My favorite American tennis player. Saw him in the airport in Tampa once and he's not quite as pudgy as he looks on TV.

Tennis - American Ryan Harrison scored a morale-boosting win on Thursday in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Harrison, who has had the misfortune of regularly drawing some of the top players in early rounds in tournaments in recent months, defeated Kazakh Andrey Golubev 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday to set up a second round showdown with Italian seeded player Fabio Fognini.

Also on Thursday, American Tom Smyczeck beat compatriot Jack Sock in three sets and 35-year-old Michael Russell beat fellow American Donald Young in three sets ...
http://www.tennisworldusa.org/American-Ryan-Harrison-advances-to--articolo16537.html

I guess Donald Young is still living up to his potential! Yeesh...what a trainwreck!

Young has been a disappointment and I must admit I don't know much about Jack Sock - except that he's younger like Ryan so maybe there's still some hope there.

Can't wait. Men's draw getting interesting...

Federer Up To World No. 5 After Reaching Indian Wells SFs

Indian Wells, U.S.A.
14.03.2014


Roger Federer will play Alexandr Dolgopolov for the first time in more than three-and-a-half years on Saturday in the BNP Paribas Open semi-finals.

Seventh seed Federer defeated No. 17 seed Kevin Anderson 7-5, 6-1 on Thursday night at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, venue of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament. With the result he moves up to No. 5 in the Emirates ATP Rankings and into the Indian Wells semi-finals for the eighth time ...

More here: http://www.bnpparibasopen.com/News/Tennis/2014/Tournament/ATP-Thursday2-Federer-Anderson.aspx

Saw the semis result...would have loved to have seen Nadal lose so early...the peds are wearing off!

until clay season. Then there will be a miraculous recovery and he will be fit as a fiddle for Roland Garros

I think the Federer vs. Djoker match is 5 eastern today ... but if I watch he won't win so I'll check back here later.

At his age and so many years of steorid abuse, it will take more than 3 months for all the shit he'll need to get his body back to cheating shape for the clay season.