Archive for category: London Olympics
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Olympics: Tsonga Defeats Raonic 25-23 in Decider, Match Sets Record for Longest Set of Tennis Played at the Olympics
In a long match that started at noon on court 1 and finished just before 7pm, partly due to a rain delay early in the third set, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated Milos Raonic, 6-3 3-6 25-23. The match broke records for the longest set of tennis played at the Olympics. [...] -
Spain’s Lopez defeats Monaco of Argentina to reach third round
The second round of the Olympic Tennis competition continued at Wimbledon on Tuesday and another men’s seed fell as Spain’s Feliciano Lopez beat Argentina’s Juan Monaco, the ninth seed, to secure a place in the last sixteen. Lopez had eventually seen off Dmitry Tursonov of Russia in the first round [...] -
Hewitt upsets Cilic, Baghdatis also through to play Murray at Olympics
Australian Lleyton Hewitt has progressed to the 3rd round of the Men’s singles at the London Olympic games. He beat Croatian Marin Cilic in straight sets, in one of the surprises of this round. Being a former Wimbledon champion (as well as US Open champion) he was back on familiar [...] -
Djokovic Lays on Olympic Master Class for Roddick
Novak Djokovic was the firm favourite going into this Olympic match-up with Andy Roddick, and under the roof on Centre Court he gave the three time Wimbledon finalist a lesson in tennis-playing brilliance. In a match that pitted a former world no.1 against the current world no.2, there was always [...] -
Olympics: Nishikori Battles Past Davydenko in the Second Round
In a tightly contested battle between the wily veteran Nikolay Davydenko of Russia against the up-and-coming Japanese no. 1 Kei Nishikori, the two seem evenly matched from the start. The pair raced to a score of 4-4 in the first set before rain delayed the match. After the skies over [...] -
Olympics: Murray Marches on, Rain Delays Play
Under the cover of the centre court roof, 3rd seed and hometown favorite Andy Murray marched past his second round opponent Jarkko Nieminen of Finland. Representing Great Britain, Murray was impressive in his first round appearance against Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka, winning that match in straight sets. He showed much of [...] -
Djokovic vs Roddick Live – Olympics Live 2012
Djokovic v. Roddick: FINAL 6-2 6-1 6-1: Roddick takes a point on Djoko’s serve, and then another! The crowd approve, somewhat optimistically hoping for a third set. Then normal service is resumed and some excellent tennis at the net brings us to a match point which Roddick saves to force [...] -
Isner and Tipsarevic to meet in the third round of the London Olympics
Tenth seed in the men’s Olympic tennis tournament, American John Isner, progressed into the third round at the expense of Tunisia’s Malek Jaziri. The big serving American produced a straight sets win on Wimbledon’s court no.1. Coming out on top in the first set tiebreak, he secured his passage through [...] -
Del Potro sees off Seppi, plays Simon next
Juan Martin Del Potro booked his place in third round of the London Olympics Men’s Tennis singles after overcoming Italian Andreas Seppi in straight sets 6-3 7-6 (2). The Argentinian, however, didn’t make it easy for himself as he lost his first service game in the first set. Although this [...] -
Federer one step closer to Olympic Gold
2012 Wimbledon champion Roger Federer faced France’s Julien Benneteau in the second round of the 2012 London Olympic Tennis tournament played today. The pair had met in the third round of this year’s Wimbledon Championships, where the Frenchman had taken Federer to five sets, before eventually being beaten 6-1 in [...] -
Federer/Wawrinka and the Bryan Bros advance into second round at the Olympics
Sixth-seeded Swiss couple needed three sets and almost two and half hours to defeat Nishikori and Soeda of Japan in the first round of men’s doubles Olympic clash. The Swiss won all of their serves in the match, but found themselves 0-1 back due to first set tie-break. They nonetheless [...] -
Federer demolishes Benneteau, moves into third round at the Olympics
Roger Federer made sure not to repeat his marathon match against Julien Benneteau from Wimbledon this year, when he had to fight back from two sets down to win the match. In the second round of the 2012 London Olympics, the Swiss destroyed his French opponent in merely and hour, [...] -
Lopez wins a marathon, Monaco eases through
Feliciano Lopez had to fight hard to get through to the next round at the London Olympic games today. He was up against the Russian Dmitry Tursunov who managed to steal the first set 9-7 on a tie break. Leaving Tursunov only needing one more set to progress, Lopez from [...]
