Roger Federer has been beaten 3 times this year by Novak Djokovic, but so far in the French Open semifinals, it’s all Federer. Novak Djokovic had only lost 10 sets this year coming into the match, but he trails the greatest tennis player of all-time 7-6, 4-2. It looks bleak for the Novak Djokovic. Roger [...]
Lethargic at times and brooding at others, Andy Murray worked his way into the French Open quarterfinals by coming back to beat Victor Troicki 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 on Tuesday in a match that started a day earlier. The 3-time Grand Slam runner-up won the final five games of the fifth set despite injuring [...]
Forced to sum up Manchester United’s season in one word, you’d probably go for something like: “relentless.” There is little left to divert them from a record 19th Premier League title, but the cups are a different matter. West Ham and Manchester City have already put paid to the club’s domestic ambitions and now Schalke [...]
Six-time defending champion Rafael Nadal reached the Monte Carlo Masters final, defeating Andy Murray 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 on Saturday. World number one Rafael Nadal remains on course for a 7thsuccessive Monte Carlo Masters title after coming through a stiff test against Britain’s Andy Murray in the semi-finals. Rafael Nadal won 6-4 2-6 6-1 in just [...]
Rafael Nadal, World number one reached the semifinals of the $9 million WTA and ATP Masters tournament on Thursday by beating Tomas Berdych 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Nadal clinched the victory over the Czech by winning the final eight points of the 2 hour, 17 minute match on centre court. The win sets up a semifinal [...]
Juan Martin del Potro, at 6-feet-6, and Robin Soderling, at 6-4, are big men, and both have windups on their forehand side that send a tennis ball across the net like a ballistic missile. Juan Martin del Potro stormed further down his comeback path Sunday, the unseeded Argentinian stunning fourth seed Robin Soderling 6-3, 6-2 [...]