NEW YORK – Three quick thoughts from the 2016 U.S. Open men’s final.
• Stan Wawrinka gave us “good-to-great” in miniature today. After losing the first set of the men’s final, Wawrinka elevated his game, began caning his backhand, took advantage of the shaky serving of his opponent and ran away 6-7, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 to win a wild and weird U.S. Open men’s final.
Coming into this match, Wawrinka was 4-19 against Djokovic (and 2-19 when facing the top-ranked player.) But that was a misleading stat. Two of Wawrinka’s four wins against Djokovic came in recent majors, in best-of-five format.