The table is set for a solid final ATP tour finish in Paris this coming week as the BNP Paribas Masters kicks-off tomorrow. We'll take a look at the draw in minute but first let's re-hash what happened in Vienna and Basel last week, two ATP 500 tournaments with decent fields that crowned champions earlier …
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Vienna: the Calm Before the Storm
Just a quick look at this 500-level event with some interesting match-ups and rankings ramifications. We have all seen or heard the scenarios for Andy's ascension or Novak's drop, depending on how one looks at this. Novak, because of burn-out, etc., is off until Paris. Andy goes this week in Vienna. I listened to a …
Shanghai Fallout
Murray is still rolling. Really he hasn't been challenged at all through-out the Asian swing, completing the Serb's favorite little double of Beijing/Shanghai. In a recent interview, Murray, although denying his focus on catching Novak at world #1, says certainly he's confident and the presence of Lendl has helped. Uh, as we have reported redundantly …
Right. On. Cue.
Sneaking in a quick quip about Shanghai and touting my blog. Who doesn't like his or her observations and arguments to be more or less verified by events in the real world. I wrote that series of articles about Novak post-U.S. Open (the objective look at his career arch) and a week later he announces …
Pre-Shanghai Rolex Masters
Congrats to Murray on his China win and Kyrgios on his win in Tokyo. The only tennis I really tried to watch when I could find the time was Pouille v Dimitrov Beijing R16. I thought this would be good given Dimitrov's current play and his now mythic ceiling. He has been a massive disappointment career-wise; but …
Good-bye, Legends
If you follow sports, perhaps you've heard of Vin Scully and Dick Enberg. As I write about tennis, perhaps some of the readers recall hearing Enberg's voice call many many big tennis matches. He worked for NBC for years, coinciding with its coverage of Wimbledon and The French Open; later he worked with CBC where he …
The ATP Future in St. Petersburg and Metz
We had a very interesting couple of finals in two ATP 250 tournaments last weekend. The reigning U.S. Open champ, call him the sport's current champ, Stan Wawrinka, was on display along with three of the future of the men's game. No question these three youngsters (Zverev, Thiem and Pouille) along with Kyrgios, seem fairly capable …
Matt’s Blog Update
You might have seen that I have a Twitter account attached to the blog now (did this actually during the final of the USO); this shouldn't be too surprising since such social media parings are quite natural and even smart if one aspires to grow and reach more readers. The Twitter account is nice because …
Follow-up to My “Novak is Doomed” Article
Did any of you think that I was saying in that article a few days ago that Novak would never win another major? That THAT was the end of Novak in Flushing Meadows at the hands of Stan the Man? Well, that's not exactly what I meant. i really wanted to underscore how big of …
Behold the Madness
Matt's Blog exists to counter some of the madness in the tennis universe by which vulnerable community members might become startled, confused, led astray, and disillusioned. Or worse. The sport seems to be under some sort of attack from tennis spokespeople who somehow think they know what the sport needs. In most of these cases, for almost any relevant …
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