Dinara Safina must be ruing the day her brother talked compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova out of quitting tennis. Newly crowed queen of Roland Garros Kuznetsova has revealed how Marat Safin, brother of beaten finalist Safina, talked her out of quitting tennis after she became disillusioned with the sport.
Former women’s number one Safin helped talk Kuznetsova round [...]
Novak Djokovic is making a habit out of losing the opening set against Roger Federer. For most people, that would be a problem, but for the 21-year-old Serb with ample reserves of self-belief, it’s only a reason to fight even harder.
For the second time in the past month, Djokovic felled Federer in a Masters 1000 [...]
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 lefty [...]
Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic faced difficult draws on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Rome Masters, but these two members of the ATP Tour’s “Big Four” managed to dismiss opponents seeded sixth and fifth, respectively. Nadal eased past Fernando Verdasco, 6-3, 6-3, while Djokovic clocked Juan Martin del Potro, 6-3, 6-4. After dueling for [...]
