My report:
I'm too lazy to do a big full report so I'll just recap
-Mixed final was exciting in the STB
-I was so glad that sexist pig Tipsarevic lost in 5th set TB
-I got to watch Vika, Masha, Serena, and Murray practice. It was my first time ever seeing Serena in person, but I mostly concentrated on Vika since she's one of my main faves and she was closer to me. Her practice was out of control. She was just so good and perfect that day. That practice session was one of the best tennis she's ever played. Every ball went in and near the line if not on it
-I saw some of Kontaveit-Kiick. It was such a messy match
. Tons of UEs. Kontaveit had more power and basically dictated play from what I saw, although it was clear that neither player was on their A game. But Kontaveit did hit some nice winners here and there
-I saw the whole Kalovelonis vs. Peliwo three set encounter. Kalovelonis got the early break in the first set and then from then on it was pretty even but Kalovelonis kept the break to take the set. Then in the second it was even until Peliwo broke Kalovelonis in the last game. Then in the third set Peliwo won easily although e games were close, he just won most of the important points. So many Canadian juniors went to watch Peliwo. Zhao, Abanda, who I think was Akkerman, some other girl, some boys, etc. And Kalovelonis only had Ismailov watching him
. Kalovelonis has a big serve and overall a big game but he isn't the strongest mentally and it showed. He often got down on himself, and one time said some bad things in Greek during a changeover and once he got mad and hit a ball from Court 13 to Court 17
. I had never seen anything like that ever. I've seen them hit it to the next court, but to hit it so far? Crazy! Peliwo wasn't very well behaved either but he wasn't as bad, only a little in the first set but then he regrouped. Kalovelonis started having meltdowns in the third set. But it was a very competitive match and I like Kalovelonis' future. Peliwo ended up winning the whole tournament! Markos had set points against Karol Beck this year so I don't see why Markos can't have a good future on the ATP tour. It's all mental with him. He always loses big matches because of wasting big points, like in a few of the junior slams already this year. But he just needs some experience I guess
-I watched the end of Liam Broady's match against some French junior, very intense and the crowd really got into it
hellas719 at the USO 2012
