US Open Men’s Preview 2014 Charles Friesen Novak Djokovic is playing terribly. Rafal Nadal is injured… so is Juan Martin Del Potro. Andy Roddick is retired. That leaves Roger Federer and Andy Murray as the only former USO winners in the last 12 years left standing. Last week, Federer beat Murray in Cincinnati, site of Murray’s first triumph over the Fed, to level their series at 11 wins each. So is Federer the US Open favourite? The bookies are still giving the nod to Djokovic by a sizable margin. Are they right to? Tallying slam matches won this year, the leaders are a familiar foursome: Slam match wins 2014 Djokovic 17 Nadal 16 Federer 14 Murray 13 Berdych, Raonic, Wawrinka 11 Anderson, Dimitrov, Ferrer, Tsonga 9 Even Wawrinka, winner in Australia, is relegated to no better than 5 th . ...
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