US Open

[jimlosaltos]

There's being great and there's being consistently great.

From Oleg S. "Random stat: Medvedev and Sinner are the only ATP players to have gone more than a year without losing to opponents ranked outside Top 50. For context: all other current Top 20 players have had at least one such loss within the past six months."

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[stotty]

There's being great and there's being consistently great.

From Oleg S. "Random stat: Medvedev and Sinner are the only ATP players to have gone more than a year without losing to opponents ranked outside Top 50. For context: all other current Top 20 players have had at least one such loss within the past six months."

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Stats like that are better looked at over a decade. A season is a flash in the pan.

[don_budge]

2024 U. S. Open...ATP 2000...New York, New York USA

Ladies and Germs...in my opinion (the first time I have used that expression in 6,789 posts) if I am allowed to have an opinion, this was the most boring U. S. Open in history. The air went out of this balloon very early on in the tournament. Carlos Alvarez found a way to disappear first and then the only player left with any charisma at all, Novak Djokovic was gone without any fanfare at all. You hardly knew that he was there in the first place. Strangely enough, his conquerer was gone in a hurry too. Who remembers his name? This ultimately fulfills the prophesy of don_budge that once Roger Federer left the stadium the tennis world would quickly collapse. With the sucking sound of the air going out of a balloon. The saving grace for the tournament for me was a young lady by the name of Emma NAVARRO. Much of her grace to her exceedingly beautiful last name. Navarro...Navarro...Navarro. It's like a song. A beautiful melody. Melancholic. Almost nostalgic. Navarro...forever etched in time. In my mind.

Without Roger Federer to exhude his charisma over the entire spector of the tournament...it was dead in the water. A great tennis writer of the past used to write that it wasn't a tennis tournament if Roger Federer wasn't in the draw. Roger created interest not only in his matches but in the possible opponents he might face later on in the draw sheet. He created interest ahead and beyond the curve. The curve in the road. Well tennis has rounded the curve and look what is ahead. A dead end. Jannik Sinner is the new poster boy? Please. Singularly the most boring number one tennis player in the world even surpassing Novak Djokovic in that regard. Pure monotony. Without the slightest hint that there is anything resembling a change of pace or artistic interpretation in his repertoire. Much like the forum nowadays. Zero flair. Mere repetition and feeding off each other. Like the announcers in the booth of tennis matches. Struggling with all their might to interject some semblence of interest in a game that is mind numbing and dull in its entirety. The characters are all dull...dull...dull. The death noll for a game that used to be played on a stage. A perfect stage. The tennis court.

Don't shoot me...I am only the messenger.

Final statistics. Beloved stats:

jimlosaltos...45
stroke...25
stotty...11
don_budge...3
seano...1
jyandell...1
junior member...1

92 responses with a total number of views 355. Many of the views can be attributed...never mind. An average of 3.9 per response. Nobody home.

[don_budge]

Aha...15 views for old budgie. That might not necessarily be good news for the old guy. But anyways...regarding the previous assessment of the 2024 U. S. Open. I read in an article that the viewing on television was down some thirty percent from last year. The article gave as reasons that Alcarez and Djokovic disappeared. I also read an article regarding the lack of appeal around Jannik Sinner. The gist of it...he is boring. So what is the sport going to do? It's an interesting question given the context of the sport of "tennis". Tennis in italics because basically it has been engineered beyond any recognition of what it used to be. Join the club as virtually all sports have followed suit and caved to the technology. The gadgets and gizmos have taken over. Virtual Morality is a word that I coined several years ago. It is the tip of the iceberg in the event we survive as a species.

The 15 views were not aided by me reviewing my own post numerous times to pad the views...btw. I'm curious as to what comes next. It appears that without interference the sport is in decline. This isn't going to be pretty.