Mardy Fish to make a comeback at Heineken Open in 2013 – Tennis News
Former American number one, Mardy Fish, decides to make a comeback to the tennis circuit in the new season and starts his campaign at the Heineken Open in Auckland. It has been a troublesome season for the 27th ranked
American who failed to live up to the expectations of the viewers due to the niggling injuries that never allowed him to settle at any phase of the season.
Commenting on the inclusion of the former world number seven, the Tournament Director Karl Budge said, “Last year he was playing in the ATP World Tour finals after a great season. Funnily enough Mardy lost in 2007 to the eventual
champion David Ferrer in the semi finals. He’s an all court player with a strong net game, which will certainly add variety to an event normally dominated by the baseliners.”
Fish played at the Hopman Cup at Perth to begin the season and lost two of the three Round Rubber matches. He lasted two rounds in the AAMI Classic at Kooyong before losing out to the Aussie superstar, Bernard Tomic, who also failed
to create an impact in 2012. The eighth seed American begin the Australian Open campaign at Melbourne and lost in the second match. Next five tournaments yielded just five victories for the 30-year-old American who returned to some sort of form in the Wimbledon
Championships but lost the superior ranked Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the fourth round. First round exit at Atlanta was followed up with a semi-final exit at the Citi Open at Washington.
The American tennis ace managed two victories in the Rogers Cup at Toronto and reached the quarter-final of the Western & Southern Open at Cincinnati where he was overpowered by the Swiss Maestro Roger Federer. In the last tournament
of the season for Fish, the US Open, he reached the fourth round but withdrew from the battle against Federer due to an injury that kept him out of action until to date.
Fish is eager to make a comeback to the tennis circuit especially considering that probably one of the last few years of his career are left before he says goodbye. There is a possibility that he might retire in 2013, if injuries
keeps him at the sidelines for long again.
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