Roger! Roger! Roger! C'MON! :) It's a GREAT feelings seeing Roger Federer back on track. The US Open is going to be interesting indeed! Cheers FEDfans!

The US Open will see a repeat of Australian Open if the draw deesnt put Fed and Muray in the same half.

Don't you mean 6th?

Yep, Fed's already won 5 USOs.

Personally, I'd like to see Djokovic or Roddick make it to the final in New York this year.

-Arvis

With all the Roger/Rafa finals, we've never had one at the USO. I think it's about time.

Oooh, a Rafa/Roger final at Flushing Meadows - now that's a juicy prospect. But aren't we getting ahead of ourselves - the draw is not out yet!

roger-rafa final is not possible this time according to me as rafa is not in good form

i find it not as pretty to watch federer win anymore. it is a wee bit like the magic is gone... he may still be the best and win the us open for all i know.

croc, I bet it the magic will be there if we get a Roger-Rafa final. But this is the toughest grand slam for Rafa to win because there are so many more contenders who can challenge and beat him.

Roger featured in 6 USO final winning 5 in a row except last year.

You said it, grafight. I don't have a link right at hand, but I read that Roger said he wanted to play Rafa, because the two of them had yet to play a final at the USO.

I may sound harsh.... but Rafa not winning USO10.... :P

Roger winning n e title (GS) is like a bonus as he has got many in his kitty :P

Go Roger....... All The best !!!! .... :)

why some of u only surface here when federer wins something??

i hope im not harsh/.....:P

After eating tons of humble pies from the results of Wimbledon this year, I thought you arrogant Fedtards have learned your lesson! Now your are back to bragging before your egg is hatched. Can't wait to see those smelly feet inside your big mouths AGAIN!

Nobody knows for sure who would win, if not, the players need not go out there to play. Whether Fed will end up winning the USO after he won Cincy, like he did in 2007, or end up like in 2009 where he won Cincy but lost the USO, only time will tell. Why some of us act like prophets, start telling everyone this or that. Who can say for sure that Murray won't end up in Fed's half and beat Fed in the semi? Who can say for sure that Rafa couldn't find his game on time and end up beating Nole in the semi and reach the final? Who can say for sure that we'll have a Fed/Rafa final? We may end up having a Murray/Nole final!

I would give federer a 8.5 at winning the USO.(on a scale of 1 to 10) I would give Murray a 8,and djokovic and nadal 5-6.

coz here hav here sum ppl like u who only no abusing The fed :P

And we dun wanna fyt unlike u !!! :D

Fed played half a tournament and barely just beat Fish to win Cincy, so there is not all that much to go on there. Rafa did not play well at both Toronto and Cincy, but that is not to say he won't do well in FM. Murray has been playing lately so has Nole, but all 4 are not in tip top condition.

Rafa wants this badly, and as far as we know he doesn't have any physical issues, so it will take a mammoth effort from someone to take him out. I'm sure he knows what he has to do, and he will do it to get his career GS.

more excuses. give it a break already.

Excellent win Fed! Keep it going.

Maxi- what nadline said about Federer playing half a tournament and on top of that barely beating fish isn't an excuse it is fact!

And you know what else is fact, Fed not once had to play in the midday heat, unlike everybody else. He only had to play after 5pm. Murray played at 12pm three days in a row in the scorching heat!

So another words not only did Fed play half a tournament but he also played in the least stressful conditions.

Yet fish came close to beating him.

Iv never abused any1 at this site....but ppl like u dont think b4 posting...

maxi: a win, yes: an excellent win, no. All anybody is saying is that Federer should have won that match easily instead of being taken to two tie-breaks and failing to convert 4/5 break points. He himself admitted as much in the post match interview when he said it could have gone either way. He came into the final with a 5-1 H2H against Fish - the only time he lost to him was in the aftermath of the mono episode in 2008.

If Rafa had won Cincy with the same run that Roger had, it wouldn't fill me with any more confidence than Rafa's real run going out in the QF to Baghdatis. If that's an 'excellent win' then bring it on Roger if you and Rafa happen to meet in the final at FM.

Its true that Fed was playing in more favorable conditions. If Murray was given some night slots, I'm sure he'll do better than just reaching the QF. We might even be seeing a Fed/Murray final in Cincy! No disrespect to Fish, but Fish was simply fortunate in meeting and beating Murray when that poor guy had to play three matches in a row under the hot sun. Did you all noticed that the Americans, namely Fish and Roddick, were able to cope with the weather conditions so well as they were so used to it. The Europeans, on the other hand, were so bothered by the heat, even Rafa had to place the ice towel on his head! Fish was struggling to beat Roddick in the SF match, and I'm sure that a Murray in better physical condition would give Fish all sorts of troubles too and a win by Murray was possible. Well sometimes, things have to click and be aligned nicely for a win to occur. Things simply don't work in Murray's favor, but in Fed's favor, this time round at Cincy.

