Andy Murray must be thinking--finally. Murray had played two three setters in a row and claimed maybe he was too relaxed coming out of the gates leading to rusty play in opening sets against Kukushkin and Muller. Against Marcos Baghdatis, who Murray had a losing record against, Murray steamrolled to a 62 62 win getting
As the "new four" try to climb their way to the top (whether they can do this is another question), they need to secure big victories at some point. Let's think about the big four. Roger Federer's big win was beating Sampras in the fourth round of Wimbledon in 2001. At the time, Sampras had
In the US, you have to be a diehard tennis fan to watch tennis now. Many people stop watching after the US Open, especially if they follow American football. With the paucity of games in a football season (16 total, as opposed to 82 in basketball, and nearly twice as many in baseball), every game
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.
Some early round results in Tokyo. Nadal d Soeda 63 62 Raonic d Sugita 67 63 76 Giraldo d Haase 63 76 Gulbis d Kubot 63 36 75 Ito d Sela 64 36 63 Tomic d Troicki 76 76 Ferrer d Nishikori 64 63 Bogomolov d Nieminen 64 64 A little surprise with Ito, a
It's pretty impressive when a guy who is as injured as Juan Carlos Ferrero can come back and play this well. Ferrero will be off for months, come back, and win a tournament, before fading away. Fortunately for him, he's playing well. Gael Monfils was his creative self, diving all over to get miracle shots
Nikolay Davydenko has been struggling with his game ever since he came back from a broken left wrist around Wimbledon of last year. Things were so bad that, during a Davis Cup match in Russia, Davydenko wanted to take himself out of the reverse singles and was only convinced by his wife to continue to
Sometimes Brad Gilbert is wrong. Perhaps more often than he expects. He thought that Roger Federer would steamroll over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He had only lost to Tsonga once, in a meltdown with a 5-1 lead in the fifth set. Federer took an early break and rode that to a first set. Then, he took the
Now that we're through "Manic Monday", the day where all fourth round matches are played, we're getting to the business end of this Slam. Let's look at the matchups. Nadal vs. Fish Tomas Berdych was the expected seed, but despite not having dropped a set, Berdych's place has gone down since Wimbledon. Berdych clings to
