Tennis For Japan: $300,000 Raised in Miami

Players Unite at Sony Ericsson Open to Raise Funds For Disaster Relief

On Sunday at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, ATP and WTA stars came together for a special fundraising event for the victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster, dubbed “Tennis for Japan.” Kim Clijsters, Robin Soderling and Vera Zvonareva, as well as Japan’s Kei Nishikori, Kimiko Date-Krumm and Ayumi Morita, walked through the [...]

Farewell, Federer

Swede Soderling Derails Fed's Streak With 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 Upset

PARIS — It was a foregone conclusion. Just put a stamp on it.  Mail it in. The French Open was merely a formality, a matter of playing through six preliminary rounds — ho-hum — so we could get to the main event all of tennis was expecting, was waiting for, was entitled to.

Parlez Vous Loss?

King Nadal Usurped at Roland Garros

PARIS – Scores of anxious men charged at Rafael Nadal before Sweden’s Robin Soderling at the French Open, but none of them had the willpower to suffocate the Spaniard. Not even the great Roger Federer could face down the Mallorcan Mauler on his favored clay, in his cherished Philippe Chatrier stadium, which Nadal considered his [...]

What’s Russian and American, with a Period in Between?

FRENCH FED FRENZY: Federer said that when he walks the streets of Paris “everybody is, like, ‘This is your year. You’ve got to do it.’ They’re screaming from their scooters and out of the car. They even get out at the red lights and want me to sign an autograph or take a picture. It’s [...]

32 Questions

1. Why today do the immortal words of Red Smith come to mind today? After Bobby Thompson hit his historic ’51 home to lift the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers Smith wrote, “Now it is done. The art of fiction is dead. Only the utterly implausible, the inexpressibly fantastic can ever be plausible [...]