Women's tennis just had its end-of-an-era moment a few days ago and now the men may be having an end-of-an-era moment, too 👀 jonwertheim and chrisjalmeida discuss the USOpen
All right. So, Rafa Nadal, the only member of the Big Three at this year's U.S. Open,Frances Tiafoe, knocked him off in four sets 6–4, 4–6, 6–4, 6–4. It was a really fun match. It wasn’t Nadal with his A game—it was maybe his B+ game—but this wasn’t a bad match from him. Tiafoe really went and took it. And now we're left with the most wide-open draw that we've seen at a major on the men's side in a long time. Last time a draw looked anything like this was in 2020 at the bubble U.
And apologies to Marin Cilic, but I think we will likely have a new U.S. Open champion. This wasn't like 2020. This wasn’t the favorite getting bounced for hitting a linesperson in the throat. This was a real win for the guy on the other side of the net.So, yes, to linger on the really impressive performance from Tiafoe today: the serve was huge and he got himself out of a lot of jams with it. A lot of flat balls in the high 130s painting the lines.
There's been a lot of talk about Frances since he was a junior, but now he’s getting his first genuine opportunity. If we can look at the draw for a second: we've pretty much got all young players left. And as far as late-round major experience goes, there's not a ton of it left. So this could be right there for the taking. Andrey Rublev is next, and he’s no pushover.
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