With the finals of Vienna and St. Petersburg being played today, there's only two more weeks where players can qualify for the year-end championship, namely Basel/Valencia next week, and the last Masters 1000 event of the year in Paris. This week, two events are being played, one in Vienna and one in St. Petersburg. Last
For a guy who struggled to win his first tournament title (losing 4 finals before winning his first), Janko Tipsarevic is hitting his stride. With his win in Kuala Lumpur, Tipsarevic become Serb #2 ahead of Viktor Troicki. Novak Djokovic credits his success due to the Serbian maiden win in Davis Cup last year, but
The US Open series is often used by Americans to showcase their talents. It starts in Atlanta and ends in New York City at the US Open. Many non-Americans often skip the first month of the US Open series and start play in Canada. The downside of all this play is Americans generally play poorly
Andy Murray probably knows the math. He's got a good head-to-head over Federer. Djokovic has been practicing and looks ready to continue his winning streak. With Murray entering Basel as a wildcard, he's hoping that Federer loses in the semifinals and that Murray himself reaches the semifinals. At the very least, he wants to keep
China, the site of the Shanghai Masters, has been on a quest. They want to produce a top 200 male player. Obviously, top 100 would be great too. They've done plenty fine producing good women players, most notably, French Open champion, Li Na. And they've done well enough producing players that can win a few
The top four seeds have made their way into the Tokyo semifinals with the expected final showdown between Nadal and Murray. In the first match of the day, Mardy Fish took on Bernard Tomic. Although Tomic is fairly talented, he still struggles with errors and this may be because he plays relatively few tournaments, especially
Perhaps one day there will be a player with a huge serve that plays huge off the ground. That's tough because with a huge serve, there's not much need to be a great baseliner. Such was the dilemma of Milos Raonic when he faced Rafael Nadal in the second round in Tokyo. Raonic had a
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 been a long time since the French have won the French Open. The peculiar part is that most French players play better on fast courts than on clay. It's not that their incompetent on clay, far from it. Perhaps one day they'll do something that would be almost heretical in modern tennis: changing the
The French only had a puncher's chance. They hoped that puncher was Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. But with Nadal's withering pressure, Tsonga had no answers. Much like Gasquet, Tsonga was forced to hit winners off both sides, and missed frequently. The third set was only marginally better because his serve was helping him hold serve. Tsonga would
