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October 20th, 2015

Is Taylor Fritz The Next American Tennis Star?

Meet Taylor Fritz.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 11:01 am in American tennis | 82 Comments »

July 28th, 2015

Andy Roddick Imitated Rafael Nadal Last Night In Atlanta [Video]

Andy Roddick does his best Rafael Nadal.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 9:51 am in American tennis, Videos | 16 Comments »

June 16th, 2015

Andy Roddick: For The First Time In A While There’s Some Excitement About The Future Of American Tennis

Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish will play doubles in Atlanta.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 9:34 am in American tennis | 5 Comments »

August 12th, 2014

U.S. College Tennis is Dead After Scoring Changes, Foreign Invasion

News flash: no one gives two craps about watching college tennis on TV, and never will.

Posted by Jeremy Davis @ 10:19 am in American tennis, College Tennis, Tennis | 6 Comments »

June 30th, 2014

American Tennis Hits A New 103 Year Low At Wimbledon

America is already out of the singles competition.

Posted by Staff @ 12:55 pm in American tennis, Wimbledon | 3 Comments »

August 15th, 2013

John Isner Doesn’t Care That There Are No American Men In The Top 20

John Isner doesn’t care that there are no American men in the Top 20 this week for the first time in history.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 11:32 am in American tennis, Cincinnati | 14 Comments »

March 10th, 2013

After Isner’s Loss America May Have No Players In ATP Top 20 Next Week

The U.S. may not have any men in the Top 20 next week in the ATP Rankings, and that would be a first!

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 8:41 pm in American tennis | 7 Comments »

August 17th, 2011

HBO Real Sports Examines Decline of American Tennis [Video]

HBO’s Real Sports profiled the decline of American tennis last night.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 1:09 pm in American tennis, Videos | 13 Comments »

July 26th, 2011

What’s the Future Hold for Ryan Harrison?

What can we expect out of Ryan Harrison?

Posted by Sean Randall @ 5:28 pm in American tennis | 22 Comments »

April 7th, 2011

Is Querrey Cutthroat Enough For Tennis?

Matthew Laird explains that these are tough times for Sam Querrey.

Posted by Special @ 10:31 pm in American tennis | 9 Comments »

March 26th, 2011

What Does the Future Hold for Andy Roddick?

Andy Roddick has been in the top 10 for nine consecutive years.

Posted by Ben Pronin @ 1:17 am in American tennis, ATP, Tennis | 21 Comments »

October 27th, 2010

Jim Courier Officially Named US Davis Cup Captain

Jim Courier was officially named the captain of the US Davis Cup team.

Posted by Staff @ 10:27 pm in American tennis, Davis Cup | 3 Comments »

August 30th, 2010

Nadal, Federer, Murray: A Lot on the Line at the 2010 US Open

Few players carry the burden Andy Murray does. His home country both cares about tennis and has been hapless at producing tennis champions.

Posted by Dan Martin @ 7:28 am in American tennis, Cincinnati, No. 1 ranking, US Open, Year-End No. 1 | 205 Comments »

August 6th, 2010

History Made: Roddick Drops Leaving No American Men in ATP Top 10 for First Time

For the first time in ATP history there will be no American men in the Top 10 in the rankings this Monday.

Posted by Tom Gainey @ 2:01 pm in American tennis, ATP | 19 Comments »

August 4th, 2010

Americans Roddick, Fish, Isner, Sweeting Prevail; French Suffer Upsets in DC

Andy Roddick eased through his second match last night versus qualie Grega Zemlja to start his run at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic title.

Posted by Lynn Berenbaum @ 9:13 am in American tennis, ATP, US Open Series, Washington | 56 Comments »