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The Spanish Armada was in intimidating form against the Czech Republic this weekend in Barcelona, winning the first three matches of the final and claiming the Davis Cup title for the second year in a row. A strong cocktail of red clay, home crowd and team spirit was just what Rafael Nadal needed to perk [...]
Continue Reading →Photo by REUTERS/Albert Gea (SPAIN) via Daylife.com The Davis Cup draw was released on Thursday, and Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych will be facing off in the first match of this weekend’s final in Barcelona. Here’s the full schedule: Friday, December 4 Rafael Nadal v Tomas Berdych David Ferrer v Radek Stepanek Saturday, December 5 [...]
Continue Reading →Who’s the daddy? After one of those evil twin starts, Big Poppa Federer arrived at the O2 arena on Tuesday evening, spanking Andy Murray in the final two sets of their round robin match at the ATP World Tour Finals: 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 This win improves Roger’s record against his Scottish nemesis to 4-6, and [...]
Continue Reading →The first day of action brought out the WTF in the ATP World Tour Finals. In the first singles match of the tournament, Andy Murray beat Juan Martin Del Potro: 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. As Del Potro was getting gauze stuffed up his nose a la Vera Zvonareva in the first set, I sang to myself: [...]
Continue Reading →Yes! The ATP World Tour Finals can’t start before the requisite Men in Suits photo session. Along with the British press, another overlooked benefit of hosting the ATP World Tour Finals in London is seeing Federer, Nadal and the rest of the top guys in bespoke tailoring (at least I’ll pretend it is.) Here are [...]
Continue Reading →Andy Murray and the Bryan Brothers took part in the draw ceremony for the ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday in a pod of the London Eye Ferris wheel. Here are the round robin groups for the singles and doubles competitions, which run from November 22 – 29: 2009 ATP World Tour Finals Singles Draw: [...]
Continue Reading →Whenever I get excited for quarterfinals day, the matches never live up to my expectations. Friday at the Paris Masters was no exception. I was pulling for either a Nadal vs. Soderling grudge match in the semis or a chance for Tsonga to defend his title. Instead we get Novak Djokovic out-scrapping the Sod and [...]
Continue Reading →A lot of interesting stories continue to develop in Tennis Land, so I thought I’d put them all down in one place: Let’s start with some fun stuff. Reporter Matt Cronin via Twitter: “Sharapova recently began dating the Lakers’ Sasha Vujacic. Now if she can only help “The Machine” get his deadly jump shot back.” [...]
Continue Reading →Another tournament, another excuse to play “tennis” somewhere where tennis should not be played. This time Fernando Verdasco and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga played the “tennis” on Shanghai’s maglev train, the world’s fastest commercial train, which reaches a top speed of 268 miles per hour. We got video, folks. This is what I really love about Verdasco [...]
Continue Reading →The ATP posted this feature on Spanish No. 2, Fernando Verdasco. My favorite line: “Being the center of attention does not bother or upset me.” What a shocker! And then there’s the opener: “Cool, calm and with catwalk charisma, he’s the pinup boy of men’s tennis.” Did Nando write that himself? But once I got [...]
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