U. S. Open Tennis Blog

The U.S. Open is all about the best players in tennis. Who might you see at the 2010 U.S. Open? You might see Rafeal Nadal a top player in tennis and currently ranked number two in men’s tennis. Women love him around the world and was recently one of the world’s sexiest men of 2009. He is an avid player and has been playing professional tennis for nine years now. He is a young and excellent player and was playing in the world spotlight and a young age of fourteen. He has won many tournaments and continues to excel. With a little more practice and the ability to stay healthy you can expect repeat returns in all the major male tennis events.

Nadal is young and athletic and built for the game standing just over six feet tall and only one hundred and eighty eight pounds. He can move around the court quickly and can reach for the ball with his long arms. His abilities are compared to another great Federer whose abilities have been unmatched on the court until this young and upcoming athlete hit the big times.

He won the 2009 Australian Open and has a list of other grand slam singles wins all over the world. This young athlete is aggressive and has great placement on the court. He hits hard and can move around the court with great athleticism. His aggressiveness is what leads him to great victories.

Well his aggressiveness on offensive is great. From that he can play a terrific defense and counter attacks from his opponent with great ferocity and determination. His will power to succeed and win forces him to play hard and achieve many victories over his opponents. His ability to play aggressive offense and still make defensive plays makes him a great player.

He has few weaknesses and a major folly for him is his second serve. So at each serve he hopes to get it over the net and in play. For each mistake made could cost him a round or even a match. With hard work and practice he can improve and become a better player. He will be interesting to watch and see him grow as an athlete in the coming years for I believe that he has many more to come. So keep your eyes peeled for this Spain native to reach the top and expect him next year at the U.S. Open.

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The U.S. Open is all about the best players in tennis. Who might you see at the 2010 U.S. Open? You might see Roger Federer. He is currently ranked number one in the world and holds numerous title wins everywhere in the world. His rating comes from the Association of Tennis Professionals. He was born in the town of Binningen Switzerland. He grew up playing tennis and started at a young age. He also was an avid soccer player and had wanted to go professional in that sport. He decided to stop playing soccer and focus on his tennis game.

He has been proclaimed as the greatest tennis player in the history of the game. Federer has won the career Grand Slam and has appeared in the last twenty two Grand Slam events. He is an extraordinary player with lots of talent and can outperform many on the court. His offensive is superb and defenses is strong. He outplays most his opponents and has won many titles and regular match play games.

He has many records and holds that are his and his alone. There is only one that he shares and that is with Rafeal Nadal. That record is for holding Grand Slam titles on three surfaces clay, grass, and hard court. As well as a tennis person he is a spokesperson for numerous charitable organizations.

His charities are numerous and include UNICEF which he publicly endorse with commercials for AIDs and other diseases that the organization help with funding money for cures and helping the people and regions of the world devastated by the disease. He has also helped flood victims from the tsunami and holds tennis events to raise money and awareness for his causes.

His style is like no other and can hit the call with ferocity and agility. His athleticism allows him to play on any surface and excel at each one. Well most players are good on a certain type of court whether grass, clay, or a hard court. Federer has the ability to play on any of them exceptionally well. He has been named the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year four times in the past five years due to all that he has done for the sport. And his fans don’t just include the normal people but players that he faces in matches. This due to the fact that he can play anywhere which few can say they can do. Look for him as a strong candidate to win the next U.S. Open next year and possibly many more as he has been called the greatest player by opponents and sports enthusiast the world over.

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The U.S. Open is all about the best players in tennis. Who might you see at the 2010 U.S. Open? You might see Serena Williams a very good and excellent player. She has been rated in the top ten for most of her career. Barring her injury to a tendon that was repaired and slowed her down for a time until a recent rise over the past few years. And ranked her at the lowest she had ever seen one hundred eighty one. She is once again ranked in the top ten and competing like she did early on in her career.

She has won more title and grand slams then most players of her day. One of her main competitors is her sister Venus. They have competed for Grand Slam titles numerous times and it is the first time that two sisters have competed for four of them in one year. Serena has won more prize money than any other female in history in tennis and continues to rake in the big pots. The competition between sisters is fierce and always a good match. They are pretty even on the court and the record between the two shows it.

Serena is an offensive player with one of the strongest serves in the game. Some say that she plays to aggressive and lacks defense. That however is a misconception. They do say defense wins championships and she has plenty of them to prove it. She can hit the ball with great placement no matter where in the court she receives the ball from. She holds a strong open stance in both her forehand and backhand stroke. She can do great things on the court with a superior serve and a tremendous back hand that is said to be the best in females’ tennis. And her serves strike fear in her opponents with consistent serves well over a hundred miles per hour.

