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♪ dick: the great global hub of finance, fashion, and entertainment a fitting backdrop as the pace setter of the tennis world looks to make history again today. by winning the french open in june, roger federer completed his career grand slam then by capturing wimbledon in july, he surpassed pete sampras with a career title record. he's looking to become the first man since bill tilden in 1925 to earn six consecutive u.s. open

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the first ever hs hybrid, only from lexus. dick: monday just after 4:00 in the afternoon, the finals for the men, delayed a day because of the rain over the weekend. we're set now for the men's championship battle. let's go down to mary jo fernandez. mary jo: thanks, dick, with juan marine del potro. you're getting ready to go out there for your first major final. what's going through your mind? >> it's a great moment for me and i hope to do my best and of course try to win. mary jo: you dominated rafael nadal yesterday. you played roger in paris, a close five-setter. already it take to beat roger today? >> i have to do everything perfect, play much better than last tournament. it will be tough. mary jo: good luck out there. >> thank you.

mary jo: roger federer, going for six u.s. opens in a row. major title number 16. has dropped one set this year at the u.s. open. roger, you're playing six in a row. your sixth different opponent. how have you been able to remain a constant? >> just try hard, you know, a lot of practice. the stuff you don't see, i guess. but i've played a lot of great matches here on arthur ashe and it's a pleasure to be back. mary jo: del potro is playing in his first. how much will you rely on your experience in this final? >> oh, we'll see. it's dangerous at the same time as good for me. he's got nothing to lose and i'm sure he's going to give it all he has and same for me and we'll see the outcome. mary jo: good luck. >> thank you. dick: the alley of champions with all the photographs of the

great players that have won the united states championship, and now the entrance in front of the 23,500 seat arthur ashe stadium court. >> juan marine del potro and roger federer! dick: and good afternoon, everyone. dick enberg joined by mamplee -- hall of famer john mcenroe and mary carillo. federer has produced some sublime tennis again. john: first of all he looked really wound up in that interview, which is sort of scary. it's hard to come up with something that hasn't been said or see something special. we tried to put together a package that would be spectacular, even by roger's standards. this is why it's going to be difficult to beat del potro. you see that? ok. this one here, a little drop

shot. this is a mis-hit and it still goes in the court. how about this for defense? the strike zone, normally you want to get the ball in front of you. that's behind him and he's lucky on top of it. but this one topped everything. take a look at this shot. this is the hardest i've ever seen this shot hilt. dick: even his reaction was great. john: normally it takes six months or year to find that type of package with a player. that was his last match. dick: human highlights. how about this 20-year-old from argentina? juan martin del potro. he realizes he faces a monumental assignment today. mary: he played him to five sets in the french open at the semis and he's only lost once all summer long. he's a great hard court player. he took out rafa nadal in the

last round, the only manwho's ever beaten the great spaniard three times in one season. he's shown his good form not just here but all throughout the summer. he beat roddick twice 24 summer on the hard courts. he's had a great, great season. he is a true force on these hard courts. it's not that big a surprise he's in the final. it could be good. dick: del potro pass improved his ace, serving ability incredibly. he's tall, a little something different for federer. coming up live, we'll see arguably the greatest player ever to grim a racket and one of the most promising new stars in the game. [bell ringing] the way the stock market's been acting lately you may wonder if you've been doing the right thing.

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won five consecutive u.s. world championships. john: amazing, dick, that he was concerned at key biscay in the final hard court season, saying thank god that was over so he could work on his conditioning. won the french and then wimbledon. his road has been relatively easy. where he started to step it up was robredo. soderling, he got tight at the end but look what happened at the semis. what a match with djokovic the other day. dick: del potro, if he wins today, would be the tallest grand slam major champion ever today, would be the tallest grand slam major champion ever at 6'6". and i'm a pc. mac, it's been kind of a rough quarter. so i brought in a trainer to get me back on top of my game.

