Archive for the ‘Men’s Tennis’ Category

Wimbledon finals and tournament review 2008

The 2008 edition of The Championships, Wimbledon is complete. What a great tournament and what great final. Congratulations have to go out to Rafael Nadal for capturing his 1st Wimbledon crown and dethroning the former king of grass Roger Federer. Nadal was awesome through out the event. Focused as ever he raging Spaniard breezed through the [...]

Wimbledon Day 11: The Rematch We Have All Been Waiting For!

Wimbledon day 11 brought to unlikely semi-finals. In the first match was the surprising Marat Safin going again Roger “Mr Wimby” Federer. Safin wasn’t really giving himself much of a chance in this one and even spoke about it in the press conference going into the match.
Q. How do you see your semifinal with Federer [...]

Semi-Final Preview, Wimbledon 2008

This years final four at Wimbledon is set. It seems that from here on in a Federer/ Nadal final is within sight as only Marat Safin and the surprise of the tournament Rainer Schuettler can stand in their way. Lets take a look at the semi-final match-ups, head to head stats and predictions.
1) Roger Federer [...]

Wimbledon 2008, Day 9 wrap up. Fed, Nadal, Safin and ????

Day 9 of Wimbledon went again according to plan.  Federer ran over Ancic in a match that was quite dissapointing.  Roger played extremely well and proved once again why he has one of the best forehand ever hammering winner after winner past his opponent.  Ultimately it looked as if Mario was a little tired from [...]

Quarter-final preview, Wimbledon 2008

This years quarter-final Wednesday at the All England Club certainly has some pop corn matches for the tennis world to indulge in. Lets take a look at the following matches, head to head records and predictions.
1) Roger Federer vs Mario Ancic
Head to head: Federer leads 5-1, and the players are tied 1-1 on grass, both at Wimbledon.
Fed ex is coming into [...]

Wimbledon Day 7, 2008 recap. Fedex, Rafa and Murray though

Day 7 of the 2008 Wimbledon Championships was chalked full of great tennis once again. Centre court started with the meeting of former Wimbledon champions Roger Federer and Lleyton Hewitt squaring off. Hewitt managed to make the first set close pushing Federer to a tie break but then reality set in for the veteran Aussie. [...]

Wimbledon week one review, 2008

With week one in the books at this years Championships let us take some time to review the highs and lows of the All England Club. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal cruised through their first 3 matches with relative ease continuing on a probable collision course towards Championship Sunday. With all of the scrutiny that Federer has [...]

Wimbledon Day 6 round up, Rafa rolls Kiefer, and we still have a Janko and a Rainer around

As day 6 at The Championships came to an end, the tennis world prepares itself for another possible Rafa and Roger showdown next Sunday. 2) Rafael Nadal disposed of German Nicolas Kiefer in straight sets in what turned into an entertaining ending with Kiefer trying to put in a late charge. Nadal will now gear up [...]

Wimbledon Day 5 round up 2008, Fed rolls through, Americans all gone!

Week one is almost in the books and Roger Federer made sure that he did not join Novak Djokovic and Nikolay Davydenko as top seeds that were eliminated early. R-Fed brushed aside his lastes foe Frenchmen Marc Giquel is straights sets to set up a battle of Wimbledon champions with Lleyton Hewitt. Hewitt has played [...]

Wimbledon Day 4, 2008. Vamos Rafa, Goodbye Andy and James

Day 4 at Wimbledon proved to be another day of big upsets.  One day after losing #3 seed Djokovic, top American hopeful and #6 seed