Now, just a little over a week before the Australian Open, several tournaments are wrapping up play. The final in Doha was completed Saturday with Davydenko pulling off the rare double-beating Federer and Nadal in the same tournament, making it two tournaments in a row that Davydenko has achieved this unlikely feat. Today, there were
The first week of official tennis saw a great number of tournaments, official and otherwise being held. For those that skipped last week's event in Abu Dhabi which, to be fair, only invited 6 players, this was the first week to see how December training turned out. Long criticized for his passive hitting style, Andy
Now that the tennis season is over, let's take a quick look back at 2009 and a quick look forward. Roger Federer. Federer started off 2009 making it to yet another Slam final. Although he started 2009 much like 2008, that is, struggling to find form, he still did his part by reaching the final.
This year, the US Open brought with it a lot of questions. Could Roger Federer win his 6th straight US Open and 16th Grand Slam title? Could Andy Roddick return from a good, but not great hard court season where he lost twice to del Potro and once to Querrey? Was Sam Querrey ready to
Jesse Witten's ranking was apparently so low that he needed a wildcard for qualifying. Who knew they gave wildcards for qualifying? Witten's rank is 276. He wasn't ranked high enough to get a wildcard into the main event. By the time he reached the third round, he was getting ready to play his sixth match
How did Jesse Witten do it? His second round match was against a guy named Gonzalez. Gonzo! Yet, Witten was not willing to go down. He was having too much fun. OK, so the way he did it was by not playing the guy named Fernando Gonzalez, but instead playing Maximo Gonzalez. Maximo is from
The US Open is the only tournament that seems to play this really late matches. OK, the Australian Open can do that too. Due to a three set win by Venus Williams over Vera Dushevina, a woman that didn't seem afraid of Williams, Andy Roddick and his opponent, Bjorn Phau, didn't get on court until
