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John Isner and Nicolas Almagro win on Day One of the Miami Tennis Cup

December 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Miami, FL – December 1st, 2012: Attendance grew on stadium court at Crandon Park Tennis Center in Key Biscayne, FL. on Friday evening, as tennis enthusiasts flocked to see some of the world’s best players perform during the night session on day one of the Miami Tennis Cup. As the vodka bottles were uncorked in [...]

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Serena Williams and Andy Murray cap off their successful summers — The Friday Five

September 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Great Scot! He had to wait an extra day for it, but on Monday night, Andy Murray got the monkey off his back and did what no other British man had done since Fred Perry back in 1936 – he won a major singles title. A lot of things went right for [...]

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Around The Corner: Life After The Davis Cup

February 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

With the opening round of the Davis Cup wrapping up on Sunday, the ATP World Tour will now shift back into form with three tournaments in Rotterdam, San Jose and Sao Paulo. Here’s a closer look at the draws from all three events and some analysis on who stands the best chance of making it [...]

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10 Reasons to be Excited for Davis Cup Weekend

February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The time has come!  While Andrea has done a great job breaking down the World Group match-ups, I thought I’d spell out for you the specific reasons why you should set your alarm for 5AM, skip work, cancel all of your social plans, and dedicate your entire Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to the wonder that [...]

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Federer, Djokovic, Wozniacki and Williams are All Through

September 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic progressed with ease from the fourth round of the US Open with straight set wins over Juan Monaco and Alexandr Dolgopolov Jr respectively. Federer had to wait till 23:50 local time before he and his opponent could get their encounter underway and it looked to be well past Monaco’s [...]

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Roger Federer sails into the next – US Open day 1

August 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The final Grand Slam of the year got underway on Monday in New York and with hurricane Irene no longer looming, the tournament was able to get through all of its scheduled matches. On the men’s side we saw third seeded Roger Federer advance with relative ease against clay-court specialist Santiago Giraldo in straight sets [...]

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Wozniacki’s new boyfriend, Serena Williams uses protected ranking, Dulko gets married – The Friday Five

July 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Righting the Ship Last weekend saw two ATP stars move towards getting their game’s back on track and hopefully gaining confidence going into the summer season. Robin Soderling played some stellar tennis against a competitive field to take the title in his home country, defeating David Ferrer, on clay, in the final [...]

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Speaking of winning streaks in tennis…

May 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The tennis world is abuzz about Novak Djokovic’s current 37-match win streak as the French Open approaches. Today, May 20, marks the 21st anniversary of a win streak coming to an end, as documented below in this excerpt from Randy Walker’s book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY ($19.95, New Chapter Press, www.TennisHistoryBook.com). 1990 – [...]

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Around The Corner: Hamburg And Atlanta Hit It Off This Week

July 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The International German Open – Hamburg, Germany The German Open offers European clay-court specialists another opportunity to pad their ranking point totals for the year. Russian Nikolay Davydenko is seeded first but given his play as of late I wouldn’t expect much in terms of results here. Struggling to find his game after returning from [...]

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Around the Corner: Clay Court Tennis in Stuttgart and Bastad

July 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

With the short grass court season already over, the ATP Tour turns to a couple of clay court tournaments in Europe this week. Stuttgart: The chance at redemption to a multitude of players who have missed significant portions of the tennis season due to injury is offered at Stuttgart this year. Russian Nikolay Davydenko is [...]

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