The final Grand Slam of 2014 for the men will be contested between Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic. SERIOUSLY. This will be the first Grand Slam final since the 2005 Australian Open not to feature one of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic or Murray. It’s also the first Grand Slam final since the 2002 French Open…
Kei Nishikori reached his first Grand Slam semi-final. Not surprising. Kei Nishikori won back-to-back five setters. Very surprising. On Wednesday morning, Nishikori came from two sets to one down to defeat Milos Raonic, 4-6 7-6(4) 6-7(6) 7-5 6-4 in four hours and 19 minutes. Nishikori followed that up with another huge win in the quarter-finals…
Gael Monfils recovered from a mini-meltdown at the end of the second set to record another straight sets win, this time over Grigor Dimitrov, 7-5 7-6(6) 7-5. Dimitrov had set points in the second set tiebreak, but faltered on several key points. He then double faulted on match point. It was a disappointing performance from…
The biggest upset of the men’s tournament saw David Ferrer go out in four sets to Gilles Simon, who played a great match. Every now and then, Simon seems to come alive. He did it against Rafael Nadal in Rome and I remember a great match he played at the US Open against Juan Martin…
There is a possibility that there could be a final in Birmingham between Zhang Shuai and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova. For a premier event, this would be pretty staggering. Queens has also seen a number of notable upsets and the number two seed, Tomas Berdych joined the list of casualties from the ATP 250 event. Berdych…
Martin Klizan caused the biggest upset of the tournament so far as he knocked out Kei Nishikori on a wet and miserable start to day 2 proceedings at Roland Garros. After a tight first set, which Nishikori served for at 5-4, Klizan powered through the next two sets as it became very obvious that Kei…
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…
The entry list for Eastbourne was released today with Richard Gasquet, Alexandr Dolgopolov, Feliciano Lopez, Gilles Simon, Andreas Seppi and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez all present. The line-up is about the same quality as last year. It’s good to see Dominic Thiem commit to the event, although he is currently four places outside of the main draw.…
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…
By virtue of his three set loss to Kei Nishikori, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was eliminated from the race to the World Tour Finals at the O2. I’m sad for the Frenchman, but I think it is for the best because he was obviously struggling with his knee, which has ravaged the second half of his season. …
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