The weather looks clear and conditions were good on Friday. So let’s hope we can get this tournament finished without any further interruptions. Roger Federer vs Novak Djokovic Well, this is the dream semifinal that probably had the organizers and TV networks salivating since the draw was made. This is the third time this year [...]
US Open Quarterfinals Preview and Predictions: Bottom Half
The rain finally messed everything up enough that the entire schedule has been delayed by the rain. Therefore, the women’s semifinals will be Saturday night instead of Friday night as originally planned with the final being held on Sunday afternoon. “Super Saturday”, otherwise known as the men’s semifinals, will remain Saturday afternoon as scheduled and [...]
US Open Women’s Semifinal Preview and Predictions
The rain finally messed everything up enough that the entire schedule has been delayed by the rain. Therefore, the women’s semifinals will be Saturday night instead of Friday night as originally planned with the final being held on Sunday afternoon. “Super Saturday”, otherwise known as the men’s semifinals, will remain Saturday afternoon as scheduled and [...]
US Open Quarterfinals Preview and Predictions: Top Half
The rain has finally come and messed up the tournaments’ entire schedule. This means that, most likely, two of the quarterfinal matches will finish play before the other two begin play. So I thought I would split up my preview and predictions into two halves. The first part will be for the two matches that [...]
US Open Women’s Quarterfinals Preview and Predictions
Andrea Petkovic vs Caroline Wozniacki Petkovic has been remarkably consistent for her entire career. She goes deep in most tournament, can pull an upset of a top player or two, but very rarely has actually won a tournament in her career. She is really a very solid player who can be beaten by strong play [...]
US Open Round 3 Recap: Americans Advance
American tennis players have been much-maligned these past few years. Andy Roddick, the banner-carrier since Agassi retired in 2005, has really slowed down. American results in Slams consistently got worse and were very poor this year. But now, with players like Donald Young and Mardy Fish stepping up, things might finally be on the rise [...]
US Open Round 2 Recap: Big Men Shine
Top Seeds Roundup: Andy Murray just looked really bad in much of his match Friday. His serving was not good and he really never moved Haase around the court. He left himself very open to Haase’s huge forehands. Haase won himself a lot of points by not putting so much pace on the ball and [...]
US Open Round 1 Recap: Top Seeds Leave Space
Top Seeds Roundup: Novak Djokovic came out firing in his first-round match here in Flushing Meadows, embarrassing poor Conor Niland of Ireland off the court. Niland had a food poisoning issue before the match but being healthy wouldn’t have helped much anyway with the way Novak was playing. Djokovic made a statement, showing that [...]
US Open Draw Analysis
Well, for the fourth straight Grand Slam this year, Federer and Djokovic are on the same side of the draw. There are always complaints about draw fixing, and the seemingly too-high percentage of times that Federer and Nadal are on different sides of the draw after they were no longer #s 1 and 2 in [...]
US Open Preview: Favorites, Dark Horses, and Bad Bets
Well, the story of the 2011 season so far, on both hard courts and everywhere, has been the utter domination by Novak Djokovic. Djokovic is close to on pace to eclipse John McEnroe’s 1984 82-3 season. He probably won’t play enough to equal Federer’s 95 wins in 2006, but should be well ahead of that [...]
