For a change, Rafael Nadal is the one who has stayed healthy at Shanghai while a slew of players have retired. Add one more to that list. Ivan Ljubicic retired after splitting sets with Rafa. Ljubicic took the first set 6-3, and Rafa returned the favor taking the second set, 6-3. This result is still
Shortly after both Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick complained that the season was too long, Andy Roddick retired from his match, as did Juan Martin del Potro and Tommy Haas. You can add two more names to that list: Gel Monfils retired after going down 6-2, 3-0 to Croat, Ivan Ljubicic. Similarly, Stanislas Wawrinka also
Once the US Open concludes, all but the most ardent fans stop paying attention to tennis. American fans begin to pay attention to American football, either of the college or pro variety. Indeed, one barely knows there's tennis still being played. Shanghai is the first Masters 1000 event after the US Open and as such,
Two ATP 500 events just concluded this past Sunday. One was held in Tokyo, Japan where Juan Martin del Potro was the top seed when both Roger Federer and Andy Murray skipped to recover from injuries and fatigue. Since del Potro lost early, this left the talented Frenchman, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga as the highest seed remaining
Rafael Nadal's become a bit of an enigma. Twice he's returned from injury and looked good or at least won against lower ranked opponents. Nadal returned after Wimbledon to Montreal where he got to the quarterfinals and lost to Juan Martin del Potro. del Potro is an up-and-comer, and by some measures, he's arrived, especially
There are two ATP 500 events being run at the same time. One is being held in Beijing, China, the other in Tokyo Japan. These are the results of Wednesday's play [2] N Djokovic (SRB) d Troicki (SRB) 63 60 [4] N Davydenko (RUS) d P Kohlschreiber (GER) 61 60 [5] F Verdasco (ESP) d
What a difference a year makes. Last year, Gilles Simon won 3 tournaments and played very solid tennis starting just before the US Open until the end of the year. His ranking went up to the top 10 and he managed to get into the year-end Masters championships in Shanghai when an injured Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal has had quite the summer. Having been undefeated at the French Open, he suffered his first loss ever to unheralded Swede, Robin Soderling. Afterwards, he decided not to defend his Wimbledon title and let his knees heal so he could play the US Open, the one major he had not won, and and
Sam Querrey merely tweeted "worst day ever". Did he have a loss? Well, of a sort. Querrey sat on a glass table. The table broke and he cut his right forearm requiring emergency surgery and is expected to be out 4-6 weeks. What began as a tour of Asian tournaments to bolster his rankings now
Roger Federer was on the verge of a 16th Slam. He was on the verge of 6 straight US Opens. There were a few things going for Roger. First, the history of winning so many finals. Second, never having lost to Juan Martin del Potro. And yet, despite a nice win over Djokovic, it was
