I would have made the question who will win the USO if it wasnt for the fact that Federer would have had 80-100% of the votes.....

So the 3rd round should be according to seedings

(1)Federer vs (29)Bjorkman
(21)Gaudio vs (16)Ferrero
(12)Berdych vs (23)Tursunov
(28)Valleri vs (5)Blake

(4)Nalbandian vs (26)O.Rochus
(18)Ginepri vs (14)Haas
(10)Gonzalez vs (17)Murray
(32)Vliegen vs (7)Davydenko

(8)Baghdatis vs (30)Grosjean
(22)Verdasco vs (9)Roddick
(15)Hewitt vs (20)Djokivic
(25)Gasquet vs (3)Ljjubicic

(6)Robredo vs (31)Chela
(19)Hrbaty vs (11)Ferrer
(13)Nieminen vs (24)Acasuso
(27)Monfils vs (2)Nadal



So post your views on potential upsets, 5 setters and match analyisis'..


And let the USO begin :yahoo:

Cant wait for the Open cant beleive im going to be there next week this time :)

I think Federer will play his best tennis since well maybe last year and really up his level, and I think Roddick will make the final, I think Novk Djok will have a really good run this year and put himself among the group of up coming talented youngsters, but I expcect the youngster that will go furthest would be Nadal, Gasquet or Murray but if Nadal gets through his first round match then Id give him the edge of the 3

So it has begun

And currently playing are

Djokovic vs Young
Fish vs Greul


And young the guy who has never won an ATP match has 2 BPS :o

Young is leading Djokivic 4-2
Fish and Greul are tied 2-2
Hrbaty vs Youzhny 0-0

If you could predict any upsets today assuming they all play today the bottom half of the draw.
( the US Open do it weird)
What would you say?

I would predict an upset for Ljubicic
Acasuso
Nieminen
Hrbaty
Djokovic
Verdasco

Over to you

Lo's of upsets eh? :D

Ljubicic possibly, I mean I think he will coem through but he went to fiv elong sets at Wimby with Lopez.

Chela I think. If I have it right I think he is playign Wawrinka and I fancy that lad to go further than expected. And Chela is not in the best of form.

Well now that young is sevring for the set he might cause an upset....but before the match i gave him no chance...mostly because of his singles record being 0-9 and the fatc that Djoko is such a good player....

I think NAdal has a chance of being upset...

Acasuso and Nieminen have chances of being beaten but i think Verdasco will be safe


as for Ljubo, their wimby match was so close but Lopz is less comfortable on Hard ...but a potential upset could be possible

And as i have typed this Young has taken the first set off Djoko 6-4

I cant; BELIEVE thsi Yougn has taken a set of Djoko! In the BBC predictions comp most people think he'll win abotu 4-6 games! I put 8, but he has won six already! also check otu the USO site's predcitions man who says Djoko in 3! roflmao

I think Nadal could be in a lot of danger, depends hwo good Scud comes out really.

Calleri v Moya - not sure but I guess Moya coudl pull this off.

Verdasco v Santoro - this is a very tough call. remeber the 5 setter at the USO that Verdasco edged? I think Verdasco will win though, althoguh i hope it's Fabrice. Such beautiful tennis and great hands. :)

Acasuso coudl lose to Schrichapan, tough call. Ferrer is playign Almagro, and I have to say i think Ferrer will haev an earlier exit than his seeding suggests. Hrbaty, Gaudio - maybe but proabably not. I am worried about Grosjean playing ToJo though, evne if ToJo is off form.

Current Scores


Fish vs Greul 6-4 1-1
Young vs Djokovic 6-4 3-5 (This is a very fast match)
Hrbaty vs Youzhny 5-5

Up to now got 2 right and 1 wrong. Watch this space roflmao

I dont believe this . I feel another prediction I made is about to come true .

