With the Montreal tournament under way, to be quickly followed by the Cincinnati one and the US Open, time to start a new tennis thread.
After Roger won his game tonight I noticed that all eight of the top seeds were in the quarter finals, and wondered how often that happens. I soon found the answer:
Federer Completes Historic QF Line-up:
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| World No. 1 Roger Federer is accustomed to rewriting history books, but his newest achievement was a collaborative effort shared by the Top 8 in the South African Airways 2009 ATP Rankings. With all of them winning their third-round matches Thursday at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, it marked the first time in men’s tennis history (since 1973) on the ATP World Tour that the top eight ranked players advanced to the quarter-finals at a single tournament. | |
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With that factoid out of the way, time to comment on the matches and, even more fun, speculate on what will happen!
![[Tennis]: US Open Series](http://www.englishforum.ch/iconimages/football-sports/tennis-us-open-series_ltr.gif)
) atleast until the Australian Open.
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