Hey, everyone. A short Mailbag in advance of the 2017 U.S. Open. Some housekeeping:
• Roger Federer makes the cover of Sports Illustrated this week. The cover story will be posted on Friday.
• Our annual Users Guide to the U.S. Open. (Thanks to many of you for great suggestions)
• We’ll have seed reports and a roundtable later this week.
• The most recent SI/Tennis Channel podcast featured the great Rod Laver.
• Next up is surging American, Tommy Paul.
• Here’s the great Lisanti on Garbine Muguruza.