Her background in tennis has been long and deep and has played since a young child. Her and her sister were coached by their parents and have done exceptionally well. During their pre teenager years they were both on the junior tennis tour and Serena was ranked number one. One thing has not changed and that is that she is still and has always been since a young age a force to reckon with. Her parents pulled the sisters off the junior tour due to racisism that the father had noted from the white parents. So he took them off and continued coaching her. Which made her a great player and she continues to win. Race was never an issue for her and winning is not either.

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The U.S. Open is all about the best players in tennis. Who might you see at the 2010 U.S. Open? You might see Maria Sharapova a young Russian all star. This young athlete from Russia was born into poverty. At the age of seven her father decided that life in poverty was not for his daughter and they moved to the United States. She was enrolled in a tennis academy and competed in junior competitions. At the age of 17 she burst into the spotlight with her first major win at Wimbledon. She has been ranked number one multiple times and has many endorsements.

She is the highest paid female in women sports. This is partially due to all her endorsements and appearance fees. Although much of it comes from matches that she plays in the WTA. Her endorsements include but are not limited to Canon, Nike and multiple others. Her career as of late has been shaky following surgery to her shoulder two years ago.

She took almost a year off and dropped from her top ten rank to below one hundred during her hiatus. This though did not take long for her to retain her top national ranking within a few months of her return to the circuit. She is a great player on grass and hard surfaces. Her weakness is clay due to the fact that it slows the ball down and is harder to move on. Though she has as of recently started to put a little more focus on her clay game it still is her hardest surface to win on. Although she has started to gain on the clay courts she still is behind on some of the other tennis players she competes with.

She is also one of the most attractive players in the game. She has done numerous photo shoots with Maxim and Sports Illustrated along with many other modeling opportunities. FHM magazine out of Britain recently did an article on her. They listed her as one of the top most eligible bachelorette. This was based on her financial income as a top paid athlete and her good looks.

I f she can stay healthy and keep her record strong it is more than likely she will be in the 2010 U.S. Open. With an aggressive baseline attack and strong defense she is a strong competitor. She prefers hanging back and playing from there rather than rushing the net and the lobs from the opponent. She would much rather wait for the ball and control the tempo of the game.

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The U.S. Open is all about the best players in tennis. Who might you see at the 2010 U.S. Open? You might see Elena Dementieva a Russian born tennis female tennis player. She has been playing tennis many years and has made it to the U.S. Open before. She has been playing tennis since she was a young child. Her family has supported and coached her. She has also had professional coaching from schools and regular tennis coaches. Her mother and brother are now her full time coaches keeping her family close. She won her first international event in 1997 at the age of thirteen.

When she first entered the Women’s Tennis association after a year after her first international win she was ranked in the top 500. Within a year she was ranked in the top 100. She had many victories and rose quickly up the ranking. The highest rank that she has ever been is three and currently sits at the number 4 spot. So it is highly likely that she will make it to next year’s 2010 U.S. Open.

Her first time to the top ten ranking was in 2003 after she beat out many of the top seeded players to win her first WTA tournament. She has never won at the U.S. Open but has made it to the finales twice once in the singles competition and once in the doubles. She is one of the few top rated tennis players to never win a grand slam title though she has competed in many.

Her style of play is a baseline offense with very little play at the net. Her trips to the net are usually to return a drop shot or a weak return volley. Her athleticism is essential to her success. She has the ability to adapt to different court surfaces well clay she is the least comfortable with. Her serve is faulty and she has been working on bettering them.

She is a very versatile player and continues to be. Her athleticism helps her tremendously and is more than likely the reason she is not plagued with injury like so many other tennis players. Though she has not won many tournaments she has brought home Olympic gold which proves that she is able to win against the world’s best. I believe that it is only a matter of time before she starts winning tournaments and possibly making the U.S. Open in the next year. For tennis tickets visit http://usopentickets.org

The U.S. Open is all about the best players in tennis. Who might you see at the 2010 U.S. Open? You might see Gilles Simon a French Professional player. He is the second best player in France rated on the chart at number ten while his fellow country man is rated number nine. While some athletes have some type of background in sports his family was not one of them. His father was a doctor and his mother worked for an insurance company. He started playing tennis at the age of six. Backed by his parents he started to enter junior tournaments in his home country. He is an average player with tremendous potential. While he has played at the U.S. Open for the last four years he has yet to move past the third round.

During his early career he won multiple tournaments in single match play. Well his career is still relatively young and fresh he has yet to win any of the major open matches. He has also never won any of the majors that he has attended. He has though competed and won tournaments and has continually rose in the ranking in the Association of Tennis Professionals. He has continued to work on his game and to becoming one of the top players in today’s game.

