Monday, June 28th, 2010CBSSports.com: Lu — who? — loss looks like Roddick’s last Wimbledon standBy Art Spander WIMBLEDON, England — The plot invariably differs, but every ending is the same. Andy Roddick doesn’t win Wimbledon. It doesn’t matter if he loses gallantly to Roger Federer in the final, as he did last year and twice before that, or stunningly to someone named Yen-Hsun Lu, as he did Monday in the fourth round. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Monday, June 28th, 2010CBSSports.com: Not bad for a tweener: Middle Monday at Wimbledon as good as it getsBy Art Spander WIMBLEDON, England — Eight pages in the Sunday Telegraph, 11 in the Sunday Times. All on football, their football, soccer. All on the World Cup, which had overwhelmed Wimbledon, even with Isner’s celebrity and Rafa’s frailty. No longer. Tennis is back, as if it really ever left. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010CBSSports.com: Here’s hoping for a repeat of Serena-Sharapova from 2004By Art Spander WIMBLEDON, England — Time-lapse stuff, this Wimbledon. For the ladies, nothing could be more enticing. Serena against Sharapova, back after injuries and titles, facing each other and giving the All England Championships another jolt. As Andy Roddick correctly pointed out after his win Friday, if we’re struggling for story lines at this 2010 Wimbledon, we need to get a different job — and fast. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Saturday, June 26th, 2010CBSSports.com: Roddick seems destined to face familiar foe in semisBy Art Spander WIMBLEDON, England — They call them Nearly Men over here, athletes who get so close but can’t reach the top. At Wimbledon, where he has lifted hopes but never the champion’s trophy, that description might be appropriate for Andy Roddick. Or it might not. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Friday, June 25th, 2010RealClearSports: A Shame Someone Has to Lose This MatchBy Art Spander WIMBLEDON, England — “Somebody had to lose,” said the winner, John Isner. “That stinks.” His words were on target, as was that final backhand of a tennis match which when compared to all the others ever played was matchless. This one was a gem, an epic, a memory. © RealClearSports 2010 |
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010CBSSports.com: Isner has greater ambitions, but this one’s tough to topWIMBLEDON, England — He’ll be remembered for this, John Isner will. As will Nicolas Mahut, the man he finally beat in a match of history and perseverance that lasted a bit more than 11 hours, the time it takes a jet to fly from San Francisco to Paris. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010CBSSports.com: Isner-Mahut marathon instant (incomplete) classic for the agesBy Art Spander WIMBLEDON, England — It looked like a basketball score, 59-59. But it was tennis. And those were games. In the fifth set, of a match that has gone on for two days and still isn’t finished. Nothing like it has happened before.
“And nothing like this ever will happen again,” John Isner said. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010RealClearSports: Queen Takes Over Wimbledon From KingsBy Art Spander WIMBLEDON, England — Queen Elizabeth — yes, that Queen Elizabeth — is scheduled to show up Thursday at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, her first appearance in 33 years. Not to play, though she might not do worse than most of the entrants from her country. To watch. © RealClearSports 2010 |
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Friday, March 19th, 2010RealClearSports: Tennis’s Version of March MadnessBy Art Spander INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — The first game of the tournament, and the favorite, Notre Dame is upset, delighting maybe everyone who didn’t have the Irish winning in their pool. Which is why basketball, any team sport, is so different from the tournament now going on here, the BNP Paribas tennis open. © RealClearSports 2010 |
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010RealClearSports: Roddick Past His Prime But Playing WellBy Art Spander INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — He’s the best in his sport in America. At one time he was the best in the world. Yet Andy Roddick is no different than the rest of us when someone asks if he has a feeling of what it’s like to be Tiger Woods. “No,” said Roddick. “Not like that. I’m not going to pretend to understand what it’s like to be in that sort of situation. I don’t know that any athlete can really relate to what’s going on right there.” © RealClearSports 2010 |
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