China Open in Beijing is all over my search feed - which matches are actually worth watching?
Half the names trending this morning are tennis players: Svitolina, Badosa, Ostapenko, Gauff, Swiatek, Rybakina, Zheng. The China Open is at the National Tennis Center in Beijing this week and today (Oct 3) has Ostapenko vs Badosa, Swiatek vs Gao, Zheng vs Kalinskaya, Rybakina vs Charaeva, Gauff vs Osorio. I am a casual fan - which of these are must-watch, and is anyone's run actually interesting?
2 answers
- Gauff vs Osorio as your entry point
Gauff is the 3 seed and she gets Camila Osorio today - Osorio just came through winning 6-3, 6-3, so she is hot and it will not be a walkover. If you are a casual fan like me, the American storyline plus a dangerous underdog is the most fun entry point in the whole draw.
- The 11pm ET night block
Timing matters more than the draw: the night block tonight (11pm ET) runs six round-of-32 matches - Andreeva, Muchova, Sabalenka, Osaka, Noskova, Yastremska - and that block decides the weekend storylines. The day session finishes while the US is asleep, so set the replays for the night block and skip the early blowouts.