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with a championship caliber day. 78 degrees, a little wind. let's look at juan martin del potro's trip to the final. john: he had a good jofplgt excellent jog. he destroyed nadal. dick: nadal, admitting he was not 100% with that abdominal pull. federer serves to open the championship. john: if del potro can get that a level that he played with nadal, this is going to be very close. the question is the nerves.

and playing back to back. that should affect the older federer more than it would a 20-year-old. dick: federer can identify with the youth of his opossibility. he was about 11 -- of his opponent. he was about 11 months older when he won his first tournament, the 2003 wimbledon. potro won't be 21 until later this month. john: as you would expect in his first final, he is very uptight this first game. mary: the great strength of the allergy tine's game has been his return game. he's gotten 82% of returns in play, better than anyone in the

tournament by far. dick: so the champion with an easy hold to open this monday championship final. there are so many things, we could go on and on about what is at stake for federer as he continues to march through tennis history. six straight u.s. open titles. only one other man in 100 years did, that tilden. bjorn borg winning 41 in a row at wimbledon. rod raver hit his true caliber grand slam in 199. no one has won three straight majors in the same year since. that's what federer is came a-- aiming to do today. most importantly, a 16th major

title to move two ahead of title to move two ahead of sampras. john: del potro's serve is so much better than it was six months ago. and he needs it now. when you're nervous your legs are a little heavy. mary: both play well at the net but federer has been coming in twice as much as del potro, so del potro will be facing a net game he did not have to face against rafael nadal in the semis. john: very deliberate out there, as usual for del potro.

john: second serve looked long. that's why roger feels like he got burned there. decided to play on. dick: an indication of how much del potro has improved his service. we look at our own chase review. it did catch the line. roger would have been wrong had he challenged. last year del potro, the entire season, 295 aces aces. coming into the match today, 573. doubled it up, so he has added some punch. john: you'll notice when he came up on the ball there, right in the middle of the court. take waddell del's angle. he keeps the volley deep enough. and see it skid there?

he couldn't get as much on it as he wanted. beautiful angle here. obviously more relaxed at the start and moving better because of that. dick: tipping his strategy early. mary: he's never lost to juan martin del potro in six tries. he's a lot more comfortable with this matchup. he's never lost in a major to anyone but rafael nadal. three times this year. dick: del potro, in the first five meetings facing federer, did not win a set. but he did at the french open back in june go five sets and led two sets to one and it was 3-3 in the final set before he side -- seemed to tire and

federer raced away. john: and the bleach maybe not quite there yet. this is the first time i think he's come into a major thinking he could win the whole thing. mary: trying to beat rafa and roger in the same major. first of all, that's never been done. it's been done a couple of times in other tournaments. that's like clijsters having to beat venus and serena to win this major last night. john: that's such a smart return. you see roger step in. he knows that del potro is tight so he's going to get a pretty easy second serve. already at break point. dick: 90-mile-per-hour on that second ball. john: he hasn't got an first serve in yet. dick: he hit the serve and that forehand with some authority. john: that's his key, obviously. to take control off the serve.

dick: languid in style is del potro. no hurry. eases his way into the performance. 134-mile-per-hour miss. john: still looking to shake the nerves out of his system. dick: father robert federer. john: you only add more pressure by missing all these first serves in this game.

>> fault dick: his wife me r.c.a. most of you know, twin daughters a month ago. mary: nice collection of forehands from del potro. federer lost this rally somewhere in the middle of it by putting back a pretty soft forehand and that allowed del potro to take command. his forehand is his biggest shot as well. john: roger looked to run around it but didn't get that arm extended enough, came up short, and that's when del potro took over the point. john: he is going to have to

pick up that first-serve percentage. another miss. 1-9. >> out. dick: late call. john: great reach, obviously, del potro at 6'6". it appears early that roger is playing it back to the center of the court,ot giving him that angle. that's a good move. dick: third break point, dick: third break point, federer. dick: that huge first serve. the youngest player in the top

10, del potro. he entered the championship ranked sixth and seeded six. he'll be number five at the end of this championship, passing abdomeny roddick. -- andy roddick. john: he sets the tone there. he hits a number of balls towards the center of the court and then he just rips one. he's really keeping del potro on edge. he's plenty nervous already, coming out on this court. dick: five-tame reigning

champion putting a lot of pressure on in this first-service game. mary: that's going to be a big challenge for del potro. he's a pretty good long rally player but he doesn't want to do it on his own serve. he wants to do it on this guy's. dick: he can dig out of this game. it would be a great boost for him to know that he can deny four break points. long service game. mary: your mentality against federer has to be to stay with him, to try to take a match like this to tiebreakers. dick: let ball threw off the rhythm of the ball and mistimed by del potro. joirm that should give him more

time, if anything. the quality of play is so high, roger has come out with, combined with the fact that he's never been in this position before, he's really struggling to get off the mark here. john: whoa! mary: is he any good? he loves this. he loves looking at the scoreboard and watching himself in the replays. he does it on the changeovers

too. dick: totally off the court then comes back to whip that. mary: he's taking another look at it, yeah. dick: take a bow, roger. john: you expect it to go in. that's what's frightening. dick: that's as excited as papa has been in some time. john: del potro stared at him for about 10 seconds. you cannot be serious. it's not your normal second-game shot. dick: del potro afterwards. mary: wait till he warms up.

