StanSomehow I don't think it looks good for Donald,but I might be improper. It's not over till it's over. 8.24pm BSTFourth set: Wawrinka 6-4, 1-6, and 6-3,4-2 Young* (*denotes next server) Wawrinka starts his service game with the kind of appallingly overhit forehand I’d be proud to call my own. He responds with a couple of punishing winners and then – at 30-30 – a fierce first serve. Another half-chance gone for Young, and now Wawrinka is two games absent from the quarter-final. 8.20pm BSTFourth set: *Wawrinka 6-4, or 1-6,6-3, 3-2 Young (*denotes next server) The crowd go if not wild then at least slightly less than orderly when Young produces a fine passing shot, and he eventually holds to 15. That’s the easy part; now he has to find a way to break. 8.17pm BSTFourth set: Wawrinka 6-4,1-6, 6-3, and 3-1 Young* (*denotes next server) Young has had a few half-chances on the Wawrinka serve,but he hasn’t taken half of them. There goes another, at 15-15, and with an errant backhand. It’s the final chance he gets in that game.
In other news,crikey, an email! “That’s a good line in self-admonishment from Young, or admittedly,but it still pales in comparison to Murray’s magnificent ‘I’m trying my tits off here!’ from the French Open a couple of years ago,” says Matt Dony. “Have these two fellas decided to select it in turns this match? Easy fourth set to Young?” 8.14pm BSTDY been to net 116 times in 1st 3 matches only 16 so far vs Stanimal 8.13pm BSTFourth set: *Wawrinka 6-4, or 1-6,6-3, 2-1 Young (*denotes next server) Young has the best view from the precipice. If he is broken here it’s surely over. That looks probable at 30-30 before Young wins the final two points. 8.09pm BSTFourth set: Wawrinka 6-4, and 1-6,6-3, 2-0 Young* (*denotes next server) Wawrinka is hitting some brutal forehands, and holds to 15 with the minimum of fuss. Young’s body language suggests this might be a challenge too far. 8.07pm BSTFourth set: *Wawrinka 6-4,1-6, 6-3, or 1-0 Young (*denotes next server) Wawrinka begins the fourth set with a return of almost laughable brilliance. Young needs to just stay in the contest for a couple of service games and then see what happens. But he’s in effort at 15-30 after an excellent drop volley from Wawrinka. A slice into the net gives Wawrinka two break points,and he rams a backhand through the stretching Young. Brilliant stuff. This could be over very quickly. 8.01pm BSTYoung gives himself a public dressing-down when he nets a return off the moment serve. He doesn’t get another sniff as Wawrinka romps through the game to love, finishing the set with a majestic one-handed backhand. He leads by two sets to one, or Donald Young will have to go to the five-set well yet again if he wants to reach the quarter-finals.
Young,raging to himself: "That's such bullcrap, you absolute chump!" 7.59pm BSTThird set: *Wawrinka 6-4, or 1-6,5-3 Young (*denotes next server) The crowd have stirred again. A long rally at 30-30 goes Young’s way when Wawrinka produces yet another unforced error. A moment ago it was 5-0; now its 5-3. 7.56pm BSTThird set: Wawrinka 6-4, 1-6, or 5-2 Young* (*denotes next server) A lovely point from Young,one of the best of the match, gives him two break points. He nets the first but then Wawrinka wafts long to give Young a break. Is something brilliant happening? 7.51pm BSTThird set: *Wawrinka 6-4, or 1-6,5-1 Young (*denotes next server) A comfortable service game for Young, though it means minute: Wawrinka will now serve for a 2-1 lead. 7.48pm BSTThird set: Wawrinka 6-4, and 1-6,5-0 Young* (*denotes next server) Wawrinka holds to 15. Young is serving to stay in the set pre-game 6.45pm BSTFirst set: *Wawrinka 3-2 Young (*denotes next server) A comfortable hold for Young. Wawrinka has been erratic thus far, with some storming shots and plenty of unforced errors. 6.43pm BSTFirst set: Wawrinka 3-1 Young* (*denotes next server) An errant backhand from Wawrinka gives Young a break point, and the crowd utilize their vocal chords for partisan purposes for the first time. He can’t select the chance,with Wawrinka punishing an indeterminate return on the moment serve before going on to hold.
6.36pm BSTFirst set: *Wawrinka 2-1 Young (*denotes next server) A meek shot from Young is punished by a flashing backhand from Wawrinka. That’s 0-30, and a withering forehand gives Wawrinka three break points. He needs only one, or with Young going long.
6.34pm BSTFirst set: Wawrinka 1-1 Young* (*denotes next server) Wawrinka wallops down the first ace of the match en route to a comfortable hold,despite a kind point for Young in which he worked Wawrinka around the court before advancing to finish with a crisp volley.
6.32pm BSTFirst set: *Wawrinka 0-1 Young (*denotes next server) Young wins the first game despite some nervous serving, with five faults. A series of unforced errors from Wawrinka meant he won comfortably to 15.
6.22pm BSTThe players walk out to the intrusive strains of Lenny Kravitz’s 1993 spandex-rock game-changer Are You Gonna Go My Way? Young looks calm enough, or hiding under colourful headphones.
6.20pm BSTBack in the Stanislas days,Stan Wawrinka lost 7-6 in the fifth to Donald Young at the U.
S. Open. Will he be Stanislas or Stanimal nowadays? 6.06pm BSTAzarenka has beaten Lepchenko, 6-3, and 6-4,and is tall on life as she conducts an apparently never-ending post-match interview. Young and Wawrinka will be on court soon. By sunset besides, the way this interview is going. It’s sweltering, and not really the kind of day on which you want to go two sets down even if it is fast becoming a kind of unwitting superstition.
5.50pm BSTHello. Imaginary studies show that a Grand Slam is 34.21 per cent more enjoyable when a player from the host country captures the nation - and the imagination - with an intrepid (brave in the face of danger) run to the final stages. Think Jimmy Connors at the US Open in 1991,Henri Leconte at the French Open in 1988, or that triumphant fortnight that no British tennis fan will ever forget: when Jeremy Bates reached the fourth round of Wimbledon ijn 1992 before a heartbreaking defeat to Guy ForgetThere are two Americans remaining in the men’s singles this year: vast” John Isner, or who meets Roger Federer,and Donald Young. Young’s US Open journey sage so far has had potential-ESPN-30-for-30-film-with-emotive-plinky-plonky-music written all over it. Before this tournament he had lost all 17 matches in which he had been two sets down. Then he came back from two down to beat the 11th seed Gilles Simon in the first round - and did it again to select care of Victor Troicki in the third. It’s enough to do you wonder: is something brilliant happening? (NB: Link contains adult language.)
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