As Indian Wells heads to the later rounds, most of the remaining matches are scheduled on Stadium 1, the main stadium. The organizers wanted Americans, Sam Querrey and John Isner, to be the evening highlight. Little did they know that there would be two tense three set women's matches that would push the start of
Today was the first day that the seeds played. There were few upsets on the day, but the most notable one was Marin Cilic losing tamely to Garcia-Lopez, 7-6(1), 6-0. Yes, he was bageled in the second set. Gilles Simon was the other seed that feel, losing to qualifier Brian Dabul of Argentina. Simon had
On paper, the US had a slim shot at winning this tie, played in Belgrade on an indoor clay court. Clay has always been the weakest surface. Looking back at recent history, perhaps Andre Agassi was the best American clay courter? Or perhaps Jim Courier? Both would say hard courts suited their power games better.
With US down 2-0 to Serbia, it came once again to the Bryan brothers, the world's number 1 doubles team to salvage the doubles and push competition into a third day. The bad news? Mike Bryan, eating chicken curry in Belgrade, came down with food poisoning and was unable to play. What were the choices?
Hardcourt tournaments are so prevalent that there are three distinct hardcourt "seasons". The first starts at the beginning of the year and lasts until just before the start of the clay season. It culminates in Indian Wells and Miami. The second starts two weeks after Wimbledon and is the US Open series. The third pretty
It was bound to happen at some point. Sam Querrey finally met John Isner, his doubles partner, in a tournament. Querrey won a tournament in 2008, but it was early in 2009 when he reached the finals of Auckland, losing to Juan Martin del Potro, that Querrey began to make his move up. He decided
Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin del Potro aren't the only two players taking time off to recover. Roger Federer, who was last seen winning the Australian Open, has withdrawn from Dubai next week, leaving Novak Djokovic, world number 2, as the top seed. Andy Murray had been in the same half of the draw as
I don't think Andy Roddick saw this coming. When Sampras retired after the 2002 US Open and when Agassi retired after the 2006 US Open, we were left with the very serious questions: who's the next great American? Andy sometimes gets a bad rap. There are those dedicated to Andy because Andy is our best
Looking through the draw of any Slam, you're likely to notice a lot of Spaniards. And a lot of Frenchman. Who knew the Pyrenees would divide two prolific tennis playing countries? You wouldn't see a lot of Americans, certainly, not many top 50 Americans, and it might lead you to ask "What happened to all
John Isner. Gael Monfils. The average tennis fan has probably heard of one, but not the other, and possibly neither. Monfils, the talented and athletic Frenchman, would seem like the shoo-in favorite to beat John Isner. Yet, if you looked at their head-to-head, it's Isner who leads 2-1, and all 3 meetings have been closer.
