Who do you guys think is the favorite to win the US Open? Not that someone other than Djokovic, Sinner, and Alcaraz can’t win it, but I think it’s fair to say that one of those three is the favorite, and that they are the three most likely to win it.
I’m going with Alcaraz. Best combination of great sports psychology, skills, atheticism, and youth.
someone beat me to it – agassi figuring out becker’s telll
Alcaraz suffered a huge upset in the second round of the US Open yesterday, losing in straight sets, and today Djokovic lost in the third round, three sets to one.
I think the tournament is Sinner’s to lose now.
This will be the first year since 2002 that neither Federer, Nadal, nor Djokovic won a major.
Also, if Sinner wins this tournament, then he and Alcaraz will have split this year’s four majors as so far Sinner has won one this year, and Alcaraz has won two.
I believe I’m correct that if Sinner and Medvedev win their next matches, that they face each other in the round after that. Sinner would be the favorite in that match, but if Medvedev can get by him, then I think he’s the favorite to win the tournament. I would like to see Medvedev win a major again. He has a better opportunity than usual with Djokovic and Alcaraz out this early in a major.
Rooting for Medvedev.
Tiafoe vs Popyrin is this evening and is an interesting match, to me.
Nadal has retired. What a career. It was a hell of a run. He has as many French Open titles as Sampras has majors, at 14. 22 total majors. He did really well as he aged, lost a lot of speed, but still found a way. It’s fun to watch when he still had peak athletic ability, and also a lot of experience. He was FAST and DETERMINED:
FAA involved in some funny stuff lately.
He’s been struggling to come back from an injury but playing better.
So it had to be frustrating for him to get those bad calls.
He’s not blaming his opponent but calling out the line judge and I think he handled it okay considering the situation.
I feel like the umpire really blew the call in the second video and at a really crucial time. It’s a huge swing between losing match point, and drawing to deuce on your opponent’s serve when you’re down one break in the deciding set.
The first video I have less sympathy for FAA because while he was correct, I feel badly for his opponent who was very much in the driver’s seat in that point, only to have the point replayed. Not FAA’s fault though.
It is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce The Marquis of Llevant de Mallorca. Nadal was recently granted the noble title and position by the King of Spain. You can add that to his titles of Greatest Champion of Any One Slam, Greatest Player on Any One Surface, and Second Greatest Player of All Time.
I started reading this relatively new biography about Sampras while on vacation. I’m really enjoying it. The author is a great career tennis writer.
It’s a well written book and it’s particularly great for a few reasons. One of them is that it was written after “the big 3” surpassed Sampras in the grand slam count. So, it’s reestablishing Pete, with those guys in the background, as apposed to a book that was written before Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic surpassed Pete’s 14 majors count.
Also, the author is amazing, and he wrote the book with Pete’s cooperation and interviewed Pete a million times.
One of my early takeaways is how athletic Pete was. He had the size and the athleticism to compete with Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic. His leaping overhead smashes were huge evidence of that. I also love that not only was Pete a dominant server, but that his second serve was likely the best ever.
I forget which player lamented, “How am I supposed to beat a guy with two first serves?”
I learned that in juniors Pete had a good two-handed backhand but his main coach convinced him to abandon it for the one-handed backhand because it was better for volleying. Pete and his coach acknowledge that the two-hander was better for when Pete was playing from the baseline, and that it might have helped him win a French Open, but that he would have won fewer Wimbledon’s with it, and I think he said fewer majors overall.
Both were great, and graff had the only gold slam in history, but no one dominated women’s tennis by so much and as long as Serena. It’s not even close. Calling anyone else the goat women’s player is ridiculous.
I’ll see if I can find the exact quote, but there was also something cool in the book about Pete’s serve where they say that nobody else has been able to do it like Pete in part because he was so loose, particularly in the shoulders. He was loose and fluid.
Sampras was my favourite player as a teenager. Used to stick my tongue out whilst serving in imitation 
With Wimbledon starting yesterday that looks like a great read. Gonna go look on amazon now for a copy:+1:His 1999 Wimbledon win over Agassi was possibly the greatest grass court performance I have ever seen. Would take that version over any of the ‘Big 3’ in a Wimbledon final.
You Cannot , Absolutely Cannot , Play Tennis Without Annette
Sinner beat Djokovic badly and then Alcaraz to take his first Wimbledon title. I think he will take a lot of confidence from this, and also still motivation from the French Open loss to Alcaraz.
I think Sinner will win the US Open and the AO. His game is well suited to hardcourts and he’s playing extremely well and has the right mix of confidence and motivation.
A few years ago on my first day on the job, someone had women’s tennis on loud in the break room. I honestly thought someone was watching porn. Lots of grunting from those bitches.
