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James Blake (21), Sam Querrey (22), Jesse Witten, John Isner and Andy Roddick (5) have all reached the third round of mens singles. The fifth-seeded Roddick and big serving Isner face off against each other.

Let’s hope and American can go all the way!

This picture isn’t of the five in the third-round It’s from the US vs. Spain Davis Cup match. But I like it!

The draws are available @ US Open.Org

Here’s what Roger Federer’s road to a third-straight slam could look like:
1ST ROUND – Devin Britton USA
2ND ROUND – Simon Greul GER
3RD ROUND – Lleyton Hewitt AUS (31)
4TH ROUND – James Blake USA (21) or Tommy Robredo ESP (14)
QUARTER FINAL -Nikolay Davydenko RUS (8) or Robin Soderling SWE (12)
SEMIFINAL – Andy Roddick USA (5) or Novak Djokovic SRB (4)
FINAL – Rafael Nadal ESP (3) or Andy Murray GBR (2)

Should be exciting! The tournament kicks off on Monday!

If you were going to build the perfect tennis player, the forehand seems like a good place to start. It’s safe to say my forehand would not be in the discussion. So who has the greatest forehand of all time?

Here are my choices:
Roger Federer
Pete Sampras
Rod Laver
Rafael Nadal
James Blake
Andre Agassi

I’m going to say Roger Federer.

The USA was playing sans Andy Roddick, which of course would have helped based on how well he is playing right now. Croatia beat the USA 3-1 in the Davis Cup quarterfinals, with James Blake losing a pair of matches. The Bryan brothers came through in the doubles as is the usual.

So counting men’s and women’s singles and doubles, that makes 8 finalists. But I didn’t really care who the Williams played in the doubles final, so before the tourney started I picked the 7 finalists I wanted and the only one I didn’t get was the men’s doubles team of James Blake and Mardy Fish. I was hoping for an All-American doubles final against the Bryan Brothers.