A couple months ago, I remember reading about the guy who took his son to his tennis lesson via airplane. Right, no big deal. I fly to my appointments all the time…
Except this guy landed his airplane on a golf course and the authorities “caught” him. (”Caught” isn’t necessarily the right word since that implies […]
Jelena Jankovic is one of my favorite players on the women’s circuit. She’s got a great backhand (an aspect of the game I love), she’s got charisma and energy. Granted, her serve needs a lot of improvement and her lack of mental strength costs her some matches. But I love her game.
ESPN did a story […]
As often happens following a big tennis tournament, the things to talk about kind of dwindle until there’s nothing to discuss except rankings (boring!), previews for upcoming tourneys (that’d be okay, but then I end up talking about the same thing fooooreever) or the players’ antics off-court (this isn’t a tabloid!).
So I went on a […]
What a week of clay court tennis it has been! If there was any doubt that Rafael Nadal still owned the clay court crown, he dispelled those doubts with 7-5, 7-5 victory over Roger Federer in the Monte Carlo Masters final.
Rafa was facing a dismal 4-0 hole in the second set but clawed his way […]
Like one it says in one of those old western movies I used to watch with my pa, “You fit a good fight, Querrey.”
And he did. Sam Querrey was ousted by Novak Djokovic at the Monte Carlo Masters 6-4, 6-0 in the quarters, but boy, did Querrey give the American tennis fans something to bank […]
I was watching a rerun of Roger Federer’s match with Gael Monfils when I noticed something. (Yes, I am that person. I am a nerd, and apparently I don’t do too much to hide it!) Monfils’ serve: watch it. Well, now you can’t actually, because Federer beat him, but the man isn’t coming off the […]
Holy smokes! Apparently I started talking about Sam Querrey at just the right moment, because he’s doing some American Wonderkid stunts. Querrey just beat Richard Gasquet at the Monte Carlo Masters.
Querrey got soundly beat in the first set 6-2 by Gasquet. Querrey showed his tenacity and mental strength by winning the final two sets 6-4, […]
So Roger Federer almost lost in the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters. Down 5-1 in the third set, he won five games in a row and won the tiebreak over 137th-ranked Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo. But really, what’s the big deal? I’m tired of talking about Federer and what his recent slump means. I’d […]
It took a long time, three years worth of long, for Robert Dee to finally get his first victory as a professional tennis player. Dee was one loss short of tying the record of 55 consecutive losses when he notched the big W in Barcelona last week with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Arzhang Derakhshani.
Dee […]
The Monte Carlo Masters kicked off today. Juan Carlos Ferrero needed three sets to beat out Michael Llodra; Ferrero lost the first set 7-6 but leveled Llodra in the final two sets at 6-1 apiece.
Andy Murray and Mario Ancic persevered in the first round as well, but the Cinderella story (if you can have one […]
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Written by Erica Beck [email] for b5media.
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