NEW YORK – Fifty parting thoughts from the 2016 U.S. Open, where Angelique Kerber took home her second major title of the season and Stan Wawrinka won his third career Grand Slam title.
• Angelique Kerber is both your women's champion and your new No. 1 ranked player. She is also the women's 2016 MVP and, after Saturday's title, a likely Hall of Famer. In this event she won with poise and fitness and defense and lefty craft. But not power. For the entire tournament she hit seven aces in seven matches. As we wrote the other day, young players, understandably, dream of becoming Roger Federer or Serena Williams or Rafael Nadal.