Lopez is 2 sets up against Ljubicic :yahoo:

Now that would be an upset . Not over yet though

It is now . 3 right and 1 wrong. Had to stay up to gloat ;) :rolleyes:
anyway good luck to Agassi later. Shall I say I predict a win?
Oh go on then ;)

Agassi won. Good show
And Nieminen lost. So I got 4 right and one wrong :clap:
S.B said Chela would lose and he did :clap:

Results from Day 1

(8)Baghdatis beat Waske 7-6 7-6 6-3
Agassi beat Pavel 6-7 7-6 7-6 6-2
(Q)Becker beat Volandri 4-6 7-6 6-4 7-6

(Q)Alves beat Zabaleta 6-2 7-5 6-7 6-3
(Q)Pless beat Martin 3-6 3-6 7-6 6-1 6-2
(9)Roddick beat Serra 6-2 6-1 6-3

Fish beat Greul 6-4 6-4 1-6 6-3
(20)Djokovic beat Young 4-6 6-3 6-0 6-1

(25)Gasquet beat Simmonds 6-1 6-3 6-1
Simon beat Bracciali 7-5 6-4 6-1
(Q)Chiudinelli beat Vicente 6-4 6-1 6-4
Lopez beat (3)Ljubicic 6-3 6-3 6-3

(6)Robredo beat Saretta 6-2 6-1 6-2
Lee beat Ramirez-Hidalgo 7-5 6-4 6-0
Soderling beat Karlovic 6-4 7-6 7-5
Wawrinka beat (31)Chela 6-7 6-4 6-4 6-4

Youzhny beat (19)Hrbaty 7-5 6-1 6-3
Massu beat Sanguinetti 6-7 6-4 6-4 6-4
Gimelstob beat Marach 6-2 6-3 7-5
(11)Ferrer beat Almagro 7-6 7-6 6-1

Malisse beat (13)Nieminen 6-4 7-5 6-2
Phau beat Morrison 6-3 7-6 6-4
Novak beat Clement 7-5 6-2 7-5
Schrichipan beat (24)Acasuso 6-3 3-6 7-6 6-7 6-3


So the seeds that fell were...

(3)Ljubicic
(13)Nieminen
(19)Hrbaty
(24)Acasuso
(31)Chela


Schedule for today

Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Amelie Mauresmo (FRA)[1] vs. Kristina Barrois (GER)

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Mark Philippoussis (AUS) vs. Rafael Nadal (ESP)[2]

3. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) vs. Serena Williams (USA)




Arthur Ashe 7:00 PM

1. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Maria Sharapova (RUS)[3] vs. Michaella Krajicek (NED)

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Juan Monaco (ARG) vs. James Blake (USA)[5]




Armstrong 11:00 AM

1. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)[15] vs. Albert Montanes (ESP)

followed by
2. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs. Mary Pierce (FRA)[13]

3. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Vera Dushevina (RUS) vs. Ana Ivanovic (SCG)[16]

4. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Shuai Peng (CHN) vs. Martina Hingis (SUI)[8]

5. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Robin Vik (CZE) vs. Marat Safin (RUS)




Grandstand 11:00 AM

1. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Gael Monfils (FRA)[27] vs. Michael Russell (USA)

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Robert Kendrick (USA) vs. Andy Murray (GBR)[17]

3. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Tatiana Golovin (FRA)[27] vs. Ashley Harkleroad (USA)

4. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
David Nalbandian (ARG)[4] vs. Michael Berrer (GER)




Court 4 4:00 PM

1. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Guillermo Coria (ARG) vs. Ryan Sweeting (USA)




Court 6 11:00 AM

1. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Kevin Kim (USA) vs. Jan Hernych (CZE)

followed by
2. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Alexa Glatch (USA) vs. Jarmila Gajdosova (SVK)

3. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)[25] vs. Youlia Fedossova (FRA)

4. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Amy Frazier (USA) vs. Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP)

