Tennis: US Open 2012

Anyone else have been tuning in thus far?

 

[crickets]

 

Watched some of the Federer exhibition last night. Boy, has Donald Young gone from phenom to flop. At one point, he was the next Great American.

 

I'm going this weekend, so I'll be watching then (if not before).

 

I love the tournament but have to say it does not get exciting usually until the Qtrs.

BTW, someone lent me "High Strung" about the peak of tennis at 1980; fascinating read about Borg, McEnroe, Connors, Vitas.

 

To a degree he was afforded the Next Great American status, and got a ton of wild cards because of it, but it was a LONG time ago that most of us realized that he didn't have the size or savvy or all-around game to be a Top 20 regular. Now he's lost 17 straight matches.

 

John Isner is the next great American men's player.

Women? What ever happened to Melanie Oudin?

 

Love the guy but that's pretty sad when he's the great hope. The guy is 6'10" with a huge serve, and hits a two-hander while playing behind the baseline. He's #9 and that's fantastic, but damn he should be chipping and charging and serve and volleying. I want him to be Roscoe Tanner, not Borg.

 

Yeah, tennis was more fun when you had some real serve and volley players. Last great one was Sampras, I guess. Maybe the modern racket technology has made that impossible.

 

Actually, he snapped that 17-match streak a week ago at the Winston-Salem tournament ... so he's 19 of 20 now ...

 

Stat of the night.

Winners
Sharapova 30
Dominguez Lino 0

A professional player can't hit one winner in two sets?

 

Andy Roddick just called impromptu press conference in which he has announced he is retiring after the US Open.