US Open

A bit late on this but better late than never! Well what an interesting two weeks of tennis it was, sadly I didn't get to watch any of it as I didn't know where I would be able to get it live - and by the time it was aired I would have probably been asleep, well knowing what happens is enough for me.
Firstly it's great to see Federer off his No.1 seed spot as he has been there for the last however many Slams (though personally I would like Djokovic up top!) Sadly Berdych (someone who I was starting to like by the end of last year) went out in the 1st round, he must be suffering the czech fever! I feel that Berdych may have lost his chances to ever get into the Top 5 (which I thought was possible at one stage of his career, instead of booming this year he suffered the same fate as many other tennis players have). Though his successor Sam Querry battled on to take a set from Nadal in the 4th round - definitely a good achievement even if it is on hard courts. Ivo Karlovic also produced some good matches to get to the third round - losing to Querrey.
In section 2 Blake sadly lost to Fish and amazingly Monfils also lost to Fish, but well done to Monfils for making it to the 4th round (better than one hit wonder Tsonga!)
The next section saw a guy who is quickly jumping up my own league table of favourites; beating Ferrer, and that was Nishikori, sadly it was in the expense of Juan Monaco losing in the first round.
In Section 4 all my hopes were on Murray after Lopez suffered a Round 1 lost, he really didn't let me down making mincemeat of Wawrinka.
In section 5 Roddick also reigned supreme evn though he was very much under the radar for me throughout the tournament.
In Section 6 Djokovic was for sure going to win from here, but it was great to see Safin at least get to the second round as a lot of my favourite players seemed to have dwindled.
Sadly Tursunov failed to beat Davydenko but Third Round is a good result for him and of course this group was going to cause one of my major upsets as Haas and Gasquet were playing each other in Round 1. Thinking at least one of them would get to the third round made me feel better but from nowhere Gilles Muller defeated all his opponents en-route to the Quarterfinals!
Finally there was of course Federer which I have to say seemed rather shaky against Andreev, of course he still won but I do think that his days are dwindling.
Of course the highlight of the whole tournament would have been Murray making the final, finally we see some potential of a grand slam winner! But it would be much better to have seen Djokovic in there too as it would be the first grand slam final in ages which wouln't feature either Nadal or Federer.
Well now for the womens game. Isn't it amazing how Ivanovic has done so badly recently and she still was No.1 in the game coming to the US Open! Well for most people who have read this blog you'll know how much I think Ivanovic's No.1 spot is utter bullocks, she doesn't deserve it and instead it may actually kill her career in my opinion.
Well Julie Coin (which I think is her name) shocked us by defeating Ivanovic, well however I knew she wasn't going to reach the QF but for Miss Coin, ranked 188 in the world, at 25 years old and making her debut appearance in a WTA main draw to beat the No.1 in the world - it shows how Ivanovic should be 20 rankings below what she is now! However Amelie Mauresmo would have none of this (she still has a reasonable career to uphold!) But what made me spring up with joy (literally) was Pennetta making it to her first Slam QF.
Hantuchova yet again suffered an early loss (capping a bad year for her; not including the Australian Open success) to eventual 4th rounder Anna Lena Groenefeld - marking a solid comeback to form. Melanie Oudin (a successful junior player) tried her luck in the main draw but was unable to beat fellow wildcard Jessica Moore. Kudryavtseva however failed to improve on her Wimbledon performance by losing in the 1st round.
Section 3 saw Serena Williams lead the pack, with Nicole Vaidisova basically having the worst year of her career it was all for Serena Williams, she only lost 14 games to her 1st 4 opponents!
I would however love to see Vaidisova come back to form as she would be able to capitalize on such a weak WTA at the moment.
Whilst Section 4 also saw sister Venus dominate the matches, only losing 15 games before the QF's.
Section 5 saw Anne Keothavong make a splash by making it to the 3rd round (she is definitely showing some promise to reach the Top 50!) anyway Elena Dementieva continued her good form to win in this section but a special mention goes to Na Li as she is really looking to get back into her top game.
Sadly Dulko and Kirilenko both lost in the 1st round of Section 6 but what interested me the most was that Kuznetsova dropped out in the third round - making another favourite to go far into the tournament loose early on. Section 7 saw Bartoli do better than I wanted, sadly Lindsay Davenport was unable to stop her but at least Bammer wasn't going to let her win! Finally we had Jankovic take Section 8 (though much more difficultly than she would have wanted it to be!) She also played the Junior Champion in the 1st round I think.
Besides Schnyder and Jankovic's induction into the Quaterfinals I mainly liked the draws except for Venus and Serena having to play so early in the draw (ok Quarterfinals but both are potential finalists!) Anyway Flavia sadly lost easily to Safina but she'll have her time I'm sure. Dementieva also continued her recent success by making it to the semis. In the end I think it was predictable that Serena would win - despite everyone saying it was going to be difficult to pick I believed from the start that Serena was the favourite and now that she is No.1 it makes me even happier - to think that finally someone more stable would take No.1.