Federer is ever the optimist. At least, that's how he portrays himself in interviews. He feels, with a little more work, he can beat anyone. This, despite the fact that Andy Murray has beaten Federer the last two times they played. Murray beat the Swiss maestro in Toronto using a new-found aggressive play. He beat
Today, Group A played. Djokovic came into finals playing good tennis. Meanwhile, Tomas Berdych playing the inconsistent tennis that marked his recent years of play. Much was hoped for when he reached the semis of the French and the finals of Wimbledon, but instead, Berdych backpedalled and went back to losing to whomever, showing the
Andy Murray, the only player in the field from Britain, knew the drill. Decked out in an argyle outfit that recalled the early years of Ivan Lendl, but using black as the background instead of white, Murray was a man on a mission. Last year, he, Roger Federer, Juan Martin del Potro and Fernando Verdasco
Some years are notable because a player no one has ever heard of makes a huge leap, and they become a household name. 2007 was that year for Novak Djokovic who reached the semis of the French and Wimbledon, almost barely noticed because of the Federer-Nadal rivalry, and then made the finals of the US
If you were a fair-weather tennis fan the last two years, someone who just watched the semis and finals of the Slams and maybe not even the Aussie Open, you might have thought of Soderling as a one-hit wonder. Oh sure, he upset Nadal and reached the final, but what has he done since? Clearly,
Every year, lazy American college football sports columnists trot out the same old, same old. For American college football, this "write" of passage is the column railing against the BCS. The BCS was a group/system created a little over 10 years ago to ensure the "best" team played the "second best" team for Division 1
Technically, Davis Cup play doesn't start for the French for a little over two weeks. Next week, the tour takes a one week break, then only the top 8 will play in the year-end ATP World Tour Finals. The week after that, the Davis Cup finals between France and Serbia takes place. Even so, it
In the last few years, Spain has won the battle of the Pyrenees. Indeed, the French style of play seems so antithetical to play on clay that it's amazing that any Frenchman has contended for clay's greatest title. Monfils has reached the semifinals before. And yet, as athletically gifted as he is, he plays like
Today, most of the top 16 seeds played, and 12 of the top 13 seeds advanced. The toughest match for a seed that won was probably Andy Murray's win over David Nalbandian. The two last met at Toronto when Nalbandian was particularly hot. Since then, Nalbandian has not played as well. Even so, Murray dropped
We're down to two more tournaments. This week starts the BNP Paribas Masters which is also known as the Paris Indoors. It's the last of the 9 Masters 1000 events. All the top pros are expected to play minus Rafael Nadal who said a shoulder injury was bothering him and he wanted to rest for
