18 Results for mardy fish

Monday - September 1, 2008

...The U.S. Open kicks off its fourth round today and we decided to put American Mardy Fish against Frenchman Gael Monfils at 11:00 a.m.. Fish is the slight underdog here, but...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 31, 2008

Olympic tennis has it's own challenges and rewards

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...beat Andrei Cherkasov in the finals in Barcelona; most recently, it was Nicolas Massu over American Mardy Fish in Athens. Because Olympic tennis is a one-off event held every four years, the usual...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 11, 2008

How far can the French fly?

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...Rainer Schuettler. How about Bobby Reynolds' toughing one against French entry and crowd favorite Thierry Ascione? Mardy Fish took out Argentinean clay dog Agustin Calleri in Round 1, and Robby Ginepri and Wayne Odesnik...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 30, 2008

Champions' fatigue

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...up to make the headlines usually reserved for the dominant stars. Who would have predicted that Mardy Fish would reach the Indian Wells final, or that Nikolay Davydenko would deny Nadal in the championship...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2008

Time to put up or shut up in Miami

Kamakshi Tandon, TENNIS.com

...one of them did not win the Pacific Life Open. Federer's exit to the zoning Mardy Fish was the most puzzling, given the one-sidedness of the match and Federer's declaration afterward...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 26, 2008

Fish comes full circle

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...since there's a resurrection theme to Easter Sunday for many people, let's not write Mardy Fish entirely out of the script. He was the main story of this satisfying and bracingly competitive...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 24, 2008

Not exactly Kournikova

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...he was barely inside the top 50 at the start of the year. 2. In 2005, Mardy Fish was ranked a few rungs lower (at No. 227) than Stakhovsky was last week, but barely...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 03, 2008

Aussie Disappointments

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

We've devoted a lot of space and time to the winners at the Australian Open, those warriors who left Melbourne with their chests flung out, leading wi...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 01, 2008

When the grass wasn't greener

Stephen Tignor, TENNIS.com

...dirtball) unique and dramatic are still in place. Even a nominal mismatch between Rafael Nadal and Mardy Fish was tight and tense most of the time. Each set came down, like grass-court matches...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 27, 2007

Karlovic: A giant among men

James Martin, TENNIS.com

...He's got tremendous wingspan, of course, and his volleys are decent. I saw him beat Mardy Fish in San Jose, on a fast hard court, and Fish, no textbook technician himself, had this...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 31, 2007

Hard-court specialist

Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

...hard-court specialists." Here's your proof: I took the top 5 American men (Roddick, Blake, Mardy Fish, Robby Ginepri and Amer Delic) and looked at their spring clay-court schedules; then I picked...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 17, 2007

Food (and footwork) for thought

Kamakshi Tandon, TENNIS.com

...dry spell. In fact, the five top-ranked Americans at the moment (Andy Roddick, James Blake, Mardy Fish, Robby Ginepri and Sam Querrey) boast not one single title on European clay. Their best result...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 11, 2007

Highs and lows of playing Ivo

Paul Goldstein

...the best idea they had heard in a long time. After last week, James Blake and Mardy Fish were prepared to personally begin Ivo's basketball education by inviting him to a local gym...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | February 21, 2007

Roddick's project makeover

James Martin, TENNIS.com

...Roddick committed four -- count 'em, four -- unforced errors in his straight-set destruction of longtime friend Mardy Fish (Mary Carillo: Insert annoying Fish pun here). That stat is unreal for a player like Roddick...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 24, 2007

Time to start swinging back

You can only play rope-a-dope for so long. At the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle," Muhammad Ali assumed a defensive position against the ropes and took a...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 21, 2006