Credit has to be given to Fed, for playing well and hanging tough in the final, playing patiently and waiting for his opportunity to come, and seized it to get a win.

some of you guys were pointing that Fed got better conditions to play, that is why he did well at Cincinnati.

Well to be honest, he will get the best playing conditions again in the USO and do well there too:-)

lucky: "No disrespect to Fish, but Fish was simply fortunate in meeting and beating Murray when that poor guy had to play three matches in a row under the hot sun"

To be fair, I think you are forgetting that Fish did not receive a bye, but Murray got one, which means Andy had one less match to play. Also, Fish had to play in the hot sun to beat Simon (former top 10) Verdasco (top 10) and Gasquet in order to face Murray.

As for the Americans being able to handle the heat, well, both Fish and Roddick have been practising in Texas, where it's very hot. Murray lives in Miami where it's hot also, just like Texas. Djokovic practises in Dubai and lives in Monaco, where it's hot also. Spain is hot. Therefore, I don't understand why you feel the Europeans weren't able to cope with the conditions. Also, remember, they played Toronto just the week prior and Murray won.

I think Roddick was given a bum rap by the tourney directors. He played late into the night, and then had to play the next day in a 2:00 pm match. That's three matches in less than 3 days. I'd say things didn't work in Roddick's favour either. And, the guy has mono. If it were some other players they would have been pulling out the sick card after every match. When Roddick lost to Fish, it was obvious, he had nothing more to give in the third set. It was just bad luck for Andy that the rain came, or else he would have been able to finish off the set. He had only one more game to play. Talk about bad timing by the rain and bad luck for Roddick.

This is off topic,but when is the draw for the USO coming out?

tj600: On Thursday at noon and will be broadcasted on ESPN2. It will also be streamed on ESPN3.com.

Von, I watched their matches(ontv), I do noticed that there was no ice towel required for both Roddick n Fish, and they looked fresh compared to those three guys - Nole/Murray/Rafa. When you are not born in the country and not used to the weather conditions there, it is hard to cope, compared to those who lived there year after year. Humidity is a factor. If you get Rafa to come to my country, Singapore, to play in the heat, I'm sure he can't cope either. Do u know our weather here is hot and humid too, very humid in fact. It is unlike say Australia when u feel the heat but you are basically feeling dry. Tropical weather is always humid and makes one feels tired easily as you need more water to replenish the moisture lost through perspiration.

Don't forget Murray went deep at Toronto but Fish didn't. You can't deny that Fed played one and a half matches lesser than usual and in better playing conditions to get to the final. That is why it is surprising that he needed to go the distance to beat Fish, who like you said, had played more matches.

I dun think i bused n e one..... did I ? er!

And wt was so wrong in my post :s

win the sixth US open champion. go Roger. and David.

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Lucky: I answered your post, but I think too much time had elapsed before I pressed send, it disappeared. Sorry. it's too long to write it again.

Von: always 'copy' your comment before you press 'send'. Then if you find you have been logged off you can re-log on and simply 'paste' your entry in the new comment box. This disappearing act is a tiresome feature of the site because there is no way of knowing in advance that you are no longer signed in.

Yes, I always copy my post if it's long in case I get logged out.

luckystar .. get your science right !
In Australia you lose moisture faster than humid countries . This is because the water vapour content in the atmosphere (humidity) is low so the sweat evaporates faster and you dont see the sweat. In humid conditions like singapore ,sweat takes a longer time evaporate and so you see it on the body.

Nirv, I dont care about science. What I'm interested is how one feels in different conditions. Humidity is difficult to bear, just ask those from less humid climate. Even we living here find it so tough, we won't want to go out in the sun and get ourselves soaking wet. We certainly need to replenish as much water as possible, well maybe those in less humid weather has to do the same, maybe you could understand better. As I said, the Europeans may find it hard to adapt because of the humidity. I see some Europeans here in my country complaining about the heat, which is understandable as you always feel soaking wet when you're outdoor unless it is a rainy day. It's either rain or shine here.

It's ok Von, we may never agree. I don't wish to convince others about what I believe. It is just my opinions and I'm entitled to them. You may have yours and we need not agree.

Luckystar and nirv02-
I need to clear up something here. Europeans are used to hot dry summers. Australia in particularly the south of the country, like Melbourne, they manly experience dry Hot conditions in summer. The East of Australia, like Sydney (NSW) and QLD is more tropical and experience hot and humid conditions.

That being said the reason why humidity and heat combined is harder to bear than just pure heat is because in humid conditions sweating doesnt work as well to cool the body, because the surrounding air is already warm and heavy from humidity and can not absorb any more sweat. This causes the body to overheat as its unable to effectlively cool itself, causing sunstroke, cramps, fainting etc

So luckystar is right, hot humid conditions would effect any athlete, who is not conditioned for this. in particular those athletes from Europe for example who are not use to Hot humid weather.

