
The only thing surprising about Andy Roddick’s loss yesterday to Fabrice Santoro in Lyon was that Roddick even showed up to play in the match.

Just read my blogging colleague Lynn Berenbaum’s excellent eye-opening piece on the new changes at the ATP and with men’s tennis. Unlike me, she’s up on matters of the Tour. Last month she blogged on the round robin format, which has already been sanctioned at more than a dozen 2007 events, or as I would call them “events where […]

Time for me to blow a little more hot air. Just kidding of course, or maybe I’m not. 
Unfortunately I’m still a bit hung up on the player participation issue I have, which if you haven’t read my prior posts revolves around the fact that top players are playing roughly 25% of their scheduled events (i.e., Roger Federer plays roughly 25% of the events on the circuit). Point being, that’s much less than the stars of others sports play…
