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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1 Comment »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 after [...]
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 »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 »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 [...]
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 a major [...]
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