Hey, who is the commentator team on the Tiafoe vs Rublev match? It’s Mary Carillo and…Jim Courier?
They keep calling him Jim, but I didn’t think it was Jim Courier’s voice.
No idea; I’m stuck at work and can’t watch. Looks like a great match. First two sets went into tiebreak.
I saw Garcia’s previous match against Riske-Amritraj and she played very well, but got nervous when she was serving for the match. She has been known to not be able to finish out a match, but it looks like she has been able to do so consistently recently. She won Cincinnati after making her way through qualifying, so she has played well a lot recently. Hopefully confidence wins over fatigue and she continues to play well.
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It’s terrific. The place is bursting with cheers for Tiafoe.
There were NO breaks of serve the first 2 1/2 sets. Tiafoe just broke Rublev and is two games away from winning.
I hope Tiafoe is a decent guy. I am cheering for him big time. I’m also thrilled Nick Kyrgios lost.
From what I know of Tiafoe he is a decent guy, one of his mentors is James Blake after all. He also has a sense of humor as he displayed during a challenger where noise from a nearby apartment drifted drifted across the court: https://youtu.be/hNPxIYNY34g
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Just after midnight their time, Alcaraz took the first set 6-3 and Sinner took the next 7(9)-6(7), and now currently Sinner’s up 2-1 in the third.
Wow, with Tiafoe, who’ll play the winner. Glad to see him make a run like this. Much enjoying his nifty backhand half-volleys he constanly plays from the baseline, always quickening the pace on the opponent, and many times was catching Rublev not quite ready.
Tiafoe is the youngest (along with being the first) American to reach the US Open semis since 2006. (since Andy Roddick.) And first black player to reach the US Open final four since Arthur Ashe ('72)
Man, Frances Tiafoe still on a run.
I note that when they show the names of competitors they have a little flag next to the player’s name indicating where they are from… unless they’re Russian, Then it’s blank. I don’t like Vladimir Putin either, but that’s fucking stupid. They’re Russian. They aren’t playing for Team Russia, they just happened to be born there. Stop this nonsense pretending we don’t know what no flag means.
I agree and it was weird that Wimbledon excluded them from playing.
Wimbledon went too far. The players represent themselves and they earned the right to compete on an individual basis. They are not culpable for their countries’ war crimes.
I think the other pro-tennis organizations have the right level of sanction. The players are allowed to play, but war-criminal states are denied recognition as members of the international community. There’s no realpolitik that requires entertainment industries to engage with war-criminal states, even as indirectly as showing their flag or mentioning their existence.
I may have to play hooky to watch the Tiafoe vs Alcaraz semi-final.
Very exciting semifinal! Tiafoe won the long first set (65 minutes), 7-6 after a tiebreak. They’re evenly matched, both serving aces at 130+ mph, both agile and returning seemingly unreturnable shots. Alcaraz just won the 2nd set 6-3.
Alcaraz wins his third 5-set match in a row. Must be getting a bit tired.
Both the men’s and women’s finalists will be #1 and #2 in the world when the next rankings come out.
Do players still get challenges to calls? I haven’t seen as many challenges lately, but I do see the replay checking line calls. Did they abandon the challenge system and now just examine each call or something?
Both the US Open and Australian Open have automatic line calling by Hawkeye. The players can ask to be shown the “footage” - but it will never change the result.
The “footage” is nothing but an illustration of the “math” used to make the call.
Hence the quotation marks.
Court judges on the critically endangered list. Heh I recall when they had let cord judges, usually some little old lady, with one delicate little finger on the cord. Nowadays she’d get killed by one of the laser ground strokes whizzing at her.
Having watched last night’s match, I don’t think I am being too bold to declare that any of the Big Three at their respective peaks would have wiped the court with either semifinalist.
Apologies. I wasn’t trying to contradict you, merely expand on your point.
Much more so, though, with the other semi. Khachanov pulled off some of the most egregious sitter-right-up-at-the-net errors I might have ever seen. Ruud’s game, however, was looking quite sound, and hopefully maintains that level for an entertaining final.
Glad the production team was respectful enough 
to wait until spectator Michelle Obama’s forearms were blocking view of her surprisingly showy cleavage whenever they put the camera on her during the Tiafoe/Alcarez match.
Really no problem with Iga’s game, until they show her coach (who used to coach A. Radwanska) in her box, who annoyingly looks like he could be a relation to Will Farrell.
It must be nice being 19 - after one of the most epic matches ever, with Sinner, Alcaraz took the next day off to recover, and then the next day (game day) he hit for not even half an hour, and on court against Tiafoe, didn’t really show any signs of how much crazy tennis he’s been playing. And the speed of some of Alcarez’s forehand winners - WOW!
First US Open since its inauguration, in 1881, that four newbies reached the men’s semis.
Totally awesome seeing the old-school Fred Perry Foundation-type sweaters that the umps are wearing.