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Novak Djokovic broke yesterday Rafael Nadal‘s 37-match winning streak on clay (including 13 consecutive wins) in the Mutua Madrid Open final. It is Nadal’s second longest winning streak on clay and the sixth longest in the Open era on this … Continue reading
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Two former Top 10 players made their comebacks after long injury breaks. Tommy Haas (former No. 2) played in Munich (only in doubles) his first tournament for 14 months. It’s his second such a long break (did not play a … Continue reading
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Rafael Nadal won his match No. 500 two days ago, defeating in the Barcelona semifinal Ivan Dodig 6-3, 6-2. The Spaniard has joined the elite group of 36 players (Nadal is 37th) to win at least 500 singles matches in … Continue reading
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Only one tournament this week, but a big one, in Barcelona. The Monte Carlo champion and No. 1 in the world, Rafael Nadal [1] came back to the tournament after a one year absence. The Spaniard won the tournament in … Continue reading
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25-year-old Nicolas Almagro beat Nikolay Davydenko 7-6(2), 6-3 today in Barcelona (third round). Davydenko led 5:2* in the 1st set, but was able to win only two points in the following three games. Almagro thanks to this win advances to … Continue reading
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# In the picture Guillermo Vilas at the US Open 1977 and Rafael Nadal during the Monte Carlo final 2011 Rafael Nadal in 2006 overcame a record which belonged 29 years (!) to Guillermo Vilas of the most consecutive wins … Continue reading
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It is the first week of the clay-court season which is going to the end in June (after the Roland Garros final). In the meantime, there won’t be any tournament on a different surface than clay. In Casablanca unexpectedly triumphed … Continue reading
Rainer Schuettler [87], the oldest player in the Top 100 (almost 35 years) lost his first round match in Houston to a 15 years younger opponent – Grigor Dimitrov [70] 0-6, 2-6. It’s not the most lopsided defeat in career … Continue reading
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Here is a statistical summary of the first quarter of the season. I will make three similar posts: before Wimbledon ’11, at the end of August, and at the end of the season in December. The first quarter of the … Continue reading
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Novak Djokovic [2] has the best start of the year of any player since 1986. The Serb has won 24 consecutive matches to start the 2011 year, the last man who won more matches in the first few months of … Continue reading
