2016 U.S. Open Final: Serbia v Switzerland II

When Stan Wawrinka is in that form we've come to expect once or twice a year over the last 3-4 years, look out. That's the advice we should give players in his way. For those of us who get to watch, the advice is don't miss any of it. I watched part of the Evans …

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Put It To Rest: Let’s Go!

We all see a lot of interesting "takes" or thoughts on this and every other big, meaningful tennis match. What blew me away today and yesterday is seeing a Djokovic fan (the very nature of this phenomenon is extraterrestrial or delayed or turd-like) actually say that he was pleased that Murray was out and went …

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Thoughts on USO Men’s Semi-finals

Since the first SF was mid-day, most of us in PST were still working, so I tried to stream the match on my computer and was pretty successful. As I tuned-in, Djokovic was already up 3-0 in the first and Gael was just beginning to taint the match with gale-force turds of tennis dishonor. To …

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U.S. Open at the QF

I have so many thoughts on what's happening in NYC I'm not sure where to begin. I am going to keep this very short (sorry), but it's late, and there are so many bigger conversations I want to start in terms of the tennis here and now and, of course, the bigger  picture - what …

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Draw Analysis

Obviously play is underway. My last post about the draw had such disinterest or indifference I probably shouldn't have even published; but in the end I like that I'm evidencing the problem I have with the ATP at this point: boring as shit. I am going to say a few more specific things about the draw …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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