A day after the unseeded Israeli team of Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich overcame the reigning Olympic champions, Roger Federer and Stanislaw Wawrinka of Switzerland in three sets, they were back on court to take on the ATP’s number one ranked pair from America, the Bryan twins, Bob and Mike. [...]
Federer* v Del Potro. Sets 1-1 19-17 GAME, SET, MATCH! Roger misses the first match point with an easy volley, but holds his nerve and a couple of points later, he raises his hands to the heaven in celebration 18-17 BREAK! Federer strikes again, he will get another chance to [...]
In a March 2011 Tennis magazine article, Tom Perrotta asserted, “In tennis, technique is vastly overrated.” That will go down as the six most foolish words ever written in tennis history. They will also prove the most damaging to any inexperienced players who believe them. Technique alone does not make [...]
Juan Martin del Potro secured a place in the Olympic semi finals today, after a straight sets win over Japan’s Kei Nishikori. Seeded 15th, Nishikori looked strong at points during the encounter but was unable to conjure up the sparkling form that saw him knock out Spain’s David Ferrer in [...]
John Isner was always going to be a tough nut to crack and he proved his worth against the world no.1 on Centre Court today. Roger Federer eventually triumphed in straight sets, but it took a nervous tie-break to separate the two players in the second. The tenth seeded American [...]
Federer v Isner 6-4 7-6 (2-3) GAME, SET, MATCH: FEDERER 6-6 (7-5): A stunning first serve from Federer and it’s match point. Isner serves but the return from Federer trickles over the net to give the Swiss player the win. The first thing Federer does is give his opponent an [...]
After being seriously tested in the third round by Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, UK hopeful and third seed Andy Murray made easy work of his quarterfinal opponent. Ranked no. 12 in the world, Nicolas Almagro had not dropped a set in the tournament thus far and was the only Spaniard [...]
The Swiss team of Roger Federer and Stanislaw Wawrinka took on the Israeli team of Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich in the second round of doubles competition at Wimbledon today, after their match was postponed yesterday due to bad weather. Neither Federer nor Wawrinka, the sixth seeds at these Olympics, [...]
Fresh off his clean win against Julien Benneteau in his second round match, world no. 1 Roger Federer looked poised to repeat his performance against Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan. The Swiss set the pace early and rushed to a 3-0 in the first set. Looking as if things were firmly [...]
Tennis returned to Olympics in the 1988 Seoul Olympics after a gap of 64 years as it was left out after the 1924 Paris Olympics. Miloslav Mecir won the Gold Medal in singles and Steffi Graf grabbed the women’s singles title in Seoul. There have been a number of huge [...]
2012 ATP Aces, through week of June 25, 2012 Position Player Aces Matches 1 Raonic, Milos 533 35 2 Isner, John 477 34 3 Anderson, Kevin 379 34 4 Federer, Roger 361 45 5 Almagro, Nicolas 354 50 6 Berdych, Tomas 353 46 7 Tipsarevic, Janko 326 43 8 Tsonga, [...]
2012 ATP Aces, through week of July 16, 2012 Position Player Aces Matches 1 Raonic, Milos 609 39 2 Isner, John 580 40 3 Almagro, Nicolas 454 57 4 Federer, Roger 432 52 5 Anderson, Kevin 399 35 6 Tipsarevic, Janko 390 50 7 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried 386 47 8 Kohlschreiber, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
