I will begin my interpretive piece on the rise of Djokodal today; sorry for the delay. Writing these articles actually is work, but something I do enjoy and dream (literally I dream about it) of writing about ball and racquet full-time 🙂 The grass action over the weekend and the finish to the NBA finals give …
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Wimby Preview Part 2: Reality Check
This is a perfect opportunity to look at the field that most likely defines the draw at "The Championships" in a couple of weeks. First a rhetorical question: will 2015 go down as the year that Federer played the greatest tennis of his career, or as a kind of tipping-point signaling a critically low-point for the ATP, in …
Wimbledon Preview Part 1
We're taking a short break from the HRFRT series. For the record, my impression is that not a lot of people want to hear it. Obviously, there's more in there than just how Federer affected the sport. There are other points being made. Tennis, mirroring its broader culture, has gotten soft and more and more about …
HRFRT: Tour Structure and Numbers
The structure of the ATP tour has changed much over the years. Not only has the structure changed, but the significance of some of the tournaments has changed, as well. Masters events, the 1000s, for instance, are a bigger part of a player's schedule than before. There is no question about this, which anyone can determine …
Djokovic Slam Fallout
If you were reading any of the comments on my blog the last couple of days, you saw some vacuous criticism about the fact that I didn't say "Novak Slam!" ten times in my article about his win at the FO. First of all, this is an on-going blog that writes about ATP tennis weekly, hopefully …
Djokovic Wins the French Open
The actual match was a foregone conclusion, and really not that great of a match, to be honest - even from Novak (in fact, the entire match seemed somewhat anti-climactic given Novak's form over the last year or so, over these last 4-5 years even, over the fact that he is so comfortable on clay, …
Djokovic v Murray
I watched a bit of the Djokovic Thiem match today and thought two things. Novak looks to have refined his form, looking solid in all aspects of the game - his depth, pace and angles aligning with the GOAT gods. Very poised is the Serb, applauding good points from the apprentice, mastering drop shots from behind the BL, and …
The French Open Final: #1 v #2
We have Djokovic v Murray to determine the 2016 French Open champion. I suppose no surprises here. You might have seen me gesturing for a little surprise (Gasquet or Wawrinka), but that's apparently too much to ask (especially from Gasquet). We saw the Wawrinka v Murray match, the center-piece of the Semi-Finals. Interesting that they cast the …
French Open Semi-Finals
Here is just a quick preview of the final four - I will extend some of these thoughts later this evening. Djokovic v Thiem The present and the future, supposedly, in the case of the Austrian. I have only watched a bit of his French campaign but the tennis is pretty impressive and I have …
Roland Garros: 2nd Week
We're in the 2nd week at the French Open. Up-coming match-ups, predictions, and more perspective is what we're focusing on. First of all, rain. With today's men's R4 of the top half of the draw postponed due to rain, we have another storyline: the "brutal" schedule of that top half as those men will find themselves having to …
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