Perhaps Verdasco could have been forgiven for a loss to upstart Milos Raonic who made a splash with a fourth round appearance in the Australian Open as a qualifier. He had never played him before, and lost playing great service games, but was unable to win the tiebreaks, despite a 6-2 lead in the first
This is a bit of a surprise. del Potro already in the semifinals! Although Lleyton Hewitt is not quite the number 1 player he was a decade ago, he is still a guy that fights. But the one part of del Potro's game that contributed to his rise to the top 5 is also the
It's hard to recall the last time a player ranked as high as del Potro (a top 5 player) that was sideline for most of a year. del Potro played 3 tournaments in all of 2010. He reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, then lost in two first round tournaments in the Asian swing
It was good while it lasted. As many expected, del Potro wasn't ready to win a Slam. At least, not this soon. He cleared the first hurdle, which was winning a match. In the two tournaments he played last in 2010, del Potro lost in the first round. Once to Olivier Rochus and once to
I started watching tennis in the early 80s. In those days, cable was just starting to get popular. ESPN was already the premier sports channel because, well, there was no such thing anywhere else. Even so, it competed against the three big American networks: ABC, CBS, and NBC. For the most part, CBS and NBC
Currently, Soderling has 5580 points to Andy Murray's 5760 which means Soderling is 180 points behind Murray. With Soderling's win at Brisbane, he will replace a quarterfinal result in Marseille worth 45 points with a 250 point win or a net of 205 points, and just move ahead of Andy Murray. This means, with both
Don't feel bad, Juan Martin. Djokovic feels your pain too. Juan Martin del Potro's comeback was halted in a close loss to Olivier Rochus, 7-6(7), 6-4. Perhaps the surprise was that the match was actually pretty close given how many months del Potro has been off tour. del Potro fired 16 aces in his loss.
Juan Martin del Potro has been out of the game a long time. A very long time. None of the top pros in the game has ever had such a lengthy break from the game. del Potro basically played the Australian Open, and that was it. He hasn't been back since. He had wrist surgery
As expected, Juan Martin del Potro will not defend his US Open title. He was expecting to mark his return at the end of September in Bangkok, but nothing sooner than that. With only a week before the US Open, del Potro has not played any tournaments since the Australian Open and only started practicing
Juan Martin del Potro has basically been off the tour since Indian Wells. He got wrist surgery and was expected to be off the tour for at least 3-6 months. del Potro has signed up to play in Thailand, but that is at the end of September. The US Open starts the last week of
