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AP Photo/Nousha Salimi It was the weekend of cool tennis trophies! Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer won the very impressive dhow (sailboat) and jambiya (dagger) trophies at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships this Saturday. You miffed Fed fans out there may find comfort in the fact that Roger’s runner’s up trophy is every bit [...]
Continue Reading →AP Photo/Mark Humphrey via Daylife Pretty crazy how well Canadian tennis has been doing this year: three Canadians in three finals this weekend, all in Memphis. Though he lost to Andy Roddick in the men’s final, Milos Raonic is set to break into the top 40 after his recent efforts, becoming the highest ranked Canadian [...]
Continue Reading →AP Photo/Paul Sakuma via Daylife We enjoyed a great bunch of finals this weekend, as the tour rolls on after Australia. Young Canadian, Milos Raonic, made waves last month with his fourth round (plus qualifying) effort Down Under. He’s shown not only the talent, but the maturity, of a proverbial Real Deal. He made good [...]
Continue Reading →Behold, this weekend’s champions. For the first time in the 84-year history of what is now known as the Farmers Classic in Los Angeles, both the singles (Querrey) and doubles (Bryan Bros) champions were successful in defending their titles. Sam Querrey beat Andy Murray 5-7, 7-6, 6-3 in Sunday’s final. He saved a match point [...]
Continue Reading →Like that old saw about happy hour – it’s always the clay court season somewhere. The tours rolled on the red stuff this past week, crowning four singles champions. It was a bad luck for the hometown hopes – all three players playing in the final of their home country’s tournaments lost. Hungarian player Agnes [...]
Continue Reading →Just a quick wrap today: Justine Henin was defeated on the terre battue of Roland Garros for the first time since 2004 on Monday, falling in three sets to Sam Stosur: 2-6, 6-1, 4-6. “I just wanted so much that the adventure could keep going,” Justine said afterwards, though she insisted that her loss was [...]
Continue Reading →Miami’s Sony Ericsson Open Kick-Off Party on Tuesday night featured ATP and WTA stars and the music of Pharrell Williams and N.E.R.D. Let’s take a look. Or maybe not! Ack! Caroline! If Agnieszka is really such a great friend of yours, how could she let you leave the hotel in that dress? Flashback!!!! (Not Caro’s [...]
Continue Reading →Indian Wells is getting woozy. Big wins, puzzling losses, falling seeds, big match hangovers. Makes me glad I’m not a betting woman. Here’s a quick report on Wednesday’s action at Indian Wells. Grrr. Marcos Baghdatis failed to follow up his career best win over Roger Federer, losing to Tommy Robredo 5-7, 6-0, 4-6 in his [...]
Continue Reading →Let’s start with the obvious: Scary good and Especially Relentless against Stosur Everyone else (including Justine) has No chance to win the Australian Open AND: Free to Experiment with his plan D Even Hewitt Realized that the match was an Entertaining Recreation for Roger Disagree? Consider this an acrostic smack down. Roger Federer probably won’t [...]
Continue Reading →Sveta played a late night match on Friday, getting past Angelique Kerber in three close sets. Gotta love that game face. . . Now onto Day Six Down Under, which was notable for retirements, withdrawals and old fashioned beat-downs. The men didn’t get to four-sets until Tsonga and Haas played the last match on Hisense. [...]
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