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Roger Federer of Switzerland reacts after beating Andreas Seppi of Italy at the ATP Qatar Open tennis tournament in Doha January 5, 2012. REUTERS/Mohammed Dabbous (QATAR – Tags: SPORT TENNIS) x We all felt there was something amiss, didn’t we? Defending champ Roger Federer announced that he was withdrawing from the Doha tournament today, addressing [...]
Continue Reading →Photo by QTF/Paul Zimmer via the ATP Happy New Year! 2012 begins today, as does the new tennis season. I love the new year’s holiday for the optimistic, clean slate feeling it brings, whether we’re talking the arbitrary end to holiday indulgences (did I really need to finish that second bottle of champagne last night?) [...]
Continue Reading →On top of the world, and his head. Photo by Paul Zimmer via DavisCup.com Davis Cup finals weekend put Argentina on Spanish clay and Rafael Nadal in his happy place. It was no surprise that it ended in tears for Del Potro & Co., given how passionately they wanted to bring the cup home [...]
Continue Reading →Roger Federer stands triumphant after a stormy season. AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS via Daylife.com Roger Federer won a tight, tense contest against worthy foe Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final match of the ATP season on Sunday, winning the ATP World Tour finals: 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-3. This victory gives Roger a record six year ending [...]
Continue Reading →Michael Regan/Getty Images for Barclays ATP Finals via Daylife It’s Roger again. . .and again. . .and again. . . Sorry if my headline is misleading – it only feels like Federer and Tsonga have played 100 times, given that this is their third meeting in three Sundays and eighth of the season. Roger’s actually [...]
Continue Reading →That’s the way. GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images via Daylife.com Roger Federer admitted to being “a little bit” stunned after routing Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-0 in Tuesday’s round robin match at the World Tour finals. Not as stunned as I was. We all knew he had a great chance, this being the one that favors him most [...]
Continue Reading →Andy Murray feels the pain. . .Photo by REUTERS/Toby Melville via Daylife.com While watching the WTF action unfold this week, GTT contributor Van Sias finds himself worrying about the long term prospects of the ATP’s current Top 3. Serves and Returns: Will the Top Three Be Playing North of 30? By Van Sias Perhaps [...]
Continue Reading →Photo REUTERS/Luke MacGregor via Daylife Nole’s red carpet game is on this week in London (check him and Jelena out at Thursday night’s Barclays ATP World Tour Finals Gala, an event that raised over £400,000 for a children’s charity), but his shoulder problems are shedding doubt on his upcoming on-court performance. The standard line seems [...]
Continue Reading →JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty Images via Daylife Another weekend, another title for Roger Federer. Sigh. . .a FedFan could get used to this! Roger Federer played for his first Paris Masters title on Sunday, which was also his last chance to pick up a Masters 1000 this season. He faced local hero and 2008 Bercy titlist Jo-Wilfried [...]
Continue Reading →Harold Cunningham/Getty Images via Daylife Oh the sweet, sweet taste of a Roger Federer title victory! Or savory, in this case, as he passed out pizza to the ball kids at a tournament where he, himself, used to scamper after balls and towels. It was Kei Nishikori who was scampering after runaway balls today in [...]
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