2024 US Open Mens Quarterfinals: [9] Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) vs [20] Frances Tiafoe (USA)

[MilosRaonicFan]

Tiebreaker played out like a great TV show with with an awful final season.

 

[Aabye5]

Tiafoe is playing the match of his life.

Not even close.

 

[Aabye5]

Let's go, Foe!

 

[zuluzazu]

Damn man!! That tiebreak for the first 9 points was super super high level

 

[tx10is]

wtf was that? lol

 

[bluetrain4]

I'm hating both of them right now. Tiafoe with his expected walkabout midway through the second set (he usually doesn't make it through a match without one). Then Dimtrov gives two terrible doubles on set point - making me think he doesn't deserve the set. Then Foe, back on serve in the tiebreak, double faults. And you know what, it's not even the fact of the double fault. It's HOW he double faulted. By going for that insanely big first serve on the first serve -way too much. And then completely decelerating on the second serve - too little.

 

[beltsman]

I wonder if that specific combo of 3 DF to end the set has ever happened before.

 

[bluetrain4]

I wonder if that specific combo of 3 DF to end the set has ever happened before.

Probably, but not often.

 

[dropshotlikeitshot]

Tiebreaker played out like a great TV show with with an awful final season.

 

[top10]

Тайбрейкът на втория сет…три поредни двойни грешки - всичките на мачпойнт

 

[Aabye5]

Damn man!! That tiebreak for the first 9 points was super super high level

And then we saw their true colors.

 

[Tallawah Tennis]

Man, you're kidding me! Grigs beggars up and Frances follows suit to lose the tb- Lol! Hoping Grigs can play free now. Nice hold so looking better.

 

[BretH]

Much better tennis now…that I have to go to bed

 

[jarko111]

Grigor’s forehand is sweet!
Nice to see a 1-hander at this big stage of the event.

 

[nolefam_2024]

Grigor’s forehand is sweet!
Nice to see a 1-hander at this big stage of the event.

FH potency last year he is at 7.8 and Tiafoe is just at 5.0

Novak is at 13.1 meaning he wins four more pts than Dimitrov from neutral, and 5/6 more points vs Tiafoe from neutral fh to fh

 

[dropshotlikeitshot]

Grigor’s forehand is sweet!
Nice to see a 1-hander at this big stage of the event.

It feels like it has been years since a one hander made a slam final, yet it was only last year. Tsitsipas fell off a cliff

 

[bullfan]

Weary weary 3rd set

 

[placebo]

A break can mean nothing to these chokers...

 

[fundrazer]

FH potency last year he is at 7.8 and Tiafoe is just at 5.0

Novak is at 13.1 meaning he wins four more pts than Dimitrov from neutral, and 5/6 more points vs Tiafoe from neutral fh to fh

Novak lost bud.

 

[sportsfan1]

Tiafoe gets the break in the 3rd set to go up 3-2 by getting a ball to jump up to dimitrovs bh and draw an error.

 

[nolefam_2024]

Novak lost bud.

Yes it is what it is. Dimitrov FH is good but not top 10

 

[bluetrain4]

Foe does keep his head in it better than he has. Ever since Wimbledon he's been better. I'm not saying he'll win (though think he could). But, he easily could have been really dejected by all the opportunities in the second set, wasting the lead, double faulting after Grigor gifted him two doubles. And he didn't even play well in Grigor's first two service games of the third set. Yet, here we are; he's still fully in the match and has a break.

 

[NYTennisfan]

Tiebreaker played out like a great TV show with with an awful final season.

It was the Game of Thrones of tiebreaks. Super entertaining for most of it then at the end you're thinking WTF did I just watch?

 

[beezer12]

chattiest boxes of all time

 

[dropshotlikeitshot]

For a quarterfinal match involving an American, a lot of empty seats

 

[junior74]

To be fair, this event is plagued by double faults and missed first serves.

... and the 'muricans cheer missed 1st serves like it's the good tennis

off with their heads, NedStark!

 

[MichaelNadal]

I hate for it to be at Dimitrov's expense, but #Merica

 

[dropshotlikeitshot]

It was the Game of Thrones of tiebreaks. Super entertaining for most of it then at the end you're thinking WTF did I just watch?

The match has been very season 2 of House of the Dragon.

 

[Sudacafan]

... and the 'muricans cheer missed 1st serves like it's the good tennis

off with their heads, NedStark!

In all, are Muricans behaving properly?

 

[BenC]

can't shake the feeling that this level of play wouldn't cut it against Sinner or Medvedev

 

[sportsfan1]

Did dimitrovs coach tell him to hit more top spin bhs rather than slice? It would be more interesting to hear the comms explain the coach/player interaction, but commentator mcenroe preferred talking over what dimis coach was saying with something from the 80s

 

[hades11]

Tiafoe is clowning so hard.

 

[dropshotlikeitshot]

can't shake the feeling that this level of play wouldn't cut it against Sinner or Medvedev

Not even close

 

[MichaelNadal]

Anyone have a stream?

 

[bluetrain4]

can't shake the feeling that this level of play wouldn't cut it against Sinner or Medvedev

It won't. Have no idea if Fritz would be any different or if Draper or Demon could do anything against Sinner or Med.

 

[junior74]

In all, are Muricans behaving properly?

Spreading McDonald's and overly sweet Pinots around the globe is not good.

 

[hades11]

can't shake the feeling that this level of play wouldn't cut it against Sinner or Medvedev

Shouldn't cut it even against Fritz let alone those 2.

 

[dropshotlikeitshot]

It won't. Have no idea if Fritz would be any different or if Draper or Demon could do anything against Sinner or Med.

Demon has won 3 of the last 5 matches against Med, it could be a tricky semi

 

[RSJfan]

I would rather be locked in a room and forced to listen to my fav Raul drone on about electric cars for an entire day then one minute more of Courier and Carillo. Mute.

 

[dropshotlikeitshot]

Grigor with a foot issue

 

[Pheasant]

Dimitrov is hurt.

 

[Pheasant]

Grigor is walking very gingerly.

 

[I Am Finnish]

What up with his serve?

 

[Jack the Hack]

I haven't seen pro tennis this great since the 5th set breaker between Zed and Thiem in 2020.

 

[fundrazer]

Well, that's probably it.

Maybe I'm just getting more and more cynical as I get older, but this feels like the worst US Open I've ever watched. Probably said that about quite a few slams the past few years.

 

[bluetrain4]

Dimitrov is hurt.

Yeah, this seems out of nowhere.

 

[I Am Finnish]

He might give up

 

[junior74]

Grigor doesn't care about slams anymore.

 

[nolefam_2024]

I want Fritz to reach final. Not Tiafoe.

 

[jayvee]

Left ankle/foot I think