If you think American tennis has had a long Grand Slam drought, consider Poland.  Stefan Dombrowski has the story here.

Andy Roddick fought back deep in the fourth set and dominated the fifth to overcome Fernando Gonzalez and his rowdy Chilean fans in Melbourne.  The biggest point of the match was a Roddick shot at set point that was called out but the review overruled and deemed it good, much to Gonzalez’s dismay, who had let the [...]

A very entertaining match last night/today in Melbourne:  An inspired and later cramping Marcos Baghdatis came back from two sets down to beat David Ferrer, cheered on by a singing band of flag-waving compatriots from his home country of Cyprus.  Baghdatis struggled through the final game, fighting a cramp in his left leg, and hopped and [...]

Ladies, Gentleman and others, Presenting Brian Long, champion of the first annual ECEGVTCRRI (Elvis Christmas Eve Green Valley Tennis Club Round Robin Doubles Invitational), and his trophy, the 1970 Elvis Christmas Album which he will have to defend in 2010.

Perhaps I’m writing a blog about men’s tennis in the wrong language.  Spain on Saturday won their fourth Davis Cup in this decade, securing their grasp on the claim on the world’s best tennis country of this century.  When you consider the Davis Cup quartet combined with the year-end rankings of nine players in the world’s top 50, [...]

Beyond the stories of crystal meth and his mullet toupee, here is the serious tennis fan’s summary of what Andre has to say:  His dad was an insane tyrant (this is the most convincing, believable part of the book); Nick Bollettieri took over as warden/slave driver (and doesn’t really know jack about tennis strategy or coaching); Pete Sampras [...]

Imagine traveling all the way to China to play tennis in front of almost nobody.  The nearly non-existent crowd for the fourth round match between Gael Monfils and Ivan Ljubicic yesterday on the grandstand court at the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 tournament was comparable to a high school tennis match on a cold, windy spring day.  There couldn’t [...]

I have been longing for the USTA to do something big and fantastic for the next Davis Cup home match, instead of recent choices of smallish venues in tired indoor arenas in second-tier cities like Winston-Salem, N.C., Portland, Ore., or Birmingham, Ala.  The call for proposals from prospective hosts for a quarterfinal match July 9-11 went out [...]

Reigning NCAA champion from Ole Miss Devin Britton played the big match in the spotlight on Monday, losing in three to Roger Federer on the Ashe Court, but it was former two-time champ Somdev Devvarman and one-time runner up John Isner who came through with the big wins.  
Isner, a former University of Georgia star ranked 55 [...]

Launching a campaign for your sixth straight U.S. Open to tie Bill Tilden’s epic record apparently does not merit a prime-time match.  Roger Federer and Devin Britton will play the second match of the day on Arthur Ashe on Monday, meaning I’ll have to get out a video tape to record it and much of America will [...]