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 the [...]
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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 Grand Slam [...]
The lower half of the men’s draw gave the French plenty of nationalism and a stunning upset in Round Four. The bookmaker’s second choice, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, made his usual quiet Grand Slam exit and French rock stars Gael Monfil’s (11) and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (9) won convincingly before impassioned, full house galleries. Monfils was particularly [...]
Posted in French Open History Tags: Aleksandra Wozniack, Ana Ivanovic, Andy Roddick, Australian Open, Christophe Rochus, Elena Dementieva, Fernando Verdasco, Gael Monfil, Igor Andreev, Jamila Groth, Jelena Jankovc, Jeremy Chardy, Jo Wilfried Tsonga, Juan-Marin Del Porto, Jurgen Melzer, Nikolay Davydenko, Novak Djokovic, Paul-Henri Matthieu, Phillip Kohlschreiber, Tommy Haas, Tommy Robredo, Victoria Azarenka No Comments »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 »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 or on [...]
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 round Grand [...]
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 Roland Garros [...]
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