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At odds of just 5/2, it would appear that Rafa Nadal is going to be unstoppable in this year's US Open.

However, men's tennis has been a little more open than usual this season, so is there a chance that someone could sneak through and snatch the title from under his nose? I would say yes.

The most obvious reason to oppose him is the fact that he has never won the event. Admittedly, he has made it to the semi-finals on his last two visits to Flushing Meadows, but that doesn't mean he will be able to go one better this season.

Nikolay Davydenko seems to be coming back into form at just the right time after he cruised into the quarter-finals of the Studena Croatia Open.

The Russian has struggled to get back to his best after suffering a serious wrist injury but at his latest tournament, which he is top seed for, it seems like things are starting to click once again.

He made short work of Frenchman Stephane Robert, seeing him off 6-1, 6-2 to secure his spot in the next round and it seems he is getting back to his best.

The world of British men's tennis has had Jeremy Bates, Tim Henman, Greg Rusedski and Andy Murray to cheer on over the last 20 years or so but there has been somewhat of a drought on the women's side.
Times could be changing now, and more eyes arebe focussing on a new breed of Brit girls coming through in world tennis. The likes of Elena Baltacha have plugged away for years and in 2010 she won the Dow Corning Tennis Classic in Michigan, the first ITF win over her career and fellow player Katie O'Brien has risen to a career-best world ranking.

Most tennis betting pundits agree that the junior championships at Grand Slams are a good place to find future major winners.

The US Open is, after the French Open, the most wide open Grand Slam on the women’s tour. Serena Williams has won ‘only’ three times at Flushing Meadows and once in the last seven years.

Although Nadal played well yesterday in beating Murray in 3 sets, Murrays recent slam results have shown that he is vulnerable to any guy playing very well. There will always be someone playing consistent hard hitting tennis in a slam and you have to be able to deal with it.
 
Murray needs about 10mph more on all his groundstrokes otherwise i think he may never win one. Nadal was not put under a great deal of pressure in the rallies and it was really Murrays good serving which kept him in it.
 

As Roger Federer bowed out of the 2010 Wimbledon quarter-final, the inevitable end to his incredible supremacy in tennis has finally arrived.

During 2008, and especially after his epic loss to Nadal in the 2009 OZ Open final, most of us kind of had the same feeling, and it was a more than a pleasant surprise that he could put this - by his standards - mediocre period behind him, reclaim the Nr. 1 spot and reach the final at all four Grand Slams, winning three of them.

When John Isner and Nicholas Mahut walked out on Wimbledon's Court 18 for their first round match of the 2010 Championships, they probably thought they would play a regular match, shake hands and remain strangers to each other as they have been before.

The encounter turned out to be something very different - an incredible match of inconceivably epic proportions. 2 days, 5 sets, two tie-breaks and 183 games after it started, Isner stood as winner by an astounding 70 games to 68 in the final set.

The decision to deny 23 year old Englishman James Ward a wildcard entry into Wimbledon is nothing short of a disgrace in my view. It means that for the first time in the 133 year history of the tournament there will be no Englishman in the main draw.
 
 
Now if no Englishman were good enough then thats fair enough. But Ward is good enough. His performances at Queens and in Eastbourne have been head and shoulders above any other British player in contention for a wildcard.