After Djokovic’s decision to pull out from Cincinnati Masters, the McEnroe Brothers believe the 29-year-old Serbian champion has recovered from succeeding upsets and is prepared to become an invincible presence in the tennis court.
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Now attention will focus squarely on how they are able to negotiate through their maladies, at least in the early rounds. “And it’s those moments that I have to just, like, come off and be like, ‘Serena, do you know what you’ve done?”
Nadal’s afternoon match was played with the new $150 million retractable roof open under a blue sky, while offering some extra shade on a day when the temperature reached 90 degrees.
Patrick, discussing the US Open with his brother on behalf of espn.co.uk, said: “I think Murray has an opportunity but he’s never going to get to the level, in my opinion, of those other players”. Then she went to the Olympics and suffered an uncharacteristic third-round loss to No. 20 Elina Svitolina, 6-4, 6-3. Following the loss, the world No. 1 announced that he was going to skip the rest of the warm up events due to a lingering left wrist injury that made it hard for him to execute his backhand. She joked after Monday’s victory that she had earned 60 ranking points by virtue of that result – but says she’s trying not to harp on that part of the equation. “It’s not ideal, but it was all I could do”.
Kerber, who meets Polona Hercog in her first match on the opening day of the tournament, won her maiden Grand Slam title when she beat Williams in the final of the Australian Open in January. He’s also been to five of the last six US Open finals, which includes wins in 2011 and 2015. I don’t look at that on a week-to-week basis, it’s something that you have to take a longer term view of and, if you look at the year as a whole and even beyond that, for me March or April time is a more realistic chance than doing it this year.
Another newly-crowned Major champion this year was Muguruza, who backed up her Wimbledon final run last year-where she lost to Williams-with the Roland Garros title and the No2 ranking.
The 2016 U.S. Open will soon begin. Williams has held the top spot for 183 consecutive weeks, three short of Graf’s record. Murray has reached the final in each of the year’s first three majors, losing to world number one Novak Djokovic in Australia and Paris before beating Milos Raonic at Wimbledon. “I don’t think Murray would go in as a favourite on that surface against Nadal in a best-of-five”. With a seventh US Open triumph she can break Graf’s record, and continue her march toward Australian Margaret Court’s all-time mark of 24 Grand Slam titles. Last week, Steve Johnson, the highest-ranked U.S. men’s player, questioned whether the U.S. Tennis Association should award del Potro the wild card he’d need to get in because the Argentine could possibly defeat an American in the first round.
The women’s singles semifinals will take place at 7:00 p.m. ET on September 8 and the men’s singles semifinals are scheduled for 3:00 p.m. ET the following day.
Djokovic said the reasons for his All England Club catastrophe were not physical but private. She fell and hit her head hard, forcing her to withdraw from her fourth-round matchagainst Vinci.
There was 20th-seeded John Isner’s comeback from two sets down to edge 18-year-old Frances Tiafoe before a rowdy, standing-room-only crowd at the new Grandstand.
Asked to explain, the Serb said it was “nothing related to the wrist injury”.
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“The shoulder is still not 100 per cent but it’s very close and she will find a way”.
