It was the last successful major event of two great veterans: 31-year-old Ivan Lendl [3] and 39-year-old Jimmy Connors [174]. Both reached the semifinals overcoming an astonishing road to the last 4. The former, never a crowd-favorite, didn’t receive too … Continue reading
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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
