Roger Federer can’t be feeling too great about his chances of finally winning the French Open this year, not after his nemesis Rafael Nadal tuned him yesterday in the Monte Carlo final. Federer lost the match 6-4, 6-4 in suffering his fifth straight lose to Nadal on clay, this being his worst beating. He’s also […]

Alright Euro-punters and U.S. off-shore tennis betters, you know who you are and probably so does your government — Friday’s picks for quarterfinal play at the Masters Series event in Monte Carlo, where you know a tournament is bringing serious entertainment when they feature Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, AND are in the process of […]

Jim Courier’s Outback Champions Series has expanded outside the U.S., announcing an event in Greece that will be played by Greek-American Pete Sampras, and Greek-Aussie Mark Philippoussis. Philippoussis will become the first active ATP player to compete in an event on the circuit for players 30 years and older. Other players in the field will […]

SAM-I-AM A THREE-SET DISAPPEARING ACT: Sam Querrey is a huge American prospect, but he and Grant Doyle need to get a handle on the big boy acquiring both the physical and mental abilities to close out a match after he wins the first set. Wednesday in Houston, Querrey won the first set against Tommy Haas […]

Draws for the just-released Davis Cup qualifying round to be held Sept. 21-23, with the winners advancing into the World group for 2008, and the losers into the dregs of zonal play: Australia at Serbia Ouch. Aussie tennis has been sliding for years, now things will really come to a head when the Serbs put […]

Yesterday the ATP’s U.S. media maven, Greg “The Remorseless Eating Machine” Sharko told me that the news that came from a spokesman out of the ATP’s international office in regard to the Masters Series events receiving the same number of ranking points as the Grand Slams under the tour’s new 2009 calendar was incorrect. Shark(o), […]

That according to Rick Reilly who in the April 9th Sports Illustrated (Florida Gators) wrote about his recent sit down with Roger Federer during the Miami event.

If the ATP, which governs the men’s tour, and the International Tennis Federation (ITF), which governs the four Grand Slam events, had become buddy-buddy over the last few years — even joint-sponsoring the year-ending Masters Cup — that love was lost this week when the ATP announced it would elevate its Masters Series events on […]

Andy Roddick is reportedly healthy and ready to take advantage of a Rafael Nadal-less Spanish team this weekend in Davis Cup quarterfinal play on the American’s home hardcourt turf at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, NC. Struggling world No. 9-ranked James Blake will open play for the U.S. on Friday against No. […]

An unintended consequence of my last post is that it brought on an important discussion around the proposed calendar changes for both Tours. I laid out each Tour’s proposals in one handy document which can be viewed here. This calendar is based on best-known info and I will be updating this document as more information […]

After watching tennis the last few weeks, you just have to love where the men’s game is heading. A while back I labeled the period between 2002 and 2006 “The Age of No Competition”. I took a lot of heat for it, but I still stand by that, and now we are finally seeing a new group of players, led by Novak Djokovic, who are changing that and are ready to take over tennis. And it’s great to see.