After a Grand Slam Tournament, taking a moment to pay homage to the champions certainly has merit. All the singles and doubles champions deserve our respect. In the world of sport, there are few events that pose the intensity of a two-week grind through the Grand Slam draw.
To thoroughly enjoy the accomplishment of [...]
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On Sunday afternoon, Stade Roland Garros rocked with the enthusiasm afforded the 1927 Mousquetaires as the Champion fell to his knees and shed tears of accomplishment. Roger Federer is the 2009 winner of the revered Coupe des Mousquetaires and no man on the planet deserves it more. At every moment of his unparalleled [...]
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A composed and focused Svetlana Kuznetsova added a well deserved 2009 French Open title and the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen to her 2004 U.S. Open title. The fierce 23-year old parlayed a powerful forehand with a devastating backhand to capture her second Grand Slam and leave the forlorn top seed Muscovite, Dinara Safina, grasping for [...]
Wow! Two of the most emotionally grueling and physically demanding comebacks in French Open history played out to overflow crowds in the 2009 semifinals at Roland Garros. The charged gallery put its tennis mood on early and wore it passionately through two 3 hour 30 minute matches.
First, Sweden’s Nadal conqueror, Robin Soderling, bested [...]
Top-seeded Dinara Safina has played the favorite’s role to perfection. An impressive run of matches now puts the flu-ridden Safina in the finals against 7th seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova. Safina’s straight-set 6-3, 6-3 triumph over diminutive Slovakian upstart Dominika Cibulkova did little to unseat the husky Russian as the favorite to win her first [...]
Can it be? Rafa the Great, the Invincible One, has lost a match at the French Open ! Robin Soderling played the best tennis of his life and out-muscled the game’s biggest muscle man 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 7-6 (2).
In a three hour thirty minute thriller, the Swede Soderling powered crisp, penetrating forehand [...]
What may have been a carefully scheduled therapeutic tennis tournament is suddenly a Grand Slam event that Russian tennis hottie Maria Sharapova can win. Sharapova may be recuperating from right shoulder surgery, but she still has an overpowering will to win that overrides the rust of her extended layoff.
The rust was evident in the [...]
Posted in French Open 2009 Tags: Elena Dementieva, Jelena Dokic, Kazmanian, Maria Sharapova, Yaroslava Shvedova No Comments »Unbelievable! 21-year old, 29th seeded Agnes Szavay, Hungary’s top player, crushed third seeded Venus Williams early on Day 6 at Stade Roland Garros. The sporty candidate for best-dressed did what Lucie Safarova failed to do, keeping her composure and pouncing on every opportunity to end the elder Williams sister’s clay court dream. In what appeared [...]
The French and the famed Terre Battue of Roland Garros have something going on in Paris. Especially the French men! Seven, count that, seven Frenchmen have moved to Round Three. To the delight of the excited home crowds and tournament organizers, French superstars Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the ninth seed, and Gael Monfils, the [...]
Posted in French Open 2009 Tags: American Robert Kendrick, Andy Murray, Andy Roddick, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon, Jo Wilfried Tsonga, Josselin Ouanna, Juan Martin Del Porto, Juan Monaco, Lleyton Hewitt, Marat Safin, Novak Djokovic, Paris, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Roland Garros, Terre Battue, Victor Crivoi No Comments »Crowd Applauds Dokic
If you know tennis, you know Jelena Dokic. The tennis tour is filled with players who worked their way up through the ranks. The WTA is filled with women who put everything aside to hone their game. Some of these players rise to the top while others labor on backcourts [...]
When Day Four at Roland Garros began, three of the game’s hottest babes were on the court. Not surprisingly, the Paris stands were brimming with the prospects for great tennis and stunning eye-candy.
India’s doubles starlet, Sania Mirza, Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic, the overlooked reigning French Champion and Russian comeback beauty and former world number one, [...]
Posted in French Open 2009 Tags: Ana Ivanovic, Anastassiya Yakimova, Chia Jund Chuang, Court Suzanne Lenglen, Dinara Safina, Fernando Verdasco, Ipek Senmoglu, Maria Sharapova, Nadia Petrova, Phillipe Chartier Center Court, Roland Garros, Sania Mirza, Tamarine Tanasugam, Yanina Wickmayer No Comments »Women’s Singles Serena stumbled but got back on her feet just in time on Day Three. The top seeds and game’s biggest names moved on but the unexpected difficulties suffered by the younger Williams may be just an omen of what is ahead at Roland Garros.
27-year old Czech cutie and regular first [...]
With a few players yet to be heard from, the game’s biggest names continue to move along in Paris. Rafa, Roger, Andy Murray and Andy Roddick advanced with ease. Number 7, Gilles Simon, rode just enough local support to survive a five set war against the USA’s Wayne Odesnik and the crowds at [...]
That wonderfully unpredictable Grand Slam is upon us. The one where the points go on and on and the games last forever, where tempers and patience wear thin and where the intensity of the competition gets very personal. The French would have it no other way!
The Men’s Draw
The Men’s Draw for Roland Garros [...]
If ever the time was right for Dinara Safina, this is it. In Paris, the stage is set for the top-ranked female player in the world to break the ice and master a Grand Slam tournament. At 23 years of age and with seven years of professional experience, the husky Russian brunette needs [...]
