Two-time defending champion, Maria Sharapova has withdrawn before her Italian Open quarterfinal match against seventh-seeded Sara Errani due to an illness. Sharapova says on Twitter that she “didn’t recover after being sick last week [...]

What can you do to make up for a doubles partner that always stays on the baseline no matter what? In today’s episode of the Podcast I’ll teach you what to do in three [...]

Stan Wawirnka had come into the finals playing some of the best tennis in his life.  But there were signs that maybe he wasn’t ready to take on the king of clay.  Wawrinka won [...]

In a way, Tomas Berdych and Stan Wawrinka are similar.  Both had some success when they were young.  Berdych upset Roger Federer back in the 2004 Olympics when no one knew who Berdych was.  [...]

Yes, yes, Rafa made the semis, but technically, he’s the number 5 player in the world. And what a match.  Despite the best start of his career, Rafa would tell you that he’s not [...]

There’s no particular reason why Murray or Simon can’t be better on clay.  Simon, at the very least, has won tournaments on clay, despite a style that is relatively flat.  One reason Simon has [...]

Do you spend all of your time focused on what’s happening on your own side of the net during matches? That’s not good! Find out how to improve your “external focus” during competition as [...]

Baby anything is a hard thing to live up to.  Baby Jordan?  Remember him?  Harold Miner.  Yeah, not much of a career.  Certainly not even close to Baby Jordan.  You could put 100 players [...]

Poor Stan Wawrinka.  Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Stan Wawrinka played two epic matches this year and came up second.  In what most experts considered the best match of the Australian Open, Stan [...]

On Monday, Jason Collins came out as an active NBA player who is gay.  Now, this proclamation is somewhat borderline.  It’s not like Collins is a star player, and while he is technically on [...]

You know it’s the 2010′s.  Back in 2001, Federer beat Sampras at Wimbledon, their only meeting.  Federer was a teenager, and such upsets were often caused by teenagers on the rise.  Today, there are [...]

Former World No. 1, current No. 10 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark was taken out in the first round of the Porsche Grand Prix, falling to No. 23 Carla Suarez-Navarro of Spain. The tournament is [...]

We’ve all been in this situation before: looking across the net at an opponent who just simply outclasses us. A player with way more experience, more weapons, and more consistency. How in the world [...]

Perhaps it was the rain that delayed the match for an hour, dampening the court, making it bounce low, so even Nadal’s typical high loopers weren’t kicking as high.  Perhaps it was because Nadal [...]

Things are different in 2013 from where they were in 2011 and 2012 at the same time.  In 2011, Djokovic opted to skip Monte Carlo and played in Serbia first (the week after Monte [...]

When you play aggressive, like Tsonga or Federer, your success depends on how often you can get your aggressive shots in vs. how often you miss.  Nadal gets to as many balls as anyone [...]

When you’re called “Baby Fed”, that puts a lot of pressure on you as a player.  Not everyone that’s been given such a nickname does well.  There was a guy named Harold Miner who [...]

Andy Murray has always said clay is his weakest surface.  He plays on the surface anywhere from 3-4 tournaments a year, and he didn’t grow up on the surface.  Prior to his work with [...]

Although the French Open title is more prestigious, and thus where Rafa Nadal has secured the moniker “king of clay”, it’s Monte Carlo where his dominance has reached epic proportions. Monte Carlo is a [...]

Today, two big men went into finals of clay events hoping to win a title on clay. One man did. John Isner combined a play of hard serving with consistency to get a win [...]