The teaming up of Indian Rohan Bopanna and Pakistani Asiam-ul-Haq Qureshi, who will take on the Bryan brothers in the US Open men’s doubles final on Friday, has caused such significant cultural ripples that even if they fail to win a single point they will still have scored a sizeable victory.
Nadal will have to play well and hope that the fireworks Verdasco is capable of producing are kept to a minimum - otherwise any talk of destiny is going to seem rather hollow.
You can feel the buzz around the hallways of Flushing Meadows. Nadalmania is not quite an epidemic just yet, but it might just be by the time this US Open is over.
Clay just isn't the surface for Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He will probably keep the #5 ranking next week, but this result means that he won't clinch until David Ferrer loses.
