
Andy Roddick says the younger American players need to up their work ethic: “There’s no substitute for hard work. To be honest with you, that’s one of the things that lacks when you see the young American players. It puts a different dynamic on things when you’re playing tennis to find a way out of the country as opposed to playing for fun.”

The challengers keep emerging on the pro circuit, the latest being Japanese teen Kei Nishikori, who stunned James Blake to win the Delray Beach title earlier today.

With countless hours of Indian Wells and Miami broadcast on ESPN, for many years tennis fans have long had their very own version of March Madness.

I don’t have a lot of time, but I think I have just enough to scrape together a quick preview on the 2008 Davis Cup, which begins first round play in just a few hours.

On the 1st of December, Bob and Mike Bryan clinched the Davis Cup for the US, winning their doubles match against Russians Igor Andreev and Nikolay Davydenko in Portland. Two months later, the same fabulous four (Roddick, Blake and the Bryans) and captain P-Mac have landed in Austria, trying to hold on to their fresh […]

I wasn’t planning on blogging anything today, after all it is Super Bowl Sunday…
