A dozen reporters crowded around a small table Wednesday afternoon to talk to Alexandr Dolgopolov after his five-set victory over Jan-Lennard Struff in the first round of the United States Open.
The primary topic was not his match against Struff, but the circumstances in which he had lost 10 days earlier at the Winston-Salem Open, in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Ian Dorward , a tennis betting analyst who previously worked for bookmakers, documented the changing odds for the 63rd-ranked Dolgopolov of Ukraine, who started as a comfortable prematch favorite against 114th-ranked Thiago Monteiro, of Brazil, with odds of 1.