The Mardy Fish of 2012 is quite different than the Mardy Fish of 2011. Now, the 2011 Fish was streaky and was far from being a paragon of consistency. Fish also had his fair share of early exits from tournaments in early 2011. But what separates the Fish of early 2011 from how Fish is playing now are his lack of bad losses and lack of poor play. Fish may not have been the most consistent player at any point last year, but at least his overall quality of play was that of a top player.
Fish can’t say that at all this year. His level of play since 2011 started has been, to put it nicely, bad. Losses to Aleandro Falla, Matthew Ebden, and Albano Olivetti (??!), on one of Fish’s best surfaces, no less, are just things that a top 10 player cannot have. At least, not if he wants to stay in the top 10 for very long. Fish will have over 1500 points from the US Open Summer Series protecting his ranking until July, but he’s really getting to crunch time if he wants to move up at all or even sta...
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March 27, 2012
