![]() ![]() Novak Djokovic, meanwhile, won the 2018 Western & Southern Open a week before the US Open began. Winston-Salem Open – Yet to be determinedĮxcluding Dominic Thiem’s win in 2020, when the Western & Southern Open was the only pre-US Open tournament played due to the Covid-19 pandemic, each of the last three men’s singles champions at Flushing Meadows have picked up a title on the US Open Series prior to the US Open.Ģ021 champion Daniil Medvedev won the Canadian Open two weeks prior to the US Open, as did Rafael Nadal in 2019. The US Open Series is a series of tournaments played on the road to Flushing Meadows (including the US Open) with the 2022 series comprising of the six tournaments below which kicked off with the Hall of Fame Open in Newport in July. ![]() The bad news for Nadal, who lost his only match since Wimbledon to Borna Ćorić in Cincinnati, but not for Maxime Cressy, Alex de Minaur, Nick Krygios, Ćorić & possibly the yet-to-be-determined winner of the Winston-Salem Open is that winning an ATP title on the US Open Series prior to the US Open is a good omen for picking up the Grand Slam title. So close yet so far has never been more relevant for the tennis giants. Including Nadal, six men’s players have won at least three Grand Slams in the same season across the Open Era, with Roger Federer & Novak Djokovic both appearing on the list three times each. Nadal was on track to become only the second men’s player to record that feat in the Open Era after Rod Laver who won all four slams in 1969.īack fit and raring to go, Nadal does still have the chance to add his name to a list of men that have won three of the four Grand Slams in a calendar year for the second time after also doing so in 2010 (French Open, Wimbledon, US Open). What are the key storylines ahead of the 2022 US Open? We look at some of the stats surrounding the tournament before it kicks off in New York on 29 August.Īn abdominal injury brought a disappointing and anticlimactic end to Rafael Nadal’s pursuit of the calendar-year Grand Slam as the Spaniard was forced to hand Nick Kyrgios a walkover in the 2022 Wimbledon semi-finals. ![]()
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