Newly ordained world number 2, Novak Djokovic will hope that form holds as he battles a field of 31 including the tour’s hottest player Nikolay Davydenko in Rotterdam this week. The $1.5 million ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament kicks off its 36th championship today. Last year’s finalists, Andy Murray and Rafa Nadal, are still licking [...]
The 2010 Australian Open, much like the 2009 edition of the event, will be remembered in a very simple way: It witnessed the continued dominance of tennis’s greatest modern-day champions.
As Roger Federer keeps winning Grand Slam matches, the history of tennis will continuously be rewritten. Most professionals play for numbers that deal with money; for a champion like Federer, the meaningful numbers can be found in the milestones he attains each time he steps on court. Federer made more record-keepers and stat geeks happy [...]
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. [...]
Robin Soderling, once in command of his French Open men’s singles semifinal against Fernando Gonzalez, had to feel that the world was crashing down on his slumping shoulders as a Friday afternoon grew late in Paris. After two hours of dominant play, Soderling had attained a two-set lead against his Chilean challenger, but as soon [...]
Two weeks ago, Rafael Nadal won his fifth straight Monte Carlo championship, a feat unequaled in tennis history. Over the weekend at the Foro Italico tennis complex, this 22-year-old Mallorcan attained another one-of-a-kind accomplishment in a career that is already rewriting the record books. Nadal is not a graybeard in his sport, but the lethal [...]
What is it like to witness a dominant champion operating at the top of his game? From 2004 through 2007, Roger Federer dominated on grass and hardcourts at a level rarely seen in the history of tennis. Today, Rafael Nadal’s conquests of clay represent the most awesome displays of excellence in a sport that’s anything [...]
Gambling is one of the many pleasures to be found in the destination city of Monte Carlo. Saturday afternoon at the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters, a king and a joker found a winning hand, and a ticket to Sunday’s championship match. The king, of course, is Rafael Nadal. The current master of men’s tennis and [...]
The 2008 finals of the World Team Tennis championships were held in Georgia this past weekend, with Sir Elton’s team evening the series at 8-8 with a win over Billy Jean King’s team. The real winner was Elton’s AID Foundation and the Atlanta AID’s Partnership which received over $400,000 in donations. For more than 28 [...]
