Yay! Rafael Nadal will be playing for Spain in the Davis Cup tie with Germany.
That’s nice. Now why did there have to be a huge deal made about Nadal playing? Complete with a comment from Nadal and everything: “Right now I’m with Tommy (Robredo) and at Indian Wells I’ll go with David Ferrer to prepare […]
Kei Nishikori won the first ATP title for Japan in 16 years when he upset James Blake in the final of the International Tennis Championships. Nishikori lost the first set 6-3 but stormed back in the second, taking it 6-1, and then he closed out the match with a 6-4 third set.
Nishikori was a qualifier […]
If we put the International Tennis Federation and the Lawn Tennis Association in a ring and I was a betting woman, I would lay my life savings on the ITF to win this bout.
Apparently Roger Draper, the chief executive of the LTA, went on record with this comment: “We have enough problems sorting out British […]
Andy Murray sent Mario Ancic packing in the Marseille Open, beating the Croatian 6-3, 6-4 to win the title. After the match Murray said he thought he’d be back in the top 10 when the new ATP rankings were released but the ATP statistician said that wasn’t the case. Thank goodness there was one of those […]
Mario Ancic took out Marcos Baghdatis 6-4, 6-2 in the semifinals at Marseille to set up a final showdown with fourth-seeded Andy Murray. Murray beat eighth-seeded Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-2, 6-2 earlier for his ticket to Sunday’s final.
Not that this is the most interesting piece of tennis news out there but I thought it worthy of […]
Even though Monica Seles hasn’t competed in five years but it was just this week that Seles announced her retirement from tennis.
She plans to play exhibitions and play in charity events to promote the sport of tennis but as far as working her schedule around the WTA tournaments - that’s not going to be a […]
The top two seeds at the Open 13 are gone. And when I say gone, I mean Novak Djokovic and Richard Gasquet won’t be challenging anyone for a title in this tournament because they’ve been ousted.
Defending champ Gilles Simon pulled off the 6-2, 6-7, 6-3 upset over Djokovic and Gasquet dropped out to the tune […]
I think I’ve touched on this before, but I’ve harped on widely popular professional athletes for being wrapped up in their own worlds. Basically - a lot of them are jerks. Is that a blanket statement? Yes. Am I aware there are plenty of nice professional athletes out there? You betcha.
Rafael Nadal launched a foundation […]
There were no nuggets of betting information to be had at the Diamond Games as three spectators were ejected from the stands for online betting.
The three were suspected of capitalizing off the split second differential between when a point was played on the court to when it was posted to the official online scoring page.
But […]
It took three sets for Anna Chakvetadze to win the Paris Indoors Open. The 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 victory over Agnes Szavay gave the Russian her seventh title.
Chakvetadze had to call in the trainer after losing the second set for a shoulder injury and managed to pull it together to eke out the win.
Before Chakvetadze climbed […]
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Written by Erica Beck [email] for b5media.
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