The last two semifinalists were decided today. Robin Soderling again makes it to the semifinals as he did back in Indian Wells. He played a familiar opponent, Mikhail Youzhny, who he beat back in Rotterdam. Youzhny was unable to complete that match, but he did complete this one, losing 6-1, 6-4. Tomas Berdych had to
Unlike the surprise loss by Federer yesterday, both Andy Roddick and Rafael Nadal won quarterfinal matches. Roddick has never played Nicolas Almagro, but apparently found easy work, winning 6-3, 6-3. Nadal appeared to have a tougher challenge in Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Tsonga had a chance to break early, but wasn't able to do it while Nadal
Fernando Gonzalez had chosen not to go to Indian Wells so he could head to Chile to assist with relief efforts. He returns to Miami, but had to face hard hitting Soderling. Soderling took the first set, 6-0, but Gonzalez worked hard to take the second set in a tiebreak. Gonzalez was testy, complaining that
Whatever mental issues Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic are facing, they don't seem to affect Andy Roddick and Rafael Nadal. Roddick may not be as young as Isner nor Querrey, but he still moves quite well, and he played unseeded Stakhovsky 6-2, 6-1. Fellow American, John Isner, did not fare as well. He pushed Juan
OK, so he didn't win the singles. Ivan Ljubicic took care of Nadal in the semifinals. But with Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal entered as wildcards, they proceeded their way through the draw and made the finals where they faced top seed, Zimonjic and Nestor. Nadal rarely plays doubles, but he has won some titles
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 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
In 2008, Mario Ancic got mononucleosis and this forced him off the tour for the better part of a year. He's not played much in 2 years. Winning two rounds prior to this (Bobby Reynolds in the first round, Julien Benneteau in the second), was considered something of a success for Ancic, but he had
For a set, Novak Djokovic was cruising against Philipp Kohlschreiber, up 6-3, with Kohlschreiber making errors. But then, his game left him. He couldn't get his serves in. He was spraying shot. And suddenly he lost the second set, 6-2, and then was down 3-0 in the third with a point to be down two
