"Every year when the US Open rolls around in August, the discourse begins again in earnest: how long must we wait for an American man to win another Grand Slam? It's been 22 years now, dating all the way back to Andy Roddick's triumph at this very tournament in 2003, and still, no one looks particularly close to pulling it off. The almost-insurmountable problem is that doing so would likely require unseating Jannik Sinner and/or Carlos Alcaraz in a best-of-five encounter."
"With her three-set, three-hour win over Naomi Osaka in the semifinals on Thursday night, New Jersey native Amanda Anisimova booked a spot in her second consecutive Major final. It was a gutsy comeback from the 6-0, 6-0 shellacking she took at the hands of Iga Swiatek at Wimbledon in July, the kind of defeat that might have kept a lesser player down for months. But the 24-year-old Anisimova, whose punishing ball-striking follows in the power tennis tradition of Lindsay Davenport"
American men's tennis has not produced a Grand Slam champion since Andy Roddick's 2003 US Open victory, creating a 22-year drought and the practical challenge of unseating top players like Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in best-of-five matches. The American men's field includes promising players such as Ben Shelton and Taylor Fritz, but overcoming the current duopoly remains extremely difficult. American women's tennis is enjoying a resurgence. Amanda Anisimova reached her second straight Major final after a three-set, three-hour semifinal win over Naomi Osaka and has rebounded from a 6-0, 6-0 Wimbledon loss while improving after a 2023 mental-health break. She will face world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the final, and Coco Gauff recently beat Sabalenka at the French Open.
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