dick: a lot of folks that don't normally watch tennis, this one of the four majors. starts in australia, then the french open, wimbledon and the u.s. completing the season. you're looking at a man that many feel is the greatest to ever play the sport. it's exciting, whether you know a lot about the game or not, is to see someone who is a superstar. on the line. jake gearn indicating that del potro has challenged. we'll have our official chase review. john: he just doesn't know what's hit him yet. he plays slow as it is and he's

trying to slow this train -- this runaway train down right now. dick: federer has had some slow starts during the two weeks of this championship in early games but not today. seven winners already, only two unforced errors. dick: and he builds an early 3-0 lead. cbs sports coverage of the u.s. open continues after this word open continues after this word from your local station.

dick: coverage of the u.s. open on cbs sports is sponsored by -- dick: juan martin del potro in his first major final, and he -- john: you want to see a stare of disbelief? look at this. ok, now i know i'm in deep trouble here. we just started. dick: 0-3, opening set. john: this happened last year with his first final. get overwhelmed in the first set. del potro has never been here

before. he'll get better, i can assure you of that. mary: here's the challenge -- del potro has got to play his best regardless of what roger is doing. he's got to be prepared to do that and then he's got to be prepared that it won't be enough and then he's got to keep it up, in case federer drops down a little bit. john: he said he needed to step it up a gear with nadal and he may be right. as well as he played yesterday, nadal didn't exude that confidence that we're feeling from federer. mary: if they both play their best federer wins. the challenge is how do i make federer not play his best? no one here has been able to figure that out for five years.

dick: federer hasn't played favorites. they've sent the best of the championship the last five years at him. he's taken care of hewitt, roddick, djokovic. now del potro. mary: and now that he's completed his career grand slam, he's playing with less pressure and more confidence. let's add that to the equation. dick: 3-1, federer in the lead opening set. good service game there for juan martin del potro. john: as well as federer has played -- or djokovic, last night, dick, in the semis. i never got the feeling that he believed he was going to win the match and federer sensed that. he didn't give off like in the third set that he believed he could come back. that's one of the things del potro's got to at least show federer, that he actually

believes he can pull this off. john: his movement has been exposed early. to me that's nerves. but he should have been able to bounce back pretty easily from that match yesterday. out on a court a couple of hours. he's 20. he's just not flowing yet. that's what's frustrating. dick: showing him the total

variety of his game. john: and this ball was not struck cleanly enough. he hit it with better depth yesterday, more on it. mary: this is the shot that helped roger federer win the french open. he'd never liked going to that. he always felt like that was a concession. hitting drop shots. he always liked to power through the ball then he made such great use of it and then at wimbledon as well he did it against andy roddick. he'd resisted that shot for so long. that forehand drop shot especially. dick: double fault for 30-30. mary: everyone is so wary of his forehand. it's a perfect change-up, isn't it? just slide under it, drop it

over the net. john: del potro stands way back, as you can see off the first serve especially. and roger is going to move in, as you can see. he's been aggressive. nadal wasn't. i think he's better off standing a little closer, like he's doing on this side. john: that was close. he should challenge that. >> del potro is challenging the call on the left baseline. the ball was called out. john: i think you'll see that ball was in. dick: there's the chase review.

