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 [...]
Unlike the 2009 French Open final, Robin Soderling played his best tennis on Monday against Roger Federer in the fourth round of Wimbledon. Sadly for the Swede, it didn’t matter one bit. Showing the fabulous form that eluded him against Federer in Paris, Soderling blistered the ball and kept it inside the lines for most [...]
In the eyes of many tennis fans around the world, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is a backward-thinking organization hopelessly attached to an outdated past. The idea that no tennis should be played on the “Middle Sunday” of the Wimbledon fortnight strikes your typical sports nut as absurd. Sunday, after all, is [...]
When Roger Federer won his fourteenth Grand Slam singles title a few weeks ago in Paris, the number one storyline for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships became etched in stone. But as the world’s most prestigious tennis tournament gets set to start in suburban London, the gentlemen’s singles competition now owns a second supreme theme: Life’s [...]
Wherever 17-year-old Simona Halep goes, she becomes the center of attention. This has been happening for a long time. Simona Halep is the overly endowed reigning French Junior Champion who recently competed in the and who is now preparing to compete at Wimbledon.
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. [...]
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 [...]
Whenever tennis fans are hungry, they always get Fed. Once in a while, lovers of this racket sport are given more comfort food than they can possibly comprehend. On an amazing afternoon (and evening) at Roland Garros, a sport gave the world a remarkable two-match display of heart, hustle and higher-than-high drama. At the very [...]
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 [...]
In a span of just under 29 hours of time, Svetlana Kuznetsova has radically reshaped her reputation. Forced to play on back-to-back days by the quirks of the French Open’s scheduling format, Kuznetsova found an extra ounce of will to complement her level of skill. The seventh seed, just one day after outlasting Serena Williams [...]
