All Posts Tagged With: "Delic"
Odesnik & Isner to Meet in Houston Quarterfinals, Dent and Jenkins Advance in Houston Singles
Wayne Odesnik advanced in Houston with a solid win over Jurgen Melzer (who had defeated American Robert Kendrick) 6-4, 6-0 in the second round.
Taylor Dent finished strong in his first round match on Tuesday to advance over Marcos Daniel 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
Scoville Jenkins advanced with a stunning come back against Alexander Peya after losing the [...]
Jenkins and Russell Qualify in Houston. Delic and Kendrick Eliminated in Singles and Doubles
Scoville Jenkins took out Donald Young 6-4, 6-4 to get a berth in main singles draw. Donald Young won just 58% of his first serve points and 52% of his second serve points. While Jenkins did win 80% of his first serve points, he will need to address the fact that he lost 14 of [...]
6Apr2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
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
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 [...]
Isner, Dent, Russell, Kim, Delic & Kendrick Qualify in Miami
John Isner was facing elimination today in Miami as Bjorn Phau served for the match at 6-2, 5-4, but Isner broke back and then broke Phau’s serve again, after Phau double faulted at 5-6 deuce, to take the second set 7-5. Isner’s winning percentage on first serves went from 48% in the 1st set to [...]
24Mar2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
8 of 11 Men Advance in 1st Round of Miami Qualifying Draw
Wayne Odesnik kicked off the qualifying rounds for the US men with a tight 3 set match in which he served for the match at 6-5 in the third set tie-break but suffered one of many mini-breaks. Wayne’s next match point was on the German’s serve at 6-7. Odesnik was later down a match point [...]
23Mar2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
Donald Young & Robert Kendrick Meet in 1st Round of Miami Qualifying
Robert Kendrick and Donald Young each have one of the toughest 1st round matches in Miami’s qualifying draw… They play each other. Kendrick (#10 seed) coming off his 2nd round appearance in Indian Wells eventually losing to Nalbanian, who had 5 match points on Nadal in the quarterfinals, may be considered a favorite given Young’s [...]
22Mar2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
Fish upset in first round at Brisbane International
Mardy Fish lost 4-7 in the third set tie breaker at the Brisbane International to Jurgen Melzer after spliting the first two sets 4-6, 6-4. Mardy, the number four seed was expected to win his first three matches. Three US players remain in the singles draw. Taylor Dent who won his first round match as [...]
5Jan2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
