Andy Roddick, James Blake, and the Williams sisters
Categories: Tennis
(Apologies for the boring title, but at this week’s editorial meeting we were told to seed our blog titles with names because it helps increase traffic to our site. Something about Google hits. If I’m not mistaken, this is the same tactic that some folks use to redirect unsuspecting Web surfers to porn sites. So goodbye clever puns; hello staid lists of proper nouns.)
For all the hand wringing over the state of American tennis, the British are in far worse shape. Sportswriters made much ado about the abject failure of the American men at the French Open (all nine failed win a match in the main draw), but by day two of singles play at Wimbledon, six of the seven British men have been sent packing, as well as four of the five women. It would have been a skunking for the Kingdom’s men had it not been for Tim Henman’s heroic five set (13-11 in the fifth set) win over Carlos Moya, completed over two days. At least the Americans had the excuse of literally losing on foreign soil at the French. To be fair, British no. 1 Andy Murray is sitting out the All-England Championships with a wrist injury, and no one, not even the British, grows up playing extensively on grass courts anymore, but I can pretty much guarantee you that the Americans will do just fine this fall at their own country’s championships, the U.S. Open.
For all the hand wringing over the state of American tennis, the British are in far worse shape. Sportswriters made much ado about the abject failure of the American men at the French Open (all nine failed win a match in the main draw), but by day two of singles play at Wimbledon, six of the seven British men have been sent packing, as well as four of the five women. It would have been a skunking for the Kingdom’s men had it not been for Tim Henman’s heroic five set (13-11 in the fifth set) win over Carlos Moya, completed over two days. At least the Americans had the excuse of literally losing on foreign soil at the French. To be fair, British no. 1 Andy Murray is sitting out the All-England Championships with a wrist injury, and no one, not even the British, grows up playing extensively on grass courts anymore, but I can pretty much guarantee you that the Americans will do just fine this fall at their own country’s championships, the U.S. Open.
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