Wimbledon day four

There were few shocks today after all the excitement of yesterday a lot of the top seeds in both the women and the men's draw had routine wins.

Men

Novak Djokovic got through to the third round beating the American Bobby Reynolds in three straight sets. For the American men Wimbledon has not been good to them because with Bobby Reynolds out it is the first time since 1912 that there are no American man in the third round.

I know that John Isner pulled out yesterday but realistically it's highly unlikely that he would have got past the fourth round and it's a real shame that USTA did not build on the success of Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick.

Women

Serena Williams had comfortable win against Caroline Garcia, beating her in straight sets. I have to say that I really liked Caroline's game and I think that  if she played like that every week she would quickly rise in the rankings. 

Serena Williams is playing Kimiko Date on Saturday and as great as it is for a 42 year old women to be still playing competitive tennis. I hope Serena is going to continue learn and develop her game and most importantly does not lose focus when she is playing Kimiko Date.  

USA Tennis

As someone who has a deep appreciation of US style of tennis, it is nice see that US women’s tennis  is more than just Venus and Serena Williams. The emerging talents of Sloane Stephens, Jamie Hampton and Varvara Lepchenko amongst others mean that the US women could dominating even once Serena retires.

 However I would say that that these players are probably a good two to three years away from winning grand slams. However having watched one or two of these players they have definitely made feel very optimistic for the US’s women team.

The same cannot be said  about US men’s tennis which seems to be struggling a bit and now that Andy Roddick has retired.  The current crop of male players do not really strike me has grand slam winning potential but I could be wrong. However I am sure that the US team will probably find a male player to feel the void that Andy Roddick left sooner than I probably realise.