Mission Accomplished

To: Fellow Tennis Gods

From: Tennis God in charge of Draws

Date: August 18, 2012

Subject: Mission Accomplished

Our boy, Roger, is playing his fellow Swissard, Stan Wawrinka, in the semis of the Western and Southern Open today, so unless he breaks a leg he's in the finals. His record against Stan is pretty good: 10 wins to 1 loss.

I thought for sure I'd get caught this time, putting 4th seeded Ferrer (0-13 against Roger), Berdych (4-10) who's having a bad year, Monaco (0-4) and, of course, Mardy Fish who just had a heart ablation procedure a few months ago in Roger's half of the draw, but nobody seemed to notice save for some cat named Growltiger. Tennis fans, sports reporters and tennis commentators are not going to get a call from NASA any time soon, are they?

Meanwhile, I put stacked Djokovic's half with a very hot Del Potro (6) and Murray (3) (both of whom just beat him at the Olympics) along with Tipsarevic (7), his friend and countryman, and Seppi (who nearly took him out of Roland Garros). Naturally, I saw to it that Julien Bennateau was in Djokovic's half, also. Though it was a fluke, the Frenchman nearly beat Roger at Wimbledon. As I said, tennis reporters, commentators and fans are not going to be calculating the trajectory for the next Mars landing, are they? 

So on to the U. S. Open. With Rafa out of the mix, I'll make sure to stick Murray and Del Potro in Djokovic's half maximizing our boy's chances. Don't worry about the fans, commentators and reporters catching on. They're clueless. But if you need brain surgery, better not call any of them. The tumor would have to be growing out your ear before they'd notice.