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In today’s Delray Beach final, won by Juan Martin del Potro, 6-4, 6-4, chair umpire Fergus Murphy’s microphone was spotty, Janko Tipsarevic played incredibly poor tennis and the Argentine was called “Juan del Potro” during the trophy ceremony—twice! But for a player who went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows in professional tennis, it was a beautiful victory no matter how you look at it.

It is rare to see a player of del Potro’s caliber enter an event as tiny as Delray Beach, and for a while it didn’t look like we were watching a former U.S. Open champion. Del Potro, a fine mover for his size but hardly a gazelle, was practically stationary in the opening games, which Tipsarevic controlled. The Serb opened up a 4-1 lead after nearly combusting, when Murphy didn’t overrule a del Potro second serve ace on break point. It turned out to be Tipsarevic’s peak. He combusted mentally thereafter, dropping the next five games despite a patchy offensive performance from del Potro.

In del Potro’s defense, I liked one part of his game today very much: his defense. With Tipsarevic clearly off, del Potro kept rallies going by any means necessary, often with his slice backhand. It’s not a pretty shot, or a point-ender, but against a struggling opponent it doesn’t have to be. After Tipsarevic—now 0-3 in ATP finals—double-faulted on break point at 2-2 in the second set, del Potro earned all the cushion he would need to close out the match. We saw shades of the 2009 del Potro the rest of the way, but never the complete package. He needed to be that good two Septembers ago, when he beat Roger Federer in the Flushing Meadows final. That wasn’t the case today against Tipsarevic.

—Ed McGrogan

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Ivan Lendl, who will play John McEnroe in the BNP Paribas exhibition at Madison Square Garden on Monday, says that he’s never dined with his rival and has no relationship with him. “I really don’t have one with him,” he told the New York Times. “I wish we could. After all this time, you would think it would be reasonable.”—Matthew Cronin

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Roger Federer, who lost in the Dubai final to Novak Djokovic, on the upper crust of the men’s tour:

“At the moment it looks like [Djokovic is dominating], but [Robin] Soderling hasn’t been playing bad himself if you look at his win/loss record this year; [Andy] Murray was in the finals again at the Australian Open, so he’s obviously in the conversation as well,” he said. “After that, you have guys tearing apart a few of the clay court tournaments in other parts of world. I think the Top 5 players have played really well the last six months. Someone always has to win one tournament. At the end of the day, we’ve been able to share those a little bit to be honest.”

The Swiss also noted the slowness of the hard courts at Miami, coming up in mid-March. Federer’s next tournament will be at Indian Wells, held on hard courts which are also considered to be fairly slow.

“It’s going to be different conditions again. It’s going to be flying, but it’s going to be slower. So it’s going to be a challenge to balance those two things in Indian Wells. And then Miami is going to be really slow. They’ve really slowed down conditions there drastically over the years, I thought. And with the humidity the ball doesn’t fly as much.”—Matthew Cronin