An image we hadn’t seen in 2½ years: Roger Federer winning a Grand Slam tournament, this time, only to add to his own legend (Photo: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Seventh for 17th for 75th for 286th week at number 1. If we could summarize in numbers Roger Federer’s tr [...]
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Adding To His Own Legend
An image we hadn’t seen in 2½ years: Roger Federer winning a Grand Slam tournament, this time, only to add to his own legend (Photo: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Seventh for 17th for 75th for 286th week at number 1. If we could summarize in numbers Roger Federer’s tr [...]
Canada… Owns Wimbledon Junior
Third time was a charm for Filip Peliwo, who won Wimbledon Junior after two lost finals in Melbourne and Paris (Photo: Clive Rose/Getty Images)
Eugénie Bouchard became the first Canadian to win a Junior Grand Slam title yesterday. Today, Filip Peliwo had a chance to further [...]
Ecstasy And Elation
From wild cards to Wimbledon champions, this is the story of Denmark’s Frederik Nielsen and Britain’s Jonathan Marray (Photo: Julian Finney/Getty Images)
Fine serve, return at the net, first volley winner. And then the packed Centre Court of the All-England Club [...]
HIS7ORY or H1STORY?
Roger Federer defeated defending champion Novak Djokovic to reach a record 8th Wimbledon final (Photo: Glyn Kirk/AFP/GettyImages)
One celebrated his win with a fistpump and no effusions. No wagging fingers, very sober. The other was overcome by emotion, fighting back tears, [...]
Career Firsts… For Veterans
David Ferrer reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon for the first time in his career, now having played quarter-finals or better of every Grand Slam (Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP/GettyImages)
The round-of-16 matches are now completed in Wimbledon and the quarter-finals are set [...]
Scheduling Misjudgement, And The Risk...
The weather forecast for today was all but bright, as rain was on the menu of Wimbledon’s Manic Monday. Already, when the schedule came out on Saturday, many eyebrows were raised in question, especially regarding the matches on Centre Court. Most knew that a match like Andy [...]
Epics And Tennis Against The Clock
Yesterday, like most days since the beginning of the tournament, was a very eventful day in Wimbledon. The Junior tournament started, the last matches of the third round were played in both Men’s and Women’s singles, and the second round of the doubles was completed as [...]
Close Call
It came very close to a very early exit for Roger Federer but he found a way to come out of it (Photo: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
While a lot of the tennis world was still shaking its head over the great shock of Rafael Nadal’s early exit (and, of course, of the co [...]
Utter Shock
Rafael Nadal acknowledges the crowd, applauded as well by his surprise victor, Lukas Rosol (Photo: Clive Rose/Getty Images)
I will not say “Lukas who?” as I’ve read in some places. I know well who Lukas Rosol is. Some data: Rosol was nearly triple bageled [...]
Upsets, Injuries, An Eventful First D...
Tomas Berdych bowed out to Ernests Gulbis in the first round of Wimbledon, a huge upset in the first day of action Photo: Anja Niedringhaus/AP)
“Whew!”
That was about my reaction when the last matches still going on were announced suspended due to darknes [...]
Wimbledon – First Round Heart-Breaker...
The first round of Wimbledon starts at 6:30 AM (EDT) tomorrow morning and I already mentioned the matches that are the most heartbreaking for that half of the draw. The bottom half also has a few of those first-round matches that will end up being a nightmare for the fans.
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Wimbledon – First Round Heart-B...
The Wimbledon main draw that came out yesterday gives me a golden opportunity to think outside the box and offer a few words about the first round matches that promise to be difficult, not so much in terms of possible match duration rather than because of the identity opponents fo [...]
