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And Madison Keys is out. That half of the draw just opened up for Serena if she can seize the opportunity. Zverev better thank the universe for his good fortune because if his match was scheduled earlier he’d likely be out as well.

Everyone was screaming at him, “Why are you standing so far behind the baseline?” It just allowed Taylor to take total command of the match. The good thing is that someone can actually tell him what he was doing wrong so that he can make adjustments. Well, one hopes he makes the adjustments.

Muguruza out to Van Uytvanck. Wow. She’s going to lose a lot of points. The upsets continue. Meanwhile, Sascha Zverev has played like garbage today. Down 2 sets to 1 to Taylor Fritz. Play being suspended for the day is the best thing that could have happened to Sascha.

Interesting from this reporter.

Konta and her robotic game are out. Knocked out of 32 seeds by Serena, Cibulkova channels her anger into her play. They say Konta will fall into the 40s in the rankings.

And Krunic.

Cilic is out. Federer’s path to the final even clearer.

Isner lucked out with the rain delay and night of rest. Who didn’t benefit? Marin Cilic, it seems.

Can you imagine Djokovic or Serena saying something like this? The vitriol they’d face? Oh and this:

Struff outlasted Ivo and will be easy pickings for Federer in all likelihood, especially given that long match. Their AO match was close but Fed still got it in straights.

I’m assuming he means four Round of 16 wins.

Makarova 🤦‍♂️ Makarova took the scenic route from 5-1 up in the third set to win 7-5. Wozniacki is the fifth Top 8 seed out. Serena and Madison on a collision course.

Serena didn’t come to play today, hunty. She is dialed in and steamrolling like we haven’t seen since AO 2017.

ESPN is showing everything but actual matches. I saw many people jawing on Twitter about the intense final game between Radwanska and Safarova. Could you watch it on the linear channel? Nope. But you could watch Federer gutting some journeyman on Centre Court. I get it. Tennis only has four or five stars. But they aren’t really helping expose people to other interesting players. I guess that’s not their job; their job is to make money for advertisers through general-audience eyeballs, and if that’s Federer all day, then so be it. Apparently the bug infestation is back:

Karlovic has only beaten Fed once in 15 tries, so I’m not banking on that one. Great serve, but it can go off and advantage Federer in any rally. Still, if he can hold serve, he can at least push Roger to a few TBs.

Speaking of Jack Sock, are Sloane and Jozy Altidore still together? Wonder how Jozy feels about Sloane playing with her ex: Anyway, Jozy all day every day.

Isn’t it almost always boring, especially in the early rounds? There have been a few good upsets, but most of them have been due to uninspired play from the favorites.

A lot of players would kill to have a M1000 title and then make it to the semis of the Tour Finals, even with more consistent play throughout the year. Not saying he’s this amazing singles player or that he should have won ATP Player of the Year, but those are real achievements, even if it was a fluke. Same for Grigor, who had a great second half of 2017 if only for Cincinnati and winning the Tour Finals. Other players could have stepped up and didn’t.

Just that Jack had gotten too “relaxed” after his banner season. I just took it as a euphemism. I do think Jack is having some mental health stuff happening. Knowlesy doesn’t really age, does he? Maybe it’s something in that Bahamas water.