5. Men's Doubles - 1st Rnd.
Amer Delic (USA)/Jeff Morrison (USA) vs. Harel Levy (ISR)/Paradorn Srichaphan (THA)




Court 7 11:00 AM

1. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Anastasia Myskina (RUS)[11] vs. Victoria Azarenka (BLR)

followed by
2. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Shenay Perry (USA) vs. Eleni Daniilidou (GRE)

3. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Agustin Calleri (ARG)[28] vs. Carlos Moya (ESP)

4. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Olivier Patience (FRA) vs. Olivier Rochus (BEL)[26]




Court 8 11:00 AM

1. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Fernando Verdasco (ESP)[22] vs. Fabrice Santoro (FRA)

followed by
2. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Mara Santangelo (ITA) vs. Lisa Raymond (USA)

3. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Ahsha Rolle (USA) vs. Alona Bondarenko (UKR)

4. Men's Doubles - 1st Rnd.
Wayne Arthurs (AUS)[14]/Justin Gimelstob (USA)[14] vs. Feliciano Lopez (ESP)/Christophe Rochus (BEL)

5. Men's Doubles - 1st Rnd.
David Ferrer (ESP)/Fernando Vicente (ESP) vs. Kellen Damico (USA)/
Nathaniel Schnugg (USA)




Court 9 11:00 AM

1. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Tiantian Sun (CHN) vs. Elena Likhovtseva (RUS)[32]

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Alessio Di Mauro (ITA) vs. Jurgen Melzer (AUT)

3. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) vs. Joshua Goodall (GBR)

4. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Emilie Loit (FRA) vs. Camille Pin (FRA)




Court 10 11:00 AM

1. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Na Li (CHN)[24] vs. Maria Sanchez Lorenzo (ESP)

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) vs. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)[23]

3. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Melinda Czink (HUN) vs. Aiko Nakamura (JPN)

4. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Fernando Gonzalez (CHI)[10] vs. Jiri Vanek (CZE)




Court 11 11:00 AM

1. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Jamea Jackson (USA) vs. Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL)

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Thomas Johansson (SWE) vs. Sebastien Grosjean (FRA)[30]

3. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)[17] vs. Bethanie Mattek (USA)

4. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Clarisa Fernandez (ARG) vs. Nadia Petrova (RUS)[5]

5. Men's Doubles - 1st Rnd.
Simon Aspelin (SWE)[8]/Todd Perry (AUS)[8]vs. Alex Clayton (USA)/
Donald Young (USA)




Court 12 11:00 AM

1. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Dinara Safina (RUS)[12] vs. Yulia Beygelzimer (UKR)

followed by
2. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Viktoriya Kutuzova (UKR) vs. Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP)

3. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Florian Mayer (GER) vs. Stefan Koubek (AUT)

4. Men's Doubles - 1st Rnd.
Alberto Martin (ESP)/Potito Starace (ITA)vs. Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)[10]/
Marcin Matkowski (POL)[10]




Court 13 11:00 AM

1. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Meghann Shaughnessy (USA) vs. Roberta Vinci (ITA)

followed by
2. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Sybille Bammer (AUT) vs. Nathalie Dechy (FRA)[31]

3. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Tomas Berdych (CZE)[12] vs. Boris Pashanski (SCG)

4. Men's Doubles - 1st Rnd.
Jonathan Erlich (ISR)[7]/Andy Ram (ISR)[7] vs. Jesse Levine (USA)/
Sam Querrey (USA)

5. Men's Doubles - 1st Rnd.
Arnaud Clement (FRA)/Michael Llodra (FRA) vs. Davide Sanguinetti (ITA)/
Filippo Volandri (ITA)




Court 14 11:00 AM

1. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs. Wesley Moodie (RSA)

followed by
2. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Eva Birnerova (CZE) vs. Galina Voskoboeva (RUS)

3. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Kaia Kanepi (EST) vs. Stephanie Foretz (FRA)

4. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) vs. Marcos Daniel (BRA)




Court 15 11:00 AM

1. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Nicole Pratt (AUS) vs. Milagros Sequera (VEN)

