Faulkner

Leo Mayer, Copil, Berankis, and Travaglia all retired from their matches today. Lots of guys pulling the ripcord in this heat.

And tomorrow and Wednesday will be even worse!

This ain’t a scene, it’s a goddamn arms race.

Ferrer is battling. I love how springy he still is. UGH. This camera on Armstrong makes these matches nearly unwatchable.

Oddly, DY has just broken Delpo in the first game of Set 2. We’ll see if Anderson can close it out, but he’s in a totally different class than Ryan. He shouldn’t be struggling here, but I heard he has a calf issue.

I’m not a huge KAndo fan, but only because I don’t find servebots that entertaining to watch. And when the serve is off, yikes. The shouting doesn’t bother me. So many players do that, including fan faves like Kvitova and Serena. And he seems nice by most accounts. I just can’t see myself rooting for Ryan unless he was playing Sock or Sandgren. Gavrilova just double-bageled Sorribes Tormo. Lol.

Felix just retired from that match. And Kevin Anderson is about to go down two sets to one to freakin’ Ryan Harrison. If he goes out R1, he’ll lose a ton of points after last year’s final.

Didn’t realize all these people are retiring either at the USO or playing their last major here: David Ferrer Florian Mayer Gilles Muller Mikhail Youzhny Daniel Nestor Julian Benneteau

No surprises.

Good. This was a dumb idea anyway. A solution in search of a problem.

Could the camera angle for Louis Armstrong be any worse? Waaaaay too high. I’m seeing a lot of complaints about it.

She didn’t play New Haven, just Canada and Cincy, right? But still too much, as you say. Nadal wisely pulled out of Cincy. ESPN spent a full hour teeing things up while Wawrinka/Dimitrov were playing. So lame.

Halep out in R1 to Kanepi.