NEW YORK — School may be starting everywhere else. Coco Gauff’s 15-year-old peers, for instance, just got their new locker combinations and learned the names of their geometry teachers. But in tennis, we are deep into the semester. Herewith, midterm grades from the year’s final Grand Slam, the 2019 U.S. Open, through Saturday’s play….
Titans and titanesses: The upsets have all been of the minor variety. The Big Three, Serena, and the top three women’s seeds (Naomi Osaka, Ash Barty and Karolina Plisova) all remain.
Taylor Townsend: Long live serve-and-volley tennis. But, ultimately and more importantly, long live a player who says, “Eff It, I have to be myself.