For Roger Federer and his fellow top tennis players taking the title at Wimbledon this year isn’t enough, they each have their eye on winning Olympic gold on the grass courts of the All England Tennis Club next month. Federer especially is looking forward to adding a medal in Singles [...]
Wednesday 4th July was a big day at Wimbledon. It was mens quater finals day taking 8 men down to 4 for the semifinals on Friday. Briton Andy Murray worked hard and staged an amazing fightback from 1 set and 1 break down against David Ferrer. Murray remained calm despite [...]
Defending champion Novak Djokovic set up a semifinal encounter against Swiss Federer after defeating Florian Mayer of Germany 6-4 6-1 6-4 in today’s Wimbledon quarterfinal. Djokovic is bidding to become the first player to retain his Wimbledon title since Federer managed to do it in 2007. With this victory over [...]
Although he’s missed out on collecting another Wimbledon title this year at the hands of relative unknown Lukas Rosol, Rafael Nadal won’t let his knee injury stand in the way of him fulfilling another Olympic dream. Nadal has confirmed that he is suffering with a form of tendonitis in his [...]
So far the 2012 Wimbledon Championships have brought a lot of shocks and surprises. From the potentially misogynistic remarks of Gilles Simon to the stunning second-round knockout of World number 2 Rafa Nadal, we thought we’d seen it all. What we weren’t prepared for however was the maturity of Andy [...]
World no.1 and defending champion Novak Djokovic didn’t waste too much time on center court today as he raced to a straight sets win over fellow Serbian Viktor Troicki, winning 6-3 6-1 6-3. Troicki started the match with an immediate break, but couldn’t capitalise on it as Djoko stepped up [...]
Week One of Wimbledon 2012 is in the books. Here’s a quick look at some of the stats so far. Tie Breaks: 87 5 Set Matches: 23 Retirements: 5 Walkovers: 0 Seeds into second week: 12 Unseeded into second week: 3 Qualifiers into second week: 1 Wild Cards [...]
After the drama of day 4, and the mammoth performance by Rosol in defeating Nadal it was unlikely that Friday was going to reach such highs, but Wimbledon did not disappoint… Novak Djokovic Def Radek Stepanek 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 The Serb got off to a slow start, but [...]
Wimbledon The Wimbledon fortnight commenced this week with a flurry of matches, and some surprising results. In the women’s singles Venus Williams failed to progress past this first round for only the 2nd time in her career, the first being in 1997 when she was again unseeded, and her début. Venus has [...]
Ernests Gulbis def. Tomas Berdych[6], 7-6(5), 7-6(4), 7-6(4)- Gulbis finally showed that he can compete with the top players, something that the tennis world has been looking forward to seeing. Gulbis can not lose sight of what’s at stake, and for him that’s to reach the 2nd week. After beating [...]
Following the controversy and player backlash that stirred up over the use of smurf-coloured clay at the Madrid Open last month, the ATP has announced this weekend that blue courts will be outlawed in 2013. The bright blue surface, which was only unveiled this year, attracted a wealth of criticism [...]
Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer both won their opening matches at Wimbledon 2012 in straight sets. Djokovic was the first one on center court, and started his title defence against former world no.1 Juan Carlos Ferrero with a 6-3 6-3 6-1 win. The world no.1, who defeated Nadal in last [...]
Following a nervous tie-break in the first round of this year’s French Open, world number one Novak Djokovic would have been forgiven for feeling a tad nervous at the prospect of a tricky first round draw against Juan Carlos Ferrero on Centre Court. But then that coveted world number one [...]
The Boodles Challenge June 19-23, 2012 Stoke Park, Great Britain June 19 2012 Stanislas Wawrinka d. Janko Tipsarevic 1-6 7-6(5) 10-8 Gilles Simon d. Alexandr Dolgopolov 4-6 6-3 10-7 Fernando Verdasco d. Ernests Gulbis 6-7(4) 7-6(5) June 20 2012 Janko Tipsarevic d. Andy Murray 6-7(5) 6-4 10-7 Marin Cilic d. [...]
