Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Day 9 US Open


MENS


In the first set between Scotsman Andy Murray and Denis Istomen of Uzbekistan, Istomen broke to leave the score from 3-3 to 4-3 but Murray got the break back to get the score to 5-4 which meant he was still in with a chance and it went to a tie break. Murray managed to take a mini break from 4-3 to 5-3 but Istomen hit a quality shot to make it 5-4. Murray then double faulted to make it 5-4 and then hit a bad shot to make it 6-5 against him, then he made another bad shot to loose the tie break 7-5 which means Murray had it all to do.

Andy Murray did get an early break in the second to lead 3-1 and he did not loose any of his next 3 games and was starting to look good again as he managed to take complete control of the second set but it is like looking at 2 different players.

Andy Murray managed to break in the third game of the third set Istomen broke back to make the score 3-3 but Murray got his break back to make the score 4-3 and hit an awesome shot in the  shot of the championship so far 10th game no more games were broken so Andy Murray won the second 6-4    

The ninth game was the big break in this match as Murray got the break to win the set 6-4 winning the game against 30 and I am not to sure how far it is that Andy Murray can go. In this game he has showed both his quality and his poor form but his opponent unseeded or not did give him what he needed.

 

Serbian Novac Djokovic picked up the first break of the match against Marcel Granollers to lead the set 4-2 and cruised into the lead with a perfect scoring set winning every game that he served with to win the first set 6-3  

Novac got 2 early breaks in the second set to make it seem like this set belongs to him as Marcel Granollers is not making any of his volleys and loosing the set by 6 games to nil this set seemed to be too easy for Novac and the final set was similar as the Serb got complete control to lead it 5-0 and got over the line to reach the next round

Novac Djokovic did not drop a game on his own serve and looked very impressive at this stage and I think that he needs a harder task to see where exactly he stands as a player because from this I can not say but in my opinion he does look like the favourite.
In my opinion Leyton Hewit seemed to be the favourite for the next match.  The first set belonged to Mikhail Youzhny and the second belonged to Lleyton Hewitt as they were both won by 6 games to 3 but in the third there was a point at 4-4 that deserved to win any set 46 shots long and it went to Hewit which he deserved to win. Youzhny got himself out of a giant hole loosing the game 30-0 and 40-15 to come back level at 5-5 in the tie breaker. Hewitt managed to out rally Youzhny to take the tie breaker by 7 points to 3 and go into a 2 sets to 1 lead

Youzhny managed to get his set back as he got the break required and did very well to get his required break Hewitt broke in the final set but Youzhny broke back to make the score 5-5 with some absolutely brilliant shots as he broke to put the pressure on Hewitt big time Hewitt makes the error at the end to put Russian Mikhail Youzhney through to the quarter final and I think that a match like this will help him massively but I think the semis is as far as he can go.


In the first set of the Berdych Wawrinka match Tomas Berdych won 6-3. The second was total domination by  Wawrinka as he controlled the set and won 6-1 the third was on a close tie break as it was level at 4-4, 5-5 and 6-6 but Wawrinka took the set and won by 8 points to 6 but this set was a little bit too close for comfort. Wawrinka got the break to lead by 4 games to 2 as he picks up the next his service game both with Berdych only picking up one point. He puts in a heroes performance to win the final game on Berdychs serve and secure his quarter final spot I am not sure hore that he can reach the semi finals

 

WOMENS




In the women’s draw Serena Williams was completely dominant in the first set not allowing Suarez Navarro to get a single game and in the second she could not get a game either and with a performance like this I think she can play ands beat anyone

 

In the first set of the match between SerbAnna Ivanovic and Bulgerian Victoria Azerenca Ivanovic took control of the first set and won it by 6 games to 4 in the second got the break required in the second by winning the game 4 points to 2. Victoria Azerenca broke to love to get the 6th game and win the second set by 6 games to 3. Azerenca breaks in the final set to make the score 3-1 and takes that advantage through to 5-3 in the match she needs one more game to win Ivanovic gets the break back in a bit of a thriller of a game as there were 4 deuces 2 match points and 2 break points in it. Azerenca though does win the match as the game goes to deuce and Azerenca gets 2 match points against serve but doesn’t win them she does though get the third.

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