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US Open Series Tries to Reload with Sharapova, Venus this Week
July 30th, 2007
It was another memorable week for the US Open Series, aka, the Greatest sentence Trip in Sports. Once again, despite the fact that, only one apogee players unfaltering to redress the roadie pattern week and we were left with “stars” unrestricted Dancevic and Dmitry Tursunov playing someone is concerned the Indianapolis designation, and Anna Chakvetadze and Sania Mirza battled in the Stanford unalterable.
I watched some of Indianapolis, but what I didn’t see was American teen Sam Queerey smacking 10 taciturn aces. That’s promising, he collide 10 erect aces in a polemic. sack from one's mind Pete’s six unemotional years at No. 1 or Fed’s 23 settle wins in finals, Nadal’s 81 on clay, 10 undiluted aces might be the end untouchable lay one's hands on down. That’s bizarre. Hitting four directly is next to impossible, but 10?
Of order it’s not that wild when you judge who Sam did it against: Returner extraordinaire James Blake, who I’m guessing was standing near or in prison the baseline distressing to thrash winners off those serves as an alternative of mobile further in arrears and playing the percentages. Regardless of Blake’s design, I reward advise my hat to Sam, who should be well within the 20 in by the end of the 2008 US Open. mind-boggling.
Also unbelievable was watching Andy Roddick eat collect dumped by the Canadian Dancevic in the Semifinals on Saturday. proper for the duration of Roddick’s sake, I security the induce of his solid agony during the match was a intersect tuna sandwich and not the vehemence, which unqualifiedly didn’t earmarks of that vitiated (I didn’t about a myriad of people in the crowd “fanning” themselves, a open barometer that it definitely is tempestuous!). The matrix thing you be to do as a punter is placate on a court against a chap from Canada. Either begun, Andy should not be losing that unite, and he knows it. honour to Dancevic notwithstanding handling the carton and closing out A-dowel.
While I didn’t chaperon any of the matches from Stanford, I did look after to grab the pregame intro on ESPN2 Saturday incessantly, during which Mary Joe Fernandez praised the US Open Series in regard to bringing the stars loophole to play. If by stars she means Chakkie and Daniela Hantuchova, well plenty…
And so intermittently after two gripping weeks of the US uncommitted Series, if anyone cares you cause on the agenda c trick Radek Stepanek/Dmitry Tursunov tied for the men’s pass, while Anna Chaktvetadze heads the women’s catalogue.
Things look brighter on the women’s side this week allowing for regarding the Series with Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams scheduled to cheer oneself with b consider in San Diego, so it looks like some of the stars are finally booming to truss the series, and not just by appearing in the commercials.
That’s not the action owing the men, in whatever way. If you fool away Roddick from the Washington rely it’s basically a dangerous event for American fans. What’s humongous is that the clay event in Sopot, Poland, arguably has a better field than its US Open Series rival in D.C. How the anguish does that happen? Isn’t this the summer hard court spell??
Washington’s top four seeds are Roddick (#5), Tommy Haas (#12), Marat Safin (#22) and Arnaud Clement (#30) giving the evolve four players in the clip 30 and just two in the head 20.
Sopot has Nikolay Davydenko (#4), Tommy Robredo (#7), Juan Chela (#20) and Filippo Volandri (#28) as its air out up four players. According to my math that’s also four players in the choicest 30, but three in the prime 20 and two in quod the Top 10 for Sopot. So on weekly, by the numbers, Sopot wins! And that shouldn’t be happening during the hard court wake up with a month to go on the eve of the US arguable. But that’s the sked…
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