Beating Roger Federer doesn’t do much good if you can’t follow it up with another victory. Andy Roddick squandered his breakthrough victory over Federer by losing to Nikolay Davydenko in straight sets at the Sony Ericsson Open. I guess that’s what happens when you’re still reeling from an emotional victory 24 hours earlier.
Davydenko had fallen […]
I was hanging on every updated point in the Rafael Nadal/James Blake quarterfinal when the game tracker punked out. It quit. Everytime I clicked on it - and believe me, it was a lot - I got an error message that said the “HTML can not be displayed.” HTML my butt, where’s my tennis scores!?!
However, […]
It was one heck of a match. 6-7, 7-6, 7-5 victory to Rafael Nadal over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Pacific Life Open. I was on the edge of the couch, biting my nails, shouting at the television. My roommate walks into the house, sees me nearly apoplectic and asks, “Is that Wedgie Man playing?” referring to Nadal.
Why yes, […]
Several others did what Roger Federer could not: they advanced at the Dubai Tennis Championships.
Andy Roddick defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero handily in two sets (6-2, 6-4). Rafael Nadal had to come from a set down to defeat Philipp Kohlschreiber and Novak Djokovic easily worked over Marin Cilic in straight sets.
Djokovic voiced what so many others […]
When I first saw the name of this tournament, I thought it said “ABN Amor.” For those who don’t know - “amor” means love in Spanish. Then I looked closer and realized I was just stupid.
Rafael Nadal, the last remaining seeded player in the draw got the pink slip by Andreas Seppi in a 6-3, […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have been dying to write about the 2008 Popcorn Tennis Awards but it has been overshadowed by things like Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova winning Australian Open titles. Like that is a big deal or something.
(By the way - the “t” on my keyboard is being a bit obstinate and not wanting to work […]
The chips are in and the cards are down. The fortnight at the Australian Open is a closed book, but there are 10 moments from Down Under that were pretty special.
10. No Americans at the Australian Open past the quarterfinals.
I should take that back. There was one American who lost in the semifinals and that […]
When Rafael Nadal was drop-kicked out of the Australian Open by a relative unknown, I thought - Hmm - wasn’t expecting that but a little bit of upheaval will be good for the tennis world.
So if a little bit is good, does that mean a lot is great?
Novak Djokovic punched Roger Federer’s ticket on the […]
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Written by Julie Bonner [email] for b5media.
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