New York (AFP) - Who said what at the US Open on Monday, the eighth day of the 2022 championships at Flushing Meadows:
"Man, I was losing it in the locker room.Bro, I was going crazy.Yeah, I mean, that's my guy.So to see him post that, I was like, Do I retweet it as soon as he sent it?I was like, You know what, I'm going to be cool and act like I didn't see it and then retweet it three hours later."
-- Frances Tiafoe reacting to basketball star LeBron James' tweeting 'CONGRATS Young King!!!You earned it!@FTiafoe' after his win over Rafael Nadal
"The times they are a changing."
-- John McEnroe quoting Bob Dylan on ESPN after seeing Tiafoe defeat Nadal.
"I was not able to push him back.Tennis is a sport of position a lot of times.If not, you need to be very, very quick and very young.I am not in that moment anymore."
-- Nadal feeling his age at 36
"I saw on Twitter some say that is called like 'Iga Swiatek Bakery'.That's pretty funny."
-- Iga Swiatek after her 19th 'bagel' set of 2022 handed out to Jule Niemeier in her last 16 win.
"I just mean like going to dinner, going to see a show.We went to a Mets game, we went to a Yankees game.Just try to not sit in my room and order Uber Eats."
-- Jessica Pegula on how she spends her downtime in Manhattan.
"I feel like I have a second chance at this tournament.I'm still here, I'm still competing."
-- Aryna Sabalenka who has made the quarter-finals despite having been a set, 5-1 and two match points down in her second round tie against Kaia Kanepi.
