Can Novak Djokovic recover from an early Olympics exit by taking the US Open?
Andy Murray came out on top at the recent Rio Olympics, prevailing in the gold medal match over Juan Martin Del Potro. That makes two singles gold medals in a row for Murray, who also won at the London 2012 Olympics. Del Potro took bronze in those games, and was a surprise contender in this year"s Games.
Del Potro shocked everyone when he upset Novak Djokovic, the top seed, in the opening round in Rio and went on all the way to the final, dropping Rafael Nadal along the way. Now Del Potro will enter the US Open unseeded, fresh off a silver medal win and playing some of the best tennis of his career. Can he continue his run, and maybe put up something close to 2009, when he won the tournament?
Murray is the second seed, and he once again has to consider the chance of meeting Djokovic in the finals, though that"s a long way off yet. Nadal is also in the tournament and in the discussion, while Roger Federer is unfortunately not participating. Federer is missing the US Open for the first time since 1999.
How the US Open will shake out is anybody"s guess. So many players are playing great tennis right now and it should be a good one. Below, we will have an updated bracket and schedule throughout the tournament. Television coverage will be carried by ESPN and ESPN2, with live streams available via WatchESPN.
The tournament"s broadcast schedule is much the same as it was last year, its first year of running exclusively on the ESPN family of networks. Coverage will typically begin between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on most days, and will run all through the day. Coverage will be shared across ESPN and ESPN2 throughout. Live streams of all matches will be available via WatchESPN online.
Go to SB Nation"s tennis hub for recaps and in-depth how to watch information each day. Below is a full look at the start and end times each day and which channel you can find the coverage on. All times are Eastern.
No. 2 Andy Murray vs. Lukas Rosol No. 3 Stan Wawrinka def. Fernando Verdasco, 7-6(4), 6-4, 6-4 No. 6 Kei Nishikori def. Benjamin Becker, 6-1, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 No. 8 Dominic Thiem vs. John Millman No. 11 David Ferrer def. Alexandr Dolgopolov, 6-5 (ret.) Jared Donaldson def. No. 12 David Goffin, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-0 No. 14 Nick Kyrgios vs. Aljaz Bedene No. 16 Feliciano Lopez def. Borna Coric, 3-4 (ret.) Damir Dzumhur def. No. 17 Bernard Tomic, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(0) No. 19 Steve Johnson vs. Evgeny Donskoy No. 21 Ivo Karlovic def. Yen-Hsun Lu, 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 7-5 No. 22 Grigor Dimitrov def. Inigo Cervantes, 6-2, 6-4, 7-6(7) Nicolas Mahut def. No. 25 Philipp Kohlschreiber, 6-3, 7-5, 1-0 (ret.) No. 27 Alexander Zverev def. Daniel Brands, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6(4) Janko Tipsarevic def. No. 29 Sam Querrey, 7-6(4), 6-7(0), 6-3, 6-3 No. 30 Gilles Simon def. Radek Stepanek, 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 Juan Martin Del Potro def. Diego Schwartzman, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6(3)
Day 3: Wednesday, Aug. 31
No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. Jiri Vesely No. 4 Rafael Nadal vs. Andreas Seppi No. 5 Milos Raonic vs. Ryan Harrison No. 7 Marin Cilic vs. Sergiy Stakhovsky No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. James Duckworth No. 10 Gael Monfils vs. Jan Satral No. 15 Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Federico Delbonis No. 18 Pablo Cuevas vs. Nicolas Almagro No. 20 John Isner vs. Steve Darcis No. 23 Kevin Anderson vs. Vasek Pospisil No. 24 Lucas Pouille vs. Marco Chiudinelli No. 26 Jack Sock vs. Mischa Zverev No. 31 Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Andrey Kuznetsov No. 32 Benoit Paire vs. Marcos Baghdatis
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