Miami
Williams Sisters & Bryan Brothers Put Silver Lining Around Dark Day for American Players and Fans
Saturday, March 28th, started in a frustrating way for American Tennis as multiple regions of Fox Sports decided to broadcast delayed sports and info-mercials rather than live Miami tennis from the Sony Ericsson Open. While it appears to not be a requirement of the ATP/WTA contract for Fox to broadcast live tennis over other sport [...]
29Mar2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
Kendrick Serves Over Soderling, Dent Secures a Big Win, Roddick and Blake roll on but Kim Held Back and Russell a Break Short
A great day for the Americans in Miami. Blake, Dent, Kendrick and Roddick advance into the final 32 of the men’s singles draw. Isner, Delic, Fish, Reynolds and Querrey could join them tomorrow.
27Mar2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
Reynolds Rallies, Delic, Isner, Querry Roll, but Sweeting, Craybas and Levine Out
Jill Craybas and Ryan Sweeting each went down an early break in their matches to trail 1-2 and each lost their first set 4-6. They continued their parallel woes into the second set with both down 2 breaks trailing 1-4, but the similarities end there when Craybas was closed out at 1-6 by Anna-Lena Groenfeld.
Sweeting [...]
American Alexa Glatch to Play #1 Serena Williams
Alexa Glatch defeated World #88, Timea Bacsinszky, 6-4, 6-1 for an opportunity to play Serena Williams in the second round. Glatch recently dismissed Carla Suarez Navarro (#16 in the 2009 rankings race) at Indian Wells.
With Alexa free from injury and rising in the rankings, combined with Serena’s occasional early round close calls, this has the [...]
Kevin Kim to play Federer & Russell to Take on Monfils in Miami Second Round
Kevin Kim advanced today in Miami when Michael Llodra retired with a groin injury after leading 6-3. Kim has not played a top ten player since his straight set losses to Robredo & Blake in 2007. Kim’s 1st serve is a powerful weapon and Kim may need to toss only first serves to the Federer.
Russell [...]
Bryan Bros, Parrott, Cerretani & Reynolds in the Miami Doubles Draw
Bob and Mike Bryan are the #1 seed in the 32 team draw in Miami. They will face Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler
Travis Parrott will team up with Filip Polasek. They face #5 seed Marcin Matkowski and Mariusz Fyrstenberg.
James Cerretani teams up with Victor Hanescu and will play #7 seed Jeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie.
Bobby [...]
Huber/Black #1 seed in Miami. McHale/Stephens & Mattek-Sands (w/Petrova) to Meet in 1st Round
Huber (w/ Black) is seeded #1 and Raymond (w/ Peschke) is seeded #3 on the bottom half of the draw.
Coco Vandeweghe (w/ Martic) was offered a wild card and will play the #5 seeds Daniela Hantuchova and Ai Sugiyama.
Jill Craybas (w/ Makarova) will take on the Bondarenko sisters and Vania King (w/ Amanmuradova) will meet [...]
Kendrick Could 2nd Serve His Way to The Top
Kendrick is getting accustomed to winning this spring. After a disappointing first round qualifying loss at the 2009 Sydney tournament, a first round loss to Soderling in the 2009 Australian Open, and failing to qualify in Memphis and San Jose, Kendrick has won 7 of his last 9 matches. Kendrick’s two losses were well contested [...]
25Mar2009 | US Tennis Network | 1 comment | Continued
