What to Watch at US Open: del Potro-Johnson; Venus, Serena

Juan Martin del Potro unleashed his forehand at opportune moments in the match, coming back twice from being a set down, to finally win the title in five sets.

Both players lost serve on one occasion in the first set, leading to a tie-break which Del Potro – victorious here in 2009 – took at the third time of asking. A whopping four men’s singles matches were still in progress when Del Potro finished off a 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-2 beatdown of Johnson.

The vulgar comments came during the first set as Dzumhur was trying to serve.

Hitting 13 aces Thursday night with the roof closed at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Williams improved to 306-42 in matches at major tournaments, a winning percentage of.879.

Returning to the court after more than 2+ hours, Nishikori promptly won the next two games to clinch the set.

Wimbledon champ Andy Murray advanced to the third round at the U.S. Open with another straight-set victory.

Steve Johnson reacts after missing a shot during his match against Juan Martin del Potro, of Argentina, in the second round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, in NY.

“Juan Martin was better”. Off the top of my head since Wimbledon, he beat Stan (Wawrinka), had a great Olympics. And despite all his claims about how happy he is just to be back playing tennis, suddenly, the world once again expects more from Juan Martin.

“It doesn’t matter if I win or lose”.

Tomic also said: “He definitely baited me the whole set for me to say that”.

Johnson, No. 22 among ATP World Tour players, is only one spot behind highest-ranked American John Isner, something that might surprise casual fans of the game. “At the end I saw him physically little exhausted, so I took all my chances to close the match in three sets”, he added.

Thus continues an awesome summer run for Del Potro.

“I am so excited to show my tennis again after my surgeries”. That would be none other than Andy Murray, who won a four-set thriller in the gold-medal match.

Murray needed more than three hours to complete a 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 victory over 40th-ranked Italian Paolo Lorenzi, who was on court almost five hours in his previous match, a five-set win over Gilles Simon.

Should he get past that, his potential opponents on the way to the final are Italy’s Fabio Fognini, who took out Nadal previous year, or veteran David Ferrer in round three, talented Austrian teenager Dominic Thiem in round four, Nick Kyrgios or Wawrinka in the quarter-final, and Murray in the semis.

The Tower of Tandil is looking to get back up to the upper echelons of tennis as he is now ranked at 142 in the world, however, he is playing like a top ten player and played inspired tennis at the Rio Olympics. Three seasons later, Ferrer is clearly slowing down at 34 years old.

The U.S. Open watched Milos Raonic and Garbine Muguruza exit the tournament on Wednesday.

She had just 17 unforced errors – in complete contrast to the whopping 63 in her first-round win.