Week 6 Preview: Costa do Sauipe, Delray Beach, Marseille
Costa do Sauipe (Brasil Open)
Main Draw Singles
Main Draw Doubles
As expected, the only ATP tournament played in Brazil is full of clay court specialists. Carlos Moya comes back to play there after missing it last year; he is the top seed. He has an interesting first round match [...]
Davis Cup Roundup: First Round Day 3, February 10
Russia vs Serbia
As we expected, Novak Djokovic attempted to play for Serbia to keep their hopes alive. Despite Djokovic not being 100% fit, Nikolay Davydenko played even worse and Djokovic was able to build a 2 sets lead and had 3-0 double break in the third set. Davydenko lifted his level of play in [...]
No chance for GB after Andy’s AWOL
This weekend’s Davis Cup tie between Argentina and Great Britain was always going to be difficult. Since that glorious weekend in late September when Tim Henman bowed out of the game after sending his country back into the higher echelons of the competition, Argentina have been looming.
The joy soon turned to a knowing dread that [...]
Davis Cup Draw Ceremony Roundup: February 7
All around the world today, the First Round Davis Cup draw ceremonies were held. Here’s all the important news and photos from around the globe! We won’t bore you with the “who plays whom first” stuff that you can get easily at the Davis Cup website. Instead, here are a few things that we think [...]
Novak Djokovic Wins Australian Open 2008
Serbian tennisplayer Novak Djokovic has won the Australian Open 2008 this Sunday. Djokovic defeated French tournament revelation Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Davis Cup First Round Preview
This weekend, the 2008 Davis Cup competition will get underway with the first round for both the World Group and Zonal Ties.
Davis Cup Anyone?
Time again for the least popular event in tennis. I’m not talking about John McEnroe still trying to argue his way to victory on the senior tour or players we’ve never heard of playing mixed doubles, I’m talking about the David Cup folks. Somebody please explain to me the logic behind this age old international [...]
The Future for Djokovic – Federer
The first Grand Slam tournament of the year is over and Novak Djokovic has now joined the elite group of tennis players to call themselves a Grand Slam champion. He did so in impressive fashion, only dropping one set (in the final) the whole tournament.
His semi final win over Roger Federer in straight sets has [...]
AusOpen: Men’s semi final wrap, final preview
It is fitting that after so much drama in this year’s Australian Open that their should be a surprise line-up for the final stage of the men’s competition. The familiar sight of seeing the two best players in the world (yes, still and by quite a margin) Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal is to be [...]
Australian Open – Halfway Report
Here we are at the half way point of the season’s first Grand Slam, and there have been several moments worth reflecting on. So in no particular order, here are some thoughts and observations.
Most years I find the Aussie Open to be relatively free of major upsets, with the favourites making it to the final [...]
