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American tennis players Mardy Fish and John Isner fire back at Ivan Ljubicic Twitter comment

May 12, 2012 By 1 Comment

By Romana Cvitkovic The tennis world went into overdrive Saturday afternoon as Ivan Ljubicic tweeted a comment targeted at American tennis players supposedly skipping the European tournaments. Americans John Isner and Mardy Fish quickly fought back on Twitter with Fish almost immediately deleting his tweet after he sent it. Of all the tennis players looking [...]

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Ugly loss for Rafael Nadal; mixed reviews of Madrid’s blue clay — The Friday Five

May 11, 2012 By 1 Comment

By Maud Watson Ugly Loss For the first time in 14 attempts, Fernando Verdasco defeated his compatriot Rafael Nadal, handing Nadal one of his earliest defeats in a clay court tournament. Some credit has to be given to Verdasco. He played some good ball, especially in the opening set, and unlike in their previous encounters, [...]

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Rafael Nadal: If I lose it’s not because of the courts

May 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Lisa-Marie Burrows Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid – Popstars draw people into their concerts, football teams have supporters cheering them on and Rafael Nadal draws in the crowd at La Caja Mágica – and there were few seats left in the giant Manolo Santana stadium whilst the ‘King of Clay’ was playing against Nikolay Davydenko. [...]

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Dolgopolov talks about life, fun and football

May 8, 2012 By 2 Comments

By Lisa-Marie Burrows Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid – After a busy day on court with a singles match win and a defeat in his doubles match with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, world No.20 Alexandr Dolgopolov was kind enough to have a chat with Tennis Grandstand about how he relishes the sport he lives, his lack of passion [...]

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Sharapova slides her way into the third round in Madrid

May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid – Maria Sharapova was the first to open up play at La Caja Mágica on Tuesday and ousted Klara Zakopalova in straight sets 6-4, 6-3 to progress comfortably into the third round. Throughout the match the Russian No.2 seed showed her all-court brilliance during their encounter and despite admitting in the [...]

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