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It’s an untypical week in the tennis season because two ‘500’ finals were played on Saturday. The 20th edition of the Dubai Duty Free gathered delicious players, there were 8 out of the 10 best guys in the world (the … Continue reading
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Below you see a copy of my article (with necessary corrections), I wrote before the US Open 2011, and placed it on my blog as a page. This year I added two new pages (’12-season & Olympics), in regard of … Continue reading
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It was a weird week because ‘250’ tournaments had stronger draw than ‘500’ tournament in Memphis #. Regions Morgan Keegan Championships have a valuable tradition, held since 1977 with many champions who were Nos. 1 in the world, in recent … Continue reading
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I have counted all ATP tournaments, the World Team Cup matches and dead rubbers in the Davis Cup. Obviously this stats would look a bit otherwise if I included tie-breaks in the 5th set and 3rd set tie-breaks on lower … Continue reading
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The 29-year-old Jose Acasuso announces his retirement this week in Buenos Aires. Chucho’s career has been basically finished since 2009 when he suffered a severe knee injury, in the last two seasons he played barely four ATP tournaments and dropped … Continue reading
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Rotterdam – the first “500” tournament of the year: after a few editions the color of court has been changed from orange to green. The second significant change in comparison to previous seasons – the Dutch spectators had an occasion to … Continue reading
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Because of last week’s USA’s stunning victory in the Davis Cup first round (over Switzerland), I thought that I’d prepare a stats considering the best players in the Open era by countries reminding the American force in the historical context. … Continue reading
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The most beleaguered players in January (Djokovic, Nadal & Murray) are tired and skipped the first weekend of the Davis Cup 2012. Interestingly, all ties in the World Group were held indoors (three of them on clay). Although Murray didn’t … Continue reading
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European indoor swing has begun with tournaments in Zagreb and Montpellier (first edition in 2010, last year wasn’t held, this week replaced a tournament in Johannesburg). Mikhail “Colonel” Youzhny [39] after many years on the tour has finally modified his … Continue reading
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Their epic Australian Open final broke two records: the longest match in Melbourne and the longest Grand Slam final. What a perfect timing to create such a battle during 30th meeting of these two modern gladiators. Although Djokovic has won … Continue reading
