Few players have won on three surfaces. Sure, we look at the best of the best, at players like Nadal and Federer who have either won career Slams or may win career Slams. But the average top 100 player does well to win maybe a dozen matches in their careers. It's not easy when you
Roger Federer used to fear Lleyton Hewitt. His groundstrokes, he knew, were better than his. Federer would come to the net and take his chances there. Federer knew, if he were ever to become number 1, that he needed to improve his baseline game. By 2004, when Hewitt had a 7-2 win-loss record, Federer turned
After spending weeks in Europe doing the clay court thing, Sam Querrey had had enough. Many players may have experienced what Sam experienced, but few show the bravery (or stupidity, as some may call it) to tell the world that he didn't want to be on the court. He had just come off a loss
There's barely a grass court season, so the transition from clay to grass can be a rough one. Were the grass court season comparable to, say, half the clay court season, say, 4 weeks of tuneup events prior to Wimbledon and maybe 1-2 Masters 1000 events on grass, perhaps we'd see a different set of
