What's happened to Marin Cilic? Last year, he reached the quarterfinals of the US Open and took a set off Juan Martin del Potro. Some felt, if he hadn't given into nerves, he might have toppled the Argentine giant (though, the Croat, is just as tall as del Potro). He took one more step forward,
This is why form sometimes doesn't matter heading into the US Open. If you were to look at the list of players that were playing well heading into the US Open, that list would be: Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Marcos Baghdatis, Mardy Fish, and David Nalbandian. You could even argue that Roddick was starting to
When Roddick is unhappy with a call, he can be really unhappy. Conversations can run long, as he is unable to put it past him. While Roddick never promised to stuff tennis balls down a person's throat, his complaint that his right foot was not the cause of a foot fault (although his left foot
It is a bit weird. The Spanish game seems better suited to clay than other surfaces. Rafael Nadal, David Ferrer, Fernando Verdasco, Juan Carlos Ferrero. Sure, many of these players can play other surfaces, but clay seems to be very Spanish. This is backed up by recent Spanish winners of the French Open. Aside from
You say Teimuraz, I say Teymuraz. Like Oleksandr became Aleksander Dologopolov (who lost in straights to Ferrer), Gabashvili has chanced the spelling of his first name now preferring to use the "y" instead of the "i". And with maturity, he's now tamed some of his hard-hitting but erratic tennis. And for two plus sets, Gabashvili
For a second day in a row, the temperature reached the 90s (around 30C) in New York City, and the heat appears to have produced upsets. Marcos Baghdatis may be rethinking his decision to play New Haven. He didn't win the tournament, but he had been playing hot tennis up to then. The lesson? Be
If you could boil down the US Open 2009 into one shot, one singular feat, it would have to be Roger Federer's tweener against Novak Djokovic in the semifinals of the US Open. This is how it went down. Djokovic is down 0-30. If he loses his serve, Federer will win the match. Djokovic hits
It's the last Slam of the year. Let's quickly go over today's matches. Let's start with the seeds. Davydenko (6) beat Michael Russell 6-4, 6-1, 6-3. This is a solid win. Davydenko seems like he's regaining form. At least, he's beating players he should beat. Robin Soderling (5) beat unheralded Haider-Mauer, but it took 5
Is it Ian Westermann's dark haired Ukrainian right-handed doppleganger? Whatever the case, Sergiy Stakhovsky has won his fourth title, and his second this year. His opponent was Denis Istomin whose story of a car accident that broke his leg as a teen and left him playing no tennis for two years is one that might
Although past performance is not always an indicator of future success, what else do we have to use for predictions? So, here we go looking at players in form and not. In Form Roger Federer Here was a guy who had an amazing streak of reaching semifinals of Slams dating back 5 years. Had Fed
