US Open 2010; Women’s side prospects
The United States open previously known as the United States Open tennis tournament, is a tennis competition which is the recent embodiment of one of the oldest sports tournaments of all times, with the United States National tournament, which was played for the very first time back in 1881. Since 1987, the United States Open has been sequentially the final Grand Slam event of the season.
The competition is held each year in the month of August and September stretching for a time period of two weeks.
The main championship includes a total of five distinct events, women’s and men’s doubles, women’s and men’s singles, mixed doubles along with the extra championships for juniors, seniors as well as wheel chair contesters. The championship has been contested on hard courts since 1978 at the Flushing Meadows in the city of New York.
The last Grand Slam event of the season is different in the sense that it has final set tiebreakers where as in the rest of the three major events, the final set prevails until it is triumphed by a total of two games.
The world number one tennis player from the women’s side, Serena Williams won the last year’s doubles title so this would be her tenth double Grand Slam trophy of her professional life only if the American tennis player manages to recover soon and play well in the upcoming US Open championship.
The tennis fans all over the world are anxiously waiting for the hard court competition and the fashionable US trophy is all set to be awarded to the best lady of the tour.
The fanciers have already experienced Serena Williams grabbing the Australian Open title as well as the grass court Grand Slam trophy, where as Francesca Schiavone triumphed at the Roland Garros. However those two winners had a harder period to earn their titles as compared to the United States Open champion will have done this season.
The experts have already started to predict who will win this year’s fourth and final Grand Slam of the season. Imagine a player like Caroline Wozniacki, who is currently ranked as number three in the world with reference to the number of competitions she has contested so far. The girl reached in the final of the previous season’s competition however she will most likely be shattered both physically as well as psychologically this time.
Moreover, two of the players might not be able to participate for this year’s competition. The thirteen time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams along with seven times major champion Justine Henin are currently facing injury problems.
Justine Henin is confirmed to miss the United States Open tournament. Serena Williams on the other hand, has so far missed three of the warm up competitions. Due to less practice as a result of injury, the top ranked American tennis ace, Serena Williams might not be able to deliver her hundred percent at the US Open tournament.
Williams is always a competitor for a major event, regardless of her pre match preparations. However, what about others?
The older sister of Serena, Venus Williams perhaps won't perform at her very best this season as a result of her lack of confidence after her early exit from the grass court Grand Slam competition last month.
Kim Clijsters, on the other hand might be confident to perform well this season at the US Open tournament in spite of the fact that she also departed at the quarterfinal stage of this year’s Wimbledon 2010.
As usual, there will be Samantha Stosur, as well. In spite of the fact that she was kicked out of the grass court slam in the very first round of the competition, she is expected to perform well as she is fond of the hard courts and certainly delivers her very best under the lights of Flushing Meadows.
Overall, it is definitely going to be an exciting US Open tournament beyond any measure of speculations.
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