Nadal Gets Drubbed By Djokavic But Becomes the New #1

Rafael Nadal was supposed to become the number one tennis player in the world this week. But that was only if Roger Federer lost before the semifinals and Nadal won the Western & Southern Financial Masters Series tournament. Nadal was drubbed in the semifinals by his nemesis, Novak Djokavic, 6-1 7-5. The loss was blamed on Nadal's "fatigue" because of the [read more...]

What’s a Summer Without the US Open Series?

We are now officially in the midst of the US Open Tennis Series where 200 tennis players from around the world will treat us to sand in-the-eye fashion choices of the companies that endorse them. Unless, of course, you are Bethanie Mattek and have your own special brand of this is what a tennis dress looks like after an evening [read more...]

SSNN posts for the weeks of June 24th through July 8th

I'm going to start posting a few links to my SSNN posts for the previous link, so you all can see what we've got going on over there and hopefully enjoy a couple of those stories. CC Sabathia confused by new nickname MILWAUKEE -- CC Sabathia had an unusual request of reporters in Milwaukee upon arriving with the team Tuesday – no [read more...]

The Green Clay of Wimbledon

Congratulations to Wimbledon. I hope the tournament officials of the All-English Club are happy. Sunday they got a nearly five hour tennis match that, for the television viewer who began watching at eight a.m. promptly, took up their entire morning and most of their afternoon. It was sad, though, that International Tennis Hall of Famer Bud Collins was not on hand [read more...]

The Leak 3.0: A Belmont shocker, Jones goes abstinent, Becker (hearts) Nadal, Ozzie’s F-bombs and a one-legged Tiger on the prowl

The Brain Leak (Week of 6/2/08 - 6/8/08) The Leak has seemingly grabbed a solid foothold in the fickle landscape of sports commentary and thus pushes on with an unforeseen third edition. No longer worthy of some wordy, nagging and self-depricating rant of an introduction, TBL slowly matures to the point where it can afford to allow its content to [read more...]

Rafael Nadal, Big Brown, Memes and Us

Phillippe Chartrier. The name must make all male players not named Rafael Nadal break out in hives, at least when their names are matched up against him. As he dispatched of first Novak Djokovic (and from watching the match it was obvious that Nadal thought Novak was "going away at 6-2, 6-4, 3-0) and then Roger Federer, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0, [read more...]

Wimbledon: A Preview

It's that time of the year again! The tennis world has cleaned clay off their shoes and recovered from the slow and bouncy French Open. Once again Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal finished up another major in a Championship match-up. And once again, Nadal defeated Federer on clay to win his 3rd consecutive French Open. But now the surfaces, and [read more...]