The last time Mardy Fish and Rafael Nadal played was in the quarterfinals of Cincinnati. Rafael Nadal, like many other pros, loves Japanese food and his team was at a local Japanese place when Nadal handled a very hot plate and burned his fingers. This caused Nadal to struggle a bit with his backhand. In
The top four seeds have made their way into the Tokyo semifinals with the expected final showdown between Nadal and Murray. In the first match of the day, Mardy Fish took on Bernard Tomic. Although Tomic is fairly talented, he still struggles with errors and this may be because he plays relatively few tournaments, especially
Perhaps one day there will be a player with a huge serve that plays huge off the ground. That's tough because with a huge serve, there's not much need to be a great baseliner. Such was the dilemma of Milos Raonic when he faced Rafael Nadal in the second round in Tokyo. Raonic had a
Today, in Tokyo, there were quite a few three setters. Murray had a pretty tough opening round playing Marcos Baghdatis who reached the finals of Kuala Lumpur last week. He needed three sets to beat the Cypriot. Tipsarevic, who won Kuala Lumpur, had chances to beat Tursunov but despite being breaks up on him, Tursunov
Some early round results in Tokyo. Nadal d Soeda 63 62 Raonic d Sugita 67 63 76 Giraldo d Haase 63 76 Gulbis d Kubot 63 36 75 Ito d Sela 64 36 63 Tomic d Troicki 76 76 Ferrer d Nishikori 64 63 Bogomolov d Nieminen 64 64 A little surprise with Ito, a
Four matches were completed in Tokyo, an ATP 500 event. Mardy Fish played Ryan Harrison for the third time this year and for the third time, he beat him. Harrison did push Fish to a third set, but Fish still claimed the victory 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. Generally, Americans have not fared that well in events
By all rights, Radek Stepanek probably shouldn't have been in the finals at all. Had Mardy Fish not been both fatigued and injured, he might have beaten Stepanek in the second round. But Fish did hurt his heel, and he did withdraw from the ATP 500 event, and this let Wayne Odesnik, whose ranking has
This was one of those matches that just wouldn't end. Slated to start at about 7 PM, rain delays caused the match to be mostly delayed until about 10:30 PM. There was another delay around 11:30. The first set was taken by Monfils off a late break. Isner got an early break in the second
Stepanek, the 32 year old veteran from the Czech Republic, has made it to the finals of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic. It might not have happened. In the second round, Stepanek should have faced top seed, Mardy Fish, but Fish had a heel injury in Los Angeles and opted to stay in L.A. a
Donald Young has been on the tour as long as Sam Querrey, but because Sam Querrey is tall with a huge serve, he had more early success than Young. Young has mostly been toiling in Challengers and has struggled to get a big win. He did get a big win earlier in the year, beating
