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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.
