17 March 2010
Indian Wells is getting woozy. Big wins, puzzling losses, falling seeds, big match hangovers. Makes me glad I’m not a betting woman. Here’s a quick report on Wednesday’s action at Indian Wells. Grrr. Marcos Baghdatis failed to follow up his career best win over Roger Federer, losing to Tommy Robredo 5-7, 6-0, 4-6 in his next [...]
17 March 2010
You gotta love the chatter that follows a Roger Federer loss. Tennis.com has a couple interesting articles analyzing the Federer vs. Baghdatis match at Indian Wells on Tuesday night. Click here for Steve Tignor’s “Federer’s anger proves he still cares.” I like Bodo’s, too, “Hold the Violins!” (click here) a good companion to my “It’s [...]
17 March 2010
ORDER OF PLAY – THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2010 ORDER OF PLAY – THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2010 *All times in PST STADIUM 1 start 12:00 noon [23] A Kleybanova (RUS) vs [6] J Jankovic (SRB) – WTA Not Before 2:00 PM [21] J Monaco (ARG) vs [20] I Ljubicic (CRO) – ATP Not Before 4:00 PM [28] M Martinez Sanchez (ESP) [...]
17 March 2010
Roger Federer lost to Marcos Baghdatis in the third round of Indian Wells on Tuesday evening: 7-5, 5-7, 6-7(4). Roger squandered two match points in the second set. He was up a break in the third. And he had a match point before the third set tiebreak! Unfortunately, Roger also had 46 unforced errors (to [...]
17 March 2010
Pete Sampras has finally reacted to Andre Agassi’s apologetic overtures. Via the LA Times: Agassi has taken swings at apologizing in several TV interviews since Friday night. Sampras has appreciated that, but dislikes how it feeds the beast and keeps the story alive. Agassi is outgoing, articulate, likely to go for the one-liner. [...]
17 March 2010
Nicole Vaidisova, former French Open and Australian Open semifinalist, two-time Wimbledon quarterfinalist and one-time Sharapova-in-waiting, is retiring at the ripe old age of 20. We can only assume she’d rather play house with Radek Stepanek than play tennis. Via tennisreporters.net: Former world No. 7 and two-time Grand Slam semifinalist Nicole Vaidisova has retired at the [...]
16 March 2010
ORDER OF PLAY – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010 ORDER OF PLAY – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010 *All times in PST STADIUM 1 start 12:00 noon [5] A Radwanska (POL) vs [4] E Dementieva (RUS) – WTA [15] J Isner (USA) vs [3] R Nadal (ESP) – ATP [9] J Tsonga (FRA) vs [6] R Soderling (SWE) – ATP Not [...]
16 March 2010
The ATP posted this video about the Indian Wells tournament, including some footage from the player party and some little interviews with Roger Federer, Gilles Simon and Andy Murray. Oh, and Charlie Pasarell was a babe in the 70s. Funny that the narrator mentions that Indian Wells is one of the most “glamorous destinations” on the [...]
16 March 2010
“This rivalry is intense!” Roger Federer joked at Indian Wells on Friday night, after Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi engaged in some verbal (and in Pete’s case, non-verbal) crossfire during their Hit for Haiti charity doubles match. It was a valiant attempt to break the tension and a subtle reference to the more mellow relationship [...]
15 March 2010
WTA stars continue to drop in the desert like beads of sweat from Rafa’s furrowed brow (or the deluge from Kleybanova’s ponytail). Sharapova, Henin, Ivanovic and Kuznetsova disappeared during the first week. On Monday 3rd-seeded Victoria Azarenka was bounced by 28-seed Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez. No. 17 Shahar Peer took out No. 9 Flavia Pennetta. No. [...]
15 March 2010
ORDER OF PLAY – TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2010 ORDER OF PLAY – TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2010 *All times PT STADIUM 1 start 12:00 noon [4] A Murray (GBR) vs M Russell (USA) – ATP Not Before 2:00 PM [16] N Petrova (RUS) vs [2] C Wozniacki (DEN) – WTA T de Bakker (NED) vs [7] A Roddick (USA) – ATP Not Before 5:00 [...]
15 March 2010
Learning our lesson from Saturday’s standing room only Roddick/Blake vs. Murray/Hutchins doubles match, we camped out early on Stadium 2 on Sunday to catch wild card entrants Rafael Nadal/Marc Lopez vs. the third-seeded doubles team of Lukas Dlouhy/Leander Paes. The wild cards won: 6-4, 3-6, 10-6. The result made me pity the doubles specialists of [...]