Newport doesn't attract the best players in the world. At times, Fabrice Santoro who never got his ranking higher than about 20 and most of the time had his ranking around 40, was sometimes a top seed. The top 8 seeds at Newport are barely contained in the top 100. Having Sam Querrey, now number
There's only 5 weeks of grass tennis in the entirety of the tennis schedule. The week after the French Open (Queen's and Halle). Two weeks after the French Open (Eastbourne and the UNICEF Open). The two weeks of Wimbledon. And the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships held in Newport, Rhode Island, that coincides with the
Congratulations to Rafael Nadal winning his second Wimbledon. Although the telecasts barely cover it, there were other men's events going on. What do Philipp Petzschner and Jurgen Melzer have in common? They both lost to eventual champ, Rafael Nadal (Petzschner at Wimbledon and Melzer in the French). But, now they have something else in common.
It was not unexpected that Rafael Nadal won his second Wimbledon. Nadal exposed some of Berdych's weaknesses. He gives you so few opportunities to take advantage of a match that you have to take them when it's available. Right now, it seems the only way Nadal will lose is some player that can outhit him
With less than a day before the men's final, the odds-on favorite to win Wimbledon is Rafael Nadal. Looking at Nadal's Recent Losses But, it may be instructive to look back at Rafael's losses for the last year and see if there's anything interesting. Queen's Club Rafael Nadal lost to Feliciano Lopez in the quarterfinals
It's been nearly two weeks since Wimbledon started, which means it's about to end. The tournament started off with an oddity in tennis: a first round match that became the longest in all of tennis, last a little over 11 hours and taking three days to complete. For the second year in a row, the
Murray looked like he had everything he needed. He was serving well, with first serve percentages near 70%, and impossibly high number for Murray who often sees 40% more than he sees 60%. He had his "Nadal strategy" in place, trying for big shots rather than the usual passive style he uses against most players.
Tomas Berdych wasn't getting enough love. He had just upset Roger Federer, but it was Novak Djokovic that was slightly favored. Two reasons: Djokovic had never lost to Berdych (they'd only played twice, to be fair) and Djokovic had beaten Hewitt, considered a dark horse to win Wimbledon, and then demolished Lu. It was felt
Everyone felt that the easiest of the quarterfinals was Novak Djokovic vs. Yen-Hsun Lu. Lu was reaching his first quarterfinals ever. He had upset Andy Roddick. Novak had just come off a solid win over Lleyton Hewitt. He had not reached a semifinals in quite some time. This was a perfect chance for Djokovic to
For a while, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was taking a page out of the book to beat Andy Murray. Play aggressive off the forehand and pressure Nadal. The two stayed on serve throughout the first set. In the first set tiebreak, Murray made a few errors, and Tsonga was able to 7 points to 5. Murray seemed
