Thursday, August 26, 2010

Federer, Murray Head US Open Favorites

Roger Federer defended his Cincy Masters title on Sunday, while Andy Murray defended his Canada Masters title the week before. Both men currently share the leaderboard at the US Open Series Bonus Challenge (Murray owns the tiebreaker), and should be considered co-favorites going into next week's US Open.

Here are the projected quarterfinal match-ups:

Top half:
[1] R Nadal (ESP) vs [8] F Verdasco (ESP)
[4] A Murray (GBR) vs [7] T Berdych (CZE)

Bottom half:
[2] R Federer (SUI) vs [5] R Soderling (SWE)
[3] N Djokovic (SRB) vs [6] N Davydenko (RUS)

Are we going to see a repeat of the 2008 US Open Men's Final? Or is this the year when either Nadal or Djokovic can finally break through in New York?

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