Much like Queen's, nearly all the seeds lost (Newport only has 8 seeds), including top seed, Sam Querrey. The only remaining seeds were Olivier Rochus, 4th seed, and Mardy Fish, 5th seed. Fish's ranking has dropped some since he last played. He was the top seed last year, but left the tournament to play Davis
Newport doesn't attract the best players in the world. At times, Fabrice Santoro who never got his ranking higher than about 20 and most of the time had his ranking around 40, was sometimes a top seed. The top 8 seeds at Newport are barely contained in the top 100. Having Sam Querrey, now number
There's only 5 weeks of grass tennis in the entirety of the tennis schedule. The week after the French Open (Queen's and Halle). Two weeks after the French Open (Eastbourne and the UNICEF Open). The two weeks of Wimbledon. And the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships held in Newport, Rhode Island, that coincides with the
Few players have won on three surfaces. Sure, we look at the best of the best, at players like Nadal and Federer who have either won career Slams or may win career Slams. But the average top 100 player does well to win maybe a dozen matches in their careers. It's not easy when you
