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Jetée · 08-16-2009, 03:30 AM

Well, I totally slept on the Legg Mason Tennis Classic this year. I'm so embarrassed. This used to be one of my favorite mid-tier events in the ATP tour, and I didn't watch a single minute of it. The only news that I had heard about it is that it was recently bumped up a notch in the lower-tourney hierarchy from a 250 to the 500-pointer series. Also, via wiki, the winner of the tournament was Juan Martín del Potro, in a tie breaker third set match against Roddick.

This is a good segue because I caught a glimpse of the rounds now in Montreal last night, and it was once again Del Potro against Roddick, with Del Potro advancing this time as well. He had also defeated Rafael Nadal in the round prior to this match.

Final tennis talking point for today (via SI.com): "The Great Eight"

Thanks in part to the comebacks of Roger Federer (from paternity leave) and Rafael Nadal (knee tendinitis), history was made at the Rogers Cup in Montreal. The eight top-ranked players -- Federer, Nadal (pictured), Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick, Juan Martin del Porto, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nikolay Davydenko -- reached the quarterfinals of a tournament for the first time since rankings started in 1973.

08-16-2009, 03:30 AM	#70 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Well, I totally slept on the Legg Mason Tennis Classic this year. I'm so embarrassed. This used to be one of my favorite mid-tier events in the ATP tour, and I didn't watch a single minute of it. The only news that I had heard about it is that it was recently bumped up a notch in the lower-tourney hierarchy from a 250 to the 500-pointer series. Also, via wiki, the winner of the tournament was Juan Martín del Potro, in a tie breaker third set match against Roddick. This is a good segue because I caught a glimpse of the rounds now in Montreal last night, and it was once again Del Potro against Roddick, with Del Potro advancing this time as well. He had also defeated Rafael Nadal in the round prior to this match. Final tennis talking point for today (via SI.com): "The Great Eight" Thanks in part to the comebacks of Roger Federer (from paternity leave) and Rafael Nadal (knee tendinitis), history was made at the Rogers Cup in Montreal. The eight top-ranked players -- Federer, Nadal (pictured), Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick, Juan Martin del Porto, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nikolay Davydenko -- reached the quarterfinals of a tournament for the first time since rankings started in 1973. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi