One only wonders what might have happened had Roger Federer not contracted mononucleosis. It shows, after all, that Roger Federer is human, susceptible to disease. The timing was awful. It occurred late in 2007 or perhaps early in 2008, at a critical period for most tennis players. Once upon a time, tennis players may have
With the men's finals about 9 hours away, let's take a look at how each man has been doing. Let's start with Roger Federer. Federer reached the US Open finals again, and although he was just this close to winning the US Open (he had a 30-0 lead in the second set trying to serve
With less than a week before the finals, the tournament heads into the second week. This is a good time to look at the contenders and see how the field is doing. Let's go from top to bottom. Roger Federer had a tough opening round, nearly pushed to five sets against Igor Andreev. Although Andreev
Sometime in the 1990s, Mary Carillo, she of the flowery phrases, coined a term "big babe tennis". Carillo was already observing a trend in women's tennis. Dainty, petite players like Chris Evert and Tracy Austin were being supplanted by big women. Big often implied two things. "Big babes" were tall, often around 6 feet tall
This is not a great period in American tennis. We're not in the heyday where players like Sampras and Agassi were vying for number 1, or McEnroe and Connors were the bad boys of tennis. Andy Roddick has to wonder how he lived through this era. Perhaps had he played 10 years ago, he'd be
As we push onto 2010, all manner of news organizations are feeling the need to sum up the decade that was. Of course, there is an arbitrariness to picking years that end in nice round numbers like 0. Not everything fits nicely in a decade. Players like Stefan Edberg had the good years span across
