Are we surprised anymore? Djokovic seems like he's taking the route of fellow Serbians, Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic. Both Ivanovic and Jankovic were number 1 briefly. Djokovic has never reached number 1, but he recently became number 2 at the Australian Open. Djokovic was close enough to Rafael Nadal in rankings that when Rafa
The top seeds all get byes, so they don't play until the weekend. No huge surprises, but that's because most players playing are ranked 40 or below. Garcia-Lopez beat Clement in straight sets. German Florian Mayer beat Swiss Marco Chiudinelli in 3 sets. Michael Russell makes it past the first round again. In Indian Wells,
I guess I should have looked to see if the draw has already been posted for Miami, and so it has. Miami is the second Masters 1000 event. After this, he tour heads to Europe and the start of the clay court season which will lead to the French Open. Again, amazingly, Rafael Nadal finds
The first two Masters 1000 of the season are Indian Wells and Miami. Typically, players like Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have fared better at these Masters 1000 than Slam stalwarts, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, although Nadal was last year's defending champ. We're going to preview Miami by reviewing the top players and where
Andy Roddick rightly said that the finals would come down to serving. Turning 31 during the Indian Wells tournament, Ivan Ljubicic was hoping to give himself a birthday present. Ivan has not made a Masters 1000 final since 2006. Indeed, Ljubicic has made three Masters 1000 finals in his career, twice in 2005, and once
As Americans are focused on "March Madness", a 65-team single-elimination basketball tournament for college teams, a few folks may have created brackets for Indian Wells. Few would have picked this final. Andy Roddick playing tour veteran, Ivan Ljubicic, in the finals. The semifinal match-up between Roddick and Soderling didn't look good for Roddick. Soderling had
Not a bad way to celebrate a 31st birthday. The most prominent bald man in tennis is now Ivan Ljubicic. Sometimes, having been on the tour a long time helps you get through a tough match like this. Nadal was playing aggressive tennis as usual and engineered a break in the first set and eventually
If you were told that Andy Roddick and Andy Murray were playing today, and one lost, which might you pick? Of course, the answer would depend on who they were playing, but minus that information, you might say Andy Murray, since he's ranked higher than Andy Roddick. OK, so let's look at the opponents. Andy
If you were to look at head to head records between Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych, you would see Nadal has won the last five times they've met. At 6'5", Berdych has a bit of power off the ground. Indeed, in his last match against Viktor Troicki, he won 6-1, 6-3. More impressively, against Fernando
The seeds, they keep a falling. It was already something of a miracle that Djokovic got this far. After watching his game spiral out of control in the second set in the previous around against Philipp Kohlschreiber, Djokovic had to scrap to fight off match points, get a break of serve back and eventually win
