It was another banner week for the US Open Series, aka, the Greatest Road Trip in Sports. Once again, though, few top players decided to make the roadie last week and we were left with “stars” Frank Dancevic and Dmitry Tursunov playing for the Indianapolis title, and Anna Chakvetadze and Sania Mirza battled in the […]

Guest blogger Amer Delic, former Jacksonville high school player and NCAA tennis champion at Illinois, blogs monthly for JAX Tennis Magazine from his various stops around the world on the ATP circuit.
Wimbledon is over and we are back in the sunny U.S.
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AELTC (All England Lawn and Tennis Club) is the Mecca of Tennis. Unbelievable organization, […]

Now I know. When you win the first hardcourt tournament of the summer which puts you onut in front of the US Open Series, that’s when you break out the worm dance. That according to Czech Radek Stepanek who bounced the blundering James Blake in three sets in the LA final Sunday.

Looks like former No. 1 Lindsay Davenport could set more tennis records in the near future — like shortest retirement.
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Less than two months after delivering her son Jagger, Davenport will return to the court to play World TeamTennis on July 21. And after that? Don’t rule out a return to WTA Tour events, says Davenport.
“I […]

The Federer — Nadal rivalry has been hyped for the past year-and-a-half or so, but unfortunately their recent matches never lived up to the high standards. Nadal owned Federer in Monte Carlo, Federer overpowered an exhausted Rafa in Hamburg, and at Roland Garros last month, Nadal defeated his rival in four, not so high-quality sets.
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Marion Bartoli had James Bond to turn to in her semifinal against Henin on Saturday, but she was on her own in Sunday’s final against Venus Williams, and consequently succumbed to the three time former champion in straight sets, 6-4 6-1.

Has this been the most exciting day of tennis in 2007, or what?
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After Nadal had easily routed Tomas Berdych in the opening match on Centre Court, I was starting to think, ‘this guy just might seriously challenge for the title this year’.While I was debating this issue to myself, I quickly started to be absorbed […]

Despite the close scoreline, there could be only one winner in the Justine Henin – Serena Williams blockbuster quarterfinal. Henin dominated Serena for the entire match, even though a couple of loose games from the Belgian in the second set gave her opponent a glimmer of hope.
Henin forced the early break in the final set […]

The names conjure up the biggest championships in sports: The Super Bowl, The World Cup, The World Series, The Stanley Cup, golf’s The Masters.
In tennis, the year-end championship is more like a quiz show even hardcore fans struggle to keep up with.
The man-on-the-street quiz:
Q: What is men’s tennis’ year-end championship called?
A: “Ummm…wha?”
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You see, every few […]

I have taken some heat for predicting another Serena Williams championship run here at Wimbledon, after having previously picked her to win Roland Garros.
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Like I wrote in my previews for both the French Open, as for Wimbledon, I believe the tournament winner will come out of the quarterfinal the two of them will play against […]