Tennis types on baseball replay: Good call
Jim Courier can find only one possible flaw with instant replay in baseball, and it’s purely personal.
Archive for August, 2008
Ivanovic stays in the hunt
NEW YORK - The top women’s seed has never lost a first-round match at the U.S. Open, but Ana Ivanovic made it interesting yesterday, taking more than two hours to beat Vera Dushevina 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. It was yet …
Open-Top seed Nadal aims to raise playing level
Top-seeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal plans to step up his intensity when he bids for a place in the third round of the U.S. Open on Thursday.
The best-paid tennis stars
Roger Federer had been the top-ranked tennis player in the world for a record 237 consecutive weeks - until last week, when he finally relinquished the top spot to Spain’s Rafael Nadal.
Djokovic survives injury scare
The tennis season began with such delicious promise for the Australian Open men’s finalists, champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia and runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France.
Nadal, Ferrer first-day winners at Open
Spain’s Rafael Nadal, the world’s top-ranked player, advanced in straight sets Monday on the first day of play of the 2008 U.S. Open.
Nike fumbles Nadal’s makeover
Tennis’s top player is known for bare shoulders and shorts of a certain length. So what was his sponsor thinking when it tried to make a bad boy look better? NEW YORK — There he was, on a humid Monday …
Murray welcomes new era
Over three, four, five years, guys have caught up and realised that’s the level they’re going to have to get to if they want to be competing for grand slams.
Ivanovic wins ugly and Federer cruises
NEW YORK : Ana Ivanovic needed every scrap of her youthful ebullience on Tuesday to narrowly avoid the humiliation of becoming the first top-seeded woman to lose in the opening round of the U.S. Open.
Brad Shoots the Kids
Sure, the Brangie brood is kinda like any other, just like we told you yesterday they frolic, take pictures, make messes.
Rafael Nadal Latest Celeb To Regret Looking So Totally Hot In That Magazine
Newsbreak: Spanish tennis champion Rafael Nadal regrets posing topless for New York Magazine .
US Open: Nadal tested in opening victory
World number one Rafael Nadal was made to work hard for his first-round win over Bjorn Phau at the US Open.
Brady to be ready…Taylor hopes to recover…Nadal (nahDAHL’) comes out on…
Brady to be ready…Taylor hopes to recover…Nadal comes out on top FOXBOROUGH, Mass.
Nike Unveils a New Look for Spokesman Rafael Nadal
If you watched the championship match between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer at Wimbledon this summer, you witnessed the ascension of a new alpha dog in men’s tennis.
U.S. Open begins…Woods has no firm timetable for return…Mets, Chisox ho…
U.S. Open begins…Woods has no firm timetable for return…Mets, Chisox hope to stay in first NEW YORK The U.S. Open has begun at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.