Roger Federer practiced with a new coach in Portugal to try and rebound from his less than stellar start to the 2008 season. (If you’re Roger Federer, anything less than perfect is an unstellar start.)
Jose Higueras from Spain coached Federer for a few hours over the weekend. Higueras won 15 ATP titles.
Whether Higueras had any […]
Ryan Harrison became the third youngest player (since 1990) to win an ATP match. Harrison defeated Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay 6-4, 6-3 at the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship in Houston, Texas. It took Harrison 57 minutes to establish his place in history.
The American is 15 years, 11 months and seven days old and is […]
I don’t know that it would have been so easy if she had to face Lindsay Davenport in the semis but that’s tennis and Maria Sharapova walked away from the Bausch & Lomb Championships with her first clay court title. Sharapova beat Dominika Cibulkova 7-6, 6-3 en route.
You know, I think my job would be […]
I played tennis yesterday. The weather was glorious and my tennis game…sucked. I realize I haven’t played in almost a year. That doesn’t do wonders for tennis skills.
There were moments of brilliance. A wicked cross-court backhand winner. A low bouncing forehand down the line. But they were fleeting - oh so fleeting. Obviously I […]
It wasn’t pretty and it certainly wasn’t short but Maria Sharapova managed to eke through a tough third round at the Bausch & Lomb Championships against Anabel Medina Garrigues.
Three set and three and a half hours later, Sharapova had survived a clay court test. It was just the thing she had been looking for […]
Apparently the injury bug has hit the tour. After Venus Williams withdrew from the Family Circle Cup yesterday, Justine Henin announced she won’t be competing in next week’s competition either.
Henin’s website cited a right knee as the problem and thought it too sore to compete in Charleston.
No big deal. It’s just their job. Maybe […]
The question of who would represent France in the Davis Cup quarterfinal series with the United States was answered on its own when Jo-Wilfried Tsonga withdrew with a right knee injury.
Tsonga will be replaced with Arnaud Clement - whoever that is. Richard Gasquet, Paul Henri-Mathieu and Michael Llodra. And the United States will be represented […]
Now that the college basketball season is officially behind us, it’s time to focus on another race to number one that proves to be exciting even if it is a little slower paced.
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic all are vying for the top spot. Well - Federer has the top spot and he’s […]
I stumbled across Rafael Nadal’s blog. Well - stumbled as much as possible when you’re on Tennis.com. It’s really quite good. I was impressed and that’s a difficult thing to do.
There are some funny moments - especially Rafa’s response to a reader’s question about what he thought of Mikhail Youzhny beating himself with his racket. […]
Well, I wasn’t really expecting it, but Nikolay Davydenko steam-rolled Rafael Nadal in the final of the Sony Ericsson Open 6-4, 6-2.
Actually, it was a clinic on Davydenko’s part. Nadal didn’t ever really get his feet under him, and he didn’t know what to do with Davydenko’s cross-court winners. They had a wicked slice and […]
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Written by Erica Beck [email] for b5media.
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