1. Kei Nishikori v David Ferrer (AO, R4) The pick of the fourth round matches from the top half of the men’s draw will be a tenth career match between Kei Nishikori and David Ferrer. Nishikori defeated Steve Johnson, 6-7(7) 6-1 6-2 6-3 in the third round. Nishikori finished the match in excellent form, raising…
Andy Murray confirmed his place at the World Tour Finals with a routine victory over Grigor Dimitrov, 6-3 6-3. The race for the O2 continues to hot up; it seems Kei Nishikori and Tomas Berdych need just one more victory to officially confirm their places in London. Andrew Moss (@mossoire) on Twitter is the best…
There were upsets aplenty in Shanghai on Wednesday with the bottom half of the draw looking rather bare in terms of seeds. None of the surprises were particularly surprising; Rafael Nadal lost in straight sets to Feliciano Lopez, but it was revealed yesterday that he has appendicitis. Kei Nishikori lost to Jack Sock, but has…
In the TFF DreamTeam game, Wild Briar Village is the current leader in the Moo’s Tennis Blog league. This isn’t good news because that’s my brother. HannonShane is in second place followed by Caskett in third place. This will probably have changed if you’re checking the leaderboard now! I’ve had a solid start in the…
It always takes me a few days to get over Wimbledon as it marks the end of my favourite stretch of the tennis calendar. It felt a good time to take a week off from blogging although I couldn’t help myself following the live scores! The two things I took away from last week; the…
The two mens quarter-finals on Tuesday were both wrapped up in straight sets as Novak Djokovic and Ernests Gulbis set up an enticing semi-final for Friday. I was surprised that Gulbis won, but more so in the scoreline, a 6-3 6-2 6-4 cruise past Tomas Berdych. Djokovic was too solid for Milos Raonic as he…
Some matches deserve a special post and MY GOD, THIS WAS ONE! Kei Nishikori needed ten match points to defeat David Ferrer in a magnificent semi-final in Madrid that was just five minutes shy of the three hour mark. It was the best match of the week by a country mile and one of the…
Rafael Nadal is through to the semi-finals, but the second place from group A is still up for grabs with Stanislas Wawrinka and Tomas Berdych still in contention. 1. David Ferrer v Stanislas Wawrinka David Ferrer Stanislas Wawrinka came close, but still came out of an excellent round robin match against Rafael Nadal without…
1. Rafael Nadal v Stanislas Wawrinka (Group A) Stanislas Wawrinka The two winners from the first matches in Group A, Rafael Nadal and Stanislas Wawrinka will square off in Wednesday afternoon’s match at the O2. Wawrinka won his first ever match at the ATP World Tour Finals with a competent 6-3 6-7(0) 6-3 victory over…
I had a very enjoyable afternoon at the O2 and got to see Stanislas Wawrinka beat Tomas Berdych, 6-3 6-7(0) 6-3 in his first ever World Tour Finals match. I’ll put together a little post with a few blurry pictures of my experiences today. All in all, that was a great first day and I…
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