Weekend Results
In a weekend of startling upsets, the final French player retired after just one set while 3rd seeded Andy Murray was eliminated and 2nd seeded Venus Williams suffered an unexpected setback in the women’s division.
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Bedeviled by Devilder: Wawrinka wobbles, but survives first-round scare
Stanislas Wawrinka can’t continue to play with fire. On Monday afternoon in the first round of the French Open, a gifted player toyed with disaster before waking up in time to live another day. Wawrinka faced a devilishly tricky opponent in France’s Nicolas Devilder, but amidst the heat of battle on a sun-baked day in [...]
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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 [...]
Sizing up the semifinals: Three heavyweights and a Swiss guy
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Stan the Man: Wawrinka tops Federer to shake up Monte Carlo
No champion tennis player ever wants to lose a match, but if a man of Roger Federer’s stature could ever accept defeat between the painted lines, he would want to bow out of a non-Grand Slam tournament against a close friend and countryman. On Thursday, that very scenario unfolded at the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters, [...]