I guess I should have looked to see if the draw has already been posted for Miami, and so it has. Miami is the second Masters 1000 event. After this, he tour heads to Europe and the start of the clay court season which will lead to the French Open. Again, amazingly, Rafael Nadal finds
The first two Masters 1000 of the season are Indian Wells and Miami. Typically, players like Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have fared better at these Masters 1000 than Slam stalwarts, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, although Nadal was last year's defending champ. We're going to preview Miami by reviewing the top players and where
ATP World Tour Uncovered is a pretty good tennis program which gets aired on Tennis Channel. It's not a Tennis Channel produced show (it seems the minimum requisite for such a show is to have someone who could have been an ex-model hosting it), but appears to be a show from the UK. This week,
Andy Roddick rightly said that the finals would come down to serving. Turning 31 during the Indian Wells tournament, Ivan Ljubicic was hoping to give himself a birthday present. Ivan has not made a Masters 1000 final since 2006. Indeed, Ljubicic has made three Masters 1000 finals in his career, twice in 2005, and once
Before people get into a snit about the use of the word evolution, remember the word existed before the theory of evolution and has to with gradual change. Tennis players, it seems, get to where they are because they learn to hit the tennis ball very well at a very young age. As their game
OK, so he didn't win the singles. Ivan Ljubicic took care of Nadal in the semifinals. But with Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal entered as wildcards, they proceeded their way through the draw and made the finals where they faced top seed, Zimonjic and Nestor. Nadal rarely plays doubles, but he has won some titles
As Americans are focused on "March Madness", a 65-team single-elimination basketball tournament for college teams, a few folks may have created brackets for Indian Wells. Few would have picked this final. Andy Roddick playing tour veteran, Ivan Ljubicic, in the finals. The semifinal match-up between Roddick and Soderling didn't look good for Roddick. Soderling had
Not a bad way to celebrate a 31st birthday. The most prominent bald man in tennis is now Ivan Ljubicic. Sometimes, having been on the tour a long time helps you get through a tough match like this. Nadal was playing aggressive tennis as usual and engineered a break in the first set and eventually
If you were told that Andy Roddick and Andy Murray were playing today, and one lost, which might you pick? Of course, the answer would depend on who they were playing, but minus that information, you might say Andy Murray, since he's ranked higher than Andy Roddick. OK, so let's look at the opponents. Andy
If you were to look at head to head records between Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych, you would see Nadal has won the last five times they've met. At 6'5", Berdych has a bit of power off the ground. Indeed, in his last match against Viktor Troicki, he won 6-1, 6-3. More impressively, against Fernando
