The WTA Tour portion of the Sony Ericsson Open represents a bomb shelter after a wild weekend in South Florida. Before the round of 16 begins, the women’s bracket has already been blown wide open. Third-seeded Jelena Jankovic lost to Gisela Dulko in the second round on Saturday night, 6-4, 7-6 (5), while second-seeded Dinara [...]
Only a select few tennis teenage phenomenons have achieved a similar result to that of Juan del Potro by winning 4 tournaments in their first full year on the tour. Those four are Rafael Nadal, Leyton Hewitt, Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras. Not bad company for this 6’6†Argentinian who climbed from 81 to 13 [...]
Gilles Muller’s is the ‘Cinderella story’ of tennis. He captured the attention of every tennis fan at the 2008 US Open with his progress from qualifier to quarter finalist. On the way he knocked out Tommy Haas, Nicolas Almagro and Nicolay Davydenko before falling to Roger Federer. He entered the tournament ranked 130 in the [...]
