US OPEN TENNIS 2014 - Chat Thread

I've had £2 on Kvitova to win the tournament ... though her record in the US Open is not good

4th round the best she's done so far.

I backed 2 horses in the 2.30 (only £2 ) put in lays of £4-30 @ 2.3 on each. both taken

finished 2nd 9-1 and 3rd 10-1 .......... btn by a first-timer with a trainer I'd never heard of at 40-1 !

c-c, 'Saint Slippy of Blue' does have a certain ring to it I must say

... coming under (holy) orders

Querry v Gonzales

1st game on a hard court for Gonzales

23+ aces for Querry who looks knackered

Gonzales 2-6,6-4,4-6,6-4

tennis equivalent of banded racing imo

red button on sky sports 3

sky sports 3

Serena Williams v Tina Turner ... oops Taylor Townsend

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/08/serena-williams-us-open-taylor-townsend-future

Serena Williams 1.05 to back against an opponent who is fatter than she is !

Taylor Townsend

1014 record

won 5 lost 5 (matches)

Serena Williams

won 5 lost 7 (tournaments)

2014

TT must be nervous .......

toilet break after warming up

Andy v Jo-Wilfred, tomorrow, R4.

Don't yet know what time.

Not keeping up very well with the USO.

Didn't watch Andy's last match, seems he won it well

As the seeds are disappearing fast, 8 of the last 16 in the women's tourney have been backed at 1000, and others at huge odds.

Alcohol and gambling don't mix.
A small stakes punter, probably squiffy, was trying to get 20s for Serena Williams when the betting opened, but he layed it instead.

Have backed 9 players to make the last 16 in an accumulator - 5 already in, 4 with one match to win today.

Need Ferrer v Simon, Berdych v Gabashvili, Federer v Granollers and Dimitrov v Goffin for a big payout.

Unlucky with Ferrer the only loser. 
Did you hedge any of it?

Lucie Safarova cost me an acca last night

I only had one ante-post bet, on the number 9 seed, Jelena Jankovic, at big odds.

I thought she was safe last night so I never looked in, but she got done 2-0 by an unseeded player. I should have traded earlier

Glad to see my chat thread is being used

Bad luck cmat. Hope things improve for you on the tennis betting front.

Good luck Roger with your bet.

Well, Andy is playing at 7.30pm UK time this evening.

This is excellent news for me as Mr Makybe will be working this evening so I will be able to watch the match undisturbed. I don't know if this time is good for Andy.

I'm really hoping Andy will win but if he doesn't it will be some consolation to me that I really like Jo-Wilfred so will be very happy for him.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm only a very part-time tennis fan so despite starting this thread I really haven't got much idea what is going on at the USO

I will have a google right now and find out

Good luck Roger with your bet.



See the bottom line of Rogers post, and the top pine of mine.

line not pine

Haven't found out much only that Fed is through to the final 16. Very pleased about that.

I found this article about Andy and his cramp

.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-2738041/Andy-Murray-reveals-secret-fitness-weapon-US-Open-raiding-players-canteen-sachets-salt.html

The Daily Mail do tend to exaggerate their headlines but I found it interesting as I'm researching salt in the diet at the moment. Salt is important and very misunderstood.

Andy taking refined table salt for his cramp. I'm into Himalayan Sea Salt at the moment.

Anyway, back to finding out who the rest of the final 16 are.

Roll on the Jumps Season, that's easy peasy to keep track of, unlike the tennis

I find betting even more confusing than tennis, Cmat.

.http://www.usopen.org/index.html

It's all become very much clearer.

No didn't hedge any of it as there were still more players to go after Ferrer so he wasn't the last leg.

8 out of 9 and him losing cost me a 20k return. Not very happy!

Total games to be OVER 40.5 between Murray and Tsonga

4/5 Bet 365  Good thing.

That is sickening Roger

I didn't notice what time you had made your earlier post.

I was high on caffeine pills this morning. And, of course, I meant to say Himalayan *rock salt in my last post.

