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Spain’s Davis Cup team players Rafael Nadal (L) and Fernando Verdasco address a news conference in Charleroi March 1, 2011. Spain will face Belgium during their Davis Cup World Group 1st round match from Friday till Sunday. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM – Tags: SPORT TENNIS) I’d be seriously remiss if I let the weekend go by [...]
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 →onMobil ATP Open tennis tournament at Khalifa Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha, Qatar, 08 January 2011. Federer won 6-3 and 6-4. EPA/STRINGER fotoglif879025 Stockholm, Basel, London, and now Doha – Roger Federer’s won four of his last five (non-exhibition) tournaments, bridging the 2010/2011 off-season in vintage super Fed style. This is Fed’s 67th ATP [...]
Continue Reading →Hey everyone, it’s Van again, back with this week’s Serve and Returns feature. Thanks for the responses to the first “Serve” about Roger and Rafa. This week, since we’re smack dab in the middle of the World Tour Finals, I figured I’d take a look at a couple of their compadres there, Andy Murray and [...]
Continue Reading →34-year-old Carlos Moya announced his retirement from the ATP tour earlier this week, citing a complicated foot injury as the main reason. The French Open champ and first world number one from Spain was honored in the O2 arena at the opening day of the World Tour Finals, with the tournament’s stars standing by and [...]
Continue Reading →Well, we have our winner in Bercy, and he’s a good, old fashioned Swedish indoor hardcourt player. It’s nice to see someone overcome by their first ever Masters victory, especially when they’re a two-time Major finalist and a typically unimpressed-by-it-all kind of ice man like Robin Soderling. One of the big stories developing in Paris [...]
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 →We’re getting into the juicy red center of the tournament. I’m still chewing on Roger Federer’s quarterfinal loss to Tomas Berdych. You know, bitter pills, sour grapes, crap pies and all that. . .I was actually comforted by commentary from Mary Carillo and John McEnroe Wednesday on NBC (geeze, has it come to that?) – [...]
Continue Reading →Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images via Yahoo Sports Rafael Nadal completed his charge on Roland Garros to regain his title and hoist the Coupe de Mousquetaires for the fifth time in his young career. He beat two time finalist Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Vamos! Rafa won the match without being broken. He took the [...]
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