ニューヘイブンSingles - Final
(2)N Davydenko (RUS)d (10)A Calleri (ARG) 64 63 
全米直前のスポットライトの当たらない大会だけど、優勝おめでとう！
２００７年度ＡＴＰ大会での主な変更予定が発表されました：
１） 日曜開始大会を増やす。
２） ＧＳ以外の５セットマッチをほぼ全廃。
３） グレードの低い大会での総当り戦の導入。
３）は、たとえば４８ドローであれば、３人の総当たり戦 ｘ １６組、
３２ドローであれば４人の総当たり戦 ｘ ８組。
その後は従来通りノックダウン方式。
これは、スター選手を見に行ったのにスター選手が１回戦敗退・・・
というリスクをなくすため。たとえば「フェデラー、遠路バンコクへ。
しかし１回戦敗退でハイサヨナラ→ファンがっかり」といった
悲劇を避けることになるだろう、とのこと。
しかし、これはランキングの低い選手の立場から見ると・・・
たとえば：ディエゴが総当たり戦でフェデラーに勝っても
次のラウンドに進むのはむずかしい、ということですね。
ＭＴＢ導入で「運」という要素が強くなったダブルスとは逆に、
「運」という要素が少なくなるわけだ～
ま、ディエゴよりフェデラーの方が上の方まで勝ち上がる
可能性は高いし、ディエゴに本当に力がついたなら
総当たり戦を制することができるだろうし。。。
ま、いっか～
（月）の主なＯＯＰ
全米ＯＯＰ（月） （オフィシャルサイト）
全米ＯＯＰ＆スコアスレ＠ＭＴＦ
Arthur Ashe 11:30 AM
2. Florent Serra (FRA) vs. Andy Roddick (USA)[9]
Not before 8:30
1. Andrei Pavel (ROM) vs. Andre Agassi (USA)
Armstrong 11:00 AM
1. Mardy Fish (USA) vs. Simon Greul (GER)
3. Feliciano Lopez (ESP) vs. Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)[3]
Grandstand 11:00 AM
1. Donald Young (USA) vs. Novak Djokovic (SCG)[20]
3. Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)[8] vs. Alexander Waske (GER)
Court 7 11:00 AM
2. Jiri Novak (CZE) vs. Arnaud Clement (FRA)
3. Richard Gasquet (FRA)[25] vs. Phillip Simmonds (USA)
Court 8 11:00 AM
4. Nicolas Almagro (ESP) vs. David Ferrer (ESP)[11]
Court 9 11:00 AM
3. Gilles Simon (FRA) vs. Daniele Bracciali (ITA)
Court 10 11:00 AM
2. Paradorn Srichaphan (THA) vs. Jose Acasuso (ARG)[24]
3. Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) vs. Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG)[31]
Court 15 11:00 AM
4. Mariano Zabaleta (ARG) vs. Thiago Alves (BRA)
＜ソースなど＞
ニューヨークタイムズ 全米オープン特集ページ
Nadal Returns to New York With Big Goal （Christopher Clarey、ＮＹタイムズ）
Ferrero, like all Spanish players, has been relegated to the shadows by the spotlight shining on the Nadal phenomenon. “Sometimes is difficult because, you know, is like you stop to play tennis,” Ferrero said in Cincinnati.
Spanish tennis, for all its great talents in the past 20 years, has not seen anything quite like Nadal, a player with the charisma and precocious, consistent results to grab headline space from “futbol.” Carlos Moyà, Nadal’s likeable Majorcan role model, also reached No. 1 in the world (in 1999), won the French Open (1998) and wore some cutting-edge tennis apparel. But he never won 60 matches in a row on clay or had a player like Federer for a foil. And Moyà never projected the sort of ratings-grabbing blend of youthful enthusiasm, gladiatorial instinct and a winning smile that Nadal does.
（ドーピング関連）“You shouldn’t exaggerate it too much,” Nadal said. “I think there are often little mistakes, but you don’t need to treat these people like delinquents（≒犯罪者）. To not allow Canas to enter the U.S. Open last year seemed to me one of the most pathetic things.” だよね～
Apple Falls Far From the Tree as a Player Clears His Own Path （ＮＹタイムズ）
（米国期待？の若手Sam Querreyについての記事）
By taking a route that bypassed tennis academies and did not go through the European junior circuit, Querrey was free to develop his game without feeling pressure to produce results.
Querrey’s resistance to specializing at an early age cost him a few years of national exposure but preserved his childhood, a tradeoff he considers well worth it.
ATP Players Toast Agassi at Players Meeting （ＡＴＰ）
A.T.P. Adopts Early Starts and Shorter Matches （Christopher Clarey, NY Times）
...the tour board had approved several alterations for 2007, including more Sunday starts for ATP events, the elimination of best-of-five-set matches in nearly all cases outside of the Grand Slam tournaments and, most intriguingly, the introduction of round-robin in the early stages of some lower-level events.
The idea （訳注round-robin in the early stagesのこと） is to guarantee that fans will get multiple looks at stars at tournaments instead of living with the risk that Roger Federer will, for example, fly all the way to Bangkok for one match and then fly right back home to Switzerland after losing in the first round.
Tournaments with 48-player fields could use 16 round-robin groups of three players; tournaments with 32-player fields could use eight groups of four before becoming single-elimination events in the final stages.
Roddick, at 23, Says He's Too Young to Be Washed Up in Tennis
``He's only 23 years old,'' said 26-year-old Blake of Roddick. ``Andy just dropped to No. 11 or 10 and it seems like the world is ending.'' ごもっとも。
＜記事追加＞
ATP outlines bold new initiatives for 2007 （ボブ・ラーソン）
「ポチ」と言ったら犬だけど
猫好きなアナタもここは是非「ポチ」！：
