Like Naomi Osaka, the best hard-court player on the men’s side crashed out of the Olympics and left Tokyo without a medal. With little preparation but a whole lot of confidence, Novak will now head to the US Open to attempt to win a calendar-year Grand Slam. Winning the US Open would not only give … Read more
We continue our celebration of Australian Open legends with Roger Federer. With his record breaking 20 Grand Slams, Roger has been shattering records for 20 years. Therefore, it’s no surprise he would be on this list. The Australian Open is particularly special to Roger given that it was at the 2017 Australian Open that Roger … Read more
Paris is being billed as the Final Battlefield. And rightly so, it is the last tournament of the season before the ATP Finals, and it has 1000 points on the line for the winner and approximately $5,810,000 in prize money for the participants. This is a 1000 level event which means that participation is mandatory. … Read more
So much has happened at the French Open in the last few days. Wawrinka and Tsitsipas played what has to be the best match of the tournament, thrilling the crowd for approximately five hours. Serena pissed off Thiem by kicking him out of his press conference, after a shock defeat by Kenin, and crowd favorites … Read more
It’s very interesting how everyone’s been talking about Federer and Nadal being outside favorites at the French Open. Most of the chatter has been legitimate given their results on the clay heading into the French Open. Nevertheless, both have come into the French Open and breezed into the fourth round, and only Nadal has lost … Read more
The odds are out for the French Open men’s winner. It’s not a surprise that Nadal is the even money favorite. Rounding out the field is Djokovic (9-4), Thiem (11-2), Tsitsipas (18-1) and Federer at (20-1). This is no surprise of course, as these guys have been the most consistent of the bunch throughout the … Read more
Inspired by the start of the clay season, I recently wrote a short blog about American women players, Madison Keys, Amanda Anisimova and Sloane Stephens, looking good on clay in advance of the French Open. I thought it would not be fair to leave American men out of the conversation! With Fabio Fognini capturing his … Read more
This whole month I’ve been sitting around watching a lot of Premiership Soccer and reruns of great tennis matches from 2018. So, when I tuned into the Tennis Channel this past weekend, and instead of reruns of great tennis matches I was actually watching decent players go at it at the Hawaii Open, I was … Read more
Another year of tennis, and another year where we see the old guard remain at the top of the rankings. It is pretty incredible when you look at the top 10 men and see that seven out of ten players are in their thirties. It was not long ago where being over 30 in tennis … Read more
Seems like all we’ve been doing in 2018 is talking about top players coming back from either maternity leave or injury. I can’t remember a time when so many top players where running around the WTA and ATP tour trying to get back in form because they either gave birth or are coming back from … Read more