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**anolbom** · 01-10-2011, 05:34 AM

Arthur Ashe Stadium 11:00 AM

Women's Singles - 3rd Round
Anabel Medina Garrigues(ESP)[30] vs. Vera Zvonareva(RUS)[2]
Not Before:1:00 PM
Women's Singles - 3rd Round
Flavia Pennetta(ITA)[26] vs. Maria Sharapova(RUS)[3]
Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Nicolas Mahut(FRA) vs. Rafael Nadal(ESP)[2]
Arthur Ashe Stadium 7:00 PM

Women's Singles - 3rd Round
Christina McHale(USA) vs. Maria Kirilenko(RUS)[25]
Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Andy Roddick(USA)[21] vs. Jack Sock(USA)

Louis Armstrong Stadium 11:00 AM

Women's Singles - 3rd Round
MonMonica Niculescu(ROU) vs. Lucie Safarova(CZE)[27]
Not Before:1:00 PM
Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Robby Ginepri(USA) vs. John Isner(USA)[28]
Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Robin Haase(NED) vs. Andy Murray(GBR)[4]
Women's Singles - 3rd Round
Nadia Petrova(RUS)[24] vs. Samantha Stosur(AUS)[9]

Grandstand 11:00 AM

Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Juan Martin Del Potro(ARG)[18] vs. Diego Junqueira(ARG)
Not Before:12:30 PM
Women's Singles - 3rd Round
Shuai Peng(CHN)[13] vs. Julia Goerges(GER)[19]
Women's Singles - 3rd Round
Irina Falconi(USA) vs. Sabine Lisicki(GER)[22]
Not Before:5:00 PM
Men's Singles - 2nd Round
David Ferrer(ESP)[5] vs. James Blake(USA)

Court 17 11:00 AM

Women's Singles - 3rd Round
Alla Kudryavtseva(RUS) vs. Angelique Kerber(GER)
Not Before:12:30 PM
Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Stanislas Wawrinka(SUI)[14] vs. Donald Young(USA)
Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Rogerio Dutra Da Silva(BRA) vs. Alex Bogomolov Jr.(USA)

Court 13 11:00 AM

Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Denis Istomin(UZB) vs. Julien Benneteau(FRA)
Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Ivan Ljubicic(CRO)[30] vs. David Nalbandian(ARG)

Court 11 11:00 AM

Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez(ESP) vs. Gilles Simon(FRA)[12]
Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Jean-Rene Lisnard(MON) vs. Florian Mayer(GER)[26]

Court 4 11:00 AM

Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Steve Darcis(BEL) vs. Juan Ignacio Chela(ARG)[24]

Court 6 11:00 AM

Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Igor Kunitsyn(RUS) vs. Jurgen Melzer(AUT)[17]

Court 7 11:00 AM

Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Ernests Gulbis(LAT) vs. Gilles Muller(LUX)

Court 8 11:00 AM

Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Feliciano Lopez(ESP)[25] vs. Vasek Pospisil(CAN)

**WepKeyday** · 02-09-2011, 03:21 PM

I just had a chance to look at this schedule. McHale vs Kirilenko is the night session? Hilarious.

**bestworkother** · 02-09-2011, 03:48 PM

We have great seats, in the shade, on Grandstand. With a line up of Delpo, Peng/Goerges (who I have some great photos of), and Lisicki. Would be very easy to spend the day here.

**weaddercaps** · 02-09-2011, 04:11 PM

We have great seats, in the shade, on Grandstand. With a line up of Delpo, Peng/Goerges (who I have some great photos of), and Lisicki. Would be very easy to spend the day here.

Oh, SHUT UP!!!!!! GRRRRRRR!!!!!! ENVYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

(Hope you have a great day full of 5 and 3 setters. And post those Goerges pictures ASAP)

**Romobencience** · 02-09-2011, 04:20 PM

I just had a chance to look at this schedule. McHale vs Kirilenko is the night session? Hilarious.

I laughed too until I looked at the other options. You can't have Maria every night for the sake of the night workers' ears!

**Lunims** · 02-09-2011, 04:22 PM

Just turned to Safarova/Niculescu with Niculescu serving up 2-0. These one could be a BARNBURNER. I only saw three points and they were all awesome. Safarova is absolutely wailing on the ball and Niculescu is hurling herself around court in an awesome display of defense. So far Niculescu's wackadoodle spins have thrown off Lucie and her giganto strokes but I'm expecting her to pull it out and maybe even get to the quarters.

