After Roger Federer defeated Andy Murray in the Wimbledon final four weeks ago, he empathized with Murray, who faced immense pressure from the British media and public to win a Grand Slam title. “I could understand what he was going through,” said Federer. “I know. I’ve been there. But I [...]
Even before the dust had settled on Centre Court’s worn out baseline after Andy Murray’s historic Olympic victory, speculation began on his chances at the U.S. Open coming up later this month. But perhaps it’s best for the tennis world to savor and spend at least few minutes reflecting on [...]
After playing in what he has described as “the greatest match of my life” against Roger Federer to win Olympic Gold yesterday afternoon, Andy Murray isn’t willing to trade in his medal for a Grand Slam win, even that ever-elusive Wimbledon Singles title. Often described as the greatest player never [...]
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 [...]
ATP Finals 2012 Live: Novak Djokovic vs Juan Martin Del Potro Live Commentary ATP Finals 2012 Roger Federer vs Andy Murray Live Commentary ATP Finals 2012 FEDERER v MURRAY – Sets 0-3 Murray wins Gold Please refresh this page every minute or so for latest score updates… 4-6 [...]
Live Commentary of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals 2012 semis here: Djokovic vs Del Potro Live ATP Finals 2012 Federer vs Murray Live ATP Finals 2012 DJOKOVIC – DEL POTRO 5-7 4-6 5-7 4-6 MATCH DEL POTRO! The Argentine goes 15-30 down, but with some brilliant serves [...]
The Citi Open is an ATP and WTA concurrent tournament held at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center (outdoor – hard court) at Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. USA. The WTA singles semi-finals were contested on 3 August 2012. In the first match, number one seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) [...]
Sam Querrey of the USA continued his current impressive form to beat the tournaments third seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa. Querrey, seeded number eight, had a struggle to get through his first round against Russia’s Andreev, but has beaten some good opposition since, without dropping a set. The big [...]
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 [...]
Five time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams crashed out of the 2012 London Olympic Tennis tournament as seventh seed Angelique Kerber of Germany won in straight sets to progress to the Quarter Finals. Williams was broke as early as the second game but managed to break back in the eighth to [...]
At Wimbledon on Wednesday, eighth seed in the Men’s Olympic Tennis tournament, Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro faced twelfth seed Gilles Simon of France for a place in the last eight. Del Potro had enjoyed a fairly comfortable route through to the third round of the competition, having not dropped [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What is more treasured: a Grand Slam title or an Olympics gold medal? When tennis returned to the Olympic Games as a medal sport in 1988 after a 64-year hiatus, even posing this question was unimaginable. Cynics and critics, including the esteemed writer-broadcaster Bud Collins, then contended tennis didn’t need [...]
