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The possibility of a big American broom sweeping the four biggest Wimbledon trophies is still alive at this advanced semifinal date.  It seems very likely that the Williams sisters will win the women’s doubles, and one of them will take home the singles crown.  The Bryan brothers are favored to win the men’s doubles, but James Blake and Mardy [...]

My good friend and tennis teammate Marc Obertholtzer is at Wimbledon today and sent this update via Blackberry:
I am sitting on Murray Hill, with thousands of hopeful Brits, cheering the country hero.  He is down a break in the first, but it is early.
It has been a long day so far. Up at 6 a.m., [...]

The drum rolls are already beginning to thump for Roger Federer as he moves closer to another Wimbledon trophy, a win that would surpass Pete Sampras’ Grand Slam title record.  He’s no doubt on the short list for greatest of all time (even though his injured rival Nadal usurped him in pre-Wimbledon press) but when compared with Rod [...]

Arnaud Clement, loser to Rainer Schuettler 8-6 in the fifth set of a quarterfinal match Thursday, missed by sixteen minutes adding his name to the history books for the longest match ever played at Wimbledon in the Open Era. The match lasted five hours, 12 minutes; according to Radio Wimbledon, the longest match is [...]

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 [...]

Ranked 102 in the world, Bobby Reynolds of Acworth, Ga., is the only American man to reach the third round of Wimbledon.  His match against 31st-seeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain on Friday is the third match scheduled for Court 18.  They have never played before.  Charles Bricker of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel writes it could [...]

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 [...]

Bobby Reynolds was up two sets-to-one over Canadian Frank Dancevic but was down 3-1 in the fourth set when he played five very inspired games, breaking Dancevic twice and holding serve three times to close out the set and win the match 4-6, 7-6 (12-10), 6-4, 6-4. Reynolds’ continuation in the tournament hung precariously [...]

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 [...]

Acworth, Ga., resident Bobby Reynolds won the only match played by five unseeded American men on Wimbledon’s first day, beating Italian Fillippo Volandri who retired down 6-2, 6-2. Reynolds, who played his college tennis at Vanderbilt, will player the winner of David Nalbandian and Frank Dancevic.
Andy Roddick and James Blake, seeded 6 and [...]