By Tennis Guru on Apr 21, 2009 in Featured, Tennis Feature, Tennis News | 0 Comments
Bad news for Goran Ivanisevic fans out there. The former Wimbledon champion from Croatia was forced to pull out of this week’s Legends Championships Tennis Tournament at the Ritz-Carlton in Grand Cayman due to a lingering knee injury. “I am very disappointed not to be able to play in the Cayman Islands due to the [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 21, 2009 in ATP, Featured | 0 Comments
After winning his fifth straight Monte Carlo Masters title last weekend, world number one Rafael Nadal immediately flew back to his home country for this week’s Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell, an ATP World Tour 500 event which he won for the past four years. The Spaniard has so far compiled a 21-1 win-loss streak in [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 20, 2009 in Tennis Feature, Tennis News | 0 Comments
Former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic is scheduled to take part in this week’s Legends Championships Tennis Tournament at the Ritz-Carlton in Grand Cayman. This event is part of the eight events in this season’s Outback Champions Series. The $150,000 event will have single-elimination format with the champion receiving a $60,000 check. The Outback Champions Series [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 20, 2009 in Tennis News, WTA | 1 Comment
Germany’s Sabine Lisicki proved that her victory over second-seed Venus Williams during the earlier rounds of the Family Circle Cup was no fluke when she made it all the way to the final round and to the title itself when she dispatched Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki in two sets (6-4, 7-6). The world number 63 also [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 20, 2009 in Tennis Feature | 1 Comment
It’s official. World number six Andy Roddick became the second player in the world’s top ten to get hitched. Last weekend, 26-year old Roddick married 21-year old Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker in Austin, Texas – where Roddick is based. According to People magazine, the event was attended by the couple’s closest friends and [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 20, 2009 in Tennis News, WTA | 0 Comments
Italian player Roberta Vinci clinched her second career WTA tour title by winning the Barcelona Open title last weekend. The 61st-ranked player defeated defending champion Maria Kirilenko of Russia in two sets (6-0, 6-4). Vinci came from a heartbreaking quarterfinals loss in Marbella last week wherein she pushed top-seed and eventual winner Jelena Jankovic to [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 20, 2009 in ATP, Featured, Tennis News | 0 Comments
World number one Rafael Nadal once again gave us a preview on how he will fare this claycourt season by winning the Monte Carlo Masters title for the fifth straight time, a feat that’s going to be hard to match in the years to come. The Spaniard defeated Novak Djokovic of Serbia in three thrilling [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 16, 2009 in Featured, Tennis Feature, Tennis News | 1 Comment
The nominees of this year’s Laureus World Sports Awards have been announced and as expected, most of the players that got the nod were those who performed well at the Beijing Olympics held last year. “This has been a great year for sport and the Academy are going to find it extremely difficult to decide [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 16, 2009 in FED Cup, Tennis News, WTA | 1 Comment
The FED Cup World Group Semifinals, World Group Play-offs and World Group II Play-offs will take place on April 25 to 26 and the players nominated to play for their respective countries have been revealed on Tuesday. Noticeably absent in the World Group competitions are Maria Sharapova (Russia), who’s still nursing a shoulder injury, Nicole [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 16, 2009 in Featured, Tennis Feature, WTA | 0 Comments
After Serena Williams announced her withdrawal from the Family Circle Cup this week, it became inevitable that she’ll be stepping down from the top spot in next week’s WTA rankings. As the defending champion of the claycourt event, the American is set to lose significant ranking points thus making it possible for Russian world number [...]
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