Men's ATP
Most of the people in the racket bracket picked Federer to win. I don't know what the heck happened to the draw but Raphael Nadal wasn't in it. So on one side you had Roger Federer with his BRAND NEW MICHEAL JORDAN TENNIS SNEAKERS and on the other side you had Jo Willy Tsonga, Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka and Novak Djokovic.
This was a great chance for Federer to get another slam because the other guys would get to beat up on themselves and be too tired to punch when they meet Federer at the final. I mean, Fed looked great. He was almost as fast as when he was 25 (gotta be the shoes) AND with Stefan Edberg in his corner, he had been playing some great attacking tennis.
BUT...Gael Monfils showed up all of the sudden trying to prove that he belongs in the top ten. He came with no coach and beat Grigor Dimitrov (who has Monfils' OLD coach) by generally blasting aces and forehands and having a bad breakdown? STRAIGHT SETS! I don't know what was wrong with Dimitrov (baby Federer). He was missing all over the place. Playing Dimitrov is too much like playing Federer so I'm sure Monfils felt good about playing Federer.
Sure enough Monfils took Federer in 2 sets and had 2 straight match points and went back to the old Monfils and lost from being 2 sets ahead. Oh Well, I went to sleep early anyway.
Then Federer ran into Marin Cilic with Goran Ivanisevic (Wimbledon Champion) in his corner in the semifinals and got MAN HANDLED. It is very Surreal because I'm not used to seeing Federer greeted with rallyballs that keep him from hitting forward. I guess those shoes weren't so great....Thanks alot MJ!
The other side of the draw had been going about as planned: Murray took out Tsonga....Djokovic coasting to the semis like always. Seriously, ever since before he won a Slam in 08 Djoker always gets to the quarters with no problem. He's not even worth watching....Wawrinka LOST to Nishikori in 5? Nishikori was supposed to have a foot problem. He seems fine.
So semifinals was Djoker and Nishikori and Nishikori looked like he was doing great while Novak Djokovic didn't. People were saying it was because Djoker was not playing well and just hitting the ball back in the middle of the court. But I think that Kei's ball was just way tougher than Djoker was expecting. I seriously am going to start re-evaluating my game. Kei is about my size minus about 50 lbs...I think I can do it!
Rant: Also the Commentator I was listening to dropped the line "Flushing Meadow's new rising sun" about the Japanese Nishikori. I'm sure he had been waiting all day for that....but he sucks. I don't know who he is but he is...dumb. They let him do the final on usopen.org with Luke Jensen. He just steps all over the analysts toes and makes these statements that assume that tennis is not complicated. That is not his job. His job is to pretend that he knows he is an idiot so that the analyst can explain to him things. All the other Commentators at least played pro except for Ted Robinson or Chris Fowler. But they will at least softball their statements into questions for the analyst. Where the HECK did they get THIS guy? I can't even find him online to complain about him specifically.
So that lead to the final where Nishikori choked and Cilic did not. Finals are not really that great to me. But this one was the first time in 10 years that none of the top 4 were in it. THAT is pretty cool.
- American players aren't very good now
- Patrick McEnroe lost his job as the head of USTA player development
- Nick Kyrgios (low ranked player that beat Nadal at Wimbledon) is worth watching if only to try and understand that loose power. Robredo took him out though....which gave me bragging rights in my household.
- Jack Sock and Vasek Pospisil will probably never beat the Bryan Brothers again...Sorry
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