With Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, last year's finalists, not playing, there were hopes that the top two seeds might meet each other once again, namely, Nikolay Davydenko and Novak Djokovic. So tournament organizers probably cringed a bit when neither made the final. If there's a player that Davydenko doesn't like playing, it must be
For a long time, Roger Federer struggled against two players: David Nalbandian and Lleyton Hewitt. Some say that it was Rafael Nadal that pushed Federer to be better, but it was originally Nalbandian and Hewitt that originally pushed Federer. In the old days, Federer wasn't the baseliner he is today. He altered his game so
Here's a trivia question. Who is the number 2 player in the world? Unless you're an avid tennis fan, you probably wouldn't have picked Novak Djokovic. Unless you're an avid fan, you'll scratch your head wondering how Djokovic became number 2. It goes something like this. What's the last tournament Nadal won? You have to
In American football, it's said that a good defense beats a good offense. American football, it seems, is a game of errors. The defense attempts to make the offense produce errors that cause the ball to go from the opposition's defense to a favorable position for their own offense. For a long time, tennis was
It's the week after the Australian Open and more tournaments are being played. Consider how many players get to the fourth round of a Slam. It's 16. With 128 players in the original draw, more than 100 players have already failed to reach the fourth round, and are therefore out in the first week of
With the Australian Open just concluded, the rankings were shaken up. Roger Federer increased his lead at world number 1 with his win. Since Rafa lost in the quarterfinals, he lost 1640 points and moved to 4th, his lowest ranking in years. The last time he wasn't in the top 3 was May 23, 2005,
With the Australian Open already half a day old, Roger Federer has hoisted yet another trophy adding to his bevy of Slam titles. He has long since passed Pete Sampras and now eyes the women champs who were, unlike the men, always head and shoulders above their competition. With each passing Slam, the winds of
One only wonders what might have happened had Roger Federer not contracted mononucleosis. It shows, after all, that Roger Federer is human, susceptible to disease. The timing was awful. It occurred late in 2007 or perhaps early in 2008, at a critical period for most tennis players. Once upon a time, tennis players may have
Federer took the first two sets by playing aggressive. Murray tried to play lots of shots to Fed's amazing tennis racket backhand swing, but that was ineffective, and Fed began his attack, 6-3, 6-4. In the third set, Murray played more aggressively. He took an early break but when it came to serve out the
Murray's game score will start first. 0-0 Fed hits inside out, 0-15. Ace, 15-all. Missed return, 30-15. Murray went for a big fh. 40-15. Fh hit long by Fed. 1-0 Fed hits short slice. Murray tries to drop and misses. 15-0. Long return, 30-0. Bh crosscourt winner by Murray. 30-15. Hard inside out fh by
