With Nadal's loss to Andy Murray, Nadal will move from #2 to #3 and may drop to #4. Novak Djokovic has already reached the quarterfinals which matches his results last year. At the very least, he'll keep the 8310 points he has now. Rafael Nadal is 1000 points ahead of Djokovic, but because he is
With less than a week before the finals, the tournament heads into the second week. This is a good time to look at the contenders and see how the field is doing. Let's go from top to bottom. Roger Federer had a tough opening round, nearly pushed to five sets against Igor Andreev. Although Andreev
They say the second week of any Slam is where the big boys come to play. Nowhere is this more literal than Day 7 of the Australian Open. Today, the tallest men left in the draw were all on tap. First up, John Isner. John Isner stands 6'9" with some claiming he's taller than that.
John Isner. Gael Monfils. The average tennis fan has probably heard of one, but not the other, and possibly neither. Monfils, the talented and athletic Frenchman, would seem like the shoo-in favorite to beat John Isner. Yet, if you looked at their head-to-head, it's Isner who leads 2-1, and all 3 meetings have been closer.
Day 3 saw most of the seeds progressing fairly easily. Rafael Nadal took on Lukas Lacko and found himself a 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 winner. Given his struggles in the first round, Nadal found himself striking the ball better. Darren Cahill commented that Nadal had played around with a different forehand and serve motion in London
With so many matches, I can only see a handful of them, especially with the time-zone differences. The first match I watched was Andy Roddick playing Thiemo de Bakker. After a while, it seemed clear that de Bakker played a nervous first set. He didn't hit the ball cleanly, nor that smart. Hitting ill-advised drop
Day 1 at the Australian saw the top seeds play according to form. Andy Murray had an easy opening round beating South African, Kevin Anderson, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Anderson won a tournament back in 2008 and played college tennis for University of Illinois. The tall South African, however, had few answers for Murray's versatile game.
In a mere hours, the Australian Open (AO) will release the draw for this year's tournament. People will speculate who might win, but of course, it depends on how the draw turns out, among many other things. Who are the favorites heading into the AO? Once upon a time, you looked at the big 3
With the Australian Open less than a week away, it's a good time to look at the top 6 players and see why they will (or won't) win the Australian Open. Why Roger Federer will win No one has been more consistent in the Slams than Roger Federer. Most people considered 2008 and 2009 as
It's been a common complaint that Davis Cup is a pain because it's played 4 times throughout the year, usually after a Slam or the last event of the year, and players have to sacrifice to play. Recently, Andy Roddick decided he did not make himself available for 2010. He had been told that the
