Dynastic Spaniards the team of the decade
Peter Bodo...s been a sub for the past few years. The nucleus of Rafael Nadal, Fernando Verdasco, David Ferrer and Feliciano Lopez could remain intact for another five, six years. Spain is not likely to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 07, 2009Soderling maturing before our eyes
Ravi Ubha, ESPN.com...known Soderling was turning into something special at Roland Garros. Soderling dispatched the dogged dirt-baller David Ferrer prior to upending Nadal, then dismantled experienced clay-courter Nikolay Davydenko and edged explosive Chilean Fernando...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009A-game too much to ask before U.S. Open
Peter BodoWe all saw Roger Federer struggle mightily to overcome David Ferrer on Thursday in Cincinnati (it went 6-4 in the third), despite the world No. 1...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 21, 2009Federer's destiny won't come easy
Peter Bodo...courter of all-time in Nadal, and some of the best clay-courters of this time (David Ferrer, Nikolay Davydenko) these past two weeks. There's no reason he can't take out one...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 06, 2009Obstacles aplenty for Nadal in Paris
Tom Perrotta, TENNIS.com...third round, an excellent clay-court player and former world No. 4 in the fourth round (David Ferrer), either Fernando Verdasco (who is having a breakthrough season) or Nikolay Davydenko (a former semifinalist) in...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 27, 2009Who wants another old-fashion Nadal whippin'?
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...seven years. Nadal has absorbed just three losses against members of the current top 25: Federer, David Ferrer and Fernando Gonzalez. You can bet that the eight members of that distinguished group who have...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 24, 2009Yet another year-end best and worst list -- sort of
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...and Juan Martin del Potro, faced a ragtag group of Spanish players led by badly slumping David Ferrer and missing Rafael Nadal. The Spanish team delivered an upset for the ages, with a guy...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 12, 2008Del Potro just what the doctor ordered
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...1, Rafael Nadal (he's sidelined with tendinitis of the right knee), and that the Argentine stalwart, David Nalbandian, has always been dangerous on fast courts. He's an anomaly because Argentina's traditional surface...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 21, 2008Querrey, Del Potro stand out in Davis Cup
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...keep in mind that one of them was the dead fifth rubber (Feliciano Lopez, subbing for David Ferrer, took out Querrey in a pair of tiebreakers), and in the other he held his own...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 22, 2008Don't dispute the pageantry of Davis Cup
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...why, ask yourself these questions: • How would you like Andy Roddick's chances against David Ferrer on red clay -- in, say, a Monte Carlo Masters quarterfinal? • Would you expect a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 19, 2008Davis Cup good chance for Querrey
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...is that he has sand, which is different from proving that he can beat Nadal or David Ferrer on clay in Spain. All in all, Querrey will get a great introduction to the pressure...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 12, 2008Federer is just fine
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...be forces to reckon with on the game's biggest stages. 3. David Nalbandian, Nikolay Davydenko, David Ferrer, Richard Gasquet and a few other regulars who are either established in the top 10 or...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 09, 2008Nadal poised to pass Federer
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comCINCINNATI -- I'm out here in southern Ohio, where the Western & Southern Group Financial Masters begins Monday. No, that isn't a stockbroker thro...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 28, 2008Bad case of spring fever for WTA
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...Safina and Jankovic. On the men's side, the champion's roll looks like this: Federer, David Ferrer, Nadal, Nadal, Fernando Gonzalez, Novak Djokovic and Nadal. There isn't a man on that list...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 19, 2008Dream quarterfinals
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...a clay-court litmus test in the form of his Spanish countryman and current No. 5, David Ferrer. Judging by his performance Thursday, Nadal's reply will be something on the order of "Test...
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