If You Read Nothing Else Today, Read This Report on Nadal

But I did manage to stay awake, barely, for last night’s men’s final between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic Stanislas Wawrinka. My guess is Robredo bores the Swiss gentleman into dropping one set and Wawrinka moves on to a much more entertaining opponent in the quarters. Kenny Ortega that continually fills the frame with the aesthetically ominous in much the same way that Tim Burton does. It wasn’t the way the tournament was supposed to play out, but it happened. Federer is playing Federer-like tennis again (close enough) after his fall from grace in 2013, while Nadal is the World No. 1 and top seed in the Australian Open, the tournament he missed one year ago with a severe knee injury. This will be a classic example of exciting tennis that only the hardcore racket head will likely see. A potential Semifinal berth stands at the precipice for both mean and both know they will rarely see a better big tournament opportunity. I expect to see both swinging for the fences, with many wild swings of momentum and for those that venture to watch it (likely as the last match on Armstrong tomorrow for those who are able to preserve until the end of the day) a five set classic on the horizon.

I don’t go to a lot of music festivals (people are too sweaty and it is way too hot), but I know someone who promotes them and I was once told that in the music festival industry they have what are called “skip” bands. A YouTube spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal that T-Mo’s been lowering the quality of its videos to 480p even though the company hasn’t agreed to anything. The Wall Street Journal’s Jennifer Valentino-DeVries has published a list of Steve Jobs’s great quotes. Great law libraries are the treasuries of a legal system. Seven other fast-food brands with more than 2,600 outlets combined in Russia could also take a financial hit from any decisions to pull out, even though nearly all of those restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees. Nadal, the tournament’s favorite, wasn’t at 100 percent in the match, but that shouldn’t take away from Wawrinka’s improbable run through the tournament.

So take a break and wait for Kanye (or Monfils vs Dimitrov) to take the stage a bit later. A similar match could be in store here, in a battle that likely will be a setup for a huge quarterfinal against either Dimitrov or Monfils. But when C2C finished the album, we will do a tour as well! Between them, they have two career Grand Slam quarterfinals to their resume, cementing their reputations as top level tour professional journeymen. Both players have made a career of getting to this exact spot in a Grand Slam draw and then losing. It was previously involved in a government effort to fight voting misinformation, but here could use publicly accessible social media to spot trouble. These are the people who love the game, so long as Serena, Federer or Nadal are playing, and who tennis is more an annual social event, rather than a passion. But for those that are one step above the casual, for whom the Top 20 in tennis is a regular follow and entertaining matches are always sought to be found, Dimitrov/Monfils is the Round of 16 treat. The US Open in New York, possibly more than any other tournament of the year, has a significant amount of “casual” tennis fans.

Those people add to the spectacle of the US Open and are a big reason the crowds can be so intense on those special Ashe Stadium nights. Tomas Berdych is the most boring top level player outside of David Ferrer (and I am not convinced they are not the same person), while Dominic Thiem is here primarily because Ernests Gulbis was Ernests Gulbis in their match. Simon upset David Ferrer and Tomas Berdych stands as possibly the most beatable of the power 8 players remaining. Neither Cilic or Simon are marketable names, but both play exciting games and both are looking at this as potentially their breakout moment. Both are battling injuries — Federer has old man feet; half of Nadal’s hand is missing — but both know the importance of tonight’s match and long to be the one holding the ink pen when this chapter of history is written.

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