She's serving at 0-3 though, so she better pull it together fairly soon.

**FelixQY** · 02-09-2011, 04:25 PM

I laughed too until I looked at the other options. You can't have Maria every night for the sake of the night workers' ears!

LoL absolutly

**Romobencience** · 02-09-2011, 04:31 PM

Just turned to Safarova/Niculescu with Niculescu serving up 2-0. These one could be a BARNBURNER. I only saw three points and they were all awesome. Safarova is absolutely wailing on the ball and Niculescu is hurling herself around court in an awesome display of defense. So far Niculescu's wackadoodle spins have thrown off Lucie and her giganto strokes but I'm expecting her to pull it out and maybe even get to the quarters.

She's serving at 0-3 though, so she better pull it together fairly soon.

Yeah, she better!!

**Lunims** · 02-09-2011, 04:35 PM

I feel like Medina Garrigues is the perfect 3rd round opponent for Zvonareva. She's going to have a bunch of tough deuce games without being in much danger of losing.

Medina Garrigues is solid on every shot, but Vera 2.0 can actually hurt you with every shot. They're both all court players. Vera is just better.

I checked out the h2h to see if I was right. 3-1 Vera, all three wins being drubbings. The loss was a 6-3 3-0 retirement and I don't know the story there. They haven't played since 2008, so I imagine the new Vera will only win more easily. We'll see!

**Switiespils** · 02-09-2011, 04:39 PM

I just had a chance to look at this schedule. McHale vs Kirilenko is the night session? Hilarious.

It's a strange draw this year. The Open is quickly running out of good matches and we are only at the start of the third round. Today's schedule is completely meh.

**weaddercaps** · 02-09-2011, 04:42 PM

Ok, I love Vera as much as anybody else, but I thought the only improvement for Vera 2.0 was better seals in her tear ducts.
Just asking....

**Lunims** · 02-09-2011, 04:43 PM

It's a strange draw this year. The Open is quickly running out of good matches and we are only at the start of the third round. Today's schedule is completely meh.

I'm actually tickled by the women's schedule today. On the men's side, I don't like that the first round is spread of three days without one of them being Sunday. It's too weird that some men are playing their first match late Wednesday when some women play their third the next morning.

**Romobencience** · 02-09-2011, 04:49 PM

I'm actually tickled by the women's schedule today. On the men's side, I don't like that the first round is spread of three days without one of them being Sunday. It's too weird that some men are playing their first match late Wednesday when some women play their third the next morning.

Women would still be in the second round on Thursday, but yeah, it is still odd to have different rounds happening on the same day.

**Romobencience** · 02-09-2011, 04:52 PM

It's a strange draw this year. The Open is quickly running out of good matches and we are only at the start of the third round. Today's schedule is completely meh.

I wouldn't say it's out of good matches, but the halves are imbalanced (at least from the "American audience" point of view). Not much of interest today, but Ana/Sloane, Serena/Vika, and Woz/Vania all tomorrow.

Of course, if the Americans lose all those matches, then they're f****d.

**FelixQY** · 02-09-2011, 04:54 PM

Just turned to Safarova/Niculescu with Niculescu serving up 2-0. These one could be a BARNBURNER. I only saw three points and they were all awesome. Safarova is absolutely wailing on the ball and Niculescu is hurling herself around court in an awesome display of defense. So far Niculescu's wackadoodle spins have thrown off Lucie and her giganto strokes but I'm expecting her to pull it out and maybe even get to the quarters.

She's serving at 0-3 though, so she better pull it together fairly soon.

6-0

**Lunims** · 02-09-2011, 04:59 PM

Women would still be in the second round on Thursday, but yeah, it is still odd to have different rounds happening on the same day.

Sorry, I stayed up all night and was thinking it was Thursday.

...
I am very surprised Niculescu has now won the first 7 games against Safarova. With Safarova's big strokes I would expect her to struggle with wind and slicey dicey players, but not like this. I checked out the match stats, and so far Safarova is winning 0% of her second serve points!!! (0 for 10)

The game I watched Niculescu was totally fired up and far faster than I remember her. Also, anytime I've seen her play she's only sliced her forehand. I saw her hit a few good topspin forehands (turns out it's two handed).

**Lunims** · 02-09-2011, 05:06 PM

It's a strange draw this year. The Open is quickly running out of good matches and we are only at the start of the third round. Today's schedule is completely meh.

