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Its been quite a while
The New York Yankees acheived their goal of their 27 World Championship last night and my work here is done
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More Analysis

My pick is still undecided. But I am liking Elena Dementieva. She has clearly been the most consistent player for a while now and looks ready to win a slam. She absolutely obliterated Serena at Toronto so she obviously can do it.
A look at the other top players:

Safina---- no. she has not played consistent tennis especially here on the hardcourts and I mean look at her granslam history!!! not so great.

Venus---- the way Venus has been playing since her loss at Wimbledon has just been awful. Early round losses and just poor tennis has given people the idea of her not winning this major. I hope that she can turn it on and play good tennis but Im not so sure the way she has been hitting the ball lately

Serena---- Serena has certainly proven herself to be the best womens tennis player this year. SHE IS THE #1 PLAYER!!! she plays amazing when it counts and is so tough mentally. I think she has the best shot of anyone to do well in New York but like her sister her play in the US Open series was inconsistent. Lost to Stosur in Stanford, Bammer at Cincinatti, and Dementieva at Toronto. But if she turns on her game she will do well.

The Serbian Girls---- This year has been tough for these two women have struggled. Ivanovics fall has been much more difficult to watch as she has tumbled in the rankings and has lost to very low ranked players. Jelena has started to smile again w/ a win in Cincinatti but has also played inconsistent tennis. I look for Jelena to go far and Ana to fall early but dont expect either to win in New York

Sharapova--- I want Maria to win. Its just plain and simple as that. I miss her fire from the Womens game and I really hope for her to do well here. I believe if Maria can carry that gutsy play she played w/ in Toronto than she can go far here. The draw is difficult for her though. The biggest match of the tournament will be the third round match vs. Dementieva. Maria is looking for revenge and I think she has a great chance. She will probably be rested if she can get through the first 2 rounds easily and she will not crack under the pressure

DRAW PREDICTIONS:

QF:

Safina vs. Jankovic ------------- Jankovic wins
Sharapova/Dementieva(not sure) vs. Kuznetsova------ Sharapova/Dementieva wins
Radwanska vs. Venus----------- Venus wins
Pennetta vs. Serena------------- Serena wins

SF:

Dementieva/Sharapova vs. Jankovic------------- Dementieva/ Sharapova wins
Serena vs. Venus ---------------------------------- Serena wins

Final:
Dementieva/Sharapova vs. Serena ------------ Dementieva Sharapova wins

so I believe that winner of the sharapova/dementieva match will win the championship. I like both women but a Sharapova win would be extraordinary

US Open Draw Revealed:: Analysis

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal could meet in the U.S. Open final for the first time. Serena and Venus Williams will not be able to reprise their sibling rivalry in the year’s last Grand Slam final. The No. 1-seeded Federer and No. 3 Nadal were drawn into opposite halves of the field for the U.S. Open, which begins Monday. They have played in seven major finals as Nos. 1-2, including at each of the other three Grand Slam tournaments, with Nadal holding a 5-2 edge. But because Nadal recently fell to third in the rankings, there was a possibility the two men who have dominated tennis in recent years would wind up on the same side of the bracket in New York. Instead, 15-time Grand Slam champion Federer has No. 4 Novak Djokovic and No. 5 Andy Roddick in his half. Federer, who is seeking a sixth consecutive U.S. Open championship, edged Roddick 16-14 in the fifth set of the Wimbledon final in July.

The Williams sisters won’t have a rematch of their Wimbledon final, in which Serena beat Venus for her 11th Grand Slam singles title. That was the sisters’ eighth all-in-the-family final at a major, and Serena leads 6-2. But at the U.S. Open, the second-seeded Serena and No. 3 Venus were drawn for a possible semifinal. The draw took place Wednesday and was announced Thursday. The potential men’s quarterfinals are Federer vs. No. 8 Nikolay Davydenko, and Roddick vs. Djokovic in the top half; No. 2 Andy Murray vs. No. 6 Juan Martin del Potro, and Nadal vs. No. 7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the bottom half. Nadal could face Murray in the semifinals for the second straight year at the U.S. Open; Murray upset Nadal in 2008 to reach his first Grand Slam final. Nadal’s first Grand Slam action since his fourth-round loss at the French Open will start with an intriguing opponent: Richard Gasquet, the former top-10 player coming off a 2 1/2 -month suspension for testing positive for cocaine. Federer starts off against American wild-card recipient Devin Britton, an 18-year-old who won the NCAA singles championship for Mississippi in May. Federer, trying to become the first man since the 1920s to win the tournament six years in a row, could play two-time major champion Lleyton Hewitt in the third round, U.S. Davis Cup player James Blake in the fourth, and French Open runner-up Robin Soderling or U.S. Open Series winner Sam Querrey in the quarterfinals.Sharapova could meet Elena Dementieva in the third round to get her evenge from Dementievas win in Toronto against her
The women’s quarterfinals could be No. 1 Dinara Safina vs. No. 5 Jelena Jankovic, and No. 4 Elena Dementieva vs. No. 6 Svetlana Kuznetsova in the top half; Serena Williams vs. No. 7 Vera Zvonareva, and Venus Williams vs. No. 8 Victoria Azarenka in the bottom half. Venus Williams could wind up facing 2005 U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters in the fourth round. Clijsters recently came out of retirement and is returning to the tournament for the first time since winning it.

Update

Hey guys,

Hello everyone I just returned from my vacation in Califronia and I am happy to be Back w/ the Yankees playing well and the US Open right around the corner :)

Starting this week and leading to AUgust 31st I will be covering everything tennis/US OPEN!

previews, draws, and predictions will all likely be posted by thursday so stay tuned and on the 31st live scoring and results and analysis will be covered here on the Quest for #27.

I am not sure completely yet but I am leaning towards suspending yankee coverage here. Between tennis and baseball there is just too much to cover here. I will continue to follow the yankess until the end of the season up until the postseason where I will post my postseason baseball blog :D

Hopefully the yankees will end the quest for 27 this year w/ a world series title.
Stay tuned everyone more to come soon,

Mike

Dementieva ousts Sharapova in Toronto to take Championship

Elena Dementieva beat Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-3 for her 14th singles title on Sunday at the Rogers Cup in Toronto.
The straight-setter in the final came after Dementieva did likewise to Serena Williams in the semifinals. “I just feel I played a huge day,” Dementieva said. “I was fighting for every point, so many long rallies. It was not the way I like to play — it was a more defensive game today — but against her, it’s very hard to be aggressive because she puts a lot of pressure on the first two shots, so you need to work on defense before you have your chances to go for your shots.” Dementieva rose to 3-1 in tour finals this year. Sharapova came into the final unseeded, upsetting No.10 seed Nadia Petrova, No.7 seed Vera Zvonareva and No.14 seed Agnieszka Radwanska. “Elena is a grinder and gets a lot of balls back, so the most important thing against her is execution. I just wasn’t able to do that,” said Sharapova, who had 48 unforced errors. “I wasn’t as fresh as I was in the first round, but it was the final, and you can’t really think about it. It was a really great week for me, though. Playing six matches was great leading up to the US Open. This was really good preparation.”