On a court bearing his name, Rafa cinched his 10th Barcelona title, matching last week's la decima down in Monte Carlo. He beat Dominic Thiem 6-4 6-1 in the final. The trend continues: 2017 Fedal. Although Federer had the spotlight early and for good reason, winning the year's first major and first two Masters, Rafa …
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Indian Wells. . . and the Peanut Gallery
We will continue our discussion of the IW draw, try to add to the excitement everyone is feeling about the year's first Masters. But first let's take-out the garbage. I love it. I will pound this blog with ATP insight until the cows come home, out-write and out-think my wealthier tennis punditry in straights; be …
February Tournament Play and Early 2017 Contenders
I watched Tsonga get his 2nd set break-of-serve of Goffin up 5-4 in their Rotterdam final, which became a run-away title for Jo-Willy 46 64 61. I was literally thinking, if he loses to Goffin here, it's over for Jo-Wilfried. That tenth game of the 2nd set was so typical Tsonga. Microcosm of his career. He …
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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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