As a Joe Ely song I heard recenlty says, you’ve got to lift your leg a little higher to run with the big dogs. Green Valley Tennis Club members were 0-3 on Saturday, but performed admirably for a bunch of local old dudes.  Here’s the run down:
Jim Lewis and I gave away a combined 40 years in [...]

What Tom Watson accomplished Sunday in the British Open is beyond belief — at 59, with an artificial hip, he almost won a major, the third leg of golf’s Grand Slam. It says he’s tough, tenacious and a great competitor.  It also says a lot about the difference in athletic ability required of the game of [...]

Fabrice Santoro’s dizzying career of twenty years of competing in Grand Slam tournaments will come to an end either at the U.S. Open or perhaps next year’s Australian Open.   He is profiled in the August edition of Tennis magazine that arrived in my mailbox yesterday, and last week was featured in an excellent piece in The New York [...]

“Dr. Ivo” came back from two sets down to beat James Blake in five sets in the first match between the U.S. and Croatia Friday.  The pressure is now on Mardy Fish to earn the U.S. a point against Marin Cilic.

Wimbledon spent $130 million on a roof it didn’t need that is now causing a distracting shadow in one of the greatest finals ever played. I agree with this Guardian blogger.

Jordan Cox, 17, from Duluth, Ga., an Atlanta suburb fell short in the boys singles final, losing in three sets to Russian Andrey Kuznetsov.

Jordan Cox, March 2008

The Super Bowl gets about 12 hours of pre-game nonsense.  But the Wimbledon men’s final has nothing on American TV.  (I just listened to pre-match interviews with Roddick and Federer on Radio Wimbledon.)  Shouldn’t someone come on about an hour before and give us some lead up to the match?  Why can’t Tennis Channel do [...]

From the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger:  WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND — Devin Britton’s string of 10 straight grass court victories ended today in the semifinals of junior Wimbledon. Jordan Cox of Duluth, Ga., Britton’s doubles teammate, defeated Britton in a marathon match, 6-3, 6-7, 16-14. The third set took one hour, 24 minutes to complete. The entire match [...]

If you look at the head-to-head match up, it ain’t pretty:  Andy Roddick is 2-18 all-time against Roger Federer.  And if you look behind the numbers, it’s really worse than it sounds, if that’s even possible.   Roddick is 0-6 in finals, including two at Wimbledon and one at the U.S. Open., and 0-7 in Grand Slams.  But [...]

Despite his garrulous older brother’s on-air suggestions to dump James Blake from the U.S. Davis Cup team for the upcoming match on red clay, Patrick McEnroe went with the tried and true lineup, choosing Andy Roddick, James Blake and the Bryan brothers, USA Today reports. Despite Blake’s uninspiring performance this year at majors, he still [...]