2022 In Between Grand Slam Thread

yes Krgios has been harnessing his talent better this year for sure but the bar was very low from him in that regard for the last 10 years

he's still an arse

3 Top 8 seeds make it to the 1/4's in Montreal (1 in Toronto)

I expect that to be better next week at Cincinnati

Of course top players like zverev and Djokovic not there. And Nadal

But some players continue playing small clay tournaments when it's going to be hard court for the year so should transition to the surface in advance of bigger masters tournaments. A few of the bigger names who went straight in to hard without playing a prep hard court tournament have gone here. Not all players can get away with that

Hard to say who will go on to win it now.

Kyrgios on form I suppose

Tommy Paul is decent on the hard surface when in form, if pretty bad on clay and grass, having beaten other top 5 and top 10 players Zverev and Berrettini in the earlier masters swing already this year on the surface as well as Alcaraz here so could have a shot at getting to a final (but not win) if he can keep his level up. Polished off cilic with relative ease

The other side is tougher with Kyrgios, hurkacz, FAA and ruud

Yes Nadal will be at Cincinnati next week.

Even though had just mentioned cin "there "was referring to Montreal this week but do see how it reads

For all the perceived coolness of dumping on Ruud he was very good and hammered FAA giving him his worst-ever tour defeat for just 3 games.

His backhand looked good even and some nice lobs.

Not one for your home crowd.

Raducanu lucks out and draws on out-of-shape 40-something in the first round of Cincinnati.

I'm not sure what this match-up really offers up given the respective fortunes of both parties over the last while.

Murray nearly blew it by reverting to being too conservative as he did too often over his career

Ironically cramps forced him to be more aggressive