Last year, around this time, Andy Murray was looking for a good tournament win. In 2010, Murray reached his second Slam final at the Australian Open and lost once again to Roger Federer. Not only did tears flow for the Scot, but Murray's game went into a mini tailspin. Murray finally righted the ship and
They may eventually become the new "fab four", but they have yet to show the kind of talent that Nadal, Djokovic, and Murray have shown. These "fab four" are Tomic, Harrison, Raonic, and Dmitrov. All four are playing this week at the Shanghai Masters 1000 and three of them played today. Of the four, Tomic
Shanghai is the penultimate (that means "next to last") Masters 1000 event of the year. Due to its late position, it can be a challenge to get all the top players here. In particular, Federer announced some weeks ago that he would be skipping Shanghai. Djokovic announced last week that he, too, would skip Shanghai.
Four matches were completed in Tokyo, an ATP 500 event. Mardy Fish played Ryan Harrison for the third time this year and for the third time, he beat him. Harrison did push Fish to a third set, but Fish still claimed the victory 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. Generally, Americans have not fared that well in events
Maybe the Ferrer match wore Roddick out too much. When you look at the stats, 20+ winners by Nadal to none for Roddick (off the ground that is) and 8 aces by Roddick to 6 for Nadal. Roddick would need more than 20 aces and get half the points free for every game. Roddick lacks
Now that we're getting to the final 4, let's see how everyone is doing so far. Roger Federer Federer beat Giraldo and Sela in the first two rounds. These are matches Fed rarely loses especially to someone like Sela who lacks the firepower that Federer has. Fed bullied Sela like an 18 yr old would
With a respite from the rain that caused Wednesday to be washed out and the morning to be wet, the fourth round matches were all put on courts at the same time to get the fourth round complete. Unfortunately, at Louis Armstrong, Roddick noticed a bulge in the court with water coming up. This was
With the washout of play on Tuesday, the game plan was this: play all the fourth round on Wednesday, first thing, then play the men's quarterfinals late in the day. The rain stopped enough around noonish that 3 of the 4 men's matches were started. On slate were Roddick vs. Ferrer, Muller vs. Nadal, and
Donald Young had hoped to reach this point much sooner. But better late than never. Young followed up his improbable victory over the number 2 Swiss, Stan Wawrinka, last year's quarterfinalist. In a way, Young caught a break. Juan Ignatio Chela is a crafty veteran, but he lacks a ton of power. The guy knows
Well, Jack Sock realizes that Andy Roddick still has a ton more experience than he does. Sock started off serving big, holding serve, then having chances to break. But when he didn't break, Roddick started gaining confidence. Basically Sock still has holes in his game. He tries to hit inside out and is aggressive, but
