Apparently Rafa was only the first in a string of toppled giants. Roger Federer lost a tightly-contested two-set match to Radek Stepanek in the Rome Masters quarterfinals 7-6(4), 7-6(7). I don’t know which type of loss is harder: the one where you get completely blown off the court or the one where you’re so incredibly […]
Well this will be short and sweet. Mostly because the Times of India didn’t embellish and partly because my threads of focus are nearly broken. But I’m still writing about it because it’s a freakishly bizarre incident.
Three top-ranked tennis players in the city of Varanasi in India were beat up by the police for “tripling […]
Her hope of using the German Open to get ready for the French didn’t materialize for Justine Henin after Dinara Safina used three sets to send Henin packing in the third round.
Henin had been to the last six German Open finals and won three of them. Two of those victories preluded her first two French […]
Every time a player challenges a call and the television screen switches to Hawk-eye mode, I hold my breath with silent anticipation and then either let out a relieved sigh or an exasperated grunt.
There are times I wish we could go back to the days of the wooden rackets with the impossibly heavy balls instead […]
When in Rome…don’t do as Rafael Nadal did. Rafa lost 7-5, 6-1 to Juan Carlos Ferrero in the second round of the Rome Masters, a tournament Rafa has won the last three years.
Bummer, dude. I’m not sure if I expected Rafa to sweep all the clay court tournaments this season or not. I never really […]
Mike Robb, the Newport High School tennis coach, was killed in 2005 by a shotgun round to the head. Early this week, Robb’s killer Samson Berhe was found not guilty be reason of insanity and was acquitted of the murder charges. Berhe was sent to a mental institution indefinitely.
Yep…all I really have to say about […]
Rafa had a valid point when he said the clay court season was jammed into a tight time frame. I feel like I’ve just wrapped up one tournament, take a breath and then turn around and realize we’re already halfway through the next tournament. And I’m just writing about it!
So Roger Federer passed another clay […]
That’s kind of a scary title, isn’t it? Justine Henin has been one of my favorite players on the women’s tour for a long time. To hear Henin is ruminating retirement gave me pause. Seriously? How could she? Now I’ll have to pick a new favorite women’s player!
Thankfully for all of us Henin fans, it […]
Rafael Nadal won the Barcelona title Sunday. It wasn’t in parade fashion as many of his recent victories have been. It took a three-set effort (6-1, 4-6, 6-1) for Nadal to dispatch David Ferrer. With the win, Nadal became the first man to win four consecutive Barcelona titles.
I wonder how it feels. That whole making […]
You know, there just isn’t a whole heck of a lot of things going down on the courts right now. I mean - other than Rafael Nadal cruising into the Barcelona final in smashing fashion and Vera Zvonareva taking the Prague Open title without dropping a set the entire tournament.
But there’s a lot going on […]
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