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Happy Birthday Roger Federer!

August 8, 2009 By 5 Comments

Happy Birthday Roger Federer! The six-time Wimbledon champion – and new father – turns 28 Saturday, August 8 and will play his first tournament since his epic win over Andy Roddick in the Wimbledon final from July 5 this week in Montreal.

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Novak Djokovic Takes Home Shanghai Crown

November 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Novak Djokovic defeated Nikolay Davydenko in a thrilling match at the Masters Cup in Shanghai. Novak Djokovic closes a very succesful season and takes home a $978.000 check.

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Shanghai – Thursday & Friday

November 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Match between this year’s Australian Open finalists, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Novak Djokovic, was completely irrelevant for the rest of the tournament, because Djokovic had secured 1st place in the group on Tuesday and Tsonga hadn’t had any chance to qualify to the semifinals.

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Federer falls to Murray, Simon in semis

November 14, 2008 By 1 Comment

Gilles Simon is often referred to as “Simple Simon” due to his style of play that is far from flashy but rock-solid and almost always mistake-free. And after all of that complicated analysis of who could make the Masters Cup semifinals and how, it turned out to be, well, simple.

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Shanghai – Tuesday & Wednesday

November 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment

In the match between two young guns who participate in Masters Cup for the first time, Juan Martin del Potro ousted Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in two tie-break sets (7:4, 7:5) after 1 hour 51 minutes. Both sets had very similar process – Del Potro was leading 2:0, Tsonga got back on level terms at 2:2. In the first tie-break Tsonga was leading 3:1 but hit forehand wide from comfortable position and moment later Del Potro was 5:3 up and finished the set with two service winners.

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Federer controls own destiny at Masters Cup

November 12, 2008 By 4 Comments

Only at the Masters Cup can someone else’s match be more important than a player’s own match. And that is exactly the case with Gilles Simon heading into the last stage of round-robin play in the red group on Friday.

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SHANGHAI – Sunday & Monday

November 11, 2008 By 1 Comment

Novak Djokovic lost all three matches in stright sets last year at Masters Cup but this time began the tournament much more better, defeating Masters Cup youngest and tallest player and debutant as well, Juan Martin del Potro 7-5 6-3.

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A Painful Defeat For Stanislas Wawrinka

October 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Stanislas Wawrinka suffered the most painful (6-3 6-7 6-7) defeat of the year at the hands of German qualifier Benjamin Becker and practically lost chances to book his place at the Masters Cup in Shanghai. Wawrinka couldn’t handle the pressure playing in front of the home crowd.

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Mardy Fish Sails To Next

October 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Igor Andreev has noticed aecond defeat in two weeks time after wasting match point. The Russian was leading on return 5:4 (40-0) in the third set against Gilles Simon, who also saved another, fourth match point after very long rally.

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Marat Safin Beats Defending Champion Nikolay Davydenko

October 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Moscow-born player Marat Safin ousted the defending champion Nikolay Davydenko 7-6(5) 4-6 6-4 after 2 hours 28 minutes. Davydenko was serving to win the first set at 6:5 and was two points away from taking the set in the tie-break.

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