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he's not lost a point since coming to net. 7-7. that ball there skidding off the line. he's getting opportunities because del potro's serve has not been good so far. dick: he's 8-9 on first serves but 3-12 on second. jack nicklaus, golden bear. been a big fan, good player of this game, and jack nicholson. pretty good doubles team. mary: jack nicklaus, i've been to his house. he has three grass courts, all different kinds of grasses because he obviously designs golf courses and stuff. amazing. dick: 18 majors in his great career. john: that's a poor decision

there. i remember when nadal played federer it was like half grass and half clay. he should be the one that designs those. mary: he's got half a court in the rough, though. john: sand trap. >> fault. john: it's amazing what nerves can do to a player. del potro playing so very well yesterday. thrashing nadal and now just struggling just to even get on the board here. dick: that double fault puts him in jeopardy again. break point federer.

dick: it's federer's 40th consecutive slam event. his 21st final. he's 15-5 in the championship final. and there's del potro's service numbers. huge first serve versus second serve points won. dick: number two at 126.

john: just by holding here he'll keep it close and there's a chance that federer's level will drop. he'll start to get more confidence, even if he loses his first set, so that he plays better in the second. dick: saves a break point, 4-2. here's the cbs flomotion. remember that great point by federer? look at the court coverage. john: you can make the argument that he's moving better than ever have have. it's absolutely amazing. mary: that was a 43 1/2-foot sprint for the winner. john: that's sprinting and doing something rather spectacular with the shot. dick: we'll have to rename that

fed-motion, instead of flomotion. second double fault for federer. john: roger's serve has gone off these last couple of games. this would be huge if del potro could get back in this set. dick: there's a 0-30 opening. john: those butterflies are starting to disappear.

dick: coach of del potro, franco davin. they joined forces a year and a half ago. one of the things he wanted was for this young guy to be more aggressive with his groundstrokes and improve his serve. john: that's an empty box he's got. he's got what, 15 seats? he's still got just three people there. davin's manager and his brother, i think. dick: called good. del potro is going to take a look. will he challenge? nope. dick: looked like it caught the outside of the line. chase review on that. what would it -- dick: looks like that shot he

hit against haas to save himself in the french. dick: he's called that the most important shot of his career. john: without a doubt. there were serious questions that he would win the french. that was the next day, and all of a sudden he felt the weight of the word that he should win this. once he got by, that he realized that this was his realized that this was his opportunity. dick: defense to offense again for federer. del potro will serve to stay in the opening set. crime in new york city has dropped 27% since 2001. response times in madrid... ...have been cut by 25%.

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dick: to the first row behind federer. mary: in spite of the fact that roger federer is only serving at 36%, he hasn't yet faced break point. that tells you a little bit about the quality of his second serve and the rest of his game. john: he makes it looko easy. that first point of the game he played some defensive slice forehands, which was the appropriate move at that time and then he sees del potro off balance here. he looks up, he's at net and he

throws a drop volley at him. he's not even close to being ready for it. mary: you just feel no tension in his body. no tension about this match. john: the wind pulled that previous shot in but yanked that one out. you can see it's moving behind del potro right to left. this is about as bad a start as he could hope for. dick: triple set point. john: that would be a concern as well for juan martin. dick: meanwhile, federer, when he wins the first set, 167-4.

a couple of saves. here's a third set point for roger federer. john: he's got some wind behind him so this is an important game for him to hold. he has a better chance breaking from this side of the court. john: you'd better hit a good lob if you're going to hit one over a guy 6'6". he brings him in deliberately and roger had a good chance there. i'm surprised he didn't take a big swing at that.

dick: if del potro were to win this championship, he'd be the tallest champion ever. krajicek was '5" when he won wimbledon 13 years ago. the crowd applauding del potro's fight and now game point. john: he's got one than -- more than one dimension to him. he's a natural out there. he knows when to step it up and go after the ball and when to play a more defensive shot. it's starting to flow for him. dick: he finishes the work with his fourth ace. it's 5 you 3. quite a hold on a 0-40. only allergy tine to win the

u.s. -- argentine to twin u.s. open was guillermo villas. del potro giving his skun his continent something to cheer. john: starting to chant "ole." there are a lot of argentines in the crowd. three doubles for him. no aces. there's guillermo villas. hall of famer. won it 32 years ago. so many kids in argentina and in south america, he was their

hero. giving them the motivation to play. federer started with a double fault but now has his first ace. john: i was surprised to see del potro move to his left there, give him that angle. john: that's a pretty defensive return. pushed it. roger bounces right back. two more set points. disappointing for del potro not to do a little bit more in this game. dick: and slides the ace wide to secure the set six games to three. it took 40 minutes. watch out, federer wins the opening set, almost impossible to beat him in a major. i have copd which makes it hard to breathe.

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