Cream is rising to the top as it should.... Has anyone taken a look at the stroll svb has had through his bracket??? Or just about anyone else??? Most top players untested to this point...
Here's svb's draw - oldervik, al shaheen, petroni, mastermaker, and now sossei. He's prob a 4-5 game fav over sossei... That is his path to reach us open semis.... Obv, not taking anything away from svb.... Def one of my favs to watch and I would love to see him repeat... Just pointing out the soft field and luck of the draw....
Here is Oscar's path to reach us open quarters... howri, pettenger, guimond, bennett....
Now lets rewind to last years open.... Every match from 3rd rd out seemed to be a coin flip... Below are some of the intl champions we're missing from last year's monster open....
Dennis, Alex, Efren, Busty, Alcano, Parica, Chang, He Li Wen, Ko Pin Yi, Biado, NVB, Dang, Ouschan, Liu, Alcaide
That being said, I'd love to see Niels finally snap it off... How on earth did he beat Daz 11-2??? Or Archer 11-1 over van van??? He's the clear fav over oscar to reach semi... As is svb over sossei.. The other 2 matches archer/shaw and melling/dechaine are coin flips imo... Dechaine/Melling the most intriguing and my pick for accustats stream... B-side stream choice would be Kennedy/Souquet....
Let's not forget Mika lost his 1st match and has been a man on a mission... I'd like to see Niels/Svb hot seat match and a Svb/Mika final... How many would mika have to win to make final 9??? 10??
Some possible B-side matchups brewing -
daz/can, corey/hohmann, mika/boyes,
Last but not least... For the 1st time in over 10 years I'm unable to watch the us open live or via accustats stream.... It's an issue with comcast/xfinity and not accustats... Some type of ip block going on... Comcast wants to charge me $33 just to speak to a tech for fixing this... :angry:
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