The beginning of the last slam of the year.
The 4th and final grand slam of the year is upon us! The rowdy crowds always bring the energy and for the last few years we have seen some surprise winners so it could be an exciting one to end off with. Welcome to all the entrants and to all the regulars. Thank you to everyone who entered. We managed to get about 50 entries in the last 2 days which is incredible. This meant that we surpassed out 60 entrants goal for all the grand slams this year. For the US Open we managed to get 64 entries.
The US Open has had 2 brand new grand slam champions in the last 2 years on the mens side and on the ladies side in the last 3 years we have seen 2 new grand slam winners crowned. It’s all to play for in the last grand slam of the year.
Prizes up for grabs this time round
- 1st Place – R1000
- 2nd Place – R500
- 3rd Place – R250
- 4th Place – R100
- 5th Place – R50
- Last Place – The legendary wooden spoon
Here are the most picked players for this years US Open:
- Medvedev – 41 picks (64.06%)
- Nadal – 29 picks (45.31%)
- Kyrgios – 24 picks (37.5%)
- Alcaraz – 21 picks (32.81%)
- Fritz, Sinner – 17 picks (26.56%)
- Swiatek – 40 picks (62.5%)
- Garcia – 26 picks (40.63%)
- Gauff – 17 picks (26.56%)
- Jabeur, Kontaveit – 13 picks (20.31%)
- Sabalenka – 11 picks (17.19%)
Overall there were 40 different Male Picks and there were 41 different Ladies Picks.
Here is the full leaderboard for the first time:
Matches to Watch Tonight – Day 1
- Nishioka vs Davidovich Fokina (17:00)
- Cerundolo(24) vs Murray (17:00)
- Wolf vs Bautista-Agut(16) (17:00)
- Medvedev(1) vs Kozlov (18:00)
- Jarry vs Berrettini(13) (18:15)
- Edmund vs Ruud(5) (18:15)
- Fucsovics vs Cressy(30) (18:15)
- Wawrinka vs Moutet (19:00)
- Krajinovic vs de Minaur(18) (19:00)
- Khachanov(27) vs Kudla (20:15)
- Carreno Busta(12) vs Thiem (20:15)
- Draper vs Ruusuvuori (21:30)
- Bublik vs Gaston (21:30)
- Bonzi vs Humbert (22:30)
- Kyrgios(23) vs Kokkinakis (02:15)
- Kudermetova(18) vs Vekic (17:00)
- Maria vs Sakkari(3) (17:00)
- Tan vs Andreescu (18:15)
- Haddad Maia(15) vs Konjuh (19:00)
- Halep(7) vs Snigur (19:00)
- Keys(20) vs Yastremska (20:15)
- Dart vs Kasatkina(10) (20:15)
- Muchova vs Tomljanovic (21:00)
- Jabeur(5) vs Brengle (21:00)
- Zhang vs Teichmann(30) (22:15)
- Rogers(31) vs Rus (22:15)
- Christian vs Kontaveit(2) (00:00)
- Kovinic vs S.Williams (01:00)
- Fernandez(14) vs Dodin (03:00)
Jared matriculated in 2020 from Wynberg Boys High School in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. His passion for tennis afforded him the opportunity of travelling to Europe. He is a quizmaster and a tennis fantasy league organiser.http://Eishonline.co.za/jftl