Guillermo Canas’ second dramatic win over Roger Federer had nothing on the off-court action that took place in Miami. Professional tennis turned into a serial drama including a player petition, a storm-off during a meeting with the ATP Chair, one lawsuit being filed, and another threatened to be on the way. Get the popcorn ready. […]

Turn around Tuesday lived up to its name for Andy Roddick, who avenged a Miami loss last year to David Ferrer, but for Maria Sharapova and Roger Federer, who had both loss to their foes in their prior meetings, it was more of the same.

The ATP tour is cracking down on player withdrawals from major events, but one of tennis’ largest draws internationally is out of their control, as shown by Rafael Nadal’s Tuesday withdrawal from Davis Cup. Nadal pulled out of the U.S. vs. Spain meeting to follow a week after the completion of the Sony Ericsson Open […]

So much for Rafael Nadal taking on the US next month in Davis Cup. Today, Nadal bagged the tie in favor of resting a foot injury, according to the Spanish Davis Cup officials. Not really much of a surprise for the surging Nadal, who’s putting himself first, his country second. That’s fair. Roger Federer does […]

Is reality finally hitting James Blake and his Top 10 ranking, or is he simply in a funk?

Play got underway today at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, where one of the weakest components of our sport is being put on full display: we are suffering with an image problem, and those trying to reinvent the brand don’t seem to understand it. In August, WTA sponsor Sony Ericsson took over sponsorship of […]

Maybe it was a dream I had last night, but I swear during his win over Ivan Ljubicic yesterday at Indian Wells, Andy Roddick stole a few pages right out of the Roger Federer playbook!

Is anyone still paying attention that there’s a tournament going on in California this week? Some interesting stuff actually transpired in the past few seemingly lackluster days including a thinned out draw; Lindsay Davenport’s official, albeit weird, retirement announcement; and the announcement of an Andre Agassi-Marcelo Rios exo in a few weeks, where Agassi made […]

Happy Moanday X-fans. Time to talk Federer’s defeat, TTC’s coverage, the team approach to tennis, Serena’s new reality adventure, and the USTA’s newest accessory item. Federer’s Loss: With the combined trifecta ejection of Federer, plus Marat Safin and Lleyton Hewitt yesterday, the Men’s draw got a little bit less interesting for some, but a whole […]

So I come back from vacation – even though it was to visit the in-laws, going from Michigan to Arizona this time of year is usually a good thing! – and what happens? Roger practices with Pete. Roger then loses his Indian Wells opener to Guillermo Canas. Coincidence? Hmm…

Being Etienne de Villiers can’t be too great right now with bloggers (like me), fans, message boarders and Marat and Lleyton hammering away at him for his round-robin experiment-gone-wrong disaster in Las Vegas. Now World No. 1 Roger Federer has got into the act firing his own blast at ET.

The difficult-to-follow experimental round robin format on the ATP circuit took a bizarre turn at the Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas when ATP Chairman Etienne de Villiers stepped in to reverse a rule, putting James Blake into the quarterfinals, then the next day before the beginning of play reversed his decision, sidelining Blake and […]

If the ATP could only wish.

In case you missed it, Thursday’s play in Las Vegas was perhaps the final nail in the coffin for the ill-conceived round-robin format introduced this year at selected events by tour chief Etienne de Villiers, or Mr. Disney as many like to call him.