In tennis, the United States seeks champion

Lejos quedan ya esos tiempos en los que el tenis masculino de los Estados Unidos caminaba con paso altanero por el circuito. Tan lejos que exactamente han trascurrido 18 años sin que el país norteamericano haya conseguido registrar un solo campeón masculino en uno de los cuatro Grand Slams, y con escasas noticias de sus jugadores en otros territorios menos sinuosos del circuito. Muy poca cosa. Tampoco lo hará en este US Open que perfila sus rondas finales, una vez que Novak Djokovic redujo al joven Jenson Brooksby y se confirmó un dato que activa la luz roja en la Federación Estadounidense de Tenis (USTA): por primera vez en la historia, ningún tenista, hombre o mujer, figuran en los cuartos de su torneo.

The ambition of the racket giant does not correspond to the results, nostalgic their fans because one year after another they trust the rebound and this does not arrive.There is 2003, when Andre Agassi (Open of Australia, with 33 years) and Andy Roddick (Us Open, with 21) raised the last two great trophies.Since then, practically a moor.A lot of production, an investment without equal and the girls pulling the car.Agassi scratched the 2005 final in Flushing Meadows and Roddick agreed three times to Wimbledon (2004, 2005 and 2009), but since the latter was retiring the country lives in a constant I want and I can't, in male terms.

"There is a clear progress, but will it be enough to end the drought?" Dawn wondering the American press after the defeats of Brooksby, the Gigantón Opelka and Shelby Rogers, sorry for the promising Emma Raducanu (18).Before these occurred, throughout the tournament, local media had emphasized the good progression of their players and in which the sophisticated national program to boost their tennis is doing their fruit.Gives them, but for now insufficient.The raw material is good, but no representative is unique at the height of other foreign young people who already point high and leave traces in the professional elite.

That is, machinery works at full performance.In fact, the United States is the country that accumulates among the 100 best of the ATP list, ahead of Spain (10), France (10), Italy (9) or Australia (6);Seven of them are also less than 24 years old, but the best positioned is the veteran John Isner, 36 and located in the 22nd position.The profile of the rest responds, in several cases, to a series of promises that have broken the shell through the base plan that the USTA has been driving for years, supported by 1.250 institutes and universities, 3.000 coaches and a volume of 20.000 potential tennis players.Thus Brooksby broke out (University of Baylor, 20), Maxime Cressy (UCLA, 24), Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA, 26) or Steve Johnson (USC, 31).

Meanwhile, others indicated such as Taylor Fritz (23) or Jack Sock (28) have not responded to expectations, and it is confident that Frances Tiafoe (23), Reilly Opelka (24) and especially Sebastian Korda (21), son of the famousPeter, can grant some joy in the medium term.

“Haven't you considered training?Now we have good players and you could help them, ”they raised from social networks to Roddick, the last male flag.The Nebraska is one of the six numbers one that has had the country - new to the front, above Spain, Sweden and Germany (3) -, although its transcendence is far from that of Jim Courier or Michael Chang, and aboutAll of Colososo like Jimmy Connors, John Mcenroe, Agassi or Pete Sampras.However, fans long for their low cap and zambombazos, and comfort themselves with revenues that have been contributing their players in the WTA.

Women's support

USA has gone to the back in the last two decades of Venus's successes (41) and the very powerful Serena Williams (40), whose career is already in the twilight phase.His last great dates from 2017 (Open of Australia) and you have to go back to 2014 to find his last triumphal image in New York, but Sloane Stephens collected the witness in the 2017 edition and last year, Sofia Kenin conquered Melbourne.If American men prevail in the ranking of the ATP, women even more: 16 are among the first 100 - Russia (11) and the Czech Republic (11) squeeze in persecution - and history illuminates eight who reached the world throne, by Chris Evert to Williams herself.

In any case, in the offices of the USTA they are thrown out of the hair.Everything is little, for the moment, for the country it has the prize record in the Davis Cup (32) and the Billie Jean King Cup (18)."It's frustrating.It is great that there are 14 Americans in the Top-100, but if we look at Switzerland, for example, they have only two and in their palm male there are 23 large [20 of Roger Federer and three of Wawrinka Stanislas].We have all those players but there is not even a finalist.I think it's a matter of time for one of us to make its way, ”Opelka said after falling eliminated.

"We have made many mistakes, we must still improve many things and evolve," the General Director of Development of USTA players, Martin Blackman, transmitted this week;“There is no magic, we can only continue and work.It is about our tennis players from having a growth mentality, that they want to go around each stone to discover how they can improve ”.

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