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Top eight head for showdown at season finale
James Martin, TENNIS.comFinally, after 11 months of crisscrossing the globe, the season-ending Barclay ATP World Tour Finals is about to start. Eleven months -- that's a ton of tennis. If you...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2009Thankfully, Hewitt isn't ready to act his age
James Martin, TENNIS.com...on court and in court, most famously filing a lawsuit against the hand that feeds him, the ATP tour. Of course, there was the notorious U.S. Open match against James Blake (for which many...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 29, 2009Men's field more robust than ever
James Martin, TENNIS.com...a new year, so I'll do my best to stay positive and not rant about the ATP tour's rebranding effort, which launched Jan. 1. Excuse me, the ATP World Tour. (Got to get...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 06, 2009Time for the collected Querrey to go for the jugular
James Martin, TENNIS.comThis time next year, as we pour over the ATP season-ending results, who do you think will be the highest-ranked American? Don't be surprised...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 03, 2008Roddick's still a grinder
James Martin, TENNIS.comWhen the ATP hands out its player awards in March, at the Ericsson Open in Miami, for accomplishments during the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 15, 2008Rafa's rolling toward history
James Martin, TENNIS.comI don't care what the rankings say. The best player on the men's tour right now is Rafael Nadal. Just a few weeks ago, Rafa crushed the field at Rolan...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 02, 2008Good old-fashion power struggle
James Martin, TENNIS.comI don't usually sympathize with high-paid athletes. The Tiger Woodses and Roger Federers of this world live a charmed life. Who among us wouldn't trad...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 06, 2008Hewitt: A waning agitator
James Martin, TENNIS.com...a borderline paranoid me-against-the-world attitude. He even sued the hand that feeds him, the ATP, over an ESPN interview request that went awry. (The lawsuit was eventually dropped.) Hewitt is hardly the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 05, 2008Mercurial Murray
James Martin, TENNIS.com...s decision to skip the Davis Cup to rest his knee injury and be fresh for the ATP stop in Marseille this week. The incident, if you can call it that, reached the point where...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 13, 2008Just the facts
James Martin, TENNIS.com...But Haas is the first player to win a title without facing a break point since the ATP started keeping match statistics in 1991. • In Indianapolis this summer, American Sam Querrey guaranteed that...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 03, 2007What's in a name?
James Martin, TENNIS.com...commercialism -- to see that. But the award for bone-headed play of this season goes to the ATP. Just recently, it announced that in 2009 it's replacing the nine Masters Series events with nine...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 12, 2007Welcome to the jungle
James Martin, TENNIS.com...that is, otherwise known as the U.S. Open Series. It kicks off next week with the ATP stop in Los Angeles, makes pit stops in some of the most miserably hot places you can...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 12, 2007Karlovic: A giant among men
James Martin, TENNIS.com...player to rank in the Top 100 (he's currently No. 85) in the history of the ATP tour. His brand of tennis, predictably, reflects his stature -- big serve, not much else. He's a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 31, 2007Mercurial Marat
James Martin, TENNIS.com...of a Grand Slam four times in the last five years. Listing his accomplishments for 2006, the ATP Media Guide says Safin "made a late season surge to finish in the Top 30." This wouldn...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 09, 2007Connors remaking A-Rod
James Martin, TENNIS.com...it-for-me approach. This is the guy, after all, who in 1972 refused to join the ATP and started his own tour with his manager, Bill Riordan. So, there he was, hawking DVDs and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 13, 2006EXPLORE RELATED TOPICS
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