It’s the match that all Andy Roddick fans both dread and look forward to. Roddick was 2-21 in official matches in his career against Roger Federer. Federer is probably the reason that Roddick only has 1 Slam. Without Fed, Roddick probably has at least 4 and as many as 6 or 7. It’s a match [...]
Slumping Fish Needs Good Miami To Regain Momentum
The Mardy Fish of 2012 is quite different than the Mardy Fish of 2011. Now, the 2011 Fish was streaky and was far from being a paragon of consistency. Fish also had his fair share of early exits from tournaments in early 2011. But what separates the Fish of early 2011 from how Fish is [...]
Murray Looks to Avoid Slump
Another year, another early loss for Andy Murray at Indian Wells. Murray has lost his first match in Indian Wells and Miami in 4 of the last 5 of these American Masters tournaments. In each of the past two years, after a crushing loss in the Australian Open final (in 2010 to Federer and to [...]
Federer Continues Hot Streak; Ferrer Also Heating Up
It is already pretty well-known that Federer has said that he wants to get back his World #1 ranking. He is still just 1 week shy of Pete Sampras’s all-time record of 286 weeks at World #1. We even looked at what Federer would need to do to get that ranking. But still, very few [...]
Federer wants World #1. Can he get it?
Roger Federer currently holds a good number of records in terms of career tennis achievements. He has the most Slams. He has won the most year-end championships. He is one of 4 players in the Open Era (and 7 all-time) to have won a career Grand Slam. His streak of consecutive Grand Slam semifinals will [...]
Team USA scores upset in Davis Cup
The initial reactions were that it was epic. Some even decided to call it one of the greatest Davis Cup upsets ever. And while it wasn’t quite either of those things, it was definitely something that American tennis desperately needed. American tennis hit its low point a few weeks ago during the Australian Open when [...]
The match that Rafa couldn’t play
There are a lot of explanations given for Novak Djokovic’s rise from a great player to the world’s absolute best player at the start of the 2011 season. He and his team have mentioned each of them. There was him diagnosing his gluten allergy and removing it from his diet, which has for the most [...]
Australian Open Final: Novak Djokovic vs Rafael Nadal
It’s the final that we both learned to love and got bored of all in one year last year. The pair met 6 times in 2011, all of them in Grand Slam or Masters 1000 finals, and Djokovic won every single match. At this point he probably has quite a mental as well as physical [...]
Australian Open Women’s Final: Maria Sharapova vs Victoria Azarenka
It’s the final that a fair number of people expected and a lot have joked about since the draw came. Whether we like it or not, grunting will be a main topic of this final. Sharapova and Azarenka are two of the loudest and most notorious grunters on the women’s tour. This isn’t really the [...]
Australian Open Semifinals Preview
Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal: Well, this is the semifinal that everyone wanted to see. Even the fans that hate Federer or Nadal (or both) can’t help but watch them play each other. This rivalry basically defined tennis in the second half of the last decade. And it was usually with these two at the [...]
