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From the monthly archives: March 2009
“Overall, everything is wrong.” Jelena Jankovic said about her game this week after losing to 42nd ranked Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the second round of Indian Wells. This loss was a hit bottom moment in what has been a steady slide of confidence and results for the World No. 3 in 2009. She’s suffered round of [...]
Continue Reading →I’m posting highlights from Wednesday night’s “classic” Nadal vs. Nalbandian night match at Indian Wells, since so many of us had FSN issues and couldn’t watch it live (or even on tape delay.) After watching this can someone please tell me: 1. Why Nalbandian is so sneaky-good? and 2. Why he’s never won a major? [...]
Continue Reading →We have the last two quarter finals playing out today: Nadal vs. del Potro and Djokovic vs. Roddick. Obviously, we’re looking at the Nole vs. A-Rod match to determine who will play Rafa in the semis. And it should be a cracker of a match – both have been in good form lately and their [...]
Continue Reading →The women’s draw has been in disarray since before the tournament began, with the Williams sisters boycotting and Sharapova withdrawing from singles competition due to injury. Then Jankovic, Kuznetsova and Dementieva were knocked out in the second round. Dinara Safina made it to the quarters, only to be embarrassed by teenage up-and-comer Victoria Azarenka. (NYTimes [...]
Continue Reading →Check out this new ad from Nike featuring a cameo of Roger Federer in an elevator packed with women. His buddies Eva Longoria and Tony Parker show up, too. I don’t understand this commercial at all – a bunch of women have Roger Federer to themselves in an elevator and not one of them hits [...]
Continue Reading →To all my friends watching tennis in the States – do you share my intense, undying hatred of Fox Sports Network? Here’s the story: I was looking forward to watching the Nadal vs. Nalbandian match all day yesterday, and I naively assumed it would be part of FSN’s nightly Indian Wells broadcast. The anticipation grew [...]
Continue Reading →It’s official – the WTA Tour announced today that Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from the upcoming Sony Ericsson Open tournament in Miami. She won’t be playing doubles, either. From the WTA website: Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami this month due to continued recovery from her shoulder injury. Sharapova has [...]
Continue Reading →With news of Roger Federer’s impending fatherhood dominating the headlines, we couldn’t resist making some babies of our own. Check out the sweet combos we made with Roger + Mirka, Nadal + Serena (bionic baby!), Verdasco + Ana (reunite, Fernana!), Vaidisova + Stepanek, Venus + Murray (surprisingly cute!), and some of our own fantasy tennis [...]
Continue Reading →While scoping out the Indian Wells practice courts on Saturday, I met a phalanx of battle-tested tennis fans dressed in telltale red and white regalia. My fellow Fedophiles! These women (and a few men, too) came prepared with “Rogerholic Anonymous” buttons (they generously gave me one) and big banners reading “Federer is Betterer Than Chocolate” [...]
Continue Reading →In case you didn’t catch this at Down the Line a couple days ago, I’m re-posting my Indian Wells practice court report here. (Can you tell I’m missing hanging out in the desert – boo hoo!) The highlight of my visit to Indian Wells (a.k.a. the BNP Paribas Open) this weekend was hanging out at [...]
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