Indian Wells
FSN Documents an “Official Review Snafu”
Referring to the Official Review System calling a second bounce during Ljubicic’s quarterfinal match in Indian Wells yesterday, FSN’s announcer stated “Our beautiful and very intelligent producter Jenny Silverstein thinks that ‘that’ is the ball that they acknowledged in the replay system”
Hats off to the producer at FSN for calling out the error.
After Andy Murray’s [...]
Murray and the Official Review System dismiss Ljubicic
The Official Review system in Indian Wells called an Andy Murray shot ‘good’ in error. The ’second’ bounce was on the line and although it was a clearly wide ball, the challenge system, which can not be challenged, called the shot ‘IN’ and that gave Andy Murray another chance to break Ljubicic at 4 all [...]
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Roddick Advances, Querrey, Craybas, Isner, Mattek-Sands/Washington Eliminated in Indian Wells
Roddick Advances. Jill Craybas, John Isner, Sam Querrey & Mattek-Sands/Washington Defeated. Read More Here…
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Jill Craybas Steps Up in the Desert
American Jill Craybas, who has made it past the first round in a grand slam for the past 5 years, defeated Vaidisova to advance into an elite 16 in the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California.
Craybas is supremely fit and is in a position to advance, but must first overcome her tendancy to get [...]
Haynes Advances to 2nd Round, Evans, Spadea and Kim eliminated
Angela Haynes with impressive cross court consistency and an even more impressive knack for strategic attacks, pumps her fist after taking the go ahead break in her victory that takes her to the 2nd round at Indian Wells. Angela will face Sugiyama tomorrow after Haynes deserved day of rest.
Kevin Kim not only saved multiple match [...]
Brendan Evans into the main draw at BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells
Young American, Brendan Evans, advanced to the main draw at Indian Wells to play Stakhovsky today.
‘B’ as he calls himself, had to endure three sets of quality tennis (and distraction) by Tobias Clemens from Germany. At four all when Tobias called for a trainer just before his serve when ‘B’ had a break point. At [...]
Scoville Jenkins out of qualifying at Indian Wells
Scoville Jenkins had a key victory over Sam Warburg in the first round at Indian Wells, but was eliminated yesterday by Kevin Kim in 3 sets.
Kevin Kim drew Ernests Gulbis for his first round match to be played today.
Live Coverage from Indian Wells by USTN
USTN will be posting live coverage of the early rounds through Saturday when television coverage begins. Follow the live updates at http://www.twitter.com/us_tennis or get the daily coverage here at ustn.wordpress.com.
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