Thanks Isa, you explain it better. I'm not talking about Scientific point of views, but my personal experiences, in both humid and non humid environment. Given a choice, I'll rather live in non humid condition, though I understand non humid condition may cause the skin to feel dry and age faster!

Not only does hot humid conditions affect the athlete's performance, it's dangerous too. That's why in the ME where I am where it is hot and humid for a month now, we are always reminded of the dangers of heat stroke. It gives no warning, you will just collapse suddenly if you have not done the proper precautions.

atul,

I think you are right, Fed will get the best playing conditions as compaired to other players..

If it starts raining and the schedule get impacted , it will impact everyone except Fed.He will play in late night session most of the time.Even if we will get the opportunity to watch a very good match between two other players..

Even in cincy despite of the fact that Rod and Fish Both being Americans didnt get the chance to play the SF in the evening session..

So was the case in Wimby..

FEd never compromises with his schedule..Lets see how things turn out to be ???????

Humid conditions are also the worst for sustaining injuries.

As Rafa is No1 this year he will surely start proceedings for once? If there is a rain delay this is a big advantage for all who start first.

Yes,I hope Rafa starts the proceedings.Although ,he was seeded no 1 at AO 2009,the organizers for some reason let the bottom half i.e. Roger start the proceedings. And it turned out to be so critical.

vij: I find that so weird, there should be some sort of protocol that applies to ALL tournaments.

deuce,

Grand Slams are not a part of ATP may be thats why they dont follow any rule at all.They prefer hot fav to start .

vij- That isnt right.
At the Australian Open, world number 2 always plays first. Always.
That is how I know how to buy my tickets to see Rafa and Roger. World number 1 plays the day night session on the first Saturday. World number 2 plays the day session on the first sunday.

For example in 2009 Rafa was world number 1. Roger world number 2
He played on the Saturday Night Session. Roger played Sunday Day

In 2010 Rafa was world number 2. Roger world number 1
Roger played Saturday Night. Rafa played Sunday Day!

The Australian Open is the only tournament which is consistent in scheduling. Its no guessing game.

TYPO:
What I meant to say was
"That is how I know how to buy my tickets to see Rafa and Roger. World number 1 plays the NIGHT session on the first Saturday. World number 2 plays the day session on the first sunday."

The 32 seeds at the USO 2010:


2010 US Open Men's Singles Seeds

1. Rafael Nadal, Spain
2. Roger Federer, Switzerland
3. Novak Djokovic, Serbia
4. Andy Murray, Great Britain
5. Robin Soderling, Sweden
6. Nikolay Davydenko, Russia
7. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic
8. Fernando Verdasco, Spain
9. Andy Roddick, United States
10. David Ferrer, Spain
11. Marin Cilic, Croatia
12. Mikhail Youzhny, Russia
13. Jurgen Melzer, Austria
14. Nicolas Almagro, Spain
15. Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia
16. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus
17. Gael Monfils, France
18. John Isner, United States
19. Mardy Fish, United States
20. Sam Querrey, United States
21. Albert Montanes, Spain
22. Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spain
23. Feliciano Lopez, Spain
24. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia
25. Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland
26. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil
27. Fernando Gonzalez, Chile
28. Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic
29. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany
30. Juan Monaco, Argentina
31. David Nalbandian, Argentina
32. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia

Isabeau77,in 2009 Australian Open Roger opened the proceedings although he was no 2.No explanation was given by the organizers for the break from tradition but we can guess it may have been because the sponsors/networks wanted Federer who is the hottest tennis property.

Isabeau77
To further refresh your memory about AO 2009,Federer played the semifinal on Thursday and Rafa played his gruelling semifinal against Verdasco on Friday.Had the normal order been followed,it would have been Nadal who would have had an extra day of rest.

It was so obvious why. Just look at the prize giving ceremony that they set up for Roger to collect slam 14!

Draw so far:

Murray in Rafa's half and Djoko with Fed. Roger has also drawn Sod.

It was so obvious why. Just look at the prize giving ceremony that they set up for Roger to collect slam 14!

jean , 8/26/10 6:10 PM


That blew up in their faces didn't it. No wonder Roger was brought to tears.

sigh..

The fan of Nadal is always?arrogance and annoying.

And, name too

if saying the truth is arrogance and annoying.... so what we should call those who saying lies.... idiot??? crazy????

HELLO. nadal fan

observation from some of the posts above,

RF running all the GSlams and getting best draw as possible!
And he can even push RAFA'a games for his advantage,he will plan all the GS prize giving ceremonies.
He will start the proceeding in majors and if this is not beneficial, he will switch over to other options. He will avoid afternoon matches and will ensure that his rivals get to play AN sessions as much as possible.

very very interesting!

sabs, you get it wrong. It is not Fed that plan all these. It is the organizers who planned all these. Very very interesting indeed, for Fed and his followers, but not for non Fed fans and other players!

You cant deny that the AO organizers all prepared for a Fed win at the AO 09 and hoped that he gets his 14th slam there. They even get Rod Laver and those four past greats that he had beaten at the four slams to be present. My goodness even the MC there, after seeing Fed in tears, couldn't handle the situation and while letting Fed move away to cry, he introduced Rafa by saying: ' in the meantime,...' as if Rafa is there to occupy the time slot just because Fed cant composed himself to make his speech! What a way to present to us the Champion!! I really cant stand the AO organizers then, who handled the situation poorly, when Fed started to cry, non of them knew what to do, but all stood there and looked at him (even Rod Laver didn't know what to do). It was the sweet and gracious Rafa, who did the right thing by giving Fed a hug and whispering something into his ear that encouraged Fed to come forward, stopped crying and made his speech. And yet, there are still so many Fed fans who hated Rafa to the core and never give him credit or appreciate him, such ungracious people. I think Fed will feel ashamed if he knows some of his fans behaved like that.

Lucky star,

fair enough.
they could have handled it better @ AO09.

But Fed's magic play is the reason behind his success, not the favours he recieved from GS organizers.And blaming fed for RAFA's tough draw is too much from RAFA fans.

Sorry sabs, I'm not sure we are blaming Fed for Rafa's tough draw. To me Rafa's draw is not tough. What we are lamenting is about Nole, for he always end up in Fed's half at the USO and Rafa's half at the FO. Maybe some here went overboard by saying favors get Fed those slams, but we all know how good Fed is and there is no denying he gets his slams because of his brilliant plays.

[U.S. Open men's preview: Federer's road to redemption is bumpy]

Nadal gets as favorable a quarter as he'll ever see at an Open. On his side, he gets three seeded Spaniards (David Ferrer, Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco), none of whom are built for the hard courts of New York. David Nalbandian, who started the month at No. 117 but is now No. 31 seed at the Open, lurks on the bottom half of the quadrant and could provide an interesting quarterfinal test for nadal.

On the other half of Nadal's side, Andy Murray must be breathing a huge sigh of relief that he doesn't see Mardy Fish anywhere near him on the bracket. (Fish has defeated Murray three times this year on hard courts.) Not that paths to the semis are ever clear in a Grand Slam, but Murray doesn't have too many potential roadblocks in his way.
The same can't be said on the other half of the draw for No. 6 seed Nikolay Davydenko. The Russian could potentially face Richard Gasquet in the second round and a recharged Andy Roddick in the fourth. If Marcos Baghdatis can still stand after playing 19 matches in the last 30 days, he could see Mardy Fish in a marquee third round tilt. Novak Djokovic rounds out the quarter.

Roger Federer's rout to the semifinals could go through Lleyton Hewitt (third round), Jurgen Melzer (fourth round) and Robin Soderling (quarterfinal). It would be the first Grand Slam semifinal for Federer since the Australian Open.

ttp://sports.yahoo.com/tennis/blog/busted_racquet/post/U-S-Op en-men-s-preview-Federer-s-road-to-redem?urn=ten-265402

[U.S. Open men's preview: Federer's road to redemption is bumpy]

Nadal gets as favorable a quarter as he'll ever see at an Open. On his side, he gets three seeded Spaniards (David Ferrer, Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco), none of whom are built for the hard courts of New York. David Nalbandian, who started the month at No. 117 but is now No. 31 seed at the Open, lurks on the bottom half of the quadrant and could provide an interesting quarterfinal test for nadal.

On the other half of Nadal's side, Andy Murray must be breathing a huge sigh of relief that he doesn't see Mardy Fish anywhere near him on the bracket. (Fish has defeated Murray three times this year on hard courts.) Not that paths to the semis are ever clear in a Grand Slam, but Murray doesn't have too many potential roadblocks in his way.


The same can't be said on the other half of the draw for No. 6 seed Nikolay Davydenko. The Russian could potentially face Richard Gasquet in the second round and a recharged Andy Roddick in the fourth. If Marcos Baghdatis can still stand after playing 19 matches in the last 30 days, he could see Mardy Fish in a marquee third round tilt. Novak Djokovic rounds out the quarter.

Roger Federer's rout to the semifinals could go through Lleyton Hewitt (third round), Jurgen Melzer (fourth round) and Robin Soderling (quarterfinal). It would be the first Grand Slam semifinal for Federer since the Australian Open.

ttp://sports.yahoo.com/tennis/blog/busted_racquet/post/U-S-Op en-men-s-preview-Federer-s-road-to-redem?urn=ten-265402

always, Medical time out of sham of nadal

poor of all other players