The Djoker is back, one-way final. - Part 1 The unbreakable tennis robot, Novak Djokovic, is back: second consecutive Slam, 14th in total, third US Open, an insurmountable regularity even for the smashing forehand of Juan Martin del Potro. The tennis Nole plays pays its effort. It's not going to be never so varied, or so unpredictable, or so spectacular, but it has the ferocious effectiveness to get you down to your knees. It exhaust any opponent and certainly has its charm. It seems to have been built especially for tennis played in the courts nowdays where any surface is far more regular and regularized than in the past when different skills were needed to win on clay, on grass and on hardcourt. Now everything is moving towards an uniformity slowness and rapid rebounds. Djokovic is the more perfect and pragmatic player ever seen, better, at his best, than anyone else including Federer an Nadal at their best too. That's why he has the overall better winning percentage of all players and why he is ahead both with Federer and Nadal in the head-to-head meetings. Started at a good pace by both, tactically the final match of the US Open has developed immediately on the predictable track of two schemes: accelerations as soon as possible by Juan Martin Del Potro, defence maneuvers and counterattacks by Novak Djokovic. As Djokovic predicted his backhand on the left diagonal was clearly the key to stop the Argentine to unleash his blowing forehand from the right. Nole went on and on not to allow it, keeping DelPo nailed there with deep and angled shots. Another key was the return on serve impressive percentage (more than 90%) of Nole that forced DelPo to fight almost for every point. He allowed very few free points because he was not forcing anything and therefore making very few errors. Down on Del Potro service 40-0 Djokovic made anyway the break on 4-3 of first set, Nole advantage. Nole was very good in response, of course, but the faults were more from the Argentine, which failed two easy shots. At the service for the set, Djokovic closed easily at the first opportunity: 6-3. The Serbian ordered and solid tennis made a huge difference giving him the edge to the victory in the second set too. In the third game Nole won a new break point and as he won his serve too it was 3-1. At that point a resume for DelPo it would have been very hard.

A Star Is Rising Among Women Tennis Players - part 2 This US Open can be a turning point in women tennis. Another player, Aryna Sabalenka, just 20 years old as Osaka, whom Naomi defeated in the fourth round, has shown the potential to be the biggest rival to Naomi. She was the only one to win a set against her. 73 at the end of 2017 she is now 20. Maybe the sun is rising again among women even if Osaka WTA ranking history doesn't look like the champion ones. Simona Halep, the number 1 in the WTA ranking today, has shown many times a mental weakness when it's time to win. She has a record of just 1 out of 4 wins in the Grand Slam finals. Caroline Wozniacki became number 1 when she was just 20 but she did it without a Grand Slam win that only this year, aged 28, she won, and thus far she didn't enjoyed the promise of her early years to be a consistent winner and a champion to remember. Angelique Kerber, three time Grand Slam champion and number 1 at the age of 28, to many times was defeated by poor opponents. She was number 1 in july 2017 and then 21 by the end of that year. This year she rose again and she's becoming number 3 in the ranking by tomorrow. Karolína Plíšková was like a one-hit wonder number 1 for just 8 weeks and she didn't won any Grand Slam. Garbiñe Muguruza, the young spaniard who won the French Open in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2017 becoming in the same year number 1 for just 4 weeks, didn't show the makings of a champion in the last year. Jeļena Ostapenko, young winner of French Open last year, and just 21 years old, seems already fading as when you were expecting her rise she fell from 7 to 10 and without very good results in the next months she will be probably 18 by the end of the year. Elina Svitolina, aged 24, untill today has not yet won any Grand Slam and even if she is a good player it's indeed an easy call to say she's not going to be a champion in the next years. Caroline Garcia, a 24 years old French player, number 4 by tomorrow has not yet a remarkable win but the China Open last year. It's hard to believe she's going to be a challenging one for any Grand Slam title due to her emotional fragily that undermine her possibilities.

