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Chardy, Tomic, Baghdatis through to the second round in Toronto
Bernard Tomic of Australia was able to overcome qualifier Michael Berrer in the first round of Toronto Masters. The 19 years old needed three sets and just over two hours to get through to the next round, winning 6-3 3-6 6-3. Tomic saved 5 out of 6 break points on [...]
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Toronto Masters Draw Preview and Analysis
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 [...]
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Bob and Mike Bryan win the Olympic doubles title
America was given a double reason to celebrate today when the Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, triumphed this afternoon over Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfred Tsonga to win their first ever Olympic gold medal to add to Serena Williams’ singles gold medal. At this time, the Williams sisters are still playing [...]
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Bryan Brothers to play against Tsonga/Llodra for Olympic gold
Both men’s doubles semi final matches were played at Wimbledon under sunny skies yesterday. In the first match, the number one seeded Bryans twins from America, Bob and Mike, took another step closer to their first Olympic gold medal, when they were victorious over the French team of Julian Benneteau [...]
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Federer vs Del Potro Live Commentary @ Olympics 2012
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 [...]
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The Great Importance of Topnotch Technique Today
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 [...]
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Tsonga/Llodra to face Ferrer/Lopez in the Olympic semis
The Spanish team of David Ferrer and Feliciano Lopez took to the court to battle out a semifinal place at the Olympics against Marin Cilic and Ivan Dodig of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the third of the quarter final doubles matches at Wimbledon on Thursday. In the end, the Spaniards [...]
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Olympic second seed Novak Djokovic through to the Semi-Final
Thursday saw the men’s singles Olympic Quarter Finals take place at Wimbledon and one of the most eagerly anticipated matches saw fifth seed Jo-Wilfred Tsonga of France take on second seed and former Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia. Djokovic had been taken to three sets in the first round [...]
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Djokovic – Tsonga 2012 Olympics Live Commentary
Djokovic v Tsonga 6-1 7-5 FINAL Tsonga probably won’t be watching any replays of that second set but it was a very efficient display from the Serbian who looks to have raised his level for the latter stages of this competition. Too many errors in all from the Frenchman but [...]
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Murray Defeats Almagro in Olympic QFs, Storms into Semis
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 [...]
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Olympics: Tsonga Brushes Aside Fatigue and Defeats Feliciano Lopez to Reach QFs
After Tsonga’s marathon match in R2 against Milos Raonic yesterday, which he won 25-23 in the deciding set, tennis observers would have been well-justified to suspect that Tsonga would not be able to withstand the pressure of another match against a formidable, if not always consistent, opponent in Feliciano [...]
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Djokovic comes back from a set down against Hewitt, books an Olympic QF place
World no.2 Novak Djokovic came back from a set down to defeat former world no.1 Lleyton Hewitt of Australia, beating him 4-6 7-5 6-1 and booking a quarterfinal place at the 2012 London Olympics. With this win, the Serb improved his head to head record against Hewitt to 7-1 and [...]
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Djokovic – Hewitt 2012 Olympics Live Commentary
Djokovic v Hewitt: 4-6 7-5 6-1 RESULT Always a strong battle from Lleyton Hewitt so a good win for the world no2 but he wasn’t too happy with the surface again and the wind certainly caused him a few problems. Up next for him? Either Feliciano Lopez or Jo-Wilfred Tsonga [...]
