Always appreciate great articles Marcus. Keep it up!

Hey Marcus,

I thought I'd share with you this article about James Blake and the charity event he's holding later this month. It's for a great cause, hopefully you'll have time to give it a read or promote it to your readers.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/934508-br-interview-james-blake-speaks-about-his-foundation-and-the-tennis-community

Thanks,

Ash

Take a look if you are free. I would love to hear your thoughts


http://bleacherreport.com/articles/787070-tennis-current-state-from-the-prespective-of-a-roger-federer-fan

Oh yeah, anyone else can play too!

Dear Marcus,
I know this is a longer than long shot, but we run a US Open Series Prediction Challenge at drawchallenge.webs.com . For each of the 6 mens tournaments, you fill out a bracket by emailing them to drawchallenge@yahoo.com . We keep track of all standings and results on the website. We add up points from all of the tournaments combined to come up with a US Open Series Prediction Champion. Last year we did it and it was a lot of fun. Just to let you know, this is what a typical entry email would look like.

1st round

Kevin Anderson
Robby Ginepri
Ryan Sweeting
Janko Tipsarevic
Mardy Fish
James Blake
Xavier Malisse
Ernests Gulbis
Karol Beck
Temyuraz Gabashvili
Qualifier
Horacio Zeballos

2nd round
Andy Murray
Ernests Gulbis
Feliciano Lopez
Mardy Fish
Janko Tipsarevic
Marcos Baghdatis
Robby Ginepri
Sam Querrey

Quarterfinals

Sam Querrey
Marcos Baghdatis
Feliciano Lopez
Andy Murray

Semifinal

Marcos Baghdatis
Andy Murray

Final Andy Murray

I know you are extremely busy, but it would be very cool if someone of your stature would play. I'm sure it wouldn't take too long to send over your picks. Anyways, I'm sure your extremely busy, so thanks anyway for reading this.
Matt (drawchallenge@yahoo.com)

Hi Marcus,

I'm Jaideep and i'm part of the current B/R Summer Sports Writing Internship and am currently covering the French Open. Joel Cordes gave me your reference. So i was wondering if you could give me any tips or advice or any do's and dont's..anything that would help me in this internship.. Feel free to reply here or drop me an email on jaideep.s.vaidya@gmail.com.

Thanks in advance!

- Jaideep

Hi Marcus,

Devil here. I'm currently writing an article and would like use your article 'Novak Djokovic Stuns Rafael Nadal...' as a link for people to see other people's reactions to Novak beating Nadal.

Is this okay?

Do you think that an Asian player can make it to #1 again like Michael Chang? I hope that Kei has a chance

Do you like Kei Nishikori? He is my favorite., look at this cool video of him, he seems so nice!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qfiH0ZH-E

Hey Marcus,

I've just posted a story about the global evolution of tennis and the increasing popularity of the sport. I've put a lot of time and effort into it, and I'd be really grateful to get any feedback you have.

If you get a chance to check it out, that would be great.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/594875-the-global-evolution-of-tennis-is-bringing-the-sport-to-new-markets-an-analysis

Thanks,

Ash