tennis, life and a few things in between

This year US Open starts on Sunday Aug 24th, instead Mondays in the past.

The mixed doubles were played ahead of the main draw opening, on Aug 19 and 20. Essentially, taking away the normal mixed doubles players’ oppertunity.

I’ve my tv on all the time, watching the mutiple courts coverage. It streams on Disney→espn: streaming is a complecated business and I don’t even want to know!

Day 1, Sunday 8.24

• Ben Shelton def Ignacio Buse (2004-; $282,522) 3, 2, 4
• Ben Bonzi (1996-; $3,468,947) def Medvedev (1996-; $46,936,309) in 5 sets
• B Nakashima d. J. De Jong in 5
• M Giron d. M Navone
• Z. Svajda d. Z. Piros 4, 2, 5
• Taylor Fritz d E. Nava 5, 2, 3
• E. Spizzirri d. S. Dostanic 5, 4, 6
• Pegula d. M Sherif 0, 4 
• Bencic d. Zhang Shuai 3, 3
• Ostapenko d. X Wang 4, 3 
• McCartney Kessler d. Magda Linette 5, 5
• Janice Tjen (2002-; 2018, $82,632) d. Kudermetova in 3

Day 2, Monday 8.25

• Barbora Krejcikova d. Victoria Mboko 3, 2
• Frances Tiafoe d. Yoshihito Nishioka 3, 6, 3
• Renata Zarazua d. Madison Keys in 3
• Coleman Wang d. Aleksander Kovacevic 4, 5, 6

There are few players from the countries that I don’t see often:

• Colrmsn Wong of Hong Kong
• Janice Tjen of Indonesia
• Victoria Kasintseva of Andorra, a qualifer

Madison Keys looks smart and fit, and has match point …

Yoshihito Nishioka (西岡 良仁; 1995-; 2014, $6,926,298) acts like a 12-year-old or a brat: stomping his feet and destroying his racket when the point didn’t go his way.  Practice more to get better at the game!