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Tennis Authorities Must Be on Drugs to Let Odesnik Play
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsJerzy Janowicz lost to a cheat in the first round of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships. And tennis allowed it. Wayne Odesnik, 10 days after pleading guilty in court to smuggling HGH into Australia before an Australian Open warm-up event, beat Janowicz, 6-3, 6-4, Monday in Houston. Say it again: Tennis allowed it. How could Odesnik have been allowed to play at all? I went on a little expedition to find out. And the answers to that question, and the non-answers, told a story of bureaucratic BS and red tape, a sport so defensive of a failed rulebook that it actually defends an absurdity ...
Andy Roddick Falls to Fernando Verdasco in SAP Open Final
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsSAN JOSE, Calif., (AP) -- Second-seeded Fernando Verdasco rallied to beat top-seeded Andy Roddick 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 Sunday in the SAP Open for his fourth career title.Verdasco had lost 15 straight matches against top-10 players before breaking through against seventh-ranked Roddick. Verdasco became the first Spaniard to win a title in the Bay Area since Manuel Santana did it in 1964 in Berkeley.This matchup lacked the high level of play and intensity of the last final between the top seeds in this tournament back in 2002, when top-seeded Lleyton Hewitt beat Andre Agassi 4-6, 7-6, 7-6. But there ...
'New' Roddick Shows Courage in Battling Back
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsMELBOURNE, Australia -- Andy Roddick talks to himself during his matches, while fidgeting constantly. And two things he said in the running conversation, or monologue, during his match at the Australian Open Sunday described things perfectly. "Stupid idiot," he yelled early in the fourth set, when he was in trouble. "I'm not going anywhere," he said, sitting by himself after letting four set points slip away in the fourth set. Roddick pulled a miracle comeback to beat Fernando Gonzalez 6-3, 3-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, going from nearly hopeless to the quarterfinals. He'll play Marin Cilic next, and ...
Grueling Season Claims Stars From Davis Cup Rosters
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsIt doesn't look good or feel right when the face of American men's tennis, the guy carrying the sport in this country, decides not to play for his flag. Meanwhile, he's planning to make it to all the regular tournaments for himself. But Andy Roddick says he's off the U.S. Davis Cup team for 2010. And James Blake, the second face, reportedly also won't play, as the longtime base of the team has been ripped apart. You could say that in Davis Cup, the U.S. is going to lose face. But the truth is, both players are making the right decision, weighing the grueling demands of the tour with aging, ...
Andy Roddick, Brooklyn Decker Get Upstaged by Koala Love-Makin'
By Will Brinson - AOL NewsAndy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker are, for reasons that will forever remain irrelevant, in Australia. And because they're famous celebrities and whatnot, the teevee people have followed them there. But Roddick and Decker alone an interesting interview does not make. No, sir. If you want to make an interview with American celebrities in Australia even remotely entertaining, you need some hot koala sex. Or sweet koala love-making. Whatever you prefer, it's going down behind Roddick in this video. And someone was kind enough to lay down a John Mayer track (or something) to the bumping ...
'The Match' Tops List of 12 Best Tennis Matches of Decade
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsOver the next two weeks, FanHouse will be covering the top sports stories of the decade. In this installment, Greg Couch looks at the top 12 tennis matches of the decade. My favorite story about The Match was the electrical spike. It has been reported, and official-sounding people were quoted. Still, it sounds like the stuff of myth and is a little hard to believe. But here goes:Just as Rafael Nadal was holding up the trophy after beating Roger Federer to win the Wimbledon title in 2008, there was a sudden surge in electrical use in Britain. A 1,400-megawatt spike, roughly equal to what it ...
Was the Fix in on Wozniacki's 'Injury'?
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsIn a sport that has had a serious gambling scandal involving suspicions of match-fixing, how are we supposed to take Caroline Wozniacki's match the other day?I'm starting to wonder exactly how many tennis matches aren't really on the up-and-up. Wozniacki, who reached the U.S. Open final, led Anne Kremer 7-5, 5-0 Tuesday at the Luxembourg Open.And that's when Wozniacki chose to retire from the match with an injury. No broken bones. No fall. She had won seven straight games and was four points from winning."The injury suddenly happened," she said.No way.The WTA tour needs to investigate, and no ...
No Pain, No Gain on the Tours
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsThree weeks. That's all Andy Roddick is expected to miss with the knee injury that knocked him out of the Shanghai Masters last week in the middle of his first-round match.It should still give him time to qualify for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London in November."Results of the MRI [scan] showed a mild sprain of his medial collateral ligament of the left knee," said a statement on Roddick's website. "The news was very good for Andy. No surgery will be needed and Andy is expected to make a 100 percent recovery."But Roddick's warning still stands. This time every year, players ...
Del Potro Joins Shanghai Injury List
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsSHANGHAI (AP) -- Reigning U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro retired from the Shanghai Masters with a wrist injury Wednesday, adding to the mounting injury toll at the event.The third-seeded Argentine was trailing Austria's Jurgen Melzer 7-5, 2-1 in his second-round match when he retired with an injury to his right wrist.Del Potro said that he suffered from similar wrist tendinitis earlier this year."It's a big tournament here in Shanghai, very important for me," del Potro said. "But if I want to have a good finish this season, I had to recover, go home to be in good shape for the last ...
Women Come Out Swinging at the U.S. Open
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyWhile much of the tennis world continues to be consumed with the Rafa/Roger rivalry -- will Rafael Nadal's over-stressed knees give out, thus preventing the Spaniard from capturing his first U.S. Open title, or will Roger Federer win a record-breaking sixth consecutive U.S. Open title? -- I have been captivated by the stories, not to mention the amazing match play, of some of the women in this year's tournament. ...
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