Juan Martin Del Potro ended his seven match losing streak against Roger Federer with an excellent performance to take the Basel title in three sets 6-4 6-7 (5) 7-6 (3). An early break in game five was all that Del Potro needed to settle a tight set. He got a little tight [...]
For the full match report, click here: Del Potro vs Federer As It Happened Juan Martin del Potro beat Roger Federer in the Swiss Indoors 2012 final in Basel, winning 6-4 6-7 (5) 7-6 (3). This is the second title in just as many weeks for the Argentine, who has [...]
Roger Federer will take on Juan Martin Del Potro in the Basel final after both players won their respective matches in straight sets. Federer served 10 aces in a 7-5 6-4 victory over Paul-Henri Mathieu, dominating on serve and facing no break points in the whole match. Federer failed to break on his [...]
For the full draw, click here: ATP Paris Masters 2012 Draw Next week sees the final Masters 1000 of the year, the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris is the final tournament before the season ends, except for those participating in the World Tour Finals. This year is the 41st edition of the [...]
Juan Martin Del Potro needed to come from a set down to make the semi finals in Basel, eventually defeating Kevin Anderson 3-6 7-6(3) 6-2 in a hard fought encounter. For much of the match, Anderson was serving massive with 20 aces in total. After an early break point was saved on [...]
ATP Paris Masters Paris, France October 29-November 4, 2012 Surface: Hard Main Draw: 48 E2,427,975 Singles Seeds: (cut: Berlocq 47) 1. Roger Federer (SUI) – WD 2. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 3. Andy Murray (GBR) 4. David Ferrer (ESP) 5. Tomas Berdych (CZE) 6. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 7. Juan Martin Del [...]
Juan Martin Del Potro moves on to the quarter finals in Basel after a fairly comfortable victory over Brian Baker, winning 7-5 6-1. Baker held his own for much of the first set, dropping just three points in his first five service games but was unable to do much on [...]
Juan Martin Del Potro fought through injury troubles to defeat Alejandro Falla in straight sets. The Vienna champion wasn’t at his best but did enough for a 6-4 6-1 victory. After Del Potro missed two break points for a 3-0 lead he was immediately punished for his wastefulness as Falla tied the match [...]
Mikhail Youzhny needed just 56 minutes to see off Bernard Tomic, completely dominating the Australian in 6-0 6-2 victory. An early break set the tone for the match with Youzhny breaking on his third break point. Just eight points were lost by the Russian as he bagelled Tomic in a 23 [...]
The ATP World Tour Finals is the culmination of the tennis season as the final men’s event of the year. Though originally the event didn’t count in terms of a player’s rankings, it is now considered the biggest tournament outside of the four Majors and often determines the year-end No. [...]
Every week at SteveG, we’ll be highlighting some of the best quotes said by players, coaches and more from the world of tennis “Very happy with the title in Vienna. I dedicate it to all mothers, especially mine. Thank you very much for your messages and your support!” Juan Martin [...]
Juan Martin Del Potro took the 12th title of his career, and third on the year (Marseille, Estoril), in Vienna as he defeated Grega Zemlja 7-5 6-3 in 1 hour and 41 minutes. While the victory was never in true danger for Del Potro, his Slovenia opponent did give him early trouble. Zemlja [...]
Slovenian qualifier Grega Zemlja pulled off the biggest victory of his career to date, defeating Janko Tipsarevic from a set down to make the Vienna final 3-6 7-6 (5) 6-2. After a wasteful first set that saw eight break points squandered from Zemlja, Tipsarevic would need just one to take the set. [...]
For the full draw, click here: ATP Basel 2012 Draw The Swiss Indoors is one of two ATP 500 tournaments this week. The tournament has been going for over forty years with the likes of Stefan Edberg, Ivan Lendl, John Mcenroe and Pete Sampras amongst past winners of the tournament. There [...]
