Three-time US Open defending champion Roger Federer appears to be an unstoppable force. Tonight he will meet former U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick in the quarter-finals in Flushing. Federer, bidding to become the first man in memory to win the US Open four years in a row, has not lost to Roddick in their last 10 matches.

The 26 year old Federer seems unstoppable, like Pete Sampras was. Federer needs only three more Grand Slam victories to tie Sampras record of 14 total Grand Slam wins. It seem that he is in cruse control to overtake Sampras' record.

But wait. There is the 20 year old hard hitting Serb Novak Djokovic. Novak is ranked #3 in the world and is a hard hitting player who does very well on hard courts. While he has lost twice to Federer this year, he also just defeated him on a hard court to win the Rogers Cup in Montreal on August 12th.

While Federer has to get through Roddick and Djokovic has to get through Carlos Moya, now with Nadal out, I predict it will be a Federer-Djokovic finals on Sunday September 9th. (Good thing the Tank has tickets, he will have to report live from the Open!)

Federer has been practicing against lefties to prepare for Nadal and has recently lost to Djokovic. Djokovic is in position to stage a huge upset. Steve's prediction: Djokovic in 4 sets.

Posted by Steve in New York 

Tennis

Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:47:49 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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