Serbian Tennis Star Novak Djokovic has been unbeatable this year, literally. The 23-year old moved to the Semis of the Sony Ericsson Open with a win over South African Kevin Anderson to extended his unbeaten streak to 24 straight matches, he is a perfect 22-0 in 2011. The Australian Open Champ has taken his game to another level this year and has his sights set on Rafael Nadal's World Number 1 ranking after supplanting Roger Federer for the number 2 spot earlier this year.
In other Tennis news Andy Roddick will relinquish his position as the top-ranked American player next week after his early exit from the same tournament. Mardy Fish who has reignited his career over the past 2 years surpass the soon-to-be 14th ranked Roddick and he reached the Semis with a win over 6 seed David Ferrer and could be ranked as high as 11th after the tournament. Unfortunately this also means that no American will be ranked in the top-10 and is endemic of American Tennis' failure to return to prominence after the retirement of Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi.
Also a random tidbit: In researching for this blog I came across a headline on ESPN.com's Tennis page that reads "Ferrer annoyed, lobs tennis ball at crying baby" I didn't actually read the article but just thought you should know. Europeans are sore losers I guess.
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