Cause for concern has been created within the tennis community after an intruder invaded the court during the French Open 2009 final match. In a match which saw Roger Federer go on to equal Pete Sampras’ record of 14 Grand Slam titles, one person nearly ruined the occasion by running over to Federer and throwing [...]
Throughout his storied career, and especially over the past three years, Roger Federer possessed feet of clay in the men’s singles final of the French Open.
The second-best claycourt performer in the latter half of this decade showed a manifest ability to play for championships on the terre battue of Paris, but the Swiss legend could [...]
The 2009 French Open men’s singles final offers a surprising matchup, but anyone who’s watched the first 14 days of the 15-day event at Roland Garros would find it hard ignore the notion that Robin Soderling should be the man standing in the way of Roger Federer’s path to an added measure of tennis immortality.
Federer, [...]
It’s one of the cruelest aspects of professional sports: On some days, the nature of an event simply won’t allow the winner to gain a deserved amount of praise. Such was the scene in Paris on another disappointing final Saturday at the French Open.
Every year, the occasion of the women’s singles final at Court Philippe [...]