Anyway, looking forward to watching Andy v Jo-Wilfred

Match starting very shortly. Murray and Tsonga on court

Looking very good for Andy in the early stages

Slippy, the link you posted is Fandabidozi!

Really enjoying watching this match.

Jayzus! My recorder box has just come on and my TV sprang into life!

Gave me such a fright

Was focusing on the match on here.

Murray has his hands full with Tsonga M_D, haven't had a bet so far. If he loses the first set I might have a punt on him though.

No problem, happy to help you out

Yes, Murray started really well. Thought he was going to take this set easily.

First set to Andy

Just had a cheeky punt on Tsonga for a few bucks at the price.

Worth doing, Slippy

I've never had a bet on the tennis.

Haven't had a bet on the horses since Auroras Encore. Thought I'd quit while I was ahead.

I hope Auroras is enjoying his retirement

He fractured a leg in the Skybet Chase at Doncaster but was operated on successfully.

As much as I like him I have to say that Andy Murray is a strange one.

Tsonga with a break of serve in the second set.

It never gets any easier watching Andy Murray.

Got Tsonga at 4.5, just took my stake back but Murray has problems for sure with this dude.

Yes, Tsonga looks much lighter these days. He looks in great shape.

Andy looking very fit, too.

Come on Andy break his serve.

B*gger.

Tsonga holds.

Pretending I know what I'm talking about here

Andy takes the second set

Hope Andy can wrap this up quickly by winning the third set.

Will have to go when Mr Makybe gets home. Promised him a back massage.

Tsonga breaks Murray's serve to take the first game in the third set.

Come on Andy, break him back.

Andy looking strong

Yes, want Andy to break Tsonga now and win this match.

Aww, come on, Andy.

Yay! GSM Andy. Well done Andy.

Commiserations to Tsonga. Didn't enjoy seeing him beaten.

Must go and get my grapefruit and bergamot oil ready for Mr Makybe

Ooh, interview with Andy.

He's a nice lad isn't he? Very frustrating at times.

Night all.

That was a lovely relaxing evening.

Mr Makybe arrived home and said he couldn't remember where he'd put his passport!

We're going away Friday!

We eventually found it.

I pummelled him to death after that

So, Andy to be playing Djoko in the QFs. Was hoping for that.

Love watching Andy and Djoko playing.

Hoping it's on Wednesday not too late UK time.

Make sure you tune in tonight around 8pm for Dimitrov v Monfils.

Monfils is very talented and an absolute clown - always good value, and Dimitrov is beautiful to watch - graceful, amazing variety of shots, creative - aside from Roger the most aesthetically pleasing strokemaker of anyone on tour (has been called 'Baby Fed' for years).

"the most aesthetically pleasing strokemaker of anyone on tour"


I would give that award to Julia Gorgeous..

Gorgeus Goerges could stroke me anytime.

What a blow (financially and viewing wise) to watch the Serbian pocket rocket just fall short to the squealing Belarusian..

I now have no interest on who takes on Mr Williams. Who as usual has been given 4 byes to the QF...

I think Wozza will win, but is far too short at 1.25 against Errani.

I'm watching a good match on the red button - Junior Girls.

Bellis, USA (No'1 seed) v Vikhlyantseva, Russia (Unseeded).

There's a slight snag...both girls are not only dressed in identical attire, and pink trainers! they even look the same when a point's in play. A nightmare looking up from the pc to figure out which is which...

...Doesn't help that there's no commentary either.

BTW The Russian won the first set on a tie break.

My red button is showing Pointless

Dimitrov v Monfils under way - 3-2 Dimitrov on serve. Worth a watch if you can - both massively entertaining in their own ways.

Well done Monfy.

An absolute cracker to come if The Fed can see orf Roberto..

Anyone know what time Murray plays Djoko tonight?

1:30 am in the morrow

Serena v Pennetta on at midnight, Murray v Djokovic to follow, so yes anytime between 1.30am and 2am probably.

thx

Too late, for me, unfortunately

Total games to be OVER 20.5 between Azarenka and Makarova


on at 7/10

Ekaterina Makarova



C'MON !

