2012 Rogers Cup gallery: ATP players to watch for at the U.S. Open

Leading up to the 2012 U.S. Open, Meniscus covered several tournaments, including the Washington Kastles’ World Team Tennis season featuring Venus Williams; the Citi Open, which featured simultaneous men’s and women’s tournaments on the same grounds for the first time in Washington, D.C.; and the Rogers Cup in Toronto, which hosted the men this year immediately following the London Olympics.

What are follows are some bonus photos from the 2012 Rogers Cup of players to watch for in New York, ranging from favorites to dark horses to up-and-comers.  In order of appearance they include winner and defending U.S. Open champion Novak Djokovic; finalist Richard Gasquet; Djokovic’s countryman Janko Tipsarevic; John Isner; Mardy Fish; Sam Querrey; 2009 Open titlist Juan Martin Del Potro; Radek Stepanek; Tomas Berdych; Philipp Kohlschreiber; Jo-Wilfried Tsonga; Jeremy Chardy; Flavio Cipolla; Olympic gold medalist Andy Murray; top Canadian Milos Raonic; Viktor Troicki; Pablo Andujar; Wayne Odesnik; Julien Benneteau (who extended Roger Federer to five sets at Wimbledon earlier this summer); David Nalbandian; Yen Hsun-Lu of Taiwan; Fabio Fognini; Alex Bogomolov, Jr.; Gilles Simon; Michael Berrer; Bernard Tomic; Lukas Lacko; Matthew Ebden; Peter Polansky; Vasek Popisil; Andreas Seppi; Citi Open champion Alexandr Dolgopolov; Kevin Anderson; and Mikhail Youzhny.  Also included is our complete Rogers Cup video playlist, which includes press conferences by Djokovic, Murray, Isner, Gasquet, and doubles champions Bob and Mike Bryan.

Photo Gallery: 2012 Rogers Cup
all photos by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine

Video Playlist: 2012 Rogers Cup

all videos by Meniscus Magazine