{"id":1632,"date":"2015-09-18T09:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T09:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariabueno.org\/indextemp.php\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2015-09-20T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T09:12:04","slug":"its-djokovics-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mariabueno.org\/indextemp.php\/its-djokovics-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Djokovic\u2019s US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Maria<\/a>

Maria Bueno watching the men’s final in the President’s Box at the US Open<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s Djokovic’s US Open and Maria Bueno was on hand for the men\u2019s final in New York\u00a0on Sunday. She had this to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a lovely lunch with the international guests in the President\u2019s Suite after the ladies doubles, and had just settled down to watch the flag ceremony just before the men\u2019s final when it started raining!<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone left the stadium – all 27,000 of us – and had to wait for three hours or so before play began.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf ever there was a testimony for building that roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium, this was it!”<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The steel structure of the retractable roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium is already in place<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cFortunately, next year, the roof, the structure of which is already there and looks fantastic, will be operational so there will be no rain delays like this again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US Open had a run of several years, five or six, I think, when the men\u2019s final had to be held over to an extra day, and that caused lots of difficulties for all concerned, not to mention that massive television audience, so to finally be building a roof makes sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is always hard to wait through a rain delay because you don\u2019t know when it is going to stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe players today have their own routines to warm up ahead of the match, to eat and so on, plus it can be very draining if you are a little nervous going on, to have to wait.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was supposed to be a day match turned into a night match and both Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer seemed a bit tense in the opening set. They weren\u2019t hitting as freely as they usually do and made errors you wouldn\u2019t expect.<\/p>\n

\"Roger<\/a>

Roger Federer holds up the runners-up trophy at the US Open<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cRoger wasn\u2019t playing nearly as well as he had done against [Kevin] Anderson and [Stan] Wawrinka and Djokovic took the first set with just one break of serve.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got back into the match and managed to take the second set after converting one of nine break points while never facing one on his own serve.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had something like twenty-three break points in the match and only converted four of them against Djokovic, who only had thirteen and made six.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the real difference and although Roger looked the better player in the third set, he lost it and then was broken immediately in the fourth.<\/p>\n

\u201cDjokovic\u2019s defence was amazing, the balls he ran down and somehow got back into play put Roger under a lot of pressure and although it was close, it never looked like it would go any other way than to Djokovic.\u201d<\/p>\n