It definitely hurt that Clijsters couldn't play and Li and Kvitova totally crapped out. All the slam winners out adds a rain cloud to the draw. Then Bartoli and A Rad had to go and lose to inspired opponents.

It's certainly been excellent for American women, though!

Ok, I love Vera as much as anybody else, but I thought the only improvement for Vera 2.0 was better seals in her tear ducts.
Just asking....

She definitely didn't have the game to make slam finals in the days when she was crying a lot. Her serve is much bigger now. I think she's always had excellent groundies, but preferred to go mostly cross court. Now when her opponent changes direction down the line, instead of hitting a defensive shot cross court she blasts it right back down the line. No matter how often she does it in a match it's so strange that her opponent is always caught a bit off guard. She was always a great mover too, but I think her explosive movement must have improved. She has to be one of, if not the best, movers on tour.

**Romobencience** · 02-09-2011, 05:08 PM

66mph first serve from Monica. This beezy's driving me crazy.

**Switiespils** · 02-09-2011, 05:10 PM

I wouldn't say it's out of good matches, but the halves are imbalanced (at least from the "American audience" point of view). Not much of interest today, but Ana/Sloane, Serena/Vika, and Woz/Vania all tomorrow.

Of course, if the Americans lose all those matches, then they're f****d.

**CuittisIL** · 02-09-2011, 05:11 PM

Wow, looking at these messages made me go tune in to Monica/Lucie

I am facinated as well!

02-09-2011, 03:21 PM	#2
WepKeyday Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 523 Senior Member	I just had a chance to look at this schedule. McHale vs Kirilenko is the night session? Hilarious. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 03:48 PM	#3
bestworkother Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 505 Senior Member	We have great seats, in the shade, on Grandstand. With a line up of Delpo, Peng/Goerges (who I have some great photos of), and Lisicki. Would be very easy to spend the day here. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:11 PM	#4
weaddercaps Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 594 Senior Member	We have great seats, in the shade, on Grandstand. With a line up of Delpo, Peng/Goerges (who I have some great photos of), and Lisicki. Would be very easy to spend the day here. Oh, SHUT UP!!!!!! GRRRRRRR!!!!!! ENVYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! (Hope you have a great day full of 5 and 3 setters. And post those Goerges pictures ASAP) Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:20 PM	#5
Romobencience Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	I just had a chance to look at this schedule. McHale vs Kirilenko is the night session? Hilarious. I laughed too until I looked at the other options. You can't have Maria every night for the sake of the night workers' ears! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:22 PM	#6
Lunims Join Date Nov 2005 Location CA Posts 601 Senior Member	Just turned to Safarova/Niculescu with Niculescu serving up 2-0. These one could be a BARNBURNER. I only saw three points and they were all awesome. Safarova is absolutely wailing on the ball and Niculescu is hurling herself around court in an awesome display of defense. So far Niculescu's wackadoodle spins have thrown off Lucie and her giganto strokes but I'm expecting her to pull it out and maybe even get to the quarters. She's serving at 0-3 though, so she better pull it together fairly soon. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:25 PM	#7
FelixQY Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 601 Senior Member	I laughed too until I looked at the other options. You can't have Maria every night for the sake of the night workers' ears! LoL absolutly Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:31 PM	#8
Romobencience Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	Just turned to Safarova/Niculescu with Niculescu serving up 2-0. These one could be a BARNBURNER. I only saw three points and they were all awesome. Safarova is absolutely wailing on the ball and Niculescu is hurling herself around court in an awesome display of defense. So far Niculescu's wackadoodle spins have thrown off Lucie and her giganto strokes but I'm expecting her to pull it out and maybe even get to the quarters. She's serving at 0-3 though, so she better pull it together fairly soon. Yeah, she better!! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:35 PM	#9
Lunims Join Date Nov 2005 Location CA Posts 601 Senior Member	I feel like Medina Garrigues is the perfect 3rd round opponent for Zvonareva. She's going to have a bunch of tough deuce games without being in much danger of losing. Medina Garrigues is solid on every shot, but Vera 2.0 can actually hurt you with every shot. They're both all court players. Vera is just better. I checked out the h2h to see if I was right. 3-1 Vera, all three wins being drubbings. The loss was a 6-3 3-0 retirement and I don't know the story there. They haven't played since 2008, so I imagine the new Vera will only win more easily. We'll see! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:39 PM	#10
Switiespils Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 619 Senior Member	I just had a chance to look at this schedule. McHale vs Kirilenko is the night session? Hilarious. It's a strange draw this year. The Open is quickly running out of good matches and we are only at the start of the third round. Today's schedule is completely meh. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:42 PM	#11
weaddercaps Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 594 Senior Member	Ok, I love Vera as much as anybody else, but I thought the only improvement for Vera 2.0 was better seals in her tear ducts. Just asking.... Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:43 PM	#12
Lunims Join Date Nov 2005 Location CA Posts 601 Senior Member	It's a strange draw this year. The Open is quickly running out of good matches and we are only at the start of the third round. Today's schedule is completely meh. I'm actually tickled by the women's schedule today. On the men's side, I don't like that the first round is spread of three days without one of them being Sunday. It's too weird that some men are playing their first match late Wednesday when some women play their third the next morning. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:49 PM	#13
Romobencience Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	I'm actually tickled by the women's schedule today. On the men's side, I don't like that the first round is spread of three days without one of them being Sunday. It's too weird that some men are playing their first match late Wednesday when some women play their third the next morning. Women would still be in the second round on Thursday, but yeah, it is still odd to have different rounds happening on the same day. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:52 PM	#14
Romobencience Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	It's a strange draw this year. The Open is quickly running out of good matches and we are only at the start of the third round. Today's schedule is completely meh. I wouldn't say it's out of good matches, but the halves are imbalanced (at least from the "American audience" point of view). Not much of interest today, but Ana/Sloane, Serena/Vika, and Woz/Vania all tomorrow. Of course, if the Americans lose all those matches, then they're f****d. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:54 PM	#15
FelixQY Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 601 Senior Member	Just turned to Safarova/Niculescu with Niculescu serving up 2-0. These one could be a BARNBURNER. I only saw three points and they were all awesome. Safarova is absolutely wailing on the ball and Niculescu is hurling herself around court in an awesome display of defense. So far Niculescu's wackadoodle spins have thrown off Lucie and her giganto strokes but I'm expecting her to pull it out and maybe even get to the quarters. She's serving at 0-3 though, so she better pull it together fairly soon. 6-0 Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 04:59 PM	#16
Lunims Join Date Nov 2005 Location CA Posts 601 Senior Member	Women would still be in the second round on Thursday, but yeah, it is still odd to have different rounds happening on the same day. Sorry, I stayed up all night and was thinking it was Thursday. ... I am very surprised Niculescu has now won the first 7 games against Safarova. With Safarova's big strokes I would expect her to struggle with wind and slicey dicey players, but not like this. I checked out the match stats, and so far Safarova is winning 0% of her second serve points!!! (0 for 10) The game I watched Niculescu was totally fired up and far faster than I remember her. Also, anytime I've seen her play she's only sliced her forehand. I saw her hit a few good topspin forehands (turns out it's two handed). Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 05:06 PM	#17
Lunims Join Date Nov 2005 Location CA Posts 601 Senior Member	It's a strange draw this year. The Open is quickly running out of good matches and we are only at the start of the third round. Today's schedule is completely meh. It definitely hurt that Clijsters couldn't play and Li and Kvitova totally crapped out. All the slam winners out adds a rain cloud to the draw. Then Bartoli and A Rad had to go and lose to inspired opponents. It's certainly been excellent for American women, though! Ok, I love Vera as much as anybody else, but I thought the only improvement for Vera 2.0 was better seals in her tear ducts. Just asking.... She definitely didn't have the game to make slam finals in the days when she was crying a lot. Her serve is much bigger now. I think she's always had excellent groundies, but preferred to go mostly cross court. Now when her opponent changes direction down the line, instead of hitting a defensive shot cross court she blasts it right back down the line. No matter how often she does it in a match it's so strange that her opponent is always caught a bit off guard. She was always a great mover too, but I think her explosive movement must have improved. She has to be one of, if not the best, movers on tour. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 05:08 PM	#18
Romobencience Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	66mph first serve from Monica. This beezy's driving me crazy. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 05:10 PM	#19
Switiespils Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 619 Senior Member	I wouldn't say it's out of good matches, but the halves are imbalanced (at least from the "American audience" point of view). Not much of interest today, but Ana/Sloane, Serena/Vika, and Woz/Vania all tomorrow. Of course, if the Americans lose all those matches, then they're f****d. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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02-09-2011, 05:11 PM	#20
CuittisIL Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 726 Senior Member	Wow, looking at these messages made me go tune in to Monica/Lucie I am facinated as well! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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