Roger Federer successfully defended his Cincinnati Masters title today, beating Mardy Fish 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 in the final. It’s the 17th Masters title of his career (tying Agassi, one behind Nadal) and his second title of the year, the other being the Australian Open. This victory snaps his mini losing streak in finals, Roger having [...]

Mardy Fish beat John Isner on Sunday, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(4), to win the inaugural title at the new Atlanta Tennis Championships. Mardy took out Andy Roddick in the semifinals last night – his first win over his good buddy in ten tries. Yep, it’s all going swimmingly for Fish. He’s on a ten match winning [...]

Lletyon Hewitt said it, I didn’t: “Roger’s a hell of an opponent; his grass-court record speaks for itself. Any time you play Roger on a grass court you know you’re in for a hell of a battle and I was lucky to get out of today’s match.” World No. 32 Lleyton Hewitt defeated Roger Federer [...]

Things are getting stormy for the top players at Queen’s Club. Rafael Nadal needed three sets, almost four hours on court and a three minute injury time out to get past world No. 76 Uzbek Dennis Istomin on Thursday: 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-4. Things looked particularly bad for Rafa after the second set, as he [...]

Wayne Odesnik pleaded guilty in an Australian court to smuggling eight vials of Human Growth Hormone into the country prior to the Australian Open this January, but obviously it was an experiment testing the competency of customs officials. Or maybe he was a helpless pawn in an international drug smuggling operation. I mean, why else [...]

A nice interview with Roger Federer after winning his first match in Miami on Saturday night vs. Nicolas Lapentti: Speaking of the tricks tennis plays on one’s mind, here’s Andy Murray trying to figure out how he lost to Mardy Fish in the second round: Mardy Fish, however, is feeling just fine. . .maybe a [...]

A day after World No. 59 Olivier Rochus took out Novak Djokovic, No. 101 ranked Mardy Fish beat defending champ Andy Murray 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday afternoon in Miami. It wasn’t even a hometown advantage for the American – Scot Andy Murray has an apartment nearby and practices at the Key Biscayne facilities. Murray’s going [...]

Tell me fellow book worms, did this edition of the ATPs “Favorite Things” depress you at all? Because besides a Dan Brown novel every now and then, most of our favorite tennis players don’t read anything but draw sheets (no, wait, that’s what their coaches are for.)  At least the Eastern Europeans are keeping literature [...]

You might not feel like it yet, but come the weekend you’re going to be craving more tennis. That’s when you can tune into Tennis Channel for a sampling of clay court action both Stateside and abroad. Marbella, a.k.a. the Andalucia Tennis Experience is (surprise!) in Spain. Top seeds at “press” time include Jelena Jankovic [...]

It was rough out on the courts this weekend at the Sony Ericsson Open. Maybe it’s good that Fox Sports Network aired BMX world, instead. Yikes! The wreckage on the WTA side was especially graphic: Jelena Jankovic crashed out to Gisela Dulko (who then went out to Benesova) Dinara Safina was crushed 6-1, 6-4 by [...]

I live about three hours from the upcoming Indian Wells tournament and am lucky to be able to attend for a few days every year (leaving Friday, whoo hoo!) So I was especially interested to read this article in the LA Times about how the tanking economy has changed things for the worse – and [...]

Venus Williams, Nicolas Almagro and Mardy Fish joined Dubai champ Novak Djokovic in the winners’ circle this weekend. Mardy Fish won his third career title today in Delray Beach over qualifier Evgeny “Kournikova’s cousin” Korolev, who was in his first ATP final. This was a MUST win title for Mardy, considering the inexperience of his [...]