One of two grass court tournaments as a final warm up to Wimbledon, the AEGON International in Eastbourne is a fairly new ATP 250 event. Combined with the much older Women’s event, the Men’s event is in its fifth year. Four different players have won the trophy but only Andreas Seppi will [...]
Roger Federer finally won his first title of 2013 in Halle, defeating Mikhail Youzhny in three sets 6-7 6-3 6-4. Given that Federer held a 14-0 record over the Russian in their previous meetings, many expected a straight forward victory but it didn’t quite pan out that way. Federer looked to [...]
The successful recipe that is Wimbledon has a number of key ingredients.Its traditions, its international renown, the quality of its administration, the pristine standard of its grass courts, even its strawberries and cream all combine to make it the premier tournament in the world.To this mix, however, has to be [...]
5 time Gerry Weber Open champion Roger Federer beat Tommy Haas after coming back from a set down to eventually prevail 3-6 6-3 6-4. The German, who beat Federer in last year’s final, started the encounter with a lot of confidence, taking Roger’s serve in the sixth game and paving [...]
Roger Federer will play Tommy Haas in this year’s Gerry Weber semi-finals, a rematch from the last year’s final in which the German prevailed. Federer booked his semis spot with a more than impressive performance, double bageling his opponent Misha Zverev 6-0 6-0, second such an achievement in the Swiss’ [...]
ATP Halle Halle, Germany June 10-16, 2013 Surface: Grass Main Draw: 28 E683,665 Singles Seeds: (cut: Monfils 103) 1. Roger Federer 2. Richard Gasquet 3. Tommy Haas 4. Kei Nishikori 5. Milos Raonic 6. Philipp Kohlschreiber 7. Jerzy Janowicz 8. Florian Mayer First Round (1)Roger Federer (SUI) bye (WC)Cedrik Marcel [...]
David Ferrer vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga French Open 2013 semi-final preview – Court Philippe Chatrier – after Rafael Nadal vs Novak Djokovic With Nadal and Djokovic duking it out in the other side of the draw, this match guarantees a new finalist at Roland Garros. Ferrer has often been seen as [...]
51 year old ex-policeman Rob Peterson is known by many as Tennis’ Marathon Man and the world record holding American is aiming to create some more history in 2013 by hitting one million shots against tennis players of all ages and abilities in one calendar year. This new record attempt [...]
Roger Federer tamely exited from the French Open at the quarter final stage, losing in straight sets to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5 6-3 6-3. It was the first straight sets slam loss against someone outside of “The Big Four” since 2004. Things started well for Federer as he went up a break and [...]
1st Set Federer 6-1 “Sublime Federer too hot to handle for Simon.” Federer, the17-time Grand Slam champion bidding to reach his 36th consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final, looked in great touch with some incredible free flowing tennis in the first set. The Swiss continually put pressure on Simon with his aggressive [...]
David Ferrer and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga claim straight victories to reach quarterfinal stage at French Open 2013. Seed twenty-three Kevin Anderson of South Africa came nowhere close to upsetting last year’s semifinalist Ferrer in today’s fourth round clash on Court Suzanne Lenglen. The Spaniard took the initiative straight away as he [...]
Roger Federer was far from his best but finally came through in a tough five setter, defeating Gilles Simon in five sets 6-1 4-6 2-6 6-2 6-2. When Federer blitzed through the first set for the loss of just one game, it looked like he wouldn’t be around for long but halfway [...]
It was a fairly straight forward day for the Swiss with both Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka winning in straight sets. Federer defeated a slightly injured Julien Benneteau 6-3 6-4 7-5. Benneteau actually struck first, breaking in the opening game of the match but Federer hit back quickly to tie it up at [...]
Marion Bartoli vs Mariana Duque-Marino Court Philippe Chatrier Bartoli fought off match points in an enthralling three hour encounter in round one to knock off Olga Govortsova despite being far from her best. Bartoli’s relationship with the French crowd has always been strange, never getting the support that most other [...]
