Still Fishing For Respect

FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Poor Mardy Fish. Even though he is playing the best tennis of his life and comes in to the US Open as the highest ranked American, some just don’t take him as a serious threat in this tournament. Just take this question for example after the No. 8 seed cruised today [...]

Has Field Caught Up To Federer?

FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – A US Open Final without Roger Federer? That’s like the Yankees without the postseason or New York without the Statue of Liberty. Or even Batman fighting crime in Gotham without his cape and utility belt. Well it happened and you can thank the Djoker for having it come true. In what [...]

Wozniak To Quarters In Quebec

QUEBEC CITY, Quebec – No. 3 seed and Canadian native Aleksandra Wozniak reached the quarter final rounds of the Bell Challenge with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Russian Regina Kulikova in the second round. Wozniak is the second highest seed after Sabine Lisicki had to withdraw from the tournament after getting injured at the US [...]

Petrova To Quarters In Quebec

QUEBEC, CITY, Quebec – Nadia Petrova may be thankful Melanie Oudin dropped out of the Bell Challenge. After losing in the fourth round to the 17 year-old, Petrova rebounded to make the quarterfinals of the Quebec City Tournament. Petrova, the top seed and defending champion in the 220,000-dollar tournament, beat Madison Brengle 6-3, 6-2 in [...]

Oudin’s Not Going Away

FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Don’t worry about Melanie Oudin. Her Open may be over, after her straight sets, 2-6, 2-6, loss to Caroline Wozniacki, but her career is just beginning. We saw a star being born in Flushing Meadows. A determined girl, who knows she has a lot to learn in her career and her [...]

Now Murray Has To Answer Questions

FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – And now Andy Murray will have a few months to ask himself, what went wrong. His straight set defeat to Marin Cilic, 5-7, 2-6, 2-6 was such a dismantling, you have to wonder what was wrong. Was it his wrist? Well no. “I had a problem with it for a week [...]

America’s Sweetheart Goes to the Quarters

FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Melanie Oudin has done such a good job knocking off Russians this US Open, Ronald Reagan could have used her during the Cold War. And once again, there was Oudin coming from behind to win. First, there Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, and then Elena Dementieva left the open early, After that, Maria Sharapova [...]