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Roger Federer beat Gilles Muller in three tight sets Thursday afternoon, 7-6 (7/5), 6-4, 7-6 (7/5), ending the Luxembourgian’s run of seven straight wins that made him only the second qualifier ever to reach the quarterfinal.  It was a well-played match.  The New York Times reported that “Federer had 42 winners to his 19 unforced [...]

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 [...]

Most tennis fans consider the U.S. Open a two-week event, but in reality, there are three weeks of play starting Tuesday, Aug. 19, with the qualifying draws — what insiders refer to simply as the “qualies.”
The qualies are a battle of 128 players hoping to win three matches to earn one of 16 open [...]

Darren Cahill, retired Australian player and coach turned ESPN announcer, suggested during today’s broadcast of the Rogers Masters Cup in Toronto that Andy Roddick, fresh off a disappointing loss yesterday to No. 44 Marin Cilic, should take the rest of the year off — including skipping the U.S. Open — to get his game [...]

Ask most anyone and they’ll tell you that Wimbledon starts on Monday. However, 128 men have been battling it out this week in the Wimbledon Qualifying in hopes of winning three matches to earn one of 16 spots at the big green table next week.
If a player is not within the top 100 [...]

Of the eight American men in the top 100 of the ATP rankings released Monday, four rose, including two significantly, three dropped only slightly, and one, Andy Roddick, held his ground.
Robby Ginepri and Wayne Odesnik were the big movers. Of the highest ranked Americans, Roddick, held onto his number six spot, while James Blake moved [...]

I’m sitting here at 8:30 a.m. ET listening to the first men’s semifinal between the world’s number two and three players on Radio Roland Garros over the web.  The announcers are very good, just comparing Nadal’s dominance of Djokovic as a duck hunter who is stalking a duck and taking his time before shooting (Nadal [...]

Robby Ginepri and Fernando Gonzalez are the first match on Court Suzanne Lenglen at 11 a.m. Monday Paris time, 5 a.m. on the East Coast.   Ginepri for his career is 0-3 against the Chilean, losing twice last year on grass (once at Wimbledon) and once on hard courts in New Zealand in 2005.  They have [...]

Robby Ginepri, his right arm encased in an elaborate bandage brace, took to the Bull Ring (as Court No. 1 is known) and bested Frenchman Florent Serra in straight sets on Saturday, making Ginepri the first American to reach the Fourth Round of the French Open since Andre Agassi in 2003.
The 25-year-old who lives in [...]