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Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock’s doubles streak ended by the Bryan brothers
It wasn't a stretch to think that after the legendary Bryan brothers, who were looking for the 99th title of their illustrious doubles careers, were upset by rookie upstarts Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock in the Wimbledon final last month that they'd have an appetite for revenge.
It was more like an appetite for destruction Sunday in Cincinnati as the undefeated Can-American duo, whom we've dubbed "Pospisock", saw their 14-match winning streak end after a 6-3, 6-2 dismantling that took just 53 minutes.
There was that elusive 99th title for the Bryans. It was their fifth title of the season, but their first since Monte Carlo in April. It means they'll go for the triple digits at the U.S. Open in New York in just over a week.
For Pospisil and Sock, there was a lot they can also bring to Flushing Meadows. The run is great for the confidence, as Pospisil's coach Frédéric Fontang told Eh Game.
The 14-match streak sets the new standard for consecutive victories by a début doubles team. The previous mark stood for nearly 30 years, since Paul Annacone and Christo van Rensburg won 12 straight to begin their long, successful partnership in 1984-85.
Along the way, Pospisil and Sock defeated three top teams that they also had defeated in London on their way to the Wimbledon title: Bopanna and Qureshi, Paes and Stepanek and Peya and Soares.
They'll head to New York with a rather full head of steam of their own, looking to make a similar mark in singles. Pospisil, whose ranking should move up to one spot to No. 45 Monday, will again be unseeded.
Meanwhile, late Saturday night after the Sharapova-Ivanovic drama played out on Stadium Court, Pospisil's countryman Milos Raonic took a 6-2, 6-3 beating of his own at the hands of Roger Federer.
It took Federer, who will face No. 6 seed David Ferrer in the final Sunday, just 68 minutes to take care of Raonic, who had one of his worst serving days in recent memory.
On the plus side, his hair looked awesome.
The 23-year-old Canadian's first-serve percentage clocked in at a lowly 43 per cent and even if he did hit the 50 per cent of second-serve points won threshold, it wasn't nearly enough. On the return, Raonic wasn't any better; he won just 13-of-52 points on Federer's serve, earning just one break point that he couldn't convert.
Before his return to action at the Washington, D.C. tournament two weeks ago, Raonic said that the Wimbledon semi-final defeat to Federer was still stuck in his craw.
"I'm still pretty angry about it ... Out of all the ranking climbs that I've made over the past three years that have been significant to me, it's probably the one that I enjoyed the least because I felt that I could have done much better in that situation," Raonic said. "It's been a lot of frustration, anger and disappointment, specifically to that semi-final, and it's actually sort of transformed into a lot of energy to do better, to work harder and now it's got me really excited. It makes me want to play that much more badly and get through these next tournaments."
No doubt Raonic came out determined to have a better start than he did at the All-England Club. But it was the same start. After Federer held in his opening game – which clocked in at 42 seconds – Raonic was broken in his first service game. It was a losing battle from there against an opponent who had all the answers.
It ended up being by far the worst loss he's suffered to Federer, in six meetings.
"I think the start was big again. Like at Wimbledon I got off a flier and sort of never looked back," Federer said. "I think I returned well in patches. I would return really well one game and not for three games and then return well again.
"I feel like because of that it matched up really well with how he was serving. I think because of maybe the problems I've caused him in the past he was pushing a bit too much on the serve or felt like he had to do something special," he added. "That's exactly what you want your opponent to feel. I was playing my pace. I was calm. I knew what I wanted to do, and when I did it, it worked well."
Raonic is now 0-6 against Federer, losing the last eight sets he has played against the world No. 2 after giving him everything he could handle in their first three meetings in 2012.
It doesn't make a lot of sense, because Federer's 2012 season was the best he's had in recent years. He made 10 finals, winning six of them (including Wimbledon), earned silver at the Olympics, and got back to No. 1 for 17 weeks. You would think, two years on and with much more experience overall and against Federer, Raonic would be giving Federer even more trouble.
But that works both ways. Federer has had a lot of time on court to assess Raonic's serve patterns. And he's a master at getting his racquet on the serve no matter how quickly it comes. Many of those short replies – some intentional, some caused by the speed – gave Raonic fits as he had to move forward in the court, but not on his own terms.
Federer also seems like a man on a mission at the moment – certainly to win Cincinnati after many of the top seeds lost early and in the absence of Rafael Nadal, but also the big one in a few weeks.
