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Brodie McPhee is a lifelong tennis fan and started writing about tennis at Mind The Racket in the summer of 2009. He has since been a regular member on the Forty Deuce Podcast, attended all the WTA events in Canada, including covering the 2011 Toronto edition as media, and accumulated over 1600 followers at @MindTheRacket with a mix of humor and match analysis. Outside of tennis, he he enjoys many other sports including soccer and as a long suffering Toronto sports fan, hockey and baseball. He spends the rest of his time playing music and slacking off with video games.
By Brodie McPhee Another spring and another fantastic Rolland Garros is finished. It took an extra day, but it was a dramatic couple of weeks that saw two worthy champions rise to the top of the red clay heap. It was an emotional victory for Maria Sharapova, as she became the first ever woman to complete the career slam (all four major titles) having only won one each time. This was her first … [Read more...]
By Brodie McPhee The headlines have already been written. Sharapova returns to the number 1 ranking after moving into the Roland Garros final, the one major title she has yet to win. In a sense, the headlines have already been written. A career slam and the number one ranking has a chance to put a book end on wild era of the WTA where players can be slam champions one week and footnotes of a draw … [Read more...]
By Brodie McPhee Now the final major clay event before Roland Garros, Rome gave fans an oppurtunity to see their favourite players on a truly slow, traditional surface. On the ATP side, the King returned to the throne as Rafael Nadal once again defeated Novak Djokovic in the final, 7-5, 6-3. Having been rained out on Sunday, the final did not get under way until noon local time on Monday. A … [Read more...]
By Brodie McPhee We have seen hard courts in many colors. The Davis Cup has featured a wide range of colors as far as green and blue to pink. Regardless of this, grass has always been green, and clay has always been red (if you don't include the dusty green ones). The past week tossed up a new varation, blue clay, for the first time. It came from the Madrid tournament, once held on hard … [Read more...]
A quiet week in the tennis world saw four small tournaments take place around the world, three of them on the red clay of spring. Juan Monaco followed up his excellent showing in Miami with a wildcard victory over American John Isner to take the Houston title in three sets. “This is a great moment in my career. I've worked very hard to be here,” Monaco said. “I have the clay-court season … [Read more...]
The top names in tennis gathered for a second straight week in the United States, this time on the hard courts of Miami. The ATP served up another batch of generally straight forward yet intriguing results, where as the WTA saw the return of some its biggest names. Novak Djokovic has not quite set the tennis world on fire like he did in 2011, where he went undefeated until Roland … [Read more...]
Another year, another fantastic event held at Indian Wells in California. A record attendance saw a fantastic week and a half of tennis that mixed predictable results with excellent upsets and overall, great drama. While it may not be remembered as so, the highlight of the week has to be the stomach virus that struck not only players, but reporters, ball kids, and other tournament officials. It … [Read more...]
Serena. Venus. Sharapova. Henin. Clijsters. Davenport. Hingis. In an age where professional women's sport is still all but a dream for some sports, women's tennis has defied the odds. Some of the best players the sport has ever seen have created some of the best tennis on the biggest stages, and in turn, created some of the biggest names that have transcended tennis circles. The personalities, the … [Read more...]
It was just over a year ago that Milos Raonic's meteoric rise and blast of 6 straight wins in Melbourne turned heads in the big time sports media in Canada. It was a winter morning in January where one journalist on TSN's (one of Canada's major sports networks) The Reporters asked another "did you see this coming?" and he aptly replied "honestly? No I didn't." There are a lot of stereotypes … [Read more...]
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