By David Jack
BOOKIES reckon Rafa Nadal is the man to beat in men's tennis after winning the US Open final.
I tipped the Spaniard at 7-2 at the start of the tournament and he won in sensational style, dropping his only set in the final.
The odds suggest there has been a real changing of the guard at the top with Nadal 8-1 with William Hill to fail to win a Slam in 2011 while Roger Federer is 11-8 to win none.
Rafa is 16-1 to win all four Grand Slam events next year and 9-4 to win in Australia and hold all four slams at the same time.
Scotland's Andy Murray, who flopped to a third-round defeat at Flushing Meadows, is 4-9 to win none, 5-2 one, 9-2 two, 33-1 three and 250-1 four.
Meanwhile, after breaking into the world's top 50, British girl Elena Baltacha is 6-4 with McBookie.com to make the top 40 by this time next year. The Scot, who will be representing her country in the forthcoming Commonwealth games, can be backed at 10-1 to reach the top 30 by the end of the 2011 US Open.
