The first week of Wimbledon has passed and on the tennis free Sunday I will try to summarize some of the highlights or insights I’ve gathered in the first week with a dash of humor –  the Tennisnerd way. Rosol who? We who follow tennis knows how hard it is to play the match of your life, upset a better player and come back for the next round with your A-game. Lukas Rosol who managed the biggest Wimbledon upset in a long time by beating Rafael Nadal in round two, became another example of this in his straight set loss to “Coalwriter” Philipp …
Sam Querrey
It was a strange third day of the French Open 2011. It started with clay court demon Nicolas Almagro being able to close out Lukasz Kubot and exactly like his fellow former top ten player Berdych lost a match although leading by 2-0 in sets. It’s hard to see where Almagro will go for here, but he can’t seem to get it together in the slams. It it some kind of mental fitness problem? Then another strange thing happened. Sam Querrey, who haven’t been able to put a foot right all year, managed to beat competent clay courter Kohlschreiber in …
American tennis player John Isner is 2,06 meters above the ocean and weighs 110 kg. Obviously he has a good serve. But the rest? Pretty damn good too. John Isner is one of those big players that has a big game, but also the feel and movement to back it up. Don’t get me wrong, he will never move like David Ferrer, but he will pound groundstrokes past his head and he moves well enough to get to the net and finish the point off. That is why John Isner can be the next big thing in American tennis. Which …