1. Novak Djokovic (1)
2. BYE
3. Thomaz Bellucci
4. Pablo Cuevas
5. Jack Sock
6. Adrian Mannarino
7. Alexandr Dolgopolov (Q)
8. Grigor Dimitrov (14)9. Kevin Anderson (12)
10. Lukas Rosol
11. Ernest Gulbis (Q)
12. Dominic Thiem
13. Denis Kudla (Q)
14. Donald Young (Q)
15. BYE
16. Thomas Berdych (5)17. Stan Wawrinka (3)
18. BYE
19. Fernando Verdasco
20. Nick Kyrgious
21. Vasek Pospisil (WC)
22. Yen-Hsun Lu (Q)
23. Benjamin Becker
24. John Isner (16)25. Richard Gasquet (11)
26. Jeremy Chardy
27. Hyeon Chung (Q)
28. Leonardo Mayer
29. Jerzy Janowicz
30. Ivo Karlovic
31. BYE
32. Milos Raonic (8)==========================
33. Rafael Nadal (7)
34. BYE
35. Sergiy Stakhovsky
36. Filip Peliwo (WC)
37. Viktor Troicki
38. Mikhail Youzhny (Q)
39. Andreas Seppi
40. Giles Simon (9)41. David Goffin (13)
42. Steve Johnson (SE)
43. Sam Querrey
44. Martin Klizan
45. Frank Dancevic (WC)
46. Pablo Andujar
47. BYE
48. Kei Nishikori (4)49. Marin Cilic (6)
50. BYE
51. Joao Sousa
52. Bernard Tomic
53. Roberto Bautista Agut
54. Janko Tipsarevic (PR)
55. Boran Coric
56. Jo Wilfred Tsonga (10)57. Gael Monfils (15)
58. Fabio Fognini
59. Philip Bester (WC)
60. Gilles Muller
61. Feliciano Lopez
62. Tommy Robredo
63. BYE
64. Andy Murray (2)
Hi there. It’s finally time for some serious tennis again after the month break since Wimbledon. Personally, I can use a distraction and I hope you guys are ready for some action too. Last week was Washington and Kitzbuhel where Nishikori and Kohlschreiber walked away with the silverware. Thiem couldn’t quite manage the hat-trick losing to Kohlschreiber in the semis and he was clearly getting tired. But it has still been a fantastic few weeks for him and he is officially a top 20(18) player now!
As for Nishikori, he won a tenth title in Washington but still hasn’t won anything above ATP 500 level. Nishikori had some good wins against Cilic in the semis and Isner in the final, both after dropping the first set. It was good to see because Nadal is in his quarter in Montreal. Having made the US Open final last year Nishikori is a threat on the hard courts but I still think his serve is too much of a liability. It is too slow and attackable.
Looking elsewhere in the draw, Federer is not playing which means Murray is the second seed. Murray lost his first match in Washington which means he is not exactly making it hard for Federer to get the second seed at in New York, but I’m sure he’d want to make amends this week. A semi-final between him and Nishikori would be interesting. But I’m also looking forward to seeing what Nadal’s form looks like after winning Hamburg.
A quarterfinal between him and Nishikori would be good entertainment. In the top half, the Djoker is back after a nice long break which means he will be fresh for the all-important North-American hard court season where he will be looking to win a second US Open. Being 1-4 in US Open finals he’d desperately want to win another slam there with the form he is in. He is too good a hard court player to have won only one US Open thus far.
Winning it would also give him another 3-slam title year and get him into double figures for slam titles. That would set him up nicely to dominate for a few more years and get into the GOAT debate. His draw is quite easy until the semis where he could meet Stan. Stan is the only guy that can really threaten Djokovic at this point, but there is still a question mark over his consistency. He already has Isner in his section who will be tough to deal with.
Djokovic should easily be the favorite for the title as well as for the other two big events in the US Open series. Cincinnati is, of course, the only Masters he hasn’t won so that’s going to be an interesting event, especially with Federer back. But like I said, with the way Djokovic has dominated this season he is the favorite for all three the big events. The US Open is, of course, the big one though and he’d be more than happy to win only one of the Masters if it means he will win a second US Open.
Tomorrow he opens against Bellucci!
Montreal is where it all started for Djokovic when he defeated the number five(Roddick), two(Nadal), and one(Federer) in the world in succession to win the title.
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