Mubadala World Tennis Championshiops Abu Dhabi, Tennis Complex, Zayed Sports City December 27-29, 2012 Exhibition Novak Djokovic Andy Murray David Ferrer Tomas Berdych Janko Tipsarevic Nicolas Almagro December 27, 2012 Janko Tipsarevic d. Andy Murray 6-3 6-4 David Ferrer d. Tomas Berdych 6-2 6-3 December 28, 2012 Novak Djokovic d. [...]
Every week at SteveG, we’ll be highlighting some of the best quotes said by players, coaches and more from the world of tennis. “We spoke at the end of last year and it was much more short term — ‘let’s see how the first few months of the season go’. [...]
While it doesn’t look likely that Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will move out of the “Big Four” penthouse atop the ATP Tour rankings anytime soon, that doesn’t mean that they won’t face some worthy challengers during the new season. So let’s take a look at [...]
Every week at SteveG, we’ll be highlighting some of the best quotes said by players, coaches and more from the world of tennis “Some minutes ago I met Federer, a very cute guy. To the girls I say that he’s 31 but, he’s married and he has two twins.” — [...]
Head-to-Head: Lendl 15- Wilander 7 The more one explores the rivalries at the top of the men’s game in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, the more the state of the current men’s game makes sense. It was in those earlier years that the seed corn was sown for the current [...]
Ivan Lendl v Jimmy Connors Head to Head: 22-13 The rivalry between Ivan Lendl and Jimmy Connors during the 1980’s, albeit an intense one for both players, lacked the heightened intensity of other rivalries of the era. Lendl/McEnroe, for example, was marked by the sheer level of antagonism between polar [...]
Andy Roddick showed he still has it at the Miami Tennis Cup at the weekend, defeating Andy Murray in two sets in the semi final at the event in Key Biscane. The recently retired American was a part of the exhibition tournament that also included John Isner, Alejandro Falla, Nicolas Almagro and another recently [...]
Every week at SteveG, we’ll be highlighting some of the best quotes said by players, coaches and more from the world of tennis “What is the point of thinking of that if I do not know if tomorrow it will rain or not. We shall see. I hope things go [...]
The 2012 season ended only a few weeks ago, but that makes it a perfect time to start looking ahead to next year. We know who finished in the top ten, but who will achieve that feat in 2013? Will the same names appear on the list? Or we will [...]
Djokovic vs Murray Current Head to Head: 11-7 (Djokovic won their last meeting in the final of the 2013 Australian Open 6-7 (2) 7-6 (3) 6-3 6-2). Stevegtennis also brings you the Federer v Djokovic H2H analysis, you can check it out here: Federer vs Djokovic Head to Head The [...]
Dusseldorf/Nice Roland Garros [QD and MD] Queens Club | Halle Eastborne | sHertogenbosch Wimbledon Updates to be posted on Twitter | Previous Lists in the Forum Dusseldorf 10 Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 12 Nicolas Almagro (ESP) 21 Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 26 Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) 28 Florian Mayer (GER) 35 [...]
In a year packed with memorable results and surprising upsets, it took some time to narrow the best matches of 2012. But here, in chronological order, are the ones that really stood out due to the quality of play and their impact on a historic year in tennis. Djokovic defeats [...]
2012 ATP Tournament Summary Date (mdy) Tournament Surface Champion 1/1/2012 Brisbane, Australia Hard Andy Murray 1/2/2012 Chennai, India Hard Milos Raonic 1/2/2012 Doha, Qatar Hard Jo Wilfried Tsonga 1/8/2012 Sydney, Australia Hard Jarkko Nieminen 1/8/2012 Auckland, New Zealand Hard David Ferrer 1/16/2012 Australian Open Hard Novak Djokovic 1/30/2012 Montpellier, France [...]
Performance enhancing drugs and procedures have been in professional sports for quite some time. Over the past few years it has become a focal point in American football, baseball cycling, and track & field. There is no question athletes over the past 10-15 years have had the benefit of better [...]
