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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Djokovic Beats Federer, Wins Pirate Ship


The stage was set. Federer and Djokovic were going to duke it out again in a night time epic battle. On the one end, there was Djokovic who has been playing stellar tennis with his confidence at an all time. On the other end, there was Federer, a man who is sick and tired of being beaten up by Nole. In my eyes, this was it. He was going to stand up to the brash Serbian and show him why he’s mother f$#%$# Roger Federer... and then he lost 6-3, 6-3.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Querrey This - Sam Loses Again


While Milos Raonic is battling his way up the tennis rankings and performing at an all time best, the opposite is happening to Sam Querrey. If Raonic is climbing to the top, Sam just fell off the side.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

What Tennis Can Learn From the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl took place two nights ago and drew over 111 million viewers in the US alone. As I was jamming my face with a variety of chips, dips, cookies and anything else remotely edible, I started to think, could professional tennis ever have its version of a Super Bowl?

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Fuzzy Ball Random Thoughts

The week after the Australian Open and there's not a ton of important tennis going on. Less tennis opens the door for some random thinking, which I've decided to share below:

Think Bigger Ryan
As Novak Djokovic was celebrating his Australian Open title last Sunday, Ryan Harrison was hoisting his own, less impressive trophy after winning the Honolulu Challenger tournament. A win’s a win and he should feel pretty good about beating a few higher ranked players in Michael Russell and Ryan Sweeting. BUT, let’s not go nuts here - the reason he was playing in this tournament was because he got bounced from Australia immediately.