Raducanu really needs to sort her scheduling out and work harder. She needs to get rid of whoever is advising her and get a stable, sensible team with her best interests at heart. Whether it's Emma herself or the people surrounding her, she's got her decisions this summer completely wrong and if she's going to be successful she simply has to play more matches. She's not too big or too important to play qualifiers.
He has the game to beat them it's not like he's facing one of the legends they will be expected to beat him so pressure is on them.
Definitely a better chance against Med. Sinner is the big favourite for the tournament. Would love to see Draper pull off an upset though.
An American man (Fritz or Tiafoe) in a Grand Slam final for the first time since Wimbledon 2009 (Roddick). And no GS winner since US Open 2003 (Roddick). How far we fell the last 20 years, even with the dominance of Fed, Rafa, & The Djoker in that span. Would love to see USA’s Taylor Fritz and Jessica Pegula steam on, their semifinal breakthroughs have been so long delayed until this US Open.
I'd rather Tiafoe be the one who wins of all of them - There's a true American Dream story compared to both Pegula and Navarro being children of literal billionaires.
Frances has such an unorthodox forehand, I wasn’t sure he’d ever get this far. But I am happy that he has. (But Medvedev’s is a bit strange too, and he’s done very well.) What a great win over Zverev last round, a breakthrough for Tiafoe, too, not just Fritz and Pegula (and Navarro!) reaching new pinnacles in this tournament.
It looked like Jessica Pegula would continue her normally woeful play in big matches yesterday. No pace at all on her 1st set shots. Happily, she worked through it, started hitting much better, and perhaps her opponent’s level dropped some. Biggest win of her career. Looked very bad when serving at 1-6, 0-2, 30-40, when Muchova hit barely long on what would have been a game-winning point. A very clear turning point, and likely different outcome. P.S. Nobody will stop Sabalenka if she plays like she did in her Zheng quarter and Navarro semi and avoids her frequent tendency to choke. P.P.S. Ahh…Europe gets to see Sinner-Draper live at a normal 9 PM CET viewing hour.
I really like Tiafoe and I like Fritz too, both great guys. Would be happy for either if they won it and they have a ton of personality compared to Draper and Sinner in the other semi.
Great match but he has so many errors him. Some of his shots go absolutely miles wide. Sweat just constantly pisses out of him too which can’t be doing him any favours
Draper not used to playing so many matches in one tournament. He's done well to keep the first two sets close but you never felt he'd close either one out.
Don't think he's on Murray's level personally, but aye he has his best years ahead of him. Only a year younger than Sinner so if he puts the work in he'll get the rewards. I think his footwork needs to improve against the very best players, along with his decision making.
Definitely agree Draper won’t be like Murray . Good performances and his top 20 position shows he is a very decent player just beaten by one of the best .
