US Open Tennis

Federer smashes Djokovic...

Andy Murray eases past Nadal...

The hard-courts seem to catch up on the clay court specialists every year... their months of running must take its toll on their body.

R

I haven't caught much of it but what I have seen has been excellent.

Roddick-Djokovic was brilliant!

The Fed returns to Grand Slam glory.

He's the first man to win five consecutive US Opens since Bill Tilden in the 1920s.. and I is the first guy for a very long time to win any grand slam five times in a row.

And he hammered Andy Murray 6-2 7-5 6-2 and still isn't playing at his best. He had some totally brilliant moments though.

R

Caught a few sets of this on TV this morning before work...he's a fucking machine, eh? Such power!

Especially on true-bounce courts (unlike clay) which are medium or faster - over the course of a career he'll win five times as many as Nadal possibly could. You only needed to see some of Federer's inside-out forehands to see that no-one - clay-court master or not - could run those down.

R

*yawn*yawn*

Same fucken spew you had before Wimbledon started. No one is doubting Rogers greatness but stop taking things away from Nadal ...

Um.. just carrying on with my completely correct predictions from months ago, and for the benefit of those who really don't know much about tennis but think they do and who seem to think Nadal is a better player in-general because he won two majors in a row while the best player was recovering from a long illness.

R

Dont make excuses for him. What illness?

You're kidding right? Glandular fever for six months.

R

Dude they said he was back at full strengh in March and in April when questioned if he was still struggling with it he said no. Like I said, don't make excuses for him.

And months after that he was sick again - as is common with glandular fever.

His stats from the French and Wimbledon prove he was underperforming in pretty much all areas.

The day he plays his best and gets beaten by Nadal on grass I'll concede the point. Until then Nadal is not the be-all of tennis that many claim - purely because he's tanned and wears a singlet.

R