Wimbledon distinguishes itself from other majors, inter alia as the only event, in which the 4th round is played during one day, it happens due to day-off on the first Sunday of the tournament. Amazing match, and very untypical for … Continue reading
Unfortunately rain again reminded itself on Friday, three second-round matches were concluded, but 5 out of 8 three-round encounters were suspended to Saturday… Two youngest players on the tour, Ryan Harrison [122] and Bernard Tomic [158] played five-setters (2nd round) … Continue reading
Rain interrupted matches a couple times. One of the rain-breaks helped Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [19] to avoid a 5-set match against Grigor Dimitrov [62]. When the match was resumed in the 4th set, Tsonga saved a break point at 0:3 and … Continue reading
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There was an amazing doubles battle on court No. 6 where Colombians, Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah faced so-called “Indo-Pak express”, consisted of Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (seeded No. 4). The Colombians served 15 times to stay in … Continue reading
Today’s matches started more than three hours later than had been scheduled due to rain. Despite this inconvenience, only one match has been postponed to tomorrow (Del Potro-O.Rochus 6-7…) because all second round matches in the top half of the … Continue reading
Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic began their title quest with straight sets victories. If they meet each other in the semifinal, they will make a first pair in the Open era to play in four consecutive majors! Federer has already … Continue reading
There was no rain at Wimbledon last year, just for the sixth time in history of the oldest tournament in tennis (it happened also in 1931, 1976, 1977, 1993, 1995), but the rain fell down as early as on the … Continue reading
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s’Hertogenbosch. I didn’t expect that Dmitry Tursunov [70] would win another tournament in his career. The 28-year-old Russian in a consequence of a severe left ankle injury, dropped at No. 719 last year, and the last two seasons was drifting … Continue reading
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The first quarter of the season, which symbolically ended on April 4, was dominated by Novak Djokovic. The Serb maintained his extraordinary form in the second quarter, however, it was the quarter of Rafael Nadal too; Djokovic won two big … Continue reading
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In the 44-year-old open history of the tournament at Queens Club, just for the third time the final was played on Monday due to bad weather (heavy rain); previously it happened in 1979 & 1987. A local favorite, Andy Murray … Continue reading
