{"id":1197,"date":"2023-08-28T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2023-08-28T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T21:12:11","slug":"the-us-open-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/2023\/08\/28\/the-us-open-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Open is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last grand slam is open us. The US Open always brings the energy and we are in for another fascinating grand slam to end off the 2023 year. Could we see another Alcaraz and Djokovic final and how many 5 set matches are we going to see in this grand slam? These are just some of the questions which need to be answered in the next 2 weeks. We managed to reach the 55 entry mark and I wanted to say thank you for all the support and here is to an exciting grand slam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prizes up for grabs this time round:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1st Place &#8211; <strong>R1000<\/strong><\/li><li>2nd Place<strong> &#8211; R300<\/strong><\/li><li>3rd Place &#8211; <strong>R150<\/strong><\/li><li>4th Place &#8211; <strong>R100<\/strong><\/li><li>5th Place &#8211; <strong>R50<\/strong><\/li><li>Last Place &#8211; <strong>The legendary wooden spoon<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here are the most picked players for this year&#8217;s US Open:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Alcaraz &#8211; <\/strong>44 picks  (80%)<\/li><li><strong>Djokovic<\/strong> &#8211; 36 picks  (65.45%)<\/li><li><strong>Berrettini &#8211; <\/strong>20 picks (36.36%)<\/li><li><strong>Zverev<\/strong> &#8211; 17 picks (30.91%)<\/li><li><strong>Paul &#8211; <\/strong>11 picks (20%)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Swiatek &#8211; <\/strong>32 picks  (58.18%)<\/li><li><strong>Sabalenka<\/strong> &#8211; 24 picks (43.64%)<\/li><li><strong>Muchova &#8211; <\/strong>17 picks (30.91%)<\/li><li><strong>Rybakina &#8211; <\/strong>16 picks (29.09%)<\/li><li><strong>Jabeur &#8211; <\/strong>15 picks (27.27%)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall there were <strong>41 <\/strong>different <strong>Male Picks <\/strong>and there were <strong>42 <\/strong>different <strong>Ladies Picks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here is the Full Leaderboard:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"464\" height=\"609\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/08\/US-Open-Begins-Top-Half.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/08\/US-Open-Begins-Top-Half.png 464w, http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/08\/US-Open-Begins-Top-Half-229x300.png 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><figcaption>Top Half<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"458\" height=\"569\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/08\/US-Open-Begins-Bottom-Half.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/08\/US-Open-Begins-Bottom-Half.png 458w, http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/08\/US-Open-Begins-Bottom-Half-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><figcaption>Bottom Half<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last grand slam is open us. The US Open always brings the energy and we are in for another fascinating grand slam to end off the 2023 year. Could we see another Alcaraz and Djokovic final and how many 5 set matches are we going to see in this grand slam? These are just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-open-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}