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A holder of a weak 1-6 record lately, Robin Haase [42] is well adjusted to the hight altitude – in Kitzbuhel (800 m), as a defending champion, he won his second career title. Just like a year before, he got … Continue reading
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In the Wimbledon doubles third round, Arnaud Clement (alongside Michael Llodra) played his last professional match. The 34-year-old Frenchman failed his qualifying attempt to play once again in the Wimbledon’s main draw in singles. His entire career was quite balanced … Continue reading
It was an amazing and one of the most memorable Wimbledons ever: first major without net-judges, plenty of astonishing upsets of a different caliber, farewell of two-time champion Stefan Edberg, birth of “Henmania”, Cliff Richard’s concert a cappella during a … Continue reading
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German Tennis Championships lost its prestige in 2009 when the tournament moved in the calendar from May to July with a changed status from ‘Masters 1000’ to ‘500 ATP World Tour’, also the draw was cut then from 56 to 48. … Continue reading
The tournament of a great hope for the American tennis: Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe were seeded with two highest numbers, and one of them was expected to get the first title for the United States since 1955. Both left-handed … Continue reading
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The only week in the year with four tournaments. After four weeks on grass, many players returned to European clay-courts to take an advantage of a lack of the best players in the world to improve their ranking positions. Janko … Continue reading
It was a reminiscence of Roland Garros 1990 when 30-year-old Andres Gomez, known for many years as one of the best players, unexpectedly won a major title. Eight years later in Melbourne, Petr Korda [7] was 30-year-old too, he had … Continue reading
(3)Roger Federer d. (4)Andy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 [3:24 h] After four consecutive Djokovic-Nadal finals, fortunately some refreshing change, but only in some sense because Federer and Murray had already played … Continue reading
2nd semifinal: (4)Andy Murray d. (5)Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 [2:47 h] Not facing one out of three giants of the modern game in a … Continue reading
Roger Federer and Andy Murray, just like last year were designated to play their matches on Centre Court, even the order was the same, first Federer, then Murray. Before the quarterfinals, the Scot said: “A lot of people have said … Continue reading
