Montreal Day 4: the Fabulous 8.

For the first time ever, the top 8 of the ATP tour are through to the quarterfinals. Clap clap, well done guys.
 
Federer def Wawrinka 6-3 7-6 (5).
Vintage Federer in the first set, 2009-hard-court Feduruh in the second.
Credit to Stan though for some massive serving towards the business end of the second set – I have no [...]

Learning to scrape through

I’m on a self-imposed “Love-Thy-Djoker” campaign. No more Djokovic-bashing, Top 10 Quotations of Mama Djokovic, Fugly Drop-Shots Mocking Squad or the Djokovic Retirement Watchdog on this blog. They say you never know what you got until it’s gone, and the same can be said for the top 4 of the men’s game right now. If [...]

Week 1 Wrap Up – Part 1: Ready? Setty? Go!

 
I’m starting my weekly wrap-up early this week, mainly because I’ve watched a lot of tennis over the last few days. With so much tennis played over different time zones from Qatar to New Zealand this week, according to my calculations, on Tuesday, Planet Earth clocked about 21 hours of non-stop tennis. Personally, the TV [...]

Fashion: Pssst… what are they wearing?

With the Australian Open just around the corner, I thought I’d take a moment to investigate what the players are wearing for the Australian Open and US winter hard courts – the hits, the misses and the downright fugly.
 
Honourable Mentions
Roger Federer
Starting with the posterboy for tennis fashion, Federer and Nike got it right again for [...]

2008 Year-End Wrap Up: ATP Pt 1, the Matches

Just goes to show how much more emotionally invested in the ATP I am compared to the WTA. What a year it’s been, and I’ve decided to separate it into different posts. So here’s the first one, matches of the year. And a little disclaimer before I start – neutrality has no place on blogs, [...]

What’s Hot and What’s Not in Shanghai

I’m sick, and it’s Sunday here in Aus, and being sick on a Sunday means that you get to stay in bed all day with English Breakfast tea and your beloved Macbook. Hoorah! Still thinking about the Masters Cup and what a farce it turned out to be, at least for me anyway. So here’s [...]

GO Davo!

Ever wonder why Davydenko isn’t so popular in Australia? It’s the name. A little word of advice to Koyla – drop the “ydenko” and tell the Aussies to call you “Davo”, we’ll loveya. 
 
But seriously now Murray, sif kick Federer out and then lose to Davo. And Giles-Beautiful-Eyes-Simon, *almost*, you make all of us underdogs proud. 
 
Djoker [...]

What’s Hot and what’s Not

What’s Hot?
Zvonareva: a friend of mine who doesn’t follow WTA tennis asked me who qualified for the year end championships last week, and I named 7 easily off the top of my head. The one I needed to think hard to remember was Zvonareva, who’s also been the most unstoppable this week, winning against Jankovic, [...]

Madrid Early Wrap Up: DANG!

I was going to write a post mourning the defeat of the Might Fed in Rafalandia, but recent events put a new light on things, I’ve found my zen… for now, which is hard for any self-respecting Fed fan. Instead, here I am writing an early wrap-up post for Madrid. But in any case, the tournament is [...]

Isn’t it a beautiful thing…

When Feliciano Lopez goes on a roll? Flove this guy whenever he decides to turn it on, he sure has a beautiful game. A Spaniard who volleys… surely you jest.
 

What happens when you put the most aggressive player versus the most defensive player on the tour? We found out today (yesterday) with Roddick v Monfils. [...]