The top seeds all get byes, so they don't play until the weekend. No huge surprises, but that's because most players playing are ranked 40 or below. Garcia-Lopez beat Clement in straight sets. German Florian Mayer beat Swiss Marco Chiudinelli in 3 sets. Michael Russell makes it past the first round again. In Indian Wells,
By John Malanga I recently read an article in Sporting News magazine about All-Star NBA point guard Steve Nash. The article focused on various aspects of Steve’s game that make him a great player and included several quotes from Steve. After reading the article, I realized that many of Steve’s quotes could be useful to
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
David Groemping has been a popular guest on the podcast and today he’s back to talk about two topics. The first has to do with getting yourself out of a slump in your tennis game, the second is about what to think about during change overs to keep you playing your best tennis. Believe it
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
