US Open

I've been watching a lot of tennis lately. Usually, I only watch the last weekend, with the men's and womens's semifinals/finals, but this year I started watching since the beginning.

This year's tournament has been really interesting, since a lot of the big names have already fallen - Roddick, Venus Williams, Murray, Sharapova, etc. It will be fun to see who the next crop of tennis players are in a few years after Federer and Nadal have slipped a bit.

I think tennis is one of the more dramatic and fascinating sports because there's no team to help you out. It is just you out there on the court, and you can either sink or swim. Since it's a 3 or 5 set match, it also forces you to play and makes the winner prove that they have both the stamina and skill to beat the other person consistently.

There have already been some great matches, and I'm sure the quality of play will just go up as we move on. Sucks that there aren't any Americans left on the men's side though. It's not looking great for the American wonderchild Oudin either.