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From the monthly archives: May 2009
Maria Sharapova returned to professional singles competition for the first time in nine months today at the Warsaw Open, beating Tathiana Garbin in a hard fought three sets: 6-1, 6-7(6), 6-3. Here are some highlights and interview from the WTA. It’s great to see Miss Shriek-apova back! And according to tennisreporters.net, the shoulder is holding [...]
Continue Reading →Rafael Nadal had some interesting things to say after losing to Roger Federer in the final of the Madrid Open on Sunday. Here’s a short courtside interview. He elaborated in Marca (my so-so translation from Spanish). On his hopes to play Federer at Roland Garros: “In Paris, we’ll see who makes it to the end. [...]
Continue Reading →Roger Federer showed off a revised game plan against Rafael Nadal in Sunday’s Madrid Open final. He played with more agression and fewer nerves, served great and took his chances when they came. After the match, Federer revealed that he’s tweaked his mental strategy as well: Interviewer: Two things stood out today. Nadal ordinarily keeps [...]
Continue Reading →Wimbledon celebrated its new Centre Court roof on Sunday with exhibition matches featuring Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Tim Henman and Kim Clijsters. (Andy Murray also made a surprise appearance.) Besides the God-awful musical entertainment (not helped by Tennis Channel’s equally bad audio quality) the day was a great success – to me, anyway. Not Roger [...]
Continue Reading →Indulge me for a second: Roger Federer beat Rafael Nadal today in straight sets, on clay, in Spain! He won his first title since October, 2008 and his first Masters shield since Cincinnati, 2007! YES! YES! and YESSSSSSS! Phew! Now that my Fedophile freak-out is over, here are some musings on Sunday’s Federer vs. Nadal [...]
Continue Reading →Big thanks to GTT reader Eimear for passing along this fab BBC video from today’s A Centre Court Celebration from Wimbledon. Andy Murray made a surprise appearance at the event, which featured Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Tim Henman and Kim Clijsters playing under Centre Court’s new roof. What luck, it even rained! “No pressure, Andy!” [...]
Continue Reading →2009 AUSTRIAN OPEN KITZBUHEL TENNIS TV SCHEDULE World No. 11 Nikolay Davydenko is the highest-ranked player at the Interwetten Austrian Open Kitzbühel, which the ATP Board approved to host a clay-court tournament in 2009 in place of Pörtschach. Davydenko captured his third Austrian title in four years last year, beating 2007 champion Juan Monaco in [...]
Continue Reading →2009 WARSAW OPEN TV SCHEDULE Warsaw, Poland May 18-23, 2009 Premier Prize Money: $600,000 Draw: 32M/32Q/16D Surface: Red Clay/Outdoors Tournament Director: Stefan Makarczyk Official Website: www.warsawopen.com.pl ……..……..……..……..……..……..……..……..……..……..… *Tennis Channel’s broadcast is very limited and they are only showing the semi’s and the final. Only other option to catch some of the match would be via [...]
Continue Reading →4 hours, 3 sets, and Novak Djokovic comes this close to beating Rafael Nadal on clay. Awesome stuff, but you still have to wonder: if it’s this hard to win two sets from Rafa, how can anyone win best of five? Here are the highlights if you somehow missed the match: Roger Federer enjoyed a [...]
Continue Reading →Rafael Nadal enjoyed an impressive 6-4, 7-5 victory over Fernando Verdasco in the Madrid Open quarterfinals on Friday. Verdasco played well for most of the second set, forcing Rafa to fight his way out of a double break deficit. The comeback was inevitable – I’m sure even Verdasco knew, deep down, that Rafa wasn’t going [...]
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