You may have wanted Serena Williams and Roger Federer to prevail at Wimbledon; you may have wanted Dominic Thiem to dethrone Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros; you may have preferred Petra Kvitova come away with the Australian Open title, rather than Naomi Osaka. You may have wanted the exact opposite to occur in all three of these scenarios, or something else entirely. No matter what you wanted, you probably wanted it to happen badly. (Sorry, Fed fans.)
The point is, there is an emotional investment spent during the Grand Slam tournaments that is incomparable to any other tennis event, and not only from the fans. The players care about these eight weeks more than any other on the calendar—and with just two of those Grand Slam weeks remaining, you can be assured that all of their remaining chips will be pushed in. The majors always deliver in terms of drama, and this year's US Open should be no different.
You can sum this up with a slogan that the Southeastern Conference (SEC) uses in college football, whose season just began on Saturday: "It just means more."
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