With that being said he is one of only four people to beat the top three ranked players who are considered to be the tennis superstars winning most events hands down. He is not known as being a very offensive player on the court but more defensive minded. His two handed backstroke is considered to be his best stroke. While his forehand has seen scrutiny from people in the tennis community. His forehand stroke is technically challenging for him and gives the ball an awkward angle. And has been compared to one of tennis all time greats Andre Agassi. Though he has worked on his offense considerably displaying a new offensive force previously unseen from Simon.

With continued success in the season he is a strong competitor for the next U.S. Open in 2010. With hopes he may be able to move up a few more ranks and possibly win a grand slam event. As long as he continues to work on his offense and becomes a more aggressive player. With as many times as he has seen the court at grand slam events time should prove that he is ready for a win. Possibly the next U.S. Open. See Tickets at http://usopentickets.org

Previously, we discussed here some changes that could make the big tennis tournaments such as the U.S. Open, Wimbledon and the others, more compelling, especially for newcomers who have avoided the sport. Here are a few more changes that should be made.

1) For all of the non-major doubles tournaments, there should be a 25 percent increase in the field size. A doubles tournament usually has half as many rounds as a singles, but since the teams have two players, the tournament has just as many players. Thus, by increasing the field size by a fourth, you can accommodate the extra singles players without impacting the doubles participants much.
2) Anyone who plays while injured and then withdraws during the first round should forfeit his or her prize money. There have been too many instances lately of in-match withdrawals from those who should never have played in the first place because of their injuries. This denied someone else in a healthier condition a spot on the field. This doesn’t mean that those who are injured during the match should be punished—but those who know they are not up to snuff before the match should not be encouraged to play.
3) The champion from each of the major tournament should automatically be invited back the next year. You might think this always happens, but there are a few rare instances when it does not. For instance, in 2005, Wayne Arthurs won a single ATP title over Mario Ancic. A year later, his ranking had fallen to where he was almost guaranteed to automatically get in—but not quite. And instead of allowing Arthurs a wild card to get into the tournament as defending champion, he had to go through qualifying and was defeated. But a player who is good enough to win the tournament last year should automatically qualify for the next year. It just makes sense. After all, wouldn’t the other players in the tournament want to have their chance at challenging the reigning champ?
4) And finally, mo longer should there be any wild cards granted to players who are outside of the top 200 to grand slams just to pad participation in round one. This just encourages bad match-ups.

So these are our suggestions for improving all of the major tennis tournaments, including the U.S. Open. But none of these changes mean much if you’re not there to see them. To see next year’s U.S. Open in person, remember that the best tickets at the best prices can be purchased here: http://usopentickets.org

Another U.S. Open has come and gone and now the tennis world prepares for the 2010 edition. This is a good time to reflect—on what things are good about tennis and where the sport could be improved. Here are three changes that could make this excellent sport a great one.

1) The three main governing bodies should merge. While the ATP, ITF and WTA have begun working more closely together, a better solution would be a complete merger. This would be more efficient and ensure that there’s less confusion in the sport because there will be just one ruling authority. Let there be no mistake: Most of the confusion about the rules in tennis comes from the fact that there is more than one governing authority.
2) There should be a ranking bonus for those tennis players who play doubles. By creating an incentive for them to play both, they will likely be more willing to accept the extra toll on their bodies. Anyone who plays in both should get a 20 percent increase in ratings points inthat tournament in both doubles and singles.
3) It would be nice of all grand slam finals, with the exception of juniors, were sets of best-of-five. This would not be unprecedented, since the WTA Tour Championship final, from 1983 to 1998, were best-of-five. And anyone who saw those games know that many of the finals from those years were quite competitive and entertaining. As of now, the only major tournament with gentlemen’s doubles that go best-of-give is Wimbledon, but in an ideal world, all of the tournaments should do so—at least during the finals.
4) There are coaches in school tennis, why not in professional tennis? Coaching from the coaches’ boxes should be a no-brainer. Some people have suggested this might slow down the game, but there are ways of handling this to keep it from happening.
5) The ATP, ITF and WTA all proscribe 20 seconds to serve between points, but this is rarely enforced. Enforcing this 20 second service rule would do much to speed up tennis. In fact, it might even be a good idea to have a clock installed that is stared by the chair umpire after each point, and which beeps after 20 seconds. If the clock beeps, the player is then charged with a fault.

All of these suggestions are easily implemented and could make next year’s U.S. Open, as well as the other big tennis event,, more accessible to newcomers to the game. See http://usopentickets.org for more on U.S. Open Tennis

Every year millions tune in around the world to watch tennis’s greatest athletes compete for the title at the US Open. It is no wonder the US Open has become one of the premier sporting events to attend, with New York City just ten miles away as its inviting backdrop. But tennis lovers need not think they have to hop on the Long Island Expressway to get a taste of New York city life. The borough of Queens, home to Corona, NY and the US Open, has the same big city offerings at a more suburban price!

