Who will win the Montreal Masters? Sean Randall breaks the scene down.

In the first big showdown of the summer Juan Martin Del Potro and Andy Roddick do battle for the Washington title.

Roger Federer and Andy Murray are in the same side of the Montreal draw, leaving Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal in the other.

In the highlight match of the evening, Andy Roddick became the 36th player in the Open Era to reach 500 career match victories.

One could easily argue that the U.S. Open Series doesn’t start in Indianapolis or Los Angeles, but in our nation’s capital — because that’s when the top tenners show up. Tennis-X will be there all week to bring you live coverage from next week’s Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, D.C.
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There is a buzz on the grounds as it is time to get down to crowning a champion.

The dog days of summer tennis are upon as the top players are all enjoying some time off leaving us fans with little chew on.

Wimbledon runner-up and two-time Indianapolis Tennis Championship presented by Lilly champion Andy Roddick, 26, has announced his withdrawal from this year’s tournament.

Aristotle said it best when he said, “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

If the Williams sisters were to retire with Davenport as of this writing, the U.S. would have no women in the Top 40, and three players in the Top 100 (including the 30+ Jill Craybas, and Ashley Harkleroad who is pregnant). In other words, by the time the Williams retire, U.S. women’s tennis will virtually retire with them.