U.S. Open Men's Preview: Where Is the Value in the Market?

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00:00So I want to start right here at the men's draw.

00:02Now, granted, we do have some time until we get to see these superstars on the court.

00:05But the usual suspects, as I like to say at the top of the odds leaderboard here, Forrest

00:09Kenny, Sinner, Alcaraz, Djokovic, Draper, it's fantastic to see these guys.

00:14Are there the anticipation that we'll get another unbelievable performance at a Sinner

00:18and Alcaraz, or are there other guys down the line that you might be taking a look at

00:22that can be real surprises in the U.S. Open this year?

00:24Yeah, I think the one, you know, I think the one guarantee that I might have is that

00:29there is going to be a surprise.

00:31Now, it's been a really weird summer for Yannick Sinner.

00:34It's been a weird season, to be frank.

00:35I mean, he had the suspension, and then he had the illness in Cincinnati just a week ago,

00:41which was really disappointing.

00:42He retired down 5-0 to Carlos Alcaraz.

00:45You know, I mean, I'm not going to speculate, but it certainly hasn't been the strong, you

00:50know, I guess Yannick Sinner had a lot of health issues a couple of years ago.

00:54He did seem to shake some of those off.

00:56Remember, he would always be pulling out with blisters, or he was sick, or, you know, elbow.

01:00There's been a lot of things over his career that have built, but yeah, I mean, that was

01:04obviously an unknown thing that he's been dealing with.

01:06He's been dealing with injuries this year.

01:08I don't know if he's necessarily going to get to the final, if he's going to set one up

01:13with Carlos Alcaraz.

01:15I think there's a lot of guys in this draw that could certainly make some noise.

01:18Jack Draper is a guy that has had a good year.

01:21He did win a Masters 1000 this year, but there's another guy who won a Masters 1000 this

01:24year as well, and that's Ben Shelton, around 3,500, you know, maybe even higher at some

01:29shops.

01:30You know, there's a couple of talented lefties, those two guys.

01:33I think it definitely makes some noise here, and it just feels like there's going to be

01:36one big story here written, whether it's Alexander Zverev maybe making it back to a Grand Slam

01:40final.

01:41I don't know what it is, but it doesn't feel like it's just an inevitability that we're

01:45going to see center Alcaraz, like always, really.