http://www.yardbarker.com/content/player/24729 Recent articles about Igor Andreev en-us Safin will instead travel to the Thailand Open early next week in an attempt to climb the ATP rankings. The Russian was reported to have been put off the Davis Cup by the prospect of having to travel from Buenos Aires to Thailand within hours of completing his Davis Cup rubbers. Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:40:55 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/333564 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/333564 Roger Federer needed every bit of his skill and will to get by a game Igor Andreev 6-7, 7-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:58:20 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/317494 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/317494 Kinetic here reppin Yardbarker at the U.S Open in New York! Had my girlfriend and friends wear the Yardbarker t-shirt and hat, and we went around enjoying the tournament and talking to all sorts of people about Yardbarker. Strangely, i was only asked once about what yardbarker was, while all the girls in the group were asked many times. We watched the Djokovic vs. Robredo match at Arthur Ashe today, and it was quite an amazing game. Robredo is a quick player who really moves around the court. He rarely every let a ball get past him without getting a firm set of strings on it first. Djokovic started the first set with a loss, but a very sportsmanship move. Robredo was at set point for the first set, and hit a huge serve to the outside. The ref called the serve out, but Djokovic believed it was an ace and gave the point away. Huge sportsmanship like move, and huge props to him. His challenges were usually only when it's REALLY close, and more times than not he got the challenge correct. Robredo put up a huge fight, and Djokovic more than once gave him huge props. After that game, Federer played against Andreev in another crazy 5 set game. Federer was destroyed in the first match easily, and Andreev started making huge plays. Federer had a lot of unforced errors, everyone seemed a bit disappointed. After the first two long matches with tie breakers, seems like Federer finally woke up, but when he woke up Andreev kicked his game into high gear. They battled it out, and in the last 5th set, Federer pushed forward hard and Andreev lost a little steam. Federer to win it 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. So after like 5 coats of sunblock, and 6 bottles of water, I'm back in Long Island blogging about the great event / toaster oven. Here's a picture of a yardbarker hat in the stadium =) Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:29:30 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/317474 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/317474 We haven't hoisted the Davis Cup since Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, and Todd Martin were on the US team. This afternoon in Portland, OR, the Bryan brothers brought the Cup back after a 12-yr drought, beating Russians Andreev & Davydenko in 3. Roddick killed Tursunov yesterday in 3, but Blake needed 4 sets, 3 of which were tiebreaks, against Youzhny. Everyone was there: Donald "DY" Young, John Isner, Robby Ginepri, Mardy Fish all watched while the crowd, including the wild NetHeads, yelled out in pure Davis Cup style. Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:06:51 -0500 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/39936 http://www.yardbarker.com/author/article/39936