OK, so Janik has declined the opportunity to start his usual event-specific thread for this event. As time is running out, I'm starting one now. I hope my presumption doesn't offend any of the other (i.e. other than Janik) tennis experts on here.
I dare say this might be a thinner thread than the usual tennis slam thread, even after allowing the for absence of Janik's usual Rolls-Royce standard contributions, because I'm guessing fewer of us will actually see any footage due to the bastards' decision to sell the UK rights to ****ing Amazon.
Apart from the shitty Amazon rights thing, it's also a slightly dispiriting outlook for British fans: Murray not looking likely to match his form of earlier years, Konta (despite some recent improvement) not the player she was 18 months ago, Evans still not far enough back up the rankings after his recreational drugs disaster to be involved, the up and coming young British women all out in qualifying. Maybe Watson will go from zero US main draw career wins to a hatful, but I'm not holding my breath. Edmund and Norrie might cheer us up maybe.
My pre-tournament guesses for the singles winners: Halep and Djokovic. I very much doubt that the Flushing Meadows crowd will get to see their long hoped-for first meeting of Federer and Nadal, though I expect Nadal will make the final.
The higher-ranked players with frontline responsibility, if results follow seeding, for halting any further progress of Drugscheat would be Ostapenko (R3) and if she fails then Garcia (R4) - the latter of course being Konta's R1 opponent.
We won't see a Mertens-Bertens clash this event unless it's the final.
I dare say this might be a thinner thread than the usual tennis slam thread, even after allowing the for absence of Janik's usual Rolls-Royce standard contributions, because I'm guessing fewer of us will actually see any footage due to the bastards' decision to sell the UK rights to ****ing Amazon.
Apart from the shitty Amazon rights thing, it's also a slightly dispiriting outlook for British fans: Murray not looking likely to match his form of earlier years, Konta (despite some recent improvement) not the player she was 18 months ago, Evans still not far enough back up the rankings after his recreational drugs disaster to be involved, the up and coming young British women all out in qualifying. Maybe Watson will go from zero US main draw career wins to a hatful, but I'm not holding my breath. Edmund and Norrie might cheer us up maybe.
My pre-tournament guesses for the singles winners: Halep and Djokovic. I very much doubt that the Flushing Meadows crowd will get to see their long hoped-for first meeting of Federer and Nadal, though I expect Nadal will make the final.
The higher-ranked players with frontline responsibility, if results follow seeding, for halting any further progress of Drugscheat would be Ostapenko (R3) and if she fails then Garcia (R4) - the latter of course being Konta's R1 opponent.
We won't see a Mertens-Bertens clash this event unless it's the final.
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