Although tennis fans and players are currently focused on London with the tennis double-whammy of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships and the London Olympics, come August there will be one tournament that players and fans alike will be clamouring to get to – The US Open. Held in the magnificent Arthur [...]
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Novak Djokovic battled his way into the quarterfinal of the Rome Tennis Masters after he came back from a set down against Argentine Juan Monaco, winning 4-6 6-2 6-3. The Serbian was going into the match with a 5-0 head to head record against Monaco, having won their last encounter [...]
Argentine Juan Martin del Potro became the first player to reach the semifinals of the Mutua Madrid Open after eliminating Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-3 6-4 in just under 1 hour and 30 minutes. The fast blue clay at this year’s tournament suits both player’s games and alth0ugh Delpo was being [...]
Following his shock 6-3 3-6 7-5 defeat to Verdasco in the third round of the 2012 Madrid Open, the player considered to be the world’s greatest on clay courts is threatening to boycott competing at the tournament next year. Citing the tournament’s new bright blue clay courts as a primary [...]
The Swiss maestro Roger Federer eased into the quarterfinals of the Madrin Open with a 6-3 6-2 victory over France’s Richard Gasquet. Federer was tested yesterday by Canadian Milos Raonic, who took him to three sets, only losing in the tiebreak of the decider. Today’s match proved to be a [...]
Italy’s Andreas Seppi captured his second career title after he beat Benoit Paire of France 6-3 6-2 in the Serbia Open final. It was the first tour final for Paire, who started the match with an early break. But Seppi managed to break back right away and the Frenchman’s unforced [...]
No.2 seed Spaniard Feliciano Lopez moved into the BMW Open semifinals after defeating Australian Bernard Tomic 6-4 6-2. Lopez serve was working perfectly today and with 14 aces fired, the Spaniard got his revenge for the 2011 Australian Open second round defeat against Tomic. In Saturday’s semis, Lopez will face [...]
German wild card holder Tommy Haas advanced into the BMW Open semifinals after beating 8th seed Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus in straight sets 6-1 7-6 (3). The German former world no.2 carries on delighting his home fans this week and there were moments, when he wasn’t that far off the [...]
Two times Bucharest champion Gilles Simon of France secured his spot in Saturday’s semifinals after he defeated Poland’s Lukasz Kubot 3-6 6-1 6-3. First seed Simon converted 6 out of 15 break points and after a slow start he took control of the match, winning in 2 hours and 13 [...]
World no.2 Rafael Nadal of Spain is aiming to lift his seventh trophy at the Barcelona Open this year. And he has got just one step closer after he improved his match record at this tournament to 31-1 as he beat the Colombian qualifier Robert Farah 6-2 6-3. Nadal’s next [...]
Italian Flavio Cipolla surprisingly beat the second-seeded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-4 6-1 in the second round of the Grand Prix Hassan II tennis tournament in Casablanca. Cipolla will play Benoit Paire in the quarterfinals, who fought back against the German Matthias Bachinger, winning in three sets 6-7 (3) 6-3 6-2. [...]
Oh boy, he is was so close to winning it! And not once, but three times he got into the final of a Grand Slam tournament, but that’s not good enough to become immortal. In those three finals (2008 US Open, 2010 and 2011 Australian Open) it seemed that he [...]
Since Djokovic’s Australian open victory there has been a lot of media attention as to whether he can become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four major titles at the same time. The fact that Federer, and subsequently Nadal (who had a chance to do [...]
