Andy Roddick

AO Day 3: Early Results

Only 5 matches done so far.  Let's look at each in turn. Roddick d. Kunitsyn. The key, it seems, to many matches, is winning the first set. Kunitsyn beat Pole Prysiezny, who only seems to get in Slam draw due to his relative low rank.  He kept even with Roddick, but once Roddick won the

Soderling wins Brisbane over Roddick

Last year, Soderling went to Chennai and promptly lost in the opening round to Robby Ginepri.  He went to the Australian Open and promptly lost the opening round to Marcel Granollers.  Fortunately, this blip in his record didn't affect the rest of his year as he flitted with becoming number 4 in the world. This

Federer wins Doha!

The circumstances were quite different last year.  Davydenko was coming off a win at the ATP World Tour Finals.  Nadal had not won a title in about half a year, but was playing good aggressive tennis to start the year.  Federer was playing, well, he has lost the US Open to del Potro and lost

Top Seeds Roll on in Doha

Ivo Karlovic is one of those unusual players.  He grew up poor, so he didn't get all the lessons the top juniors got and practiced the one thing you can practice by yourself: his serve.  Karlovic not only hits the biggest serve in tennis, he is pretty consistent too.  Like Roddick, Karlovic hits about 70%

Pro Tour Starts Up Again (Doha/Chennai/Brisbane)

Looking every bit like a sandy brown Apollo Ohno, soul patch included, or perhaps that faithful stoner buddy of Scooby Doo, Lukas Lacko, the Slovak Shaggy, had Rafael Nadal on the the ropes. Lacko (pronounced Lack-so by the announcers) is not exactly a young player.  At age 23, he's been on the tour for a

Andy Roddick’s bout with mono

Around the time of the US Open, Andy Roddick finally admitted that he had been suffering a bout with mono.  Keen fans of tennis will recall that Roger Federer was afflicted with mono at the start of 2008.  He "only" reached the semifinals of the Australian Open.  That year was the duo surprise of Novak

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