The summer is a glorious time of year on the ATP since we get a chance to see the year's strongest athletes outlast those weakened by the long and arduous season that began in early January (or the ones who's games just tend to wilt on this most even and rigorous surface). The firm quickness …
Category: U.S. Open
In What Direction Do We Go?
The ATP is slowly getting its collective feet ready for the N.A. hard courts, with Atlanta this week and then Washington D.C. next. These will give way to the back-to-back weeks of Masters HC (Montreal and Cincinnati) before the short breather (Salem) prior to the year's final major in NYC (tennis' HC capital). Meanwhile, the …
Final Thoughts on WTF
There are a few more thoughts on London and 2016. We could talk about 2016 in light of the return of Del Potro, Roger and Rafa's difficulties, the Stanimal, Pouille, Zverev, et al., and we will! But we're focusing here on the tour's top two, the guys that just played that whale of a final in London …
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 …
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 …
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 …
SF #2: Wawrinka v Nishikori
Class. I will have a more thoughtful write-up tomorrow.
SF #1: Djokovic v Monfils
This tournament has become a joke with such amateur bullshit in a semi-final of a major. If you read my twitter feed (sorry, had to sorta. . . uh. . . up my game a bit? Plus I can "pop" off during a match!!!), you'll see the 4-set win was a given at the start …
U.S. Open: Will Novak have to play a SF match?
Or will Monfils get down a set and pull the plug? This is an unreal draw for Djokovic and while this is certainly no fault of the Serb, anyone watching this circus has to say the mad disparity between the two halves is almost ridiculous. Murray/Nishikori and Wawrinka/Del Potro in one half and Djokovic with …
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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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