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U.S. Open Tennis - ColoradoTree - 08-27-2019

FYI, Stanford's own Nicole Gibbs qualified for the main draw, and just forced a third set against 4th-seeded Simona Halep in the first round, 3-6, 6-3. She was serving up 5-2, 40-0 in the second set, but Halep fought back, and they traded the advantage in a long game that Halep eventually took, but then Gibbs broke right back for the set, showing a really nice fight. Losing a game like that could have taken the wind right out of her sails, but it says a lot that she dug in and broke Halep right back. Gibbs will serve first in the third set, starting right now on the ESPN app.  (Gibbs lost her third round qualifying match, but as one of the highest-ranked players who lost in that round, she made the main draw as a lucky loser due to withdrawals.)

Kristie Ahn is due to play #63 Svetlana Kuznetsova in her first round match on Court 5 once the Tsonga-Sandgren match finishes up.

Gibbs broken to start the third set, and she's now down 0-2 after Halep consolidates. This would be, by far, the biggest win of Nicole's career (in terms of qualify of opponent defeated, given Halep's French Open and Wimbledon titles and stints as the #1 player). But she'll have to break Halep another time or two to get there, and she'll have to dig deep to right the ship here. One hopes that there's more of that second-set Gibbs out there.

A nice hold for Gibbs, serving down 0-2, 0-30 and rattling off four straight points. She trails 1-2, down a break.

Halep holds for a 3-1 lead, and Gibbs is broken at love to go down 1-4. May be running out of steam....
Now down 2-5, with Halep serving for the match. Come on, Nicole!

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - ColoradoTree - 08-27-2019

Great fight from Gibbs today, but Halep was just too tough. Halep d. Gibbs 6-3, 3-6, 6-2

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - oldalum - 08-27-2019

In the second round, Ahn will be playing the young Russian who beat Sloane Stephens (Kalinskaya)

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - ColoradoTree - 08-28-2019

(08-27-2019, 10:25 PM)oldalum Wrote: In the second round, Ahn will be playing the young Russian who beat Sloane Stephens (Kalinskaya)

A great first-round win for Kristie Ahn! Congrats to her!

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - ColoradoTree - 08-29-2019

Ahn's match is next up on Court 6 after the current match finishes (Paire and Bedene are starting a fifth set).

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - oldalum - 08-29-2019

and Kristie won the first set 6-2!

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - Papa John - 08-29-2019

6-2, 6-3. Well done KA! On to the third round...

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - qwerty49 - 08-29-2019

Nice win by the American Taylor Townsend over #4 Simone Halep today. Blew two match points on serve but came back to take the tiebreaker.

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - oldalum - 08-29-2019

Kristie's never been past the first round of a major, so reaching the third round of the US Open is terrific for her. Doing relatively well at the majors is so important for players like her and Gibbs because the prize money is so high: Kristie is already guaranteed $163,000 for making the third round, and $280,000 if she makes the fourth round.

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - Spiny_Norman - 08-31-2019

Ahn advances to the 4th round with a 6-3, 7-5 victory. She will face 25th seeded Elise Mertens from Belgium.

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - DenverCard - 08-31-2019

From today's NYT Sports Section: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/sports/tennis/us-open-kristie-ahn.html

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - winflop - 08-31-2019

While I can understand her parents' perspective, I wholeheartedly disagree with it. She has a deep passion for tennis - let her chart her own course

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - 2006alum - 09-01-2019

(08-31-2019, 07:46 PM)DenverCard Wrote: From today's NYT Sports Section: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/sports/tennis/us-open-kristie-ahn.html

It takes all types, as they say. Thanks for sharing this! And the good news is, with her fourth round prize money, she can keep going quite a while longer!

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - Mick - 09-01-2019

I have a good friend, in his mid-50s. Played D-1 college baseball for one of the directional Michigan colleges, a pretty good team.  Mediocre fastball and literally no changeup but he had good control and a Romo-like ridiculous slider and an overhand delivery that produced a Zito-like 12-6 hook.  His college coach didn't like to pitch him much because he was a non-recruited walk-on, and his fastball was only high-80s.  But his career and seasonal ERA would have been the lowest in his league if he'd pitched enough innings to qualify.  He struck out more than one batter per inning, WHIP around 1.00. On the advice of one of his teammates who had been drafted, scouts from three separate pro teams asked him to try out.  But his parents were pressuring him to get over the baseball bug and get a job, and his girlfriend was pressuring him to get married, and so he got a job and got married (he's still married to her), gave up his dream and never tried out. Odds of making MLB?  Ridiculously against him.  But he thinks about it, and has his regrets and wishes he'd at least tried out.

RE: U.S. Open Tennis - BostonCard - 09-01-2019

Not an athlete, but I can understand. I stayed at my last job in academia (which like pro sports has a “tournament model” where a handful of high performers are insanely successful, a larger number of people can hang on and scrape a living together, and many simply don’t make) longer than I maybe should have, but now I can look back and say I have no regrets. Good friend of mine who was a Stanford professor feels the same way.  It was worth giving it a shot, but we are both look back with no regrets. BC