He’s played I think enough matches.
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A win at Wimbledon and a gold medal in Rio may want to British to rethink this Brexit thing, after all Murray is from Scotland.
Five-time US Open victor Roger Federer will miss this event for the first time since 1999, setting his sights on a healthy return in 2017. When he first came back from the injury, he had to adjust his technique to avoid pain, so now he needs to get comfortable again with his regular stroke.
Williams said “shoulder-wise” she is improving but admits the lack of match practice has been far from ideal. She reached the final at Wimbledon this year before losing to Williams. She said Friday that “I’m just now starting to feel a little bit better”. “Hopefully on Monday, when it all starts, I will be there”, said Djokovic who faces big-serving Jerzy Janowicz of Poland in his opener.
“I was so happy just to be in the qualies – and to play three good matches to get through to the main draw is all I could ask for, to be honest”.
The 34-year-old world number one, who is chasing a record seventh US Open and modern era all-time high of 23 Grand Slams in NY, has been slowed by a shoulder inflammation which led to an early Olympics exit.
Robson is not the only player to be recovering from a wrist injury in NY after Novak Djokovic admitted he is struggling for fitness ahead of his title defence.
On the men’s side, Djokovic will fight through his wrist injury and make it all the way to the championship round, where he will meet Murray, who will win the title in five sets. “But I’m doing everything in my power with the medical team, so I’m as close to 100 percent as possible, at least for the beginning of it”. His glorious 2016 suddenly blew up in his face in the third round of Wimbledon and later at Rio.
Djokovic lost in the first round at the Rio Games to 2009 U.S. Open champ Juan Martin del Potro, whose ranking slipped because of left wrist problems of his own.
According to reports, Djokovic’s off-court issues involved his wife, Jelena.
In the women’s draw, Serena Williams, bidding for a seventh US Open title and a modern era record 23rd Grand Slam, begins her campaign against experienced Ekaterina Makarova of Russian Federation.
Williams will begin her U.S. Open bid with a match against Ekaterina Makarova, whom she beat en route to the title in 2012 and 2014.
With her ranking slipping to 36th, she just missed a seed at Flushing Meadows.
Murray had beaten Djokovic on his way to Olympic gold and once again came out on top in the USA final, delayed due to extreme weather, although he had to overcome a major scare to triumph 7-6 (12-10) 7-5 2-6 3-6 6-2. It’s also important to note that Serena has just 10 singles matches under her belt since the French Open, so she should be rather rested. Australian Open champ Angelique Kerber and French Open victor Garbine Muguruza are on the other side of the draw. It won’t mean a calendar-year Grand Slam, but it would be her seventh U.S. Open title.
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Other potential contenders on the odds to win the US Open include Milos Raonic (+1200), Stan Wawrinka (+1600), Marin Cilic (+2000), Rafael Nadal (+2000), and Kei Nishikori (+2500).
