Isner Bulldogs It To The Third
September 2, 2011 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY- Although John Isner is keeping a watchful eye on the other matchups today after his second round win over fellow American Robbie Ginepri, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4, his biggest concern is tomorrow’s big game. It’s when his beloved Georgia Bulldogs take on Boise State. “I’m just getting mentally prepared for that,” he said. [...]
Randy Walker on Wimbledon: The Final That Never Was
July 7, 2011 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
Randy Walker of New Chapter Media speaks to Joe McDonald on Wimbledon: The Final That Never Was. About the Book: The only time in the history of Wimbledon that the men’s singles final was not played is told in detail by the crowned champion in this illuminating tennis biography. Sidney Wood won the 1931 Wimbledon [...]
Lineup For Indian Wells Announced
January 27, 2011 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
With the Australian Open concluding this weekend, the next major stop on the tennis calendar will be the BNP Paribas Open, the most-attended tennis tournament outside of the Grand Slams. Once again the tournament, to be held March 7-20 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, will feature hundreds of the best players in the world, [...]
Tennis 360 Has Brad Gilbert on Wednesday
October 12, 2010 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
Join Andres as he welcomes ESPN analyst Brad Gilbert to “Tennis360″ this Wednesday October 13th. Listen in as Brad discusses his thoughts on the state of the game, the current Davis Cup coaching vacancy, and his friendship with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. Gilbert, an Olympic Broze Medalist and former coach to Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick [...]
USPTA expands international presence with USPTA China Division
October 8, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
The United States Professional Tennis Association, the oldest and largest association of tennis-teaching professionals, showed its commitment to grow tennis internationally with the announcement of its new USPTA China Division. The announcement of the new division was made during the USPTA’s World Conference on Tennis, held Sept. 27-Oct. 2 in La Quinta, Calif. The USPTA, [...]
Gilles Simon Wins Metz
September 27, 2010 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
Open de Moselle ATP WORLD TOUR 250 €398,250 (€450,000 Total Financial Commitment) Metz, France (+2 hours GMT) 20-26 September, 2010 Surface: Indoor Hard www.ATPWorldTour.com RESULTS – SUNDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER, 2010 Singles – Final [8] G Simon (FRA) d [Q] M Zverev (GER) 63 62 Doubles – Final D Brown (JAM) / R Wassen (NED) d [...]
Working At The Open Was a Dream
September 21, 2010 by Jon Thompson · Leave a Comment
Experiencing the US Open from any perspective is special but working in the media room during the Open is one of the few ways to see the tournament from every perspective. For every 2010 US Open night session I worked in the USTA media room and helped assist over 1700 media credentialed guests by distributing [...]
Fish Finishes Off Columbia As The United States Advances
September 19, 2010 by Richard Kent · Leave a Comment
Mardy Fish lost 30 pounds over the last year.We all know that by now.What we don’t fully realize is that Fish may be the best player in the United States right now.Certainly the Colombian Davis Cup team would not disagree with that as Fish became the first American in 15 years to win three David [...]
Fish and Isner Put The U.S. In Great Position
September 18, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
Not taking any chances, United States Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe made a switch to the veteran Mardy Fish to replace young Ryan Harrison on day two of the U.S. Davis Cup World Group Playoff with Colombia. And it worked. Teaming with John Isner, the duo beat Robert Farah and Carlos Salamanca of Colombia, 6-4, [...]
Fish and Querrey Split Against Colombia
September 17, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
Patrick McEnroe wanted to make a statement with this Davis Cup team. Instead of going with the veterans, who have helped him over the past 10 years, he decided to make his swan song with youth by taking Ryan Harrison, John Isner, and Sam Querrey with him to Bogota. Yet, it was the old man [...]


