Gasquet continues to screw up his career
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...last year's fourth-round collapse at Wimbledon, where he found a way to lose to Andy Murray after serving for the match, up two sets to none? And then there was the Davis...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 11, 2009Rog, take a break and clear your head
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...in the morning. Rafael Nadal is in his head, Novak Djokovic is in his face, and Andy Murray is in his kitchen, stealing the silverware. What's a guy to do? The answer is...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 17, 2009Five imperative questions heading into the clay
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...that high-altitude event to Roland Garros (there's just a week between them). 2. Can Andy Murray's winning game carry over to the clay courts? Since finishing as runner-up in the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 10, 2009We have learned that we have a lot to learn
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...is that Rafael Nadal is in command; he's pulling away from Roger Federer, and though Andy Murray is closing the gap with surprising speed, the upcoming clay-court season probably will enable Nadal...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2009Interlopers threaten Nadal-Fed finals party
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...spring tournaments are Masters 1000 events -- kissing cousins to the Grand Slams. So, what happened? Well, Andy Murray happened. And Juan Martin del Potro happened. And a whole slew of similarly dangerous players, including...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 03, 2009Can Fed handle Murray's bag of tricks?
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...Roland Garros. Thus, you can look at the upcoming Indian Wells semifinal between Roger Federer and Andy Murray as a bellwether match that will suggest just how alertly Federer must glance over his shoulder...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 20, 2009Can sensational Serbs stop the slide?
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...s most consistently held his own instead of yielding ground, but with the sudden maturation of Andy Murray and that disappointing showing at the Australian Open -- where Djokovic was defending his first and so...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 15, 2009Reason to celebrate in San Jose
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...and newest effort to scramble back into a conversation currently dominated by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic. You know, the conversation called "Grand Slam contenders." You have to hand it...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 13, 2009Was Oz Federer's last stand?
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...home-surface advantage. And it isn't just Nadal he has to worry about. Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga all have turned in their best results on hard courts. Combined with...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 02, 2009Not a snowball's chance to win Down Under
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comI think I'll leave all the handicapping and predictions to the usual suspects this time around and do a post in honor of Marat Safin, that well-known ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 16, 2009Tennis topics to help you survive the holiday party
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...of talents on the ATP side is going to step up and build on 2008? OK, Andy Murray, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Juan Martin del Potro (not to mention Gilles Simon, the contender nobody wants...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 15, 2008Del Potro just what the doctor ordered
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...Open -- yet even there, he hammered his way to the quarterfinals, losing to eventual runner-up Andy Murray. This represented one of the greatest quantum leaps in recent memory: Going into Wimbledon, del Potro...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 21, 2008Players have plenty of incentive at Masters Cup
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...fiercely fought battle -- Gilles Simon suggested that with his opening-round win over Roger Federer, and Andy Murray seconded it by taking out Andy Roddick. But instead of taking a shot-in-the-dark...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 10, 2008Sky's the limit for Andy Murray
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...event, he expressed a huge admiration for a player who's out of the same mold, Andy Murray. I think Murray reached a kind of tipping point at Madrid, where he beat Roger Federer...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2008Simon inconspicuously making his move
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...time. Not Simon. Instead, he played something like a career tournament, even though he lost to Andy Murray in the final. It seems like every time you turned around last week, this middleweight (5...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 20, 2008TOP SEARCHES IN NOVEMBER
Bowl Projections tops ESPN.com searches in November. Did "andy murray" make the list?