This has been a really engaging Roland Garros, which has featured the welcome emergence of new faces at the business end of a Grand Slam. Ernests Gulbis, love him or hate him, is a character and his tennis this week has been terrific. Gulbis produced his best performance of the week, tournament and year to…
We are getting to the business end of the 2014 French Open and I am already starting to think about the grass court season starting NEXT WEEK! On day 9, Rafael Nadal cruised past Dusan Lajovic for the loss of just four games to set up a quarter-final showdown with David Ferrer, a rematch of…
This isn’t shaping up to be a particularly rewarding tournament for some of the ATP next generation as Grigor Dimitrov followed Kei Nishikori on an early plane home with a first round exit. Dimitrov was beaten by Ivo Karlovic in straight sets. Dr. Ivo made the final in Dusseldorf so was in good form; however…
After a week full of surprises and some really excellent matches, it’s come down once again to Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. This will be Nadal and Djokovic’s 12th ATP Masters 1000 final. Their routes through the draw have been trickier than most Masters 1000 tournaments. Djokovic has been taken to three sets in his…
Quarter-finals day in Monte-Carlo was a long one with Milos Raonic and Stanislas Wawrinka kicking off the first quarter-final at 10.30am local time and Novak Djokovic and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez finishing off Good Friday’s proceedings at gone 8pm. I can’t remember ever seeing a match in Monte-Carlo being played under the lights. Their schedule starts early,…
Wow. Novak Djokovic produced an exceptional performance to defeat Rafael Nadal in the final of Miami, 6-3 6-3 and complete the rare and impressive Indian Wells – Miami double. This felt like one of the quickest matches in the Nadal-Djokovic rivalry lasting just 1 hour and 23 minutes as Djokovic saved the one break point…
Friday was one of the most bizarre days on the ATP tour as Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic both received walkovers into the Miami final. This was a real blow for fans who had bought tickets for Friday as they saw no singles action! Kei Nishikori, who was scheduled to play Djokovic in the first…
The second semi-final in the mens draw will be decided on Thursday as Alexandr Dolgopolov takes on Tomas Berdych (4-4 at time of writing) and Rafael Nadal plays Milos Raonic. A prediction will be added to this article on Friday morning. In the meantime, here is a preview for the first semi-final between Novak Djokovic…
The quarter-finals in the top half of the Miami mens draw will see Rafael Nadal take on Milos Raonic and Tomas Berdych play Alexandr Dolgopolov. Stanislas Wawrinka was defeated by Dolgopolov in three sets as the Ukranian player continued his rather dazzling recent run of form. In the last two months, he has made the…
The curtain came down on the 2014 BNP Paribas Open with the best match from the whole two weeks as Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer in a third set tiebreak. Here are some of my thoughts on that terrific final and the two weeks in the desert for the men. The Final: Djokovic d. Federer,…
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