Third Round at USO

[Safinator_1]

After a agonizing few days players who were successful in their opening rounds have advanced to the 3rd round. What are your thoughts on the draw thus far and has it changed from what people would expect when the USO began. What match would you like to see?

Rafael Nadal ESP (1)
V
Viktor Troicki SRB

Sam Querrey USA
v
Ivo Karlovic CRO (14)

James Blake USA (9)
v
Mardy Fish USA

Gael Monfils FRA (32)
v
David Nalbandian ARG (7)

David Ferrer ESP (4)
v
Kei Nishikori JPN

Juan Martin Del Potro ARG (17)
v
Gilles Simon FRA (16)

Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (10)
v
Flavio Cipolla ITA

Jurgen Melzer AUT
v
Andy Murray GBR (6)


Andy Roddick USA (8)
v
Andreas Seppi ITA (31)

Jarkko Nieminen FIN
v
Fernando Gonzalez CHI (11)

Tommy Robredo ESP (15)
v
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (19)

Marin Cilic CRO (30)
v
Novak Djokovic SRB (3)

Nikolay Davydenko RUS (5)
v
Dmitry Tursunov RUS (26)

Nicolas Almagro ESP (18)
v
Gilles Muller LUX

Fernando Verdasco ESP (13)
v
Igor Andreev RUS (23)

Radek Stepanek CZE (28)
V
Roger Federer SUI (2)

 

[Spickery]

I like the Blake-Fish match a lot...you know the crowd will be going wild for that one, especially since it's a night match too.

Monfils-Nalbandian also promises to be interesting. Contrasting baseline players with the potential to hit stunning shots. Should be fun.

 

[wyutani]

i notice that there is a few americans match pairing, like young and blake, now blake and fish. weird.:???:

 

[oranges]

Steps vs Fed should be interesting. I'm looking forward to see how Cilic will do against Djokovic. Was looking forward to Tsonga-Safin, but Marat thought differently

 

[counter_puncher]

My Picks:

Nadal
Karlovic

Fish
Nalbandian

Ferrer
Del Potro

Wawrinka
Murray

Roddick
Gonzalez

Tsonga
Djokovic

Davydenko
Almagro

Andreev
Federer

no real surprises except Blake.

Quarters:

Nadal
Nalbandian

Del Potro
Murray

Roddick
Djokovic

Davydenko
Federer

again no real upsets, Del Potro def. Ferrer.

Semis:
Nalbandian
Murray

Djokovic
Federer

boom, the top seed is gone.

Final:
Nalbandian v Djokovic

Djokovic in 4

 

[Spickery]

i notice that there is a few americans match pairing, like young and blake, now blake and fish. weird.:???:

Also, Genepri played Amer Delic earlier. It's not really the first time stuff like this happened you know...

 

[Safinator_1]

Just realized Nadal and Karlovic could meet in R4 lol, Not sure if Nadal can pull of this one if he does then well... wow