A Star Is Rising Among Women Tennis Players - part 1 Some days ago I was arguing about tennis and I wrote that no new rising champion was insight especially among women players. Suddenly yesterday I saw the US Open final staging at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Flushing Meadows in the Queens, New York. Serena Williams, the last, aged 37, true champion of a fading era, met for challenging the Championship title a very young girl, Naomi Osaka from Japan, aged only 20. It was a shock from the beginning to the end. Osaka won her first Grand Slam title and it was a stunning and clear victory altought the happenings on the court that disappointed Serena Willians. She had a warning for coaching, then one for racket abuse with the loss of a point and as she yelled to the match’s chair umpire that he was a thief she's got a penalty game. Serena throughout her career has lost 8 matches like this one, meaning Grand Slam finals, like just to remember the more recent one, the last Wimbledon final. She, by the other side, has won 23 finals just a win behind Margaret Court. She lost 3 finals in the last 3 years before this one but when those defeats happened I saw she wasn't in a very good shape or physically or mentally or both. By the way it's always an upset when she loses. Osaka victory was an upset too but this time it was not a Serena fault, what I thought the other times she was defeated, it was Naomi Osaka’s superior play to lead to an inevitable march to victory. Not only did Osaka demonstrate tecnical skills but she was steady on her nerve facing the pressure coming all around for what was at stake, for being in front of her childhood idol, for the hostile environment, for the strenght of Serena Williams and for everything but that mental attitude to be focus on what matter the most: win! I didn't see these quality in any previous women players that were at some point in time ranked number 1 or promising to become number 1. She started the 2018 with a ranking position very low, 68, and tomorrow she is going to enjoy the 7th place and she's projected to be number 4 by the end ot the year if she will be consistent. In 2018, she won 37 matches as today and lost 17 but if you have a look at her defeats you're going to find she was defeated by very good players and most notably she won Indian Wells tournament beyond this US Open.

Dealing with "deal". Did I get it right? So we have a deal you will have me helping you with Italian and you're going helping me improving my English. Meaning: we can agree to help each other you helping me with English and I helping you with Italian. Do you want to sign the deal we're ended with after this hard arguing about everything involved in this deal? Meaning: Do you want sign the contract that came from our discussion and compromise? Teaching is not exactly my real deal, I'm just a native speaker who can help you if you want to talk italian and learn how I would say and write in Italian. Meaning: I'm not a teacher professional but just someone who can help. Learning and enjoing it it's what I want to deal with you. Meaning: I just want you to have a mutual agreement on learning and enjoyng together. I'm dealing with my struggle to talk in English so I went on Italki to find my way. Meaning: I'm managing me struggling talking English coming to Italki. A deal is a deal so you can't go away as there was no deal between us. Meaning: if we have a deal you have to respect it. If you do not agree with me, a deal is not an option. Meaning: no agreement no deal. I'm handling this deal to get the best I can. Meaning: I'm managing this business for the best. I've got a raw deal. I didn't deserve it. Meaning: I've been treated bad and thinking not deserving it.

Evaluating tennis these days It's Open US time these days. I went on evaluating the general situation of the tennis sport nowdays. This is my point of view. I'm going to have a look inside the male and the female fields separately. In the male field in the last fifteen years between 2003, when begin the Roger Federer era, and 2018 we had only thirteen on sixty Grand Slam not won by one among Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic meaning that less than a quarter were won by others players. None of those players is today less then twentyfive years old. Actually they are all twentynine ore more. I came to the conclusion that it's clear we do not have in sight any true new champion that will give us the touch of a new era coming through. The most promising young players lack of enduring strengh both mentally and phisically and they miss the talent to make history in this sport. None of them has still reached the number one in the ATP ranking. Roger Federer became number one at the age of 22, Rafael Nadal at 22 too and Novak Djokovic at 24. Going through all the statistics you will find a clear sign that the new genarations is far to take over the old one meaning somehow the tennis sport could decline as soon as the three will retire. In the female field the situation is clearly a decline. The last true champion is Serena Willians which is on her way very close to retirement. She is, anyway, almost 37. In the last years we had number one WTA ranking players that became number one even without winning a Grand Slam. We had 5 different players ranked number 1 in last two years being number 1 no more than 25 weeks in a row. In the last fifteen years, not including Serena Willians, we had no consistency players winning Grand Slam or other tournements. Players were rising and falling again and again in the ranking, shining and fading year by year and during the same year. Just because of this you cannot argue that there was just more competitiveness due to many talented and good players at the same time. All players had shown lack of continuity coming from winning big and losing bad with poor opponents. The only expected star was Maria Sharapova who won Wimbledon aging only 17 but then, even if she completed a Career Grand Slam, she was tainted by doping and we cannot set her among the greatest champions of tennis. In the end today we have very good players among women but not the one you will call a champion and who will leave an enduring legacy of her own.

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