player survey awhile back as to their favorite tournament venues, and Cincinnati was one of the top stops, mainly due to its proximity to a Cheesecake Factory.

I remember!

Thursday 07 August, 2025 (Day 3)

P&G Center Court
Starts At 11:00 AM

J. Fonseca Vs Y. Bu
Followed By
M. Vondrousova Vs J. Cristian
Followed By
V. Williams (WC) Vs J. Bouzas Maneiro
Not Before 7:00 PM
C. Moutet Vs M. McDonald
Followed By
P. Stearns Vs Y. Wang

Grandstand
Starts At 11:00 AM

S. Cirstea Vs D. Vekic
Followed By
Z. Bergs Vs J. Fearnley
Followed By
T. Etcheverry Vs J. Shang
Not Before 7:00 PM
C. Ngounoue (Q) Vs H. Baptiste
Followed By
S. Baez Vs D. Goffin

Court 3
Starts At 11:00 AM

B. Bonzi Vs M. Arnaldi
Followed By
R. Zarazua Vs Y. Putintseva
Followed By
O. Danilovic Vs K. Boulter
Followed By
C. Smith (Q) Vs F. Marozsan

Champions' Court
Starts At 11:00 AM

P. Martinez Vs (WC) N. Jarry
Followed By
R. Safiullin Vs A. Tabilo
Followed By
B. Pera (WC) Vs E. Lys
Followed By
W. Osuigwe (Q) Vs T. Maria

Court 10
Starts At 11:00 AM

A. Rinderknech Vs N. Borges
Followed By
A. Potapova Vs L.Siegemund (Q)
Followed By
A. Ito (Q) Vs E. Ruse
Followed By
J. Thompson Vs (Q) A. Mannarino

Court 4
Starts At 11:00 AM

M. Joint Vs G. Minnen
Not Before 1:00 PM
G. Mpetshi Perricard Vs (Q) C. Wong
Followed By
T. Atmane (Q) Vs Y. Nishioka

Court 6
Starts At 11:00 AM

R. Carballes Baena Vs H. Gaston
Not Before 1:00 PM
D. Galan (Q) Vs V. Kopriva

Based on last year, and reputation, this court is fast, even faster than the USO .expect Pegula, Paolini, Gauff, Bencic to do well.. Those will not like the conditions - Anisimova, Krejcikova, Ostapenko, Kostyuk..they all need a little more time to hit their shots, and arent particularly quick on their feet.

Among the men, DeMinaur and Paul can do well, maybe Fritz will not..

Friday 08 August, 2025 (Day 4)

P&G Center Court
Starts At 11:00 AM

S. Kartal Vs C. Garcia (WC)
Followed By
B. Coric Vs (Q) E. Nava
Followed By
J. Brooksby (WC) Vs A. Muller
Not Before 7:00 PM
A. Parks Vs B. Krejcikova
Followed By
A. Vukic (LL) Vs (WC) N. Basavareddy

Grandstand
Starts At 11:00 AM

C. Ugo Carabelli Vs K. Nishikori
Not Before 12:30 PM
D. Collins Vs T. Townsend (WC)
Followed By
K. Rakhimova (Q) Vs M. Sakkari
Not Before 7:00 PM
L. Tien Vs (Q) L. Riedi
Followed By
C. McNally (WC) Vs M.Inglis (Q)

Court 3
Starts At 11:00 AM

T. Boyer (WC) Vs (WC) B. Holt
Followed By
M. Giron Vs (Q) A. Blockx
Followed By
A. Li Vs V. Tomova (Q)
Followed By
A. Sevastova Vs E.Bektas (Q)

Champions' Court
Starts At 11:00 AM

C. Dolehide Vs R. Sramkova
Followed By
V. Gracheva (Q) Vs K. Volynets (WC)
Followed By
H. Dellien Vs R. Opelka
Followed By
M. Landaluce (Q) Vs (Q) P. Kypson
Followed By
S. Ofner (PR) Vs (Q) V. Royer

Court 10
Starts At 11:00 AM

L. Zhu Vs L. Bronzetti
Followed By
M. Kecmanovic Vs E. Quinn
Followed By
H. Medjedovic Vs A. Kovacevic
Followed By
S. Lamens Vs V. Kudermetova

Court 4
Starts At 11:00 AM

L. Sun Vs A. Ruzic (Q)
Followed By
A. Bondar Vs A. Tomljanovic
Followed By
F. Comesana Vs J. Munar
Followed By
D. Altmaier Vs R. Bautista Agut

Court 7
Starts At 11:00 AM

L. Nardi (LL) Vs (Q) T. Tirante
Followed By
A. Blinkova Vs K. Birrell
Followed By
M. Uchijima Vs C. Osorio
Followed By
X. Wang Vs E. Arango

Court 9
Starts At 11:00 AM

Y. Starodubtseva Vs L.Jeanjean (Q)
Followed By
P. Kudermetova Vs E. Seidel (Q)
Followed By
A. Walton Vs (LL) M. Navone
Followed By
M. Bellucci Vs D. Dzumhur

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 2:33 pm Among the men, DeMinaur and Paul can do well, maybe Fritz will not..

I'll still take Sinner for the title

Suliso wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 6:29 am

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 2:33 pm Among the men, DeMinaur and Paul can do well, maybe Fritz will not..

I'll still take Sinner for the title

of course, I didnt mean they will win the title.Sinner will win, for sure.

QF lineup likely: (by my reckoning)

Sabalenka vs Rybakina
Swiatek vs Alexandrova
Kessler vs Bencic/Tauson
Osaka vs Gauff

all look like good matches.. looking forward to them.
Third quarter looks the hardest to call, with Pegula, Tauson and Bencic all present..i certainly think it will be Bencic..simply because her style suits a fast surface..
Sabalenka may not even get there, has to beat Leylah, may not do it.

Alcaraz is a puzzle...last year he did nothing here, nothing at the USO...complained about the court speed..

Pegula seems a bit off lately too..since Berlin..wonder what is wrong. I can no longer rely on her as the benchmark...

Osaka predictably withdrew.

Did anyone else just see the... meltdown?... by Collins after losing the first two points of the second set tiebreaker against Townsend? She had lost the first set and was down 0-2 in the breaker when she just started wailing either at herself or someone in the crowd or something... Really bizarre.

It threw Taylor off for a second.. She immediately threw in a double before getting her head together and winning the breaker 7-2--and thus the match.

Really odd. Really, really odd. I missed everything before that, so perhaps I missed some earlier match history.

After it was over, Collins left the court without her gear.

dryrunguy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 6:54 pm Did anyone else just see the... meltdown?... by Collins after losing the first two points of the second set tiebreaker against Townsend? She had lost the first set and was down 0-2 in the breaker when she just started wailing either at herself or someone in the crowd or something... Really bizarre.

It threw Taylor off for a second.. She immediately threw in a double before getting her head together and winning the breaker 7-2--and thus the match.

Really odd. Really, really odd. I missed everything before that, so perhaps I missed some earlier match history.

After it was over, Collins left the court without her gear.

Medvedev did the same thing in Toronto.

“Mboko and Osaka’s withdrawals created two new first round matches between lucky losers from the qualifying tournament: Iva Jovic vs. Solana Sierra and Cristina Buçsa and Yuan Yue.”
*source: Tennis Channel