The Rogers Cup in Toronto last week was certainly an opportunity for those who showed up there with the withdrawals of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and several other top men who competed in the Olympics the week before. But if someone was going to be a surprise finalist, I’m sure [...]
ATP Winston Salem Winston Salem, U.S.A. August 20-25, 2012 Surface: Hard Main Draw: 48 $553,125 Singles Seeds: (cut: Darcis 75) 1. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 2. Tomas Berdych (CZE) 3. John Isner (USA) 4. Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) 5. Andy Roddick (USA) 6. Marcel Granollers (ESP) 7. Sam Querrey (USA) 8. Julien [...]
Click Here for Cincinnati Main Draw At the time of writing, the Cincinnati draw has not been hit as much as Toronto, with only Rafael Nadal and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga the absentees from the top ten. However, it would be very surprising if there were no more before the [...]
Richard Gasquet and Mardy Fish enter the 2012 Toronto Masters quarterfinals after beating Tomas Berdych and Juan Monaco respectively. Fourth seed Czech Berdych has reached three Toronto quarterfinals in his career, but was stopped in the third round this year, losing a two-set match against 14th-seeded French Gasquet. Berdych started [...]
At the French Open, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic contested their fourth major final in a row, seemingly set to battle each other for supremacy for some time to come. Fast forward two months and not only is Roger Federer Wimbledon champion and number one, but Andy Murray has an [...]
ATP Cincinnati Masters Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A August 13-19, 2012 Surface: Hard Main Draw: 56 $2,825,280 Singles Seeds: (cut: Haas – 50) 1. Roger Federer (SUI) 2. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 3. Andy Murray (GBR) 4. David Ferrer (ESP) 5. Tomas Berdych (CZE) 6. Juan Del Potro (ARG) 7. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) [...]
Seeded players Juan Monaco, Mardy Fish, Richard Gasquet, and Tomas Berdych are through to the third round of 2012 Toronto Rogers Cup. 7th seed Argentine Monaco defeated domestic player Vasek Pospisil and entered the second round of Toronto for the first time. In a bizarre first set, Monaco gave away [...]
Back in 2000, when Tommy Haas picked up a silver medal at the Sydney Olympics in the Mens Singles as a 22 year old, after a five set defeat to Yevgeny Kafelnikov, he would definitely have not been expecting to be disappointed to not even make London 2012 at a [...]
For Full Draw Click Here: Toronto Masters Men’s Draw With most tournaments it’s usually a matter of who is playing, but at the Toronto Masters all the talk is about who isn’t playing. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal head a lengthy field of withdrawals from the tournament, with more expected [...]
In a surprisingly straightforward match, Petra Kvitova defeated Italy’s Flavia Pennetta, 6-3 6-0 to reach the QFs, where she will face Maria Kirilenko of Russia. Kvitova won the first set by going up an early break. The former Wimbledon Champion and 2011′s WTA Player of the Year has a hard-hitting [...]
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 [...]
ATP Toronto Masters Toronto, Canada August 6-12, 2012 Surface: Hard Main Draw: 48 $2,648,700 Singles Seeds: (cut: Lacko – 60) 1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2. Andy Murray (GBR) 3. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 4. Tomas Berdych (CZE) 5. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 6. Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) 7. Juan Monaco (ARG) [...]
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, [...]
