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It has been five years since Andy Roddick cradled the U.S. Open cup during that short window between Sampras’ retirement and Federer’s rise. In fact, it has been five long years since any American man has won any Grand Slam.
It seems like long odds that Roddick or James Blake or any of the other [...]

Three American men qualified for the U.S. Open this week, putting a total of 19 U.S. players into the men’s singles draw.
Qualifiers were Ryler De Heart, who won his final round in the qualies in a third-set tiebreaker, Ryan Sweeting and Robert Kendrick.  They join six American wildcards Brendan Evans, Scoville Jenkins, Amer Delic, Jesse [...]

When I first heard earlier in the year that Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish were passing on playing in the Olympics, I was shocked that they would skip out on another chance to participate in the games. But after considering the crowded ATP schedule consisting of four Grand Slams, nine Masters tournaments and the [...]

One-hundred and four of the 128 men who will compete in this year’s U.S. Open were announced Wednesday, including nine Americans. All of the bids were based on rankings: Americans who received direct entry into this year’s tournament are No. 6 Andy Roddick of Austin, Texas; No. 8 James Blake of Fairfield, Conn.; No. [...]

The two American men in the top of the ATP world ladder, No. 6 Andy Roddick and No. 8 James Blake, did not change in rankings released after Wimbledon, although there were major moves farther down. The biggest increase was by Bobby Reynolds whose third-round performance at Wimbledon pushed him up 11 spots to [...]

Bobby Reynolds’ four-set defeat at the hands of Feliciano Lopez in the third round on Friday might make this the worst Wimbledon results ever for American men’s tennis. The last time only one American man reached the third round at Wimbledon was 1926, but only three Americans were in the draw then and the [...]

No. 6 seeded Andy Roddick won the first set but then lost three in a row to 40th-ranked Janko Tipsarevic on Thursday, capping a dismal day in London for the American men.
Earlier in the day, World No. 94 Rainer Schuettler, 32, defeated No. 9 seeded James Blake in five sets Thursday, coming back from two-sets-to-one [...]

If you don’t have Direct TV and you wanted to see James Blake’s dramatic fifth set loss against Rainer Schuettler, or for that matter, Andy Roddick’s tight first set against Janko Tipsarevic, you were out of luck Thursday. ESPN2 carried instead Maria Sharapova (whom Marat Safin once dubbed the All-American girl), and ignored all [...]

If you don’t have Direct TV and you wanted to see James Blake’s dramatic fifth set loss against Rainer Schuettler, or for that matter, Andy Roddick’s tight first set against Janko Tipsarevic, you were out of luck Thursday. ESPN2 carried instead Maria Sharapova (whom Marat Safin once dubbed the All-American girl), and ignored all [...]

Of the dozen American men on the London lawns, only four have moved onto the second round of Wimbledon. Andy Roddick, the sixth-seeded American in Wimbledon, won in straight sets on Tuesday. Ninth seeded James Blake started slow against Belgian qualifier Chrisophe Rochus, but ultimately started up his game and won easily in [...]