Be careful what you wish for if you’re one of those fans just dying to see the long-predicted “changing of the guard” in men’s tennis. The mens’ finalists were not culled from the usual “long-shot” suspects like Tomas Berdych, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, or David Ferrer, nor from the ranks of the young turks. The fact that No. 14 seed Marin Cilic and No. 10 Kei Nishikori fought for the trophy suggests that should the “Big Four” vanish tomorrow, there would be no new guard coming it. Meaning, I can’t see Nishikori or Cilic, or even Australian Open champ Stan Wawrinka, taking over the post. Rather, we’ll see a wide variety of players taking turns producing surprising results. That has its own appeal, of course, but the “changing of the guard” implies an orderly transition from one distinct group to another, and I don’t see that happening in the mens game—nor, for that matter, in the womens game, when Serena Williams relents
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:31:10 +0000
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