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NEW YORK -- It was the match of the tournament, hands down. Lucas Pouille, the fearless Frenchman, beat No. 4 Rafael Nadal in a hair-raising 4-hour, 7-minute battle.
It has twists and turns aplenty, but in the end, Pouille showed why he is touted as one of the top up-and-coming talents. In case you missed it, here"s how that match, along with other top storylines from Day 7, unfolded:
Seemingly down and out, Nadal made one final push.
The fifth set was an ultra-intense, back-and-forth battle.
The final set reached 6-6 -- a situation Nadal had not seen in more than a decade.
In the end, an untimely mistake by Nadal deep in the tiebreaker cost him the match.
Amazingly, the loss ended one of Rafa"s great streaks.
But worry not, the 14-time Grand Slam champion isn"t going anywhere, so he says.
The truth is, though, that Nadal"s loss opened up a lot of questions about his future. He has openly admitted to a crisis of confidence, and he"s not getting any younger. At this point, we have to wonder whether Nadal is becoming a sentimental favorite rather than a player with realistic title hopes.Nadal: Another opportunity lost
Pouille wasn"t the only Frenchman who walked away from the US Open pumped up Sunday.
Tsonga put an end to any hope an American man would win a Grand Slam by beating Jack Sock, the last remaining Yank. That makes it 12 years and 362 days since an American man captured a Slam. But in this case, it wasn"t about what Sock didn"t do; rather what Jo-w***y did do. Serving notice like never before
And not to be outdone, ANOTHER Frenchman moved on. Gael Monfils beat down Marcos Baghdatis. Monfils has yet to drop a set in the tournament. And, naturally, he put on a show for the fans as well.
Finally, in one of the feel-good stories of the tournament, Caroline Wozniacki beat Madison Keys with little resistance. How was she feeling afterward?
Woz, who was twice the year-end No. 1, said she had become more or less irrelevant when it came to vetting the top stars" chances of winning Grand Slams. But while we might have lost self-belief in the Dane, she sure did not. As she said afterward, "To be honest, at this point, I"m very much like I don"t care what my ranking is. Because if I"m not in the top five, I feel like it"s not where I want to be. So at that point, whether I"m 20 in the world or 100 in the world, it doesn"t matter. I"m going to play the same people anyway." Read more
Source: http://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/17467395/us-open-icymi-goes-rafael-nadal-here-comes-caroline-wozniacki
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