Last American Man Crashes Out Of The US Open Tennis Championships
Last American Man Crashes Out Of The US Open Tennis Championships
The US Open Tennis Championship this year was embarrassing for US tennis as none of the American men entered the fourth round of the event.
The last man standing for the US team was Tim Smyczek, who lost to Spain’s Marcel Granollers in five sets. Smyczek was leading the final set amid the chanting of the crowd. However, the Spaniard fought back to win the game. The American was disappointed after he lost in the fifth set amid the boisterous pro-American crowd.
The absence of American men in the fourth round of the US Open Tennis Championships followed another first in Wimbledon this year. For the first time in over a century, all American men did not go past the second round of the oldest tennis tournament in the world. Last month, there were no top 20 US players for a week since the start of computerized rankings in 1973.
The loss of Smyczek also marked the first time where no American men were able to advance into the quarterfinals of any Grand Slam events in the Open era. The last time an American reached the fourth round in a major tournament was Andy Roddick during the US Open Tennis Championships last year.
Smyczek, who is ranked 109 in the world, was optimistic about the state of American men’s tennis in spite of the ignominy of this year’s campaign. He said that some men ranked between 80 and 100 may go up in the rankings in the later part of the year and at the start of next year.
He added that he took pleasure from playing as the last American man in the event. Higher-ranked players are normally the ones who reach this point in the tournament.
He said that it was a new experience for him to hear someone shouting that he is the last hope in the US Open Tennis Championships.
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Andre Monohan
on Monday September 02 2013, 11:10 AM EST.
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