{"id":51853,"date":"2022-08-30T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=51853"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:17:16","slug":"andrey-rublev-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/08\/30\/andrey-rublev-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Andrey Rublev Find Form at the US Open?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrey Rublev enters the 2022 US Open looking to rid himself of the poor form that has plagued him throughout the past few months. The 24-year-old is the #9 overall seed at this event, marking the third straight year he has earned a Top 10 seed in New York.<\/p>\n

Rublev had a blistering start to the 2022 season. He won 18 of his first 20 matches including back-to-back titles in Marseille and Dubai. Rublev’s game did not slow when the tour transitioned to the clay court season. He went 7-3 in French Open<\/a> lead-ups while making a run to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros itself. However, after Roland Garros, the Moscow native has not looked like his usual self.<\/p>\n

Since June, Rublev holds a record of 7-6 with five losses to players ranked outside the Top 25. He is just 1-3 in his last four matches. It certainly begs the question of whether or not the Russian ban<\/a> from the All-England Club has affected the mind of the 24-year-old. Regardless, Rublev will look to keep the past in the past and come out firing at an event where he holds a career 13-6 record, including quarterfinal finishes in 2017 and 2020.<\/p>\n

Rublev’s Draw<\/h2>\n

Andrey Rublev opens up his 2022 US Open<\/a> campaign against Laslo Djere of Serbia. Djere, who just reached the finals in Winston-Salem, is certainly not the most favorable draw for the #9 seed. With that said, Rublev bested the current world #64 7-5 6-4 earlier this season and should find the same result if he controls his emotions.<\/p>\n

A round two matchup against the winner of Soon Wo Kwon and Fernando Verdasco would be next. Rublev is 3-0 against Kwon in 2022.<\/p>\n

A meeting with #19 seed Denis Shapovalov would be the first seeded test in the way of Rublev. The Canadian, however, is one of the most out-of-form players in this draw.\u00a0Cameron Norrie is a potential round-four opponent while Rafael Nadal is drawn to Rublev’s quarter.<\/p>\n

While this is not the most favorable draw, it certainly has some holes that could be taken advantage of by a confident Rublev. Getting his 2022 US Open campaign off on the right foot will be huge for the 24-year-old. Having won just one match in the month of August, getting his feet under him early in this tournament will help Rublev grow throughout.<\/p>\n

Rublev has always felt comfortable in New York and will look to lean on that comfort more than ever this year. I believe his confidence will grow exponentially as he moves through each round. The #9 seed could be a real threat to this draw if week two rolls around and he is still alive in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrey Rublev enters the 2022 US Open looking to rid himself of the poor form that has plagued him throughout the past few months. The 24-year-old is the #9 overall seed at this event, marking the third straight year he has earned a Top 10 seed in New York. Rublev had a blistering start to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4067,"featured_media":51856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2,9],"tags":[18003,511,1688,776,4775,135],"class_list":["post-51853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-open","category-atp","category-featured","category-news","tag-2022-us-open","tag-andrey-rublev","tag-cameron-norrie","tag-denis-shapovalov","tag-laslo-djere","tag-rafael-nadal"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}