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Served with Andy Roddick
QUICK SERVED: US Open Day 3 - Coco's 3-Set Battle, Sinner & Osaka Advance, & more
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Hey everyone, John Wertheim, here It is day three at the 2025 US Open. This is Quick Serve, brought to you by Amazon Prime. Let's wrap up the final day of the first round of. I was thinking Hollywood makes what they call four quadrant movies. What does that mean? That means films that appeal to four quadrants. Young, old, men, women. It's kind of a four quadrant tennis day. No crazy headlines, no great scandal, no great controversy, but a little something for everyone. We had familiar faces winning. We had five set battles, we had some blowouts, we had a couple of mini upsets. I guess if there's a story of the day right now, I think it's probably Coco Gauff having to really work for her first round win over Isla. Tom Janovic, remember, Coco, is here with new coach, biomechanics expert Gavin McMillan. I actually did a bit of a dive on Gavin McMillan. Fascinating guy. I mean, he actually does have a tennis background. He played at San Jose State and is probably best known for helping Rena Savalenka a few years ago with her serve. But really, he works with athletes in all sports in baseball, in MMA and boxing with Troy Palomalu of the NFL. And his great premise is that these failings are not necessarily about sports psychology and about weakness. Weakness and fear and choking and visualization. It's all about stability and the human body and having technique that is perfected. So it's really interesting that Coco has chosen to work with him. Obviously the serve is the big concern. I'm not sure we necessarily saw any demonstrable effect, good or bad. This was a battle for coco. She won seven fifth in the third three hour match. 10 double faults. Probably a little high, but again a lot of service games and a lot of service points in there. Interesting match. I think we need more data points to see if these biomechanics and these changes probably need a little more time as well. But it's really interesting to me that a player in the prime of her career who's three months removed from winning a major has consulted a biomechanics expert. We'll keep following that story. But Coco a first round win, a battle. But in some ways that can be a disguised blessing for players. Isla Taimanovic also no slouch of a player. This is the player who beat Serena Williams here three years ago in Serena's final match. But Coco prevails in three sets. Other players to win. It was women's, you know, it was like Wimbledon. It was Wimbledon winner's day. On Ashe Ika Swiatek got things started. Needed one hour to advance. Six hours, one minute 62 over Arango. She was followed by Jannik sinner who needed one hour and 38 minutes to advance. 616162. If you had Arthur Outch seats today you got to see two of the great champions of our sport who just won the previous major. You did not get to see much in the way of competitive tennis. Fortunately there was plenty of competitive tennis elsewhere on the grounds. Again really interesting mix today. This was sort of a connoisseur special. If you're sort of next level subcutaneous tennis fan you were very happy because there were some intriguing wins. There were some five set matches. We saw Lorenzo Mazzetti survived the serving of Gio Pericard and advanced. And Amanda Anisimova in her first major match after that Wimbledon final she showed no ill effects. Beat Kimberly Burrell. Naomi Osaka, two time winner here got through pretty easily over greet Minen. As we speak we will timestamp this. Alexander Zverev is about to take the course for the final night match on Ash. If he wins, that's expected. If he loses, Andy buys everyone breakfast again and we'll have to retape do a special tomorrow. Other matches of notes Def Tsitsipas, a guy who really needed a win got one. He beat Alexander Muller. That was nice. To see. How about Victoria Golubic? Why do I mention her? She is one of the few players out there who hits a one handed backhand on the women's side. Another one, ironically, Diane Perry won yesterday, but Galilevic gets by. Louis Boissa, our semifinalist at Roland Garros, Alexander Bublek beat Marin Cilic. Of course he did. Why? Because Alexander Bublek had a rotten Wimbledon. So naturally, given the swing the gyrations of his career, he was due for a nice result again. It was a beautiful evening. A nice day today out there. Coco. Going three sets is probably your story of the day, but sort of a smooth day that had a little something that appealed to everyone. And now, Alexander Zverev notwithstanding, we are finally into round two. It's Tuesday night. It seems as though this tournament has been going on a full week anyway. But we are down to 64 players in each draw, at least in a matter of hours. What do we have for tomorrow for day four? For the first day of round two, Novak Djokovic kicks things off against Zack Svaida. The second straight young American for Djokovic. A little interesting that he's playing the 11:30 start on Ashley. Presumably he requested that, but that's an interesting bit of scheduling. Jesse Pakula follows him the night session. Carlos Alcaraz he of the shorn locks. He has no locks. He plays Mattia Bellucci. That should be a really entertaining match. These are two of the better shot makers out there. They will have a lot of fun sort of playing. Can you top this? I don't think Alcaraz will have much trouble, but a stylish shotmaker on the other side of the net always makes for a fun evening. The last match on is Aryna Sabalenka going for the title defense against Polina Kudermatova, AKA the other Kudermatova. But she's the one that's still in the tournament because her sister was defeated in round one. Emma Navarro against Katie McNally is a match to watch. Katie McNally really having a nice stretch of tennis. Remember she took a set IGA Swiatek at Wimbledon. She was the only player to have done so. Then she wins an event in Newport. She's won some other matches. Really. Katie McNally finally healthy, coming into her own. Emma Navarro has some struggles though. She he did get through in the first round there, followed by Fonseca against Mahac. That should be a fun match too. Two of the bigger sluggers, Mahachis had some trouble getting through. Best of five matches. Fonseca of course had his own difficulties that he had to persist and persevere. Vomited on the court, got through his first round match. So keep an eye on that one. Other players in action, Francis Tiafa, who looks very good against Martin Dom, the young tall American whose father Trivia was a former US Open mixed doubles champion. And Mira Andreeva, who looked terrific, only lost one game in the first round. She is back in action as well. Keep an eye on Jasmine Paolini against young eva Jovic, the 17 year old from San Diego. They played actually at Indian Wells and Jovic took a set off of Paolini. Two players that don't play dissimilarly, that should be a fun match to watch. Ben Shelton in action as well. Somebody mentioned we should do a random factoid the way we did at Wimbledon. I'm not sure I have one prepared, but I did notice. Did you see that Venus Williams took a wild card? She is in the doubles draw. So we have not seen the last of Venus Williams. Happily she is playing with Layla Fernandez. Interesting pairing, but you will notice that the men's double straw as we record this that has not yet been posted. Here we are to late Tuesday night. That's out of character, but that is not an omission. The USTA decided to try something new and they're going to delay the doubles draw as late as they can. Why is that? Well, for one, it's just better. They think that this gives them a chance to showcase men's doubles, doubles in general during Labor Day weekend. But also, what does that mean? It means that first round singles losers might have a change of heart and might want to enter the doubles draw. So as we talk about involving more singles players in doubles draws, this is a way to do it prolong and delay the men's doubles draw. So if you're wondering why when you click on the draw you are not seeing men's doubles, that is why we'll see if it's successful. That just about does it for day three. We will be back. I think Andy's back in the house tomorrow for quick serve day four. But the US Open 2025 continues to roll right along. I'm John Wertheim. This is a quick serve recap brought to you by Amazon Prime. Enjoy the tennis everyone.
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