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Luis Horna (PER) vs. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)

3. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Zi Yan (CHN) vs. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)

4. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Maret Ani (EST) vs. Virginie Razzano (FRA)

5. Men's Doubles - 1st Rnd.
Yves Allegro (SUI)/Daniele Bracciali (ITA)vs. Oliver Marach (AUT)[15]/
Cyril Suk (CZE)[15]




Court 16 11:00 AM

1. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Yuliana Fedak (UKR) vs. Tatiana Poutchek (BLR)

followed by
2. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) vs. Alejandro Falla (COL)

3. Women's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Martina Sucha (SVK) vs. Anna Chakvetadze (RUS)[23]

4. Men's Singles - 1st Rnd.
Jan Hajek (CZE) vs. Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)

Thats a bit of an upset, niemenen going out. he's beein in great form this year. Bit of a lop-sided scoreline too :wacko:

There's a match up between 2 upset queens Pironokova ( beat Venus at this years AO) and JAckson beat Sharapova at Birmingham

I fancy Jackson, will probably be willed on by home support.......

Verdasco is playing today so a prediction of an upset is still on.
Apart from that no more upsets today eh? Safins match looks a bit dodgy but I still think he will win.

Nadal V Flip should be a cracker! really looking forward to that!

When you look at those two names you could say in theory its destined to be a cracker. But in reality and practice I think Nadal will wipe the floor with him.

Just A hunch ;) . P. is less than 1/2 the player he was

We just dont know what we are going to get with Mark his game if on form matches up well to Nadal but he has been winning some matches, I expect Nadal to win but I think it will be farily tight maybe 4 or possibly 5 sets

Yes I agree . He has been playing better of late but maybe not enough of it.

The great match ups predicted are sometimes a let down. Look at Lopez yesterday.
Still I hope we gaet a good match from those two and weather permitting I will be watching it very closely. It is threatening to be good but we shall see.

The heart says Federer and Robredo, but the head says Federer and Nadal. :(

That's OK. I went with my heart and picked "A non-seed". (That would be Andre.)

Yay! :) Andre's one of the other two I'd love to see make the final...it would just be the greatest thing ever if he won his last slam, in front of his home crowd...there wouldn't be a dry eye in the house...

It is here but so is the rain - I thought Wimbledon was supposed to be the rainy slam :(

the person federer is playing today must be pretty good as he is in doubles with novak djokovic

Current Scores

(2)Nadal vs Philipousses 4-3 ( a break)
Vik vs Safin 1-6 1-2
Coria vs Sweeting 1-0
(10)Gonzalez vs Vanek 3-2
Mayer vs Koubek 0-0
Johansson vs (30)Grosjean 1-2
(4)Nalbandian vs Berrer 4-4
Patience vs (26)O.Rochus 0-4
(12)Berdych vs Pashanski 1-1
Hajek vs Dlouhy 1-0
Horna vs Garcia Lopez 1-0

Rafa serving for the first set against The Scud

Nadal takes the 1st set 6-4
Safin is leading 6-1 6-1
Coria leads Sweeting 2-1
Gonzalez leads Vanke 5-2
Koubek leads Mayer 2-1
Groejean leads Johansson 4-1
Berrer leads Nalbandian 6-4 :yikes:
Rochus leads Patience 5-0
Berdych leads Pashanksi 3-1
Hajek leads Dlouhy 2-1
Horna ties Garcia Lopez 2-2

:yikes: Safin has hit 24 winners and only 7 UE

Current Scores

(2)Nadal vs Philipousses 6-4 0-1
Vik vs Safin 1-6 1-6 1-1
Coria vs Sweeting 2-3 ( a break)
(10)Gonzalez vs Vanek 6-2
Mayer vs Koubek 3-3
Johansson vs (30)Grosjean 2-5
(4)Nalbandian vs Berrer 4-6
Patience vs (26)O.Rochus 0-6 0-1
(12)Berdych vs Pashanski 4-2
Hajek vs Dlouhy 3-2
Horna vs Garcia Lopez 3-2

