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ATP Race for No. 1 Between Nadal and Djokovic; Wimbledon News — The Friday Five

June 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Race for No. 1 After a record-setting eighth Roland Garros title, Rafael Nadal has put himself in a prime position to finish as the year-end No. 1 for the second time in his career.  Though Nadal typically doesn’t perform as strongly in the second half of the season as he does in [...]

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History Beckons at Roland Garros, Fairytale Run by David Ferrer — The Friday Four

June 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Vying for No. 2 On Saturday, the top two women’s seeds will be battling each other to try and claim a second title at Roland Garros. Serena’s first title came over ten years ago in 2002, while Sharapova tasted sweet success last year. Serena has a lot more going for her heading [...]

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Caroline Wozniacki’s Fantasy World; Bernard Tomic’s Vicious Cycle — The Friday Five

May 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Fantasy World One of the bigger casualties of Week 1 at the French Open was Caroline Wozniacki, who was dumped out in the second round by Bojana Jovanovski. The sad part is her loss wasn’t even a surprise. Her results this clay court season – and for the better part of the [...]

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WTA Roland Garros Visions: Picks, Predictions, Dark Horses, Winners

May 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment

(May 25, 2013) With Roland Garros officially kicking off on Sunday, the team at Tennis Grandstand has once again come together to provide you a one-stop comprehensive preview of the women’s draw of the season’s second Slam. We’ve covered dark horses, seeded players crashing out early, first round upsets and matches to watch for, and potential [...]

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Andy Roddick’s New Gig; Toni Nadal Stirs Roland Garros Controversy — The Friday Five

May 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Greener Pastures Though Roland Garros has yet to get underway, some of the game’s biggest stars are already dreaming of the green lawns of the All England Club. Both Andy Murray and Juan Martin del Potro suffered major blows when they were forced to withdraw from the French Open. The decision by [...]

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Andy Murray in a Fitness Race as Juan Martin del Potro Visits the Pope — The Friday Five

May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Fitness Race It seems that all of the chatter about Nadal’s seeding for Roland Garros may have been for nothing, as the Spaniard may be guaranteed the No. 4 seed even if he fails to win the title in Rome. Unfortunately, his potential guarantee of a top four seed may come at [...]

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Sloane Stephens Learns Lesson as Laura Robson Flies Free — The Friday Five

May 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Lesson Learned At the start of the week, Sloane Stephens experienced some off court drama in addition to the woes she continues to suffer on court, thanks to the young American’s dumb decision to publicly call out Serena Williams, essentially branding the veteran a phony. Yes, a little bit of honesty is [...]

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Andy Murray Knocks Operation Puerto; Roger Federer’s Basel Woes — The Friday Five

May 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Cover-Up Let the conspiracy theories begin! On Tuesday, Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, the man smack dab in the middle of Operation Puerto, was found guilty of nothing more than endangering public health. He got off with a one-year suspended jail sentence, was banned from practicing medicine, and fined a measly $6,000. In [...]

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Novak Djokovic Steps Up; Roland Garros Debate on Seedings — The Friday Five

April 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Change in the Air It’s still early in the clay court season, but already there’s an increase in the chatter regarding Novak Djokovic’s chances of completing not only a career Grand Slam, but possibly the calendar-year Grand Slam. The reason behind the increased chatter is that he did something that nobody has [...]

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Cautionary Novak Djokovic; Minor Setback for Sam Querrey — The Friday Five

April 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment

By Maud Watson Touch and Go The spring clay court season of the ATP World Tour is set to kick it into high gear next week, but it may not be firing on all cylinders. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic badly sprained his ankle in his winning effort to help lead Serbia to victory over [...]

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