A great tournament overview
In the late 2000s, the U.S. Open Series branded itself as “the greatest road trip in sports.” Fast forward a few years and it is now the greatest reality show in sports. The show is now taking its talents from Montreal to Cincinnati, where there is already plenty of reason to think that chaos and controversy are nowhere close to an end anytime soon.
As for what may transpire on the court, the Western & Southern Open has all the makings of what should be wildly entertaining tennis from start to finish. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Fernando Verdasco, for example, have to face each other in the first round. The same goes for Milos Raonic and Feliciano Lopez, Gael Monfils and Jerzy Janowicz, Gilles Simon and Ivo Karlovic, and Richard Gasquet and Nick Kyrgios.
Like in Montreal, the top eight seeds have opening byes. Among that impressive crowd are Novak Djokovic…
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Who is grandstand picking now that isner is gone? Lol
No idea