By Tennis Guru on Jun 2, 2010 in Featured, French Open, Grand Slam, Robin Soderling, Roger Federer, Tennis News | 0 Comments
Swedish player Robin Soderling achieved a rare feat of beating defending champions of the Roland Garros for the past two years. Last year, he stunned four-time champion Rafael Nadal in the fourth round. This year, he surprised everyone by beating last year’s champion Roger Federer in the quarterfinals on Tuesday 36 63 75 64.
This also [...]
By Tennis Guru on Jun 20, 2009 in Grand Slam, Wimbledon, watch online tennis | 1 Comment
The Championships, Wimbledon 2009 – considered to be the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world, begins on June 22. Defending champion Rafael Nadal has officially confirmed that he won’t be taking part this year. This could be a chance for Roger Federer to reclaim the number one ranking and win his sixth Wimbledon title.
What’s [...]
By Tennis Guru on Jun 10, 2009 in Grand Slam, Wimbledon, watch online tennis | 1 Comment
The Championships, Wimbledon 2009 – considered to be the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world, begins on June 22. Defending champion Rafael Nadal has officially confirmed that he won’t be taking part this year. This could be a chance for Roger Federer to reclaim the number one ranking and win his sixth Wimbledon title.
What’s [...]
By Tennis Guru on Jun 9, 2009 in Featured, Grand Slam, Wimbledon | 1 Comment
The All England Club announced the wild card entries for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. Last year’s juniors singles champions Laura Robson (girls) and Grigor Dimitrov (boys) were among those given direct entries into the main draw.
Here are the rest of the wild card recipients:
Men’s singles:
1. Alex Bogdanovic (GBR)
2. Daniel Evans (GBR)
3. Joshua Goodall (GBR)
4. James [...]
By Tennis Guru on Jun 8, 2009 in Featured, Grand Slam, Tennis News, Wimbledon | 2 Comments
Concerns are mounting whether world number one Rafael Nadal would be fit enough to defend the Wimbledon title following his announcement to pull out of this week’s Queen’s Club tournament (where he’s also the defending champion) due to knee injury.
Despite this, Nadal issued a statement saying that he’s hoping to play in time for Wimbledon, [...]
By Tennis Guru on Jun 7, 2009 in Featured, French Open, Grand Slam, Roger Federer, Tennis News | 0 Comments
The fourth time’s a charm for Roger Federer at the Parisian claycourts where he clinched his record-tying 14th Grand Slam title after beating Sweden’s Robin Soderling at the Roland Garros 2009 final. The score: 6-1, 7-6, 6-4.
Federer had been the tournament runner-up for the past three years, all those times losing to world number one [...]
By Tennis Guru on Jun 7, 2009 in French Open, Grand Slam, Svetlana Kuznetsova | 0 Comments
Russian world number seven Svetlana Kuznetsova won her second career Grand Slam title in Paris on Saturday, beating top-seed compatriot Dinara Safina in two sets 6-4, 6-2. It also ended Safina’s fantastic 16-match winning streak on clay which saw her claim titles at Rome, Madrid and a finals finish at the Roland Garros.
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