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 Chile’s [...]
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 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 11 seed, led [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Oh, those young tennis dollies! They show us promise and steal out hearts. We connect with them. Our loyalty goes unquestioned, even crossing national boundaries. These babes drive us relentlessly as we head to the backcourts where some of these beauties will launch their careers and where others will fade away. We love them. We [...]
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 [...]
Has there ever been a more prohibitive favorite in any Grand Slam event ever than Rafael Nadal is in this year’s French Open? In any sport, ever, has there ever been another 4/11 favorite in a major championship? Nadal has been so dominant and so overwhelming on clay that despite last weekend’s final match 4-6, [...]
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