Donald Young moves on in Memphis

Donald Young moves on in US National Indoor Tennis Championships 
By Jawad Bisharat

Feb. 20th, 2013
Donald Young has definitely been struggling of late on the ATP Tour. His ranking has fallen to 200 in the world and this year has not started any better. Young failed to qualify for the Australian Open and has only played one main draw match which was in San Jose last week. Young lost in the first round after qualifying. Today however proved to be a little different. Every player needs a break now and then and today could be the small break Donald needed to get his year kick started. He faced the X-man, Xavier Malisse in the 1st round of the US National Indoor Championships in Memphis. Young jumped out to a 5-1 lead when Malisse retired giving Young a virtual walkover to the 2nd round. Young will have to face another young but tough opponent in Kei Nishikori in the upcoming round. 

In other action, the quit, but effective, Tommy Haas who has crawled his way back to #18 in the world earned a 7-6 (6) 6-4 win over E. Donskoy of Russia. Haas will face Feliciano Lopez in the 2nd round. 

Feb. 19th, 2013
Defending champion Jurgen Melzer was ousted in the first round by up and comer Igor SIjsling 6-4 7-6(3). Melzer currently ranked 27 in the world ran into a tough opponent in Slingling who reached the Australian open doubles final with countryman Robin Haase. 

Also in a surprising lose, John Isner fell to #63 in the world Denis Istomin 6-4 6-3. Isner currently ranked 16 was limited to 5 aces in in a match that took exactly 1 hour to complete. 

In other action, American Sam Querrey hit 6 aces to defeat Falla 6-3 6-3. Also, James Blake is on the come back trail with a gutsy 3 set win over Mayer of Germany 4-6 6-3 6-2. Blake converted 5 of 6 break points and served up 10 aces which helped push him into the second round. 

At the Copa Claro in Buenos Aires, Tommy Robredo and Leonardo Mayer both move on. Albert Montanes won in 3 after dropping the first set 7-5. Montanes only converted 4 of 15 break chances on his way to the 2nd round where he will face wild card  Federico Delbonis.  

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Davis Cup takes a back seat to the Super Bowl

Davis Cup takes back seat to Super Bowl
By Jawad Bisharat

If any of you were watching Sam Querrey seal the deal for team U.S.A over Brazil yesterday you would have noticed something interesting...the stands were a ghost town.

Look I get it, Football is the #1 watched sport in the U.S. and is crushing everything in its sights. Over 120 million people watched the Super Bowl yesterday. Davis Cup didn't have a chance like Canada didn't have a chance over Spain :)

How do you expect Davis Cup to compete with that?? Sad truth is it can't. But nor can baseball, NBA and MLS. Did ESPN talk about anything else in the world of Sports yesterday?

Can you blame the town of Jacksonville? Brad Gilbert wasn't too happy about it in his Twitter posts. He had some ideas about separating ticket sales for each day instead of the required 3 days. But we all know nothing would have helped yesterday. I mean it's Super Bowl Sunday! So unless your were the final episode of Mash in 1983 you didn't have a chance.

I'm sure we all felt bad for the players but I know they get it.
I once sat with Andy Roddick for breakfast and all he talked about was Pro and College football. Fact is I know a few of the players were wishing for a quick finish to Sam's match for more reason then just the victory.  

  Luckily for all no 5th set. Sam was able to dismiss Alves just in time for the start of the Super Bowl. I'm sure the players and all 30 people in the stands were happy about that.

Up next is Serbia...hopefully with a full stadium and without Djokovic!



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