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Posted by Leigh Sanders on March 17, 2010 · 1 Comment
Serbian Novak Djokovic and the big Croat Ivan Ljubicic take to the court Wednesday once more to do battle in the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open ATP Masters 1000 tournament at Indian Wells.
It is the fifth time the two will duel over the net and the second this year, [...]
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Posted by Leigh Sanders on March 9, 2010 · 1 Comment
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for British tennis, they do. In fact the situation has become so comical even the genius minds of the Monty Python crew would have been hard-pressed to come up with this.
Carry On Tennis, it should be called.
“Great Britain suffer humiliating Davis Cup defeat” scream the BBC.
“Dan [...]
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Posted by Leigh Sanders on March 4, 2010 · 1 Comment
While the cameras may have been focused on Dubai and Acapulco last week as the two largest tournaments taking place on the ATP Circuit, a (not-so) little Latvian was making history on the courts of Delray Beach in the United States.
The 6 foot, 3 inch, 21-year-old was in scintillating form and didn’t drop a set [...]
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Posted by Leigh Sanders on February 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Phew! After the monumental flopping of a majority of the Spanish players I had talked up in my pre-Aussie Open blog what a relief it was to see Sam Querrey and John Isner performing so well at Memphis last week following on from my next big American blog.
My thinking has been on great champions once [...]
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Posted by Leigh Sanders on February 18, 2010 · 1 Comment
With the opening 2010 tournaments being held on American soil, the spotlight shines on one of the world’s most successful tennis playing nations.
For many years, Americans have dominated the sport. From the days of Bill Tilden to the modern era of Pete Sampras, Americans are never far from your thoughts when it comes to one [...]
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Posted by Leigh Sanders on February 11, 2010 · 1 Comment
As the dust settles and the tears dry following Roger Federer’s whitewashing of Andy Murray in Melbourne the ATP marches on.
Last week saw ATP 250 Tournaments held in Zagreb, Croatia, Johannesburg, South Africa and Santiago, Chile. It is testament to the worldwide appeal that tennis holds so strongly.
The giant Marin Cilic took his home title [...]
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Posted by Leigh Sanders on February 4, 2010 · 2 Comments
This year’s Australian Open highlighted once more the stagnant pool of young teenage starlets whose careers have significantly flattened out since hitting the dizzy heights of the women’s game at a young age.
Unfortunately, it was the usual suspects as always. Maria Sharapova, Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic; they all crashed out to supposedly lesser opposition once [...]
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Posted by Leigh Sanders on January 27, 2010 · 1 Comment
The other day, I was sitting in my living room in the UK periodically listening to what sounded like an exasperated woman exhaustingly felling a great oak tree.
Weird, no trees in this part of the city.
I opened the window, looked up and down the street. I’m not imagining it; I can still hear the grunts [...]
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Posted by Leigh Sanders on January 18, 2010 · 1 Comment
The 2010 tennis season is now getting in to full swing with the first Slam of the year, the Australian Open, underway in Melbourne this week.
The usual names are being touted for Grand Slam glory this year but question marks are being placed over the head of Spanish giant Rafael Nadal after his injury ravaged [...]
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Posted by Leigh Sanders on January 7, 2010 · 1 Comment
Andy Murray has ended weeks of speculation by confirming he has pulled out of Great Britain’s Davis Cup match against Lithuania in March as they begin life in the competition’s third tier. Murray claimed that he would prefer to concentrate on his efforts to lift more Masters Event trophies and break his Grand Slam duck.
Captain [...]
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