Ah, it’s raining in Cincinnati this Saturday afternoon, interrupting the Mardy Fish vs. Andy Roddick semifinal at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters. So it’s the perfect time to review some of Friday’s exciting quarterfinal action, which featured Roger Federer completing his first full match of the tournament and Rafael Nadal being upset by [...]

The ATP just released a bunch of new videos, so I thought we’d do a little film festival. Hopefully you’re having a slow day at work, anyway. The ATP players had a big photo shoot in Indian Wells. We learn that Evgeny Korolev is the new male model of tennis. I kind of have a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We can’t get enough of the practice courts (and practice field) at Indian Wells. Gael Monfils, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Robin Soderling, Gilles Simon, the Spanish Armada, Justine Henin and Caroline Wozniacki worked on their strokes and their foot work on Thursday. Anna Chakvetadze looked on while Marcos Baghdatis, Juan Monaco, Gaston Gaudio et. al played a [...]

Sveta played a late night match on Friday, getting past Angelique Kerber in three close sets. Gotta love that game face. . . Now onto Day Six Down Under, which was notable for retirements, withdrawals and old fashioned beat-downs. The men didn’t get to four-sets until Tsonga and Haas played the last match on Hisense. [...]

Yes, you are too sexy for that shirt. . .photo by REUTERS/Mick Tsikas via Daylife Well, we have the latest crop of weekend winners, (almost) the last before the Australian Open starts on Monday. Winning a warm up the weekend before a major is tricky – it gives a player loads of confidence but can [...]

REUTERS/Soren Andersson (SWEDEN SPORT TENNIS) via Daylife Marcos Baghdatis won his first ATP title since 2007 on Sunday beating fellow un-seeded player, Olivier Rochus at the Stockholm Open: 6-1, 7-5. To be fair to Olivier, the diminutive Belgian played a three set semifinal on Saturday against Thomaz Bellucci while Marcos got a walkover from Robing [...]

Day 3 at the LA Tennis Open was a potpourri of tennis surprises. John Isner rolled his ankle at 10-all in a 2nd set tie-break against Marcos Baghdatis – and won. (He has a day to rest.) Marat Safin played Ernests Gulbis in a see-saw match with eight breaks of serve – and won. And [...]

Tuesday was a busy day at the L.A. Tennis Open, the ATP 250 event on the bucolic UCLA campus. Marat Safin (click here), Sam Querrey with his Samurai, John Isner, Robby Ginepri, Ernests Gulbis, Taylor Dent, and Marcos Baghdatis all played their first round singles matches today. Here’s some of the action from the stadiums [...]