By Tennis Guru on Apr 13, 2011 in French Open, Roland Garros, Tennis Feature | 0 Comments
There was a significant increase in prize money at the 2010 edition of Roland Garros | French Open tennis tournament. The breakdown of the Roland Garros 2010 prize money can be accessed HERE. It is expected that the French Open 2011 Roland Garros Tennis Prize Money will be higher than €16,807,400 and the announcement will [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 13, 2011 in ATP, Featured, Monte Carlo Masters, Rafael Nadal, Tennis News | 0 Comments
World number one Rafael Nadal believes that the Monte Carlo Masters, an ATP 1000 event, should be a mandatory tournament in the men’s ATP World Tour calendar. The Monte Carlo Masters is one of the nine ATP World Tour 1000 events on tour but it wasn’t tagged as mandatory. One of the oldest tennis events, [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 13, 2011 in ATP, Monte Carlo Masters, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Tennis News | 0 Comments
World number one Rafael Nadal has the most number of ranking points to defend this claycourt season – after all, he made a historic feat last year when he swept the Monte Carlo Masters, Rome Masters, Madrid Masters and Roland Garros titles. Though he wants to achieve the same feat this year, he realistically said [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 13, 2011 in Tennis News | 0 Comments
The International Management Group (IMG) and Taiwanese organizers announced that a series of tennis exhibition matches will take place in Taiwan later this year in a bid to boost local interest in the game. World number one Rafael Nadal of Spain will face compatriot David Ferrer on October 1. A week prior to this highly [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 13, 2011 in ATP, Monte Carlo Masters, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Tennis News | 1 Comment
World number three Roger Federer believes that current top-ranked player Rafael Nadal is capable of repeating the 2010 claycourt season feat where the latter swept Monte Carlo Masters, Rome Masters, Madrid Masters and Roland Garros titles. “It’s always a tough surface to try to dominate—except if you’re Rafa—let’s put it that way. I guess it [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 13, 2011 in Featured, Serena Williams, Tennis News | 0 Comments
Tennis superstar Serena Williams has tweeted today that she’s back on tennis courts after suffering a serious of health problems. The 13-time Grand Slam singles champion was photographed wearing a full-body pink suit as she practiced. The 29-year old has not played an official match since winning the Wimbledon 2010 tournament last year after cutting [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 9, 2011 in ATP, Monte Carlo Masters, watch online tennis | 0 Comments
The first of the three ATP 1000 claycourt tournaments begins this week in Monaco. The ATP World Tour Monte Carlo Rolex Masters 2011 features the world’s best male tennis players competing for a large share of the multimillion cash prize money plus 1000 ranking points. Six-time defending champion Rafael Nadal heads the talented field and [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 4, 2011 in ATP, Featured, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Sony Ericsson Open | 4 Comments
Tennis fans who trooped to watch the Sony Ericsson Open 2011 Men’s Singles Final match between world number one Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic were not disappointed as the world’s top two players battled hard for the Miami Masters 2011 title in three tight sets. In the end it was Djokovic who prevailed 4-6,6-3,7-6. Djokovic [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 4, 2011 in ATP, watch online tennis | 0 Comments
The ATP Grand Prix Hassan II 2011, a claycourt tournament played annually in Casablanca, Morocco, takes place this week with Spain’s Albert Montanes leading the field. The 2007 finalist will be joined by 2008 winner Gilles Simon and last year’s finalist Victor Hanescu among others. This ATP 250 event has produced two Moroccan champions. They [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 4, 2011 in ATP, watch online tennis | 0 Comments
The ATP US Men’s Claycourt Championship 2011 takes place this week in Houston. The top seed of this claycourt event is new American number one Mardy Fish, thanks to his semifinal finish last week in Miami, he debuts this week with a world ranking that’s higher than good friend Andy Roddick. Fish is familiar with [...]