With the U.S. Open set to kick off Monday at Flushing Meadows, SI's tennis experts and writers Jon Wertheim, Stanley Kay, Jamie Lisanti and Daniel Rapaport discuss this year’s top storylines and predict the winners.
Jon Wertheim: The Nadal/Djokovic/Federer troika is solid as ever. This is almost comical, given their ages (32, 31 and 37), but here we are. They have split the year’s first three majors. They went 16-1 this summer (and the one loss was interplay, with Djokovic beating Federer in the Cincy final). I'd say the odds are 80-20 that one of the three wins the U.