I feel like this has been a long time coming...the decline of the American favorite, Andy Roddick. He's not entirely out yet, but I feel like everybody is "holding" their breath for him to announce that he's hanging up his tennis racquets and move onto life after the tour. For the last year or so, Roddick has been on a steady decline in the rankings, not major drops or … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2012
The tournament that should be a major
Maybe it's how remote the tournament site is, or maybe it's just the perfect climate for a tennis tournament; whatever it is, the BNP Paribas Open should be turned into an actual Major tournament. It's already been coined as the "fifth slam," so why wouldn't it be worthy of joining the elite four and be worth 2000 ATP and WTA ranking points? Regardless of whether or not BNP … [Read more...]