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Fourth Round and Quarter Finals at Australian Open

Serena has just powered her way past Dementieva for a spot in the Australian Open final and Roddick and the Bryan Bros are taking the court tonight in their Semi final matches.
What can be gleaned from the past couple of rounds?
First of all, Bob and Mike Bryan are back and unfortunately had to take out [...]

29Jan2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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Third Round American Singles Results from Australian Open

Andy Roddick won 85% of his first serve points which he made 73% of the time. Andy also won 65% of his second serve points. While we know Andy Roddick’s serve is solid and Andy’s winner to error ratio was an impressive 50/19, the concern of the Santoro match is Andy’s 41% win [...]

25Jan2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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Second Round Australian Open American Results

And then there was one…
Serena defeated Meng Yuan from China 6-3, 6-2. Both players had excellent net point winning percentages and while Serena only made 64% of her first serves, her 87% 1st serve winning percentage was excellent. Serena lost 38% of her second serve points and was upside down on her winner [...]

24Jan2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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First Round Australian Open Highlights of American Hopefuls

Cramping and Hrbaty take out John Isner from the 1st round of the Australian Open and Patrick McEnroe disagrees with Isner’s statement that the cramping was not a fitness issue.
Amer Delic advances in his 9th match played down under over countryman Taylor Dent. Roddick advances easily in his new lean form, Blake also stayed [...]

21Jan2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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US Tennis pre-Australian Open

It’s a new year and the first Grand Slam has begun with qualifying matches underway. US Tennis has long been dominated by the William’s sisters, Andy Roddick and James Blake who again are poised for a great year.
The first round at the Australian Open begins in about an hour and what is to be [...]

18Jan2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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Delic, Sweeting & Odesnik One Match from Australian Open Main Draw

Amer Delic advanced over Luka Dlouhy, 6-3, 7-5. Pete Sampras would approve of Amer’s 2nd serve winning percentage matching his first serve winning percentage at 71%. (first set stats)
Wayne Odesnik gave up a similar number of games (in reverse momentum) in his straight set victory over Santiago Gonzalez 7-5, 6-2. Wayne also achieved [...]

15Jan2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued