Fresh off his win over Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray teamed up with his brother, Jamie Murray, to win the doubles title over the fourth seed, Cermak and Polasek of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, respectively, in a tidy 6-1, 6-4 win, the easiest win en route to the title. The two had teamed up to
The top four seeds have made their way into the Tokyo semifinals with the expected final showdown between Nadal and Murray. In the first match of the day, Mardy Fish took on Bernard Tomic. Although Tomic is fairly talented, he still struggles with errors and this may be because he plays relatively few tournaments, especially
Perhaps one day there will be a player with a huge serve that plays huge off the ground. That's tough because with a huge serve, there's not much need to be a great baseliner. Such was the dilemma of Milos Raonic when he faced Rafael Nadal in the second round in Tokyo. Raonic had a
Today, in Tokyo, there were quite a few three setters. Murray had a pretty tough opening round playing Marcos Baghdatis who reached the finals of Kuala Lumpur last week. He needed three sets to beat the Cypriot. Tipsarevic, who won Kuala Lumpur, had chances to beat Tursunov but despite being breaks up on him, Tursunov
Some early round results in Tokyo. Nadal d Soeda 63 62 Raonic d Sugita 67 63 76 Giraldo d Haase 63 76 Gulbis d Kubot 63 36 75 Ito d Sela 64 36 63 Tomic d Troicki 76 76 Ferrer d Nishikori 64 63 Bogomolov d Nieminen 64 64 A little surprise with Ito, a
It's pretty impressive when a guy who is as injured as Juan Carlos Ferrero can come back and play this well. Ferrero will be off for months, come back, and win a tournament, before fading away. Fortunately for him, he's playing well. Gael Monfils was his creative self, diving all over to get miracle shots
It seemed like a danger sign, didn't it? Tomas Berdych dispatched of Nicolas Almagro, 6-2, 6-2. Almagro is no chump. He's had one of his best years. But Berdych is a player when he's on, and that's rare, he may be the most talented pure hitter on the planet. Alas, he's not usually on, and
Verdasco must get a lot of heartache playing Nadal. He's never beaten him in 11 attempts, and for a while, he was struggling to win sets. But if Verdasco had a chance to upset Nadal, today was it. Nadal had burned his fingers at a dinner handling a hot plate. He had lost to Dodig
This is what you get with a Masters 1000 event. You can have a tough first match right off the bat, and even more if you are a top seed. Juan Martin del Potro has been on the comeback trail. He's ranked 19th in the world, but would be 11th if the rankings were only
Djokovic had played somewhat shaky tennis in his first two rounds, beating Davydenko when Davydenko had 2 breaks, then a third before giving up the first set then disappearing in the second. Against Cilic, Djokovic again struggled a bit with trying to take control of the match, but did good enough to win. But it
