Julien Benneteau has been on the tour a while. He joined the tour back in 2000, making it his 11th year on tour. His ranking is normally around the top 40. He played a few doubles ties in Davis Cup with Michael Llodra. His ranking has slipped some, and now he's 113. It's so low
Andy Roddick had skipped some Davis Cup last year. Perhaps there was some antagonism with Patrick McEnroe that wasn't made public. In any case, Jim Courier was made captain, and Roddick came back to the fold. With Roddick and Fish both being in the top ten and both willing to play Davis Cup, it was
It's probably been a few years since Andy Roddick had a serious shot at winning a Slam. Roddick's always done well when he starts with a new coach, and then the relationship stales. It happened with Gilbert, Connors, even briefly with Patrick McEnroe, and Larry Stefanki. A few months after working with Stefanki, Roddick made
Before we talk about Federer, let's review the late matches yesterday. Yesterday afternoon, it began to rain and this cancelled all play except Centre Court which has, surprise, a roof! When the roof was ready to go in Wimbledon 2009, there was very little rain. Andy Murray played a 5-setter against Stan Wawrinka, and was
The last time Andy Murray and Andy Roddick met was two years ago at the Wimbledon semifinals when Roddick had the last big hurrah of his career: making the finals of Wimbledon and nearly beating Roger Federer. Murray had his best chance to get to the finals, but two tiebreaks that went Roddick's way lead
What do the four semifinalists at Queen's Club, now dubbed The Aegon Championships (and they have 2-3 other similarly named tournaments have in common). The red, white, and blue! Oh, so you thought Americans were the only country to have red, white, and blue in their flag? Obviously not. The British also have the same
Although Andy Murray says his ankle is the best it's felt in a while, he must surely like the fact that Cilic had to withdraw due to his own injuries. This puts Murray in the semifinals where his opponent is likely to be Andy Roddick. Roddick skipped the French due to injury, but has used
The gap between the end of the French Open and the start of Wimbledon is a slender two weeks. John McEnroe said surely Rafa would not choose to play Queen's two days later where he had committed to play doubles with his sometimes doubles partner, Marc Lopez. But, indeed, Rafa did go. Novak Djokovic, however,
It's an all-American affair just as we knew it would be. OK, so we didn't expect this final at all. Oh, the Nadal-Djokovic final? That we did expect. I'm talking doubles. The top seed were, as usual, the Bryan brothers. However, they were eliminated by another American duo: Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick. The team
My thinking was, despite Djokovic's win-streak, Nadal gave him all he could handle in Indian Wells. If Nadal's serve hadn't given out on him, Djokovic's streak might already have ended. To counter Djokovic, Nadal went for big serves and big groundies in the first set and it worked. Djokovic struggled to keep up. But, by