If it is an eclectic selection of ethnic food you’re after, Queens will not disappoint. Queens just so happens to be the most diverse county in the United States; and thanks to that fact you can find delicious, authentic dishes on every corner. Try Il Toscana- its Northern Italian fare that will make you feel like you went all the way to Little Italy. It’s easier on the wallet, yet not on portions. If it’s a thick juicy steak or a romantic evening you are craving, Uncle Jack’s Steakhouse is a favorite of both visitors and locals. They’re open for both lunch and dinner. If Thai food is more your flavor, try Sripraphai. The only thing missing on this menu is the Manhattan price tag! And of course, if things don’t go in favor of your favorite player on the courts, head over to Donovan’s Irish pub to drown your sorrows in a pint of Guinness; or just indulge in some Irish favorites like Sheppard’s Pie or their renowned fish & chips with homemade tartar sauce!

Manhattan isn’t the only place to get your fill of art and culture in New York. Make time to visit the Queens Museum of Art. New York is notably hot and humid in late August and early September. Skip the early match and head into the air-conditioned comfort of this lovely gem. The building was originally constructed in 1939 for the World’s Fair, and also held the UN’s General Assembly in the late 1940’s. Today it serves as one of New York major art museums. QMA’s most famous piece is the Panorama of New York. It’s a model, built to scale, of New York’s five boroughs that was created for the World’s Fair in the 1960’s. The museum is also known for its many international exhibits that represent the multi-cultural background of Queens itself.

If you can brave the heat, or get lucky enough to have a breezy day in Queens, try the Queens Zoo. The zoo is open everyday, from 10am to 5pm (5:30pm on weekends and holidays). It’s just $7 for adults, $3 for kids and $4 for seniors. Kids under 3 get in free! What better way to spend a day in Queens than hanging out with Winton the swan or Holiday the donkey? Located in the heart of the borough on a sprawling 5 acres, the Queens Zoo was also constructed for the famous World’s Fair in 1964. However, the zoo underwent a 4 year, 16 million dollar overhaul from 1988 to 1992. Today the zoo is complete with an array of American animals, a modern aviary and even a petting zoo. It is definitely not to be missed while in Queens!

So book your flight to LaGuardia Airport for the two-week tennis tournament from August 31 to September 13, but forget the rental car or even the train ticket! Queens has everything you need to truly experience New York life. This year, if you’re a baseball fan, you can also catch a Mets game in Queens. They will be playing at home on Citi Field September 4- 6 and September 8- 10. Cool off after the game with a stop at the infamous Lemon Ice King stand, just around the corner. Follow these tips and your trip to the Open will be so much more than a tennis tournament! It will be vacation you remember for years to come. For more visit:  http://usopentickets.org

The 2010 U.S. Open Tennis Championships runs from August through September 2010, and will be held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
This year, the Open offers an impressive 21.6 Million dollar purse, making this the third year in a row where the tournament’s prize money has increased by $1 million dollars. There is also the possibility of an additional 2.6 million dollars for the top three men’s and the top three women’s finishers in the Olympus US Open Series. This is the largest purse offering in the history of the U.S. Tennis Open Championships.
The extra perks that come along with the 5.8% bump in last year’s record purse, are the 2010 Lexus IS Convertible offered to both U.S. Open Singles champions, and the knowledge that the prizes are equal between the men and women contestants. All players receive per diem payments to help with the cost of participation in the event.
The favored top ten entry list for the men includes:
• Rodger Federer of Switzerland
• Rafael Nadal of Spain
• Andy Murray of Great Britain
• Novak Djokovic of Serbia
• Andy Roddick of Austin, TX
• Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina
• Gilles Simon of France
• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France
• Fernando Verdasco of Spain
• Fernando Gonzalez of Chile
Eight of the male entrants have won Grand Slam singles during their careers
The favored top ten entry list for the women includes:
• Dinara Safina of Russia
• Serena Williams of Palm Beach Gardens, FL
• Venus Williams of Palm Beach Gardens, FL
• Elena Dementieva of Russia
• Kuznetsova of Russia
• Jelena Jankovic of Serbia
• Vera Zvonareva of Russia
• Victoria Azarenka of Belarus
• Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark
• Nadia Petrova of Russia
Of these two line-ups, Rodger Federer of the men’s roster, and Serena Williams of the women’s roster, are favored to win first place based on previous wins and performance.
Rodger Federer has previously won five consecutive U.S. Open singles titles last year, and made Grand Slam history this year in Wimbledon. He also broke Pete Sampras previous record for most Grand Slam Singles titles with a total of 15. He currently leads the men’s singles which puts him foremost on most speculators’ lists for taking home the big purse.
For the women, Serena Williams is the favorite. She is the defending U.S. Open Champion with previous wins in both 1999 and 2002.
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