BAD NEWS ABOUT THE LATE MATCHES - I HAD PLANS FOR TOMORROW

Yeah I wanted to watch the Murray match as well M_D but not a chance am I staying up til silly o'clock. Have stuff to do early and if muttley isn't walked by 8.30 am he gets a bit looney tunes.

There are some very attractive dog walkers in my neighbourhood Slippy.

Yes, I'm very disappointed not being able to watch the match.

Hopefully Andy will still be in the tournament when I wake up tomorrow.

There are quite a few that do it near me to c-c, not attractive though. One is the spitting image of 'Nursey' from Blackadder Anyway, that aside I'm not paying 10 quid an hour for someone to walk my dog and I like doing it myself anyway. Good luck with your punting tonight, I'll be truly astonished if Murray wins later I must say.

I won't be surprised if Murray wins, I won't be surprised if he loses.

I'm a much more chilled out Murray fan these days

Nishikori back on court after playing a late match last night.

They really shouldn't have attacked Pearl Harbour !

S Wawrinka v Nishikori

amazing match

6 points in a row against the serve in the tiebreak

Nishikori 3-6, 7-5, 7-6

Wawrinka 2-1 in the 4th - going with serve

medical break for Nishikori who took 7 minutes between sets

abuse imo

5-4

unless Nishikori manages to win this set I can't see him winning the 5th.

oops !

Nishikori in the 5th 6-4

Isn't Annabelle delightful, not just to look at? Hard to believe she's nearly 50.

That was a cracking match c-c.

What does Mr Williams look like. Only short of the neck tattoo and you would swear it was Iron Mike..

Penetta's a cutie.

Anyone would like like Miss World facing that over the net..

1.21 was a fair price a while back mind...

listening on the olt radio (online)... murray down by one set and sounds like it'd be a formality, 1-1 just now and quite a comeback in progress.

ersed it, lost 3-1

Only just looked at the result of Andy's match

I'm very disappointed that he says it was his fitness that was the reason for his defeat.


"I got stiff in my hips and my back towards the end of the third set. I don’t know exactly why. It was certainly coolish, but I’m certainly not injured."

"I didn’t hurt anything. It was just fatigue I think and I stiffened up."

.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-2743328/Andy-Murray-admits-fitness-blame-US-Open-quarter-final-defeat-Djokovic.html

Before this tournament I'm sure I read somewhere that he said he was really fit and ready for the USO.

I'm not so disappointed at not being able to watch the Final now that Andy won't be in it.








.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-2743328/Andy-Murray-admits-fitness-blame-US-Open-quarter-final-defeat-Djokovic.html

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Not sure what went wrong there

I don't think it's a case of him being 'unfit', it's just that the Serbian sweaty is the fittest tennis player ever to grace a court. The man is an absolute robotic machine, and as i've said many times, you have to scrape him off the court..

What price did Fed drift to at 2-0 down?

Don't know but he saved 2 match points in the 4th set when 15-40 down on his own serve.

Monfils is a fantastic entertainer but capitulates in 5th sets - never in the final set v Federer and lost one 6-0 to Murray at the French.

Joko in trouble

Roger The Butler
06 Sep 14 14:36   
Don't know but he saved 2 match points in the 4th set when 15-40 down on his own serve.


Two match points against him, must have been a fair price then.

Amazing, Nishikori beat joko

Wouldn't surpise me to see that adopted Irishman Ma Cilic beat up The Fed either..

OK lets 'ave some

Cilic 4.3 to 2.7

flip flop already

4.3 was very fair..

if Fed gets out of this he'll go above Houdini and Lazarus in the rankings...

The adopted Irishman now beats up Nishikori..

Congratulations to Marin Cilic on winning his first Slam title

Two very dull finals - 63 63 63 for the men and 63 63 for the women. Neither with an ounce of tension.