The Women’s Us Open Series kicks off this week while the Men will have an ATP 500 in Washington where a lot of the big boys will be battling it out for the title.

WTA Stanford

Last year’s winner and No.1 in the world Serena Williams withdrew because of an elbow problem while Caroline Wozniacki took a WC and is the top seed and playing for the first time in this competition.
The Premier event which kicks off the US Open series campaign for the Ladies has always had a stellar lineup, and this year is no different. The 28 player Draw has the top 8 seeds all

Tennis never sleeps! Let me take you on short journey around getting to know who and where is competing in the main ATP and WTA tours

ATP Atlanta

Defending Champion and top seed of the event is John Isner.

The American didn’t have much success playing outside of the US this year with lot of up and down results. The home soil advantage didn’t help him in his last match as well,losing in R1 to eventual champion Rajeev Ram in Newport on Grass.

Let’s take a look who and where will be in action in a packed 5 tournament ATP/WTA week

ATP Bastad

Pablo Cuevas is the defending Champion here in the beautiful city of Bastad. He could potentially meet 1st seed David Goffin in the Semis. This will be the 1st time he takes the court since losing in the first hurdle in Wimbledon on his least favorite surface. Pablo has a good 11/4 record in clay court 250 tournaments this year with a title in Sao Paulo, which moved from outdoor to indoor clay due to the wet conditions there in February, and a final in Istanbul which he lost

After 2 weeks of quality Tennis it will all come down to this

(1) Novak Djokovic v (2) Roger Federer

Rematch of last year’s final when Novak won in emphatic 5 set battle.

Roger comes here after a very convincing win over Andy Murray in the Semis. He won amazingly 87% off his 1st service against one of the best returners in the game and also faced only 1 break point in the entire match, which happened in the first game of the tie.

Seems his concentration is back in the very high level and although many doubted the difficulty of the draw he has had, he undoubtedly