Tomas Berdych was booed off Hisense Arena in an extraordinary ending to his 4th round match with Nicolas Almagro. Berdych managed to win a tight match, 4-6 7-6 7-6 7-6 but towards the end of the match, he took offence when Almagro launched a ball at him. Almagro was quick to apologise and you could…
Fernando Verdasco The match of the day on the men’s side was no doubt the second match on the Rod Laver Arena as Bernard Tomic produced a stirring comeback to beat Fernando Verdasco, 4-6 6-7 6-4 6-2 7-5. Tomic looked visibly stunned that had he managed to beat the colourful looking Verdasco and later described…
Following on from my predictions for the top 10 in the WTA, here is my predictions for ATP top 10 at the end of 2012. I found this one much more difficult… The season-ending ATP top 10 of 2012 Novak Djokovic 1. Novak Djokovic – I’m going with Djokovic to stay at world number one…
This is the first of a series of blog entries previewing the 2012 tennis season, which is fast approaching 🙂 To start with, I thought I would have a go at predicting the finalists of next years Grand Slams! I am probably going to embarrass myself, but I thought it would be nice to look…
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga qualified for the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finals with a 7-6 4-6 6-3 victory over Rafael Nadal. It was one of the best matches of the week and although I thought the quality dipped at times, it was an intriguing encounter and very watchable. The first set saw no breaks of…
Roger Federer produced an incredible performance to beat Rafael Nadal, 6-3 6-0 and cement his place in the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finals. Federer made the breakthrough at 2-2 in the first set where he raised his game producing one sweet forehand and secured the break on an epic rally. Federer continued to…
The top eight players will square off in the final tournament of the year at the ATP Tour Finals on Sunday. Group A consists of Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych and David Ferrer. Djokovic has had an incredible year, but has been showing the effects of it in the last couple of weeks. I…
Now that the women’s season has come to an end, I will be switching my attention to the finale on the men’s tour, which once again will take place at the O2 in London. The draw for the top eight, which features Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, Roger Federer, David Ferrer, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Tomas…
Novak Djokovic won his third major of the year after beating Rafael Nadal, 6-2 6-4 6-7 6-1 in a fantastic final. Both players were engaged in some truly terrific baseline tussles with many marathon games; one highlight in particular was the third game of the second set where Djokovic came through an epic 18 minute…
WomensThe semi-final line-up was completed yesterday and will see Maria Sharapova take on Vera Zvonareva and Andrea Petkovic play Jelena Jankovic. Sharapova eased past her quarter-final with Sam Stosur, 6-3 6-2 as she continued her dominating head-to-head record over Stosur. Zvonareva had a much tougher match as she beat Daniela Hantuchova, 6-3 7-6. The second…
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