I referenced the tennis status quo in yesterday's post, where I'm trying to qualify one particularly distorted view. Found this in the mainstream today: Tim Joyce from RealClearSports.com wrote a piece about the Federer/Djokovic USO final. Here are a couple of passages: "But consider: what if it were Rafael Nadal across the net from Federer on …
Category: Tennis
Nadal v Federer Part One
Having been a tennis fan most of my life, I have been happy enough to simply watch the big matches through the years and have a few light-hearted conversations about this match or that player with friends or family. We keep things sensible, i.e., defensible, since saying something too hyperbolic or absurd pretty much kills the conversation. More recently, …
Marking Your Territory
How would you define Bjorn Borg's dominance? Ivan Lendl's? What about Pete Sampras' demonstrative GOAT dominion where he euthanized the end of the previous era, built a nice little British-American empire and then handsomely fought off his own demise? How would you define Nadal's tenure? Objectively, fast forwarding another five years into the future, when Roger …
Roger and Novak
Roger Federer at 34 is such a unique quality. Not only is his tennis on fire, but even off the court, one sees he is such a positive source of leadership for the tour. Listening to players refer to him, through-out the fortnight, with such reverence was a great reminder of this regality and wisdom he …
So much for my pep talk . . .
. . .Or: I sure nailed that one. This morning, I was somehow moved to sit down with my coffee and jot down the bona fide playbook, provide a sketch of the real map of this evening's men's U.S. Open Championship. Excerpt (still warm from this morning's printing press): But what is likely to happen today if …
Attitude and Form
As we prepare for this mammoth collision of great men's championship final tennis (congrats btw to the two Italian ladies who put-on quite a show. . .at the trophy ceremony! Great vibes. What a way to retire, going-out on top in the big apple), just a quick note on attitude and form. Novak will probably …
The Final
Keeping this short and to the point. You should know what happened yesterday and what's at stake tomorrow. The heavy weights have advanced and are ready to square-off in Arthur Ashe Stadium for the 2015 U.S. Open Championship. Roger has five USO titles, winning five in a row from '04 to '08. Novak, six years …
2015 U.S. Open Men’s Semifinals
We're all set. We could not ask for a better final four. Each of the four has his own significant drive to claim this final major of the year. Allow me to cut to the chase. The secret to making pretty accurate reads on these matches first of all requires that we pay attention to the …
U.S. Open Week Two
We have reached the U.S. Open Quarter Finals. What are the big surprises? Nadal and Murray are out? Nadal, even though he was 1,000,000 - 0 when up 2-0, is not a surprise. With Murray, a top 15er finally administered what a few of us have suspected all along: Murray's game is second-tier goods. Slice …
U.S. Open First Round
Everything going according to plan. Let's start in the top half of the top: Djokovic played with purpose and looked great though this is R1 so we're just nodding and sipping at this point. Big hitting Russian Gabashvili or Seppi seem the only blip on the radar before he likely sees Goffin in the quarters. …
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