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Rain held back the start of play by over four hours on Thursday at Roland Garros, with two additional interruptions after that. I think all the rain delays and tricky conditions are starting to make the players a little batty (and the city officials more open to a roof over center court.) It’s still the [...]
Continue Reading →The truth gas they’re pumping into the Roland Garros press room seems to be working. The players were in a sharing mood on Tuesday – for the most part. Rafael Nadal made a winning debut on Court Suzanne Lenglen on Tuesday, taking out French teenager and World No. 655, Gianni Mina 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. But [...]
Continue Reading →Roger Federer got a good warm up on Thursday at the Guinot Mary Cohr Masters, a tune-up exo for Roland Garros. The World No. 1 was stretched to a super tie-break, eventually defeating Rainer Schüttler: 4-6, 6-3, 10-5. Here’s some video from the match. Roger speaking some French at the press conference: A fun rally [...]
Continue Reading →Brooklyn and Andy Roddick are celebrating their one year “paper” anniversary in Hawaii this week. It’s a working vacation, though: Brooklyn Decker is on location shooting the rom/com Just Go With It with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston and Andy’s obviously staying fit. Or is he running after the paparazzi? “Don’t hurt them, Andy!” It’s [...]
Continue Reading →Andy Roddick, Gusatvo Kuerten, Jim Courier and Fernando Gonzalez participated in Champions for Chile on Saturday at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. The event raised over $125,000 for disaster relief in Chile. Aw, Guga! You’re missed! Gonzalez was especially thankful to Andy Roddick for staying committed to the event despite booking a date in [...]
Continue Reading →Andy Roddick beat Tomas Berdych 7-5, 6-4 in the finals of the Sony Ericsson Open on Sunday in Miami. It’s always nice to see hard work pay off. And it doesn’t hurt to have an American win a big title at home on a holiday weekend. Even though I think CBS stinks for not showing [...]
Continue Reading →It’s the men’s final at the Sony Ericsson Open on Sunday. Me and Frites are rooting for Andy Roddick of course. But Tomas Berdych has looked nothing but stellar at Miami. Kudos to Andy for making it to his 2nd consecutive Master’s final. Here’s hoping he can keep the “Big Berd” at bay. Don’t forget [...]
Continue Reading →Sorry, Andy, for giving you only a (small) – yes, in parentheses – chance to beat Rafael Nadal in the semis of Miami today. Just think of it as a good old fashioned reverse jinx. Roddick played a terrific set and a half of tennis on Friday afternoon to beat Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 at [...]
Continue Reading →Inside Tennis magazine has a really nice interview posted with Andy Roddick, wherein the Miami semifinalist discusses everything from Brooklyn’s “stones” to Agassi’s crystal meth revelations. Click here to read it. Of course I’m gonna highlight the excerpts involving Roger Federer: Inside Tennis: What is it in [Federer's] game that… Andy Roddick: His defense. That [...]
Continue Reading →Another day in paradise at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. But can it really be called paradise if Roger Federer isn’t there? We’ll leave that to the Fedosophers to ponder. Life goes on for the rest of us. . . Pound for pound I can’t think of a more high-energy, sweat-soaked and sexy ATP [...]
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