Below are the 2007 US Open Seeds (don’t bother clicking on the player links, it won’t do much good): (more…)

First round winners from the Pilot Pen include - Mardy Fish, Michael Russell, Robby Ginepri, Spadea the Gladiata, and last but certainly not least, Donald Young.  This was a monumental win for Young, who defeated fellow American Amer Delic, as he won his first ever ATP level match after failing multiple times.  Last night, after it rained all day, summer phenom John Isner defeated Benjamin Becker in straight sets in the final first round match.  Following that, James Blake took down Arnaud Clement in second round action.  Earlier, Mardy Fish upset 7th seeded Volandri to advance to the third round as well.  So, that puts two Americans in the round of 16, with five more that have a chance.  Although the remaining five will have to pull off upsets of seeds to do so. (more…)

Gasquet and Nadal both retired mid-match in Cincinnati, to Hewitt & Monaco, respectively.  Montreal Champion Novak Djokovic, who received praises in my last blog entry (and my guess is others’ as well), fell to Moya 6-4, 6-1.  I’m sure Djokovic was exhausted, and I didn’t actually see the match, but this sounds like a tank job to me, at least in the second set. 

Nadal losing was terrific news for two Americans - James Blake and Sam Querrey.  Querrey, who upset 13th seeded Youhzny now gets to face Juan Monaco instead of Nadal; and Blake will get the winner of that match in the quarters if he can pull out a win tonight against Juan Carlos Ferrero, no easy task.  The news is not as good for Andy Roddick, who has three other seeds (Ferrer, Berdych & Davydeno) in his quarter of the draw.  The happiest of all could be Roger Federer, who could get challenged by Baghdatis, but assuming he moves through his quarter will have either Moya, Meltzer or Hewitt in the semis, instead of Djokovic. (more…)

Novak Djokovic took home his second Masters tournament of 2007 by defeating Roger Federer in a tight three-set match, 7-6 (2), 2-6, 7-6 (2).  In winning the tournament, he defeated the top 3 players in the world - Roddick, Nadal, and finally Federer (after winning, Djokovic took over the no. 3 spot from Roddick).  No one has accomplished such a feat since Boom Boom Boris Becker 13 years ago.  Not that he had anything to prove, as Djokovic has been in the top 10 more or less all year, and won the Sony Ericsson, but beating Canas in the final is a whole lot different than beating the Greatest Player of All Time.  I could babble on and on about how well he played, big points, etc, but I think that would be rather boring.  What was most impressive was after having a complete mental letdown and getting smoked in the second set, he was able to muster up the mental and physical strength to win the third.  Honestly, if I polled everyone in the stands at the start of the final set, how many would have picked Djokovic?  My guess would be 27, but I think that is a generous number. (more…)

I didn’t have the time to put together a full post today, as it is pretty hectic in our office getting our tickets and tour documents ready for our clients, not to mention booking new clients all the time!  So all I’ve got our some links:

Great insight from Bodo on John Isner.  If ESPN were running a “Who’s Now” of Tennis, I think Isner would win.

In the wake of Barry Bonds becoming the new All Time Homerun King*, ESPN.com have some features on cheating across sports, tennis being one of them.

* I have no idea what the asterisk is for, it just kind of appeared as I wrote.

Bob Bryan claims tennis players have been target of match fixing. 

Muster takes out his idol, Bjorn Borg.

Pat Rafter doesn’t believe his fellow countryman, Lleyton Hewitt, can regain the No. 1 spot.  Quite frankly, neither do I.  At the same time though, I have gained plenty of respect for Hewitt over the past couple years, and hope he climbs back into the top 10 or so.

Just found this, an ESPN chat with John Isner. 

At press time, Nadal has split sets with Mathieu.  Here are the other results from Montreal today.