Remember in 2006 when the ATP website would get a player to blog from each tournament? Cool idea, but everyone was boring….
…Except, of course, for Dmitry Tursunov; founder, writer, editor, president, and CEO of the “Tursunov Tales.” His initial blog (from Estoril, if I’m not mistaken) was so endlessly entertaining that the ATP website did [...]
No Andy Roddick. No Bryan Brothers. No home-court advantage. No problem.
The United States is back in the Davis Cup World Group for 2011 following a 3-1 win road win over Colombia in a rowdy Bogota environment. Continuing his remarkable 2010 resurgence, Mardy Fish played the role of hero for outgoing American captain [...]
August 30
Roberto Carretero (35)
Juan Ignacio Chela (31)
Andy Roddick (28)
Ernests Gulbis (22)
August 31
Thierry Champion (44)
Andrei Medvedev (36)
September 1
Carl-Uwe Steeb (43)
Barbara Paulus (40)
September 2
JAMES SCOTT CONNORS (58)
Philip Davydenko (18)
September 4
Mark Knowles (39)
Daniel Nestor (38)
September 5
Filippo Volandri (29)
Roko Karanusic (28)
Go Soeda (26)
Incarcerated rapper Lil Wayne, who is serving a year sentence on felony gun charges, has given the US Open nod to Rafael Nadal and Kim Clijsters. The sports fanatic is a “huge Rafael Nadal fan!” and despite worries over the in-form Andy Murray, still thinks Nadal has what it takes to complete the career [...]
Qualifying wrapped up and main-draw action got underway on Monday at the Atlanta Tennis Championships.
All four qualifying spots went to players who were seeded in the qualifying draw. Gilles Muller looked impressive again, erasing Harel Levy in straight sets. Levy was in a bad mood the entire time, complaining about blinding sun, [...]
Spain once again owes its continued World Cup survival to the brilliant striker David Villa, who scored their only goal in the quarterfinal match again Paraguay.
The match went along with little of interest to note until midway through the second half. First, Gerard Pique drew a foul in the penalty area and Paraguay was [...]
Singles stars Jurgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner captured the Wimbledon men’s doubles title on Saturday, defeating Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau 6-1, 7-5, 7-5.
After breaking three times in the opening set, Melzer and Petzschner broke Tecau at love at 6-5 in both the second and third sets. A winnig down-the-line forehand by Petzschner at 5-6, [...]
The only thing missing from the story of the French National Team at this year’s World Cup is a love triangle. We’ve had fights, player dismissals, conspiracy theory, a strike – and intervention from French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
For those who want the condensed version, it all started when striker Nicolas Anelka decided to try [...]
According to various message boards, Roger Federer cannot hit a serve, forehand or backhand to “save his life”. His eye-hand coordination and even his desire to win have come under fire.
Apparently, losses in consecutive tournaments to Robin Soderling and Lleyton Hewitt were too humiliating to bear. Given the virulence of posts on the [...]
Vocal Swede Mats Wilander, who once claimed that the only reason Federer could not beat Nadal at Roland Garros was because he lacked the balls to do so, is speaking out once again.
“He’s going to be very tough to beat at Wimbledon”, said the oft-critical Swede.
This is the same man who, prior to the 2009 [...]