Whatever mental issues Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic are facing, they don't seem to affect Andy Roddick and Rafael Nadal. Roddick may not be as young as Isner nor Querrey, but he still moves quite well, and he played unseeded Stakhovsky 6-2, 6-1. Fellow American, John Isner, did not fare as well. He pushed Juan
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
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
If you were told that Andy Roddick and Andy Murray were playing today, and one lost, which might you pick? Of course, the answer would depend on who they were playing, but minus that information, you might say Andy Murray, since he's ranked higher than Andy Roddick. OK, so let's look at the opponents. Andy
The seeds, they keep a falling. It was already something of a miracle that Djokovic got this far. After watching his game spiral out of control in the second set in the previous around against Philipp Kohlschreiber, Djokovic had to scrap to fight off match points, get a break of serve back and eventually win
If you were to ask someone who hadn't watched tennis in 5 years, how Andy Roddick plays, you might get an answer that is at odds with how he plays now. Roddick used to have a fearsome twosome: his serve and his forehand. Over the years, Roddick has learned an old adage about tennis, namely,
The big news of the day was someone who didn't play today. Nikolay Davydenko, who had been playing great tennis up through the Australian Open, withdrew from Indian Wells. It turns out he had broken his left wrist and is expected to take a few months off to recover. Last year, Davydenko had to take
I don't think Andy Roddick saw this coming. When Sampras retired after the 2002 US Open and when Agassi retired after the 2006 US Open, we were left with the very serious questions: who's the next great American? Andy sometimes gets a bad rap. There are those dedicated to Andy because Andy is our best
Robin Soderling had requested a wildcard from tournament director and former player, Richard Krajicek. Krajicek said he was having a difficult time deciding which low-ranked Dutch player should get one of the wildcards left for Rotterdam, so he was relieved when Soderling called him up. It was a no-brainer to give Soderling a wildcard, especially
