The draw for the 2014 US Open Tennis Open was released as early as Monday and attracted much attention.
In area 1/4, Djokovic is in charge.
Overall, the competition in this area is not strong, and there is a lack of strong opponents worth mentioning. The biggest highlight is to wait until the quarterfinals, because the quarterfinals match is the eighth seed Murray. If everything goes well, Djoko
The two giants, Veach and Murray, will compete for a spot in the semi-finals.
But the premise is that Murray needs to face the ninth seed Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga (Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga) who just defeated him in the Rogers Cup in the fourth round. Only by passing the test can he be in the quarterfinals.
Teacher Djokovic.
In Zone 2/4, Wawrinka leads the way.
This is also considered a dead zone, with No. 5 seed Raonic, No. 10 seed Kei Nishikori, No. 13 seed Isner, and No. 21 seed Mikhail-Youzhny.
All are concentrated here, among which Raonic is the champion of this year's US Open series, and his competitiveness is very strong.
In addition, rising stars Kyrgios, Sock, and Vasek-Pospisil were all drawn into this division.
District 3/4, Ferrell is in charge.
This area is generally regarded as a melee of heroes, because the strength is close and there are countless development possibilities. Ferrer, nicknamed "Stable Man", has always lacked a kind of domineering in the Grand Slam arena. Although he has been in the semi-finals of the Australian Open twice,
A two-time US Open semi-finalist and 2012 French Open runner-up, his resume is very impressive, but he is still not a giant-level player.
In this area, players such as Berdych, Marin Cilic, Ernests Gulbis, Kevin Anderson, etc. all gather
, everyone has the possibility of breakthrough, but no one has the strength to win.
Moreover, the former world No. 1 Hewitt is also in this division. In addition, Tim is also here.
In area 4/4, Federer leads the way.
Despite the lack of strong competitors, potential landmines are everywhere, with Gael-Monfils, Richard Gasquet, Fabio Fognini
Fabio-Fognini) and Roberto-Bautista-Agut (Roberto-Bautista-Agut) and so on.
All of them are competitive and impactful players who can cause chaos.
In addition, in the quarterfinals, Federer will face Dimitrov, known as "Little Federer". If they can meet, it will also be an interesting matchup.
Looking at the four major divisions, overall, the upper half is full of difficulties, while the lower half is more open to competition. If you want to create an upset, then 3/4 and 4/4 are undoubtedly the best choices.
But drawing lots still requires a little bit of luck.
Normally, the draw of qualifying matches and wild card players receives almost no media attention because the attention of the players is basically close to zero.
Unless it is a special situation like Serena Williams coming back from injury and taking a wild card to play in the Grand Slam, people will wonder which division the queen will disrupt. Otherwise, who cares about which draw the qualifying and wild card players enter.
Where is the seat?
But today, Zhan Jun and Hu Litao arrived at the press conference early, waiting for the lottery results——
No matter what, they all wanted to see where Gao Wen, a Chinese male single, would be assigned, and unlike Wu Di and Zhang Ze before, precisely because they knew nothing about Gao Wen, they were inevitably looking forward to it even more.
Especially when I saw the three glittering challenge trophies, I tried my best to suppress my expectations, but I still couldn't control my expectations.
The process of making up the lottery is very simple. It starts from the 1/4 area and ends with the 4/4 area. Every time you see a space, just draw the name of a qualifying player or wild card player in the box, and then paste it accordingly.
Zone 1/4...No.
Hu Litao secretly regretted that he missed the opportunity——
Aleksandr-Nedovyesov, Pablo-Carreno-Busta, and Radek-Stepanek
All are unseeded players.
Among them, Nedovsoev is mediocre, basically at the challenge level; Stepanek has been brilliant before, and even entered the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2006, but now his form has declined significantly, and he may not be able to fight hard.
No chance.
Pity.
Soon, the lottery ceremony entered the 2/4 area.
Zhan Jun has a good eye. With a quick scan, he noticed that Raonic, Kei Nishikori, Lukas-Rosol and Benjamin-Becker all had their matchups drawn.
It is temporarily vacant; moreover, the bottom slot in the 3/8 district draw is aimed at the 13th seed Isner.
The situation is not good.
The entire 2/4 area was not very good. Zhan Jun couldn't help but shook his head secretly, touched Hu Litao with his elbow and gave a signal with his eyes.
Hu Litao reacted immediately and frowned. He also noticed Isner for the first time.
Isner, this is a tough guy. Not only is he the current No. 1 player in the United States, his world ranking in the first half of the year once entered the top ten; he is also the most difficult type of player to deal with on the tour——
Serve cannon.
After Andy Roddick, Isner is the representative cannon of the new generation of American basketball teams. His serving skills are very good. He needs speed, power, and angle.
Moreover, the most terrifying thing is that the second serve also has the ability to speed up, and can use rotation to break the balance when needed, which also ensures his stability.
Compared with Roddick, Isner is two meters tall, and his biggest shortcoming is his mobility.
In the tour, any player will have a headache when encountering Isner, because Isner's serve is very stable, basically impregnable, even in the final set, which means that Isner's serve is very stable.
Snell's serve was hard to find opportunities for.
And if he makes a slight mistake in his serve, Isner only needs a break point, which may mean that the game is over.
On Isner’s resume, the most impressive achievements include:
One is the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon Tennis Championships, when he and Nicholas Mahut (s-Mahut) teamed up to create a historical record.
The two players scored "70:68" in the fifth set of the deciding set. The game lasted for three days and took a total of 11 hours and five minutes. It broke the longest game and had the most total games.
, the most aces in a single game, the most winning points in a single game, and a series of other records.
In the end, Isner won.
In the past, Grand Slam tournaments uniformly adopted a best-of-five-set system, and the deciding set must be a "long-set tiebreaker." That is to say, when the two sides reached a "6:6" tie, it did not enter a tie-break, but a tie-break.
It takes one side to win two games in a row to win, and this is what created the miracle between Isner and Mahu.
Later, for the sake of television broadcasts, the long-set tiebreaker system gradually disappeared from the four Grand Slams, which also meant that the historical record of Isner and Mahut could not be broken.
Second, in the first round of the French Open in 2011, he became the first player in history to force Nadal into a deciding set in the French Open. Although Nadal eventually won in five sets, the game still went down in history——
This is still the case until 2021, because Nadal has only played two five-set matches at the French Open, one of which was against Isner.
From here we can see how difficult Isner is, and this is obviously not the best matchup choice in the first round.