US Open Day 5: Friday, August 29

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RE: US Open Day 5: Friday, August 28

Gulbis-Thiem is interesting in that these guys practice together a lot, both coached by Bresnik. I think this will effect Thiem more than Gulbis though.

David-Tomic has potential if Tomic decides to participate but I have my doubts.

Roger needs to be patient and take his chances when they come against Groth.
 

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RE: US Open Day 5: Friday, August 28

Friday August 29...not 28
 

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RE: US Open Day 5: Friday, August 28

Anderson vs JJ might be interesting too.
 

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RE: US Open Day 5: Friday, August 28

isn't cilic just coming back from suspension? if so, how come he is ranked so high. glad to see him back, always liked him. also, what happened to mario ancic?
 

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Fefe26 said:
what happened to mario ancic?

Ancic is retired from tennis. He had an extreme case of mono which prevented his continuing. He got a law degree, and I believe is practicing law.
 

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From Wikipedia:

Legal career

From 2002 to 2008, Ančić was a law student at the University of Split; he graduated from its law school on 14 April 2008, with a thesis entitled "ATP Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", describing the legal foundation and organization of the ATP Tour.

Illness forced Ančić to be off courts in much of the 2009 tennis season, and he started his residency in the law office of Turudić in Zagreb; but he announced he would freeze his residency for some time due to his tennis career. In 2009, he spent several months at Harvard Law School on a research project under Peter Carfagna, an adjunct professor who had previously been the top lawyer at sports management giant IMG. During his time at Harvard Law, he spoke twice at the school—the first about his law and tennis experiences, and the second time about doping cases in tennis. Ančić completed his project with a paper on the legal aspects of doping in tennis which Carfagna considered to be publication quality. After his experience at Harvard Law, he decided to pursue a master's degree, and enrolled in 2012 at Columbia Law School. In a 2012 interview, Ančić indicated that he might stay in New York City to work in corporate law before returning to Croatia. In May 2013, he was appointed to a job in the legal department of the National Basketball Association.
 

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Usually JJ drops a lot of balls, today he dropped not just balls, lot of sets. Anderson had easy win
over JJ.
 

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tented said:
Ferrer gets walkover after Tomic withdraws.

Just home from the gym and saw that. Sucks for Tomic. Weird score with Errani and Venus Williams too 6-0 0-6 1-1 ?! Lunacy.
 

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Front242 said:
tented said:
Ferrer gets walkover after Tomic withdraws.

Just home from the gym and saw that. Sucks for Tomic. Weird score with Errani and Venus Williams too 6-0 0-6 1-1 ?! Lunacy.

You should be happy that neither of the bagels were golden bagels. Remember sarah had
one against shevoda at one time.
 

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sir grigor doubles his career wins at usopen with a stroll in the park 3 setter.
 

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GameSetAndMath said:
Front242 said:
tented said:
Ferrer gets walkover after Tomic withdraws.

Just home from the gym and saw that. Sucks for Tomic. Weird score with Errani and Venus Williams too 6-0 0-6 1-1 ?! Lunacy.

You should be happy that neither of the bagels were golden bagels. Remember sarah had
one against shevoda at one time.

Yeah, that was great :cool:
 

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Poor Tomic. I see it's his left hip that was the issue and seeing as he had bilateral hip surgery in January that's not good. Must be pretty sore if he can't play.
 

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I just checked live scores to find out Gulbis lost the next 2 sets after being up 2 sets to zip :nono
 

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What's up with Gulbis' movement? Did he tweak something? Commentators said he hasn't full range of movement either but it's obvious watching.
 

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federberg said:
I'm starting to like Thiem more and more

Yeah I like him too but just see Gulbis doing better against top players than Thiem so the guy with a better shot at beating a top player would be my preference to go through. That said, Gulbis is moving badly so he's not beating anyone like that.
 

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I like Gulbis too, but I must say... I can't comprehend how he's able to beat top guys with that forehand. It's a shocker