American tennis player, Mardy Fish, has withdrawn from the U.S. Open due to a rib injury.  I’m sure he’s pretty disappointed since the event is so important and is in his home country. 

While a long shot from winning the title (but stranger things have happened!), the 25-year-old was to face Austria’s Daniel Koellerer in the first round.
After the Fish’s announcement, it was determined that Koellerer will play Rui Machado of Portugal.
I’m not exactly sure when or where Fish got injured but I do know that he was eliminated during last week’s hard-court tune-up in Connecticut after reaching …read more

Rafa had a valid point when he said the clay court season was jammed into a tight time frame. I feel like I’ve just wrapped up one tournament, take a breath and then turn around and realize we’re already halfway through the next tournament. And I’m just writing about it!
So Roger Federer passed another clay test – actually at this point, it doesn’t really matter what surface it is although everything seems to be that much more of an accomplishment when it’s done on clay. Federer faced Guillermo Canas, a player he has traditionally had trouble with – to the …read more

I called David Nalbandian for the semifinals of the Pacific Life Open, and I was wrong. For those of you who don’t like me, embrace this moment because it won’t be lasting long.
 What a match thoughbetween the world number seven and Mardy Fish who is ranked, oh – uh – yes, 98 in the world. Fish took the first set at 6-3 then Nalbandian won the second 7-6 to force a third set. It went down to the wire again with a different result – Mardy Fish falling prostrate on the ground in relief.
This is the Pacific Life Open and …read more