Current Scores

(2)Nadal vs Philipousses 6-4 3-3
Vik vs Safin 1-6 1-6 3-5
(10)Gonzalez vs Vanek 6-2 4-2
Mayer vs Koubek 6-4 1-1
Johansson vs (30)Grosjean 3-6 0-2
(4)Nalbandian vs Berrer 4-6 3-3
Patience vs (26)O.Rochus 0-6 1-5
(12)Berdych vs Pashanski 6-4 0-1
Hajek vs Dlouhy 6-3 2-0
Horna vs Garcia Lopez 5-5


Result

Sweeting beat Coria 3-2 RET.

Coria retired :o

Current Scores

(2)Nadal vs Philipousses 6-4 5-4 ( a break)
Vik vs Safin 1-6 1-6 6-3 2-2
(10)Gonzalez vs Vanek 6-2 6-3 1-0
Mayer vs Koubek 6-4 6-1
Johansson vs (30)Grosjean 3-6 3-4 (a break)
(4)Nalbandian vs Berrer 4-6 5-5
Patience vs (26)O.Rochus 0-6 2-6 1-2(a break)
(12)Berdych vs Pashanski 6-4 4-1
Hajek vs Dlouhy 6-3 3-1
Horna vs Garcia Lopez 7-5 2-1

Current Scores

(2)Nadal vs Philipousses 6-4 6-4 1-3
Vik vs Safin 1-6 1-6 6-3 3-5
Kim vs Hernych 1-4
Johansson vs (30)Grosjean 3-6 4-6 1-1
(4)Nalbandian vs Berrer 4-6 6-7 2-2
(12)Berdych vs Pashanski 6-4 6-2 4-1
Hajek vs Dlouhy 6-3 6-4 1-1
Horna vs Garcia Lopez 7-5 6-4


Completed

Mayer beat Koubek 6-4 6-1 6-1
(26)O.Rochus beat Patience 6-0 6-2 6-2
(10)Gonzalez beat Vanek 6-2 6-3 6-2

Current Scores

(15)Hewitt vs Montanes 7-5 0-1
(27)Monfils vs Russel 6-2 1-1
Kim vs Hernych 1-6 2-4
(23)Verdasco vs Santoro 3-3
Mirnyi vs Moodie 2-2
Johansson vs (30)Grosjean 3-6 4-6 4-3
(4)Nalbandian vs Berrer 4-6 6-7 6-3 1-1
Horna vs Garcia-Lopez 7-5 6-4 4-3


Completed

(2)Nadal beat Philppousses 6-4 6-4 6-4
Safin beat Vik 6-1 6-1 3-6 6-3
(12)Berdych beat Pashanski 6-4 6-2 6-1

Thought so. Nadal did wipe the floor with him ;)

Sort of. But it would have been tougher if Scud had gotten more first serves in. Nadal couldn't touch him on first serve. And Nadal also made good on the big points, saving all the break points against him. (They each faced four break points, but Scud was 0/4 converting, while Nadal was 3/4.) It was a good win for Nadal, but showed he could be vulnerable to a strong server.

To return to the original topic of the thread - most people seem to think Fed v Rod, but I still fancy Fed v Nadal. Judging from his first match, Nadal is playing well again, and I'm not sure Roddick has the weapons to break him, while Nadal will probably get break chances in a few games.

When it goes to a tie-break, it would be interesting though: if Roddick serves well, he may have the edge there.

Agassi lifting the title, beating Roddick, Nadal, Federer on the way, would be fantastic. I'm afraid it's more likely to be the end of the run tonight for him though - let's hope he can give Baghdatis a good fight!

Incidentally, Scotsguy: I like your posts, but the *huge* photo in the signature is getting annoying - I scroll down the thread, and all I see is Seth and Summer. Here's a request for all people with photos in the signature: please keep them small and modest; after all, it should be the posts that grab attention, not the signatures.