Results for tag: Mardy Fish
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Nov 24, 2011 at 12:09:16 PM
[b]One of the few players who looks to be fully fit, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, faces in Rafael Nadal a player who is anything but fit. Side with the big-serving Frenchman to send Nadal home, says Sean Calvert.[/b]
As I said yesterday, there's every chance of you getting a game if you take your kit and hang around the O2 long enough and it just got weirder at the World Tour Finals on Wednesday.
After having had a match point, first alternate Janko Tipsarevic fell over when match point down to my tip Tomas Berdych and left the court limping and defeated.
And then we saw David Ferrer beat Novak Djokovic in straight sets - the first time that's happened in a year and the worst performance by the Djoker all year in, his own words.
Regular readers might recall that I backed Ferrer to...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Nov 11, 2010 at 07:50:46 PM
Another week, another player calls it a day and after [b]Elena Dementieva[/b] it was the turn of America's[b] Taylor Dent[/b] to hang up his racquet this time.
The retirement of Dent, although nowhere near as successful as Dementieva, is probably more significant because of the loss of a playing style in the men's game that it represents.
Dent's big [b]serve and volley[/b] game is dying out in the men's game and it's pretty much extinct on the women's side with only the likes of [b]Amelie Mauresmo[/b] in recent memory adopting that technique on occasion to any great success.
Dent is worthy of huge respect for fighting back from a [b]serious back injury[/b] that rendered him immobile for months, but once he returned to the tour he found that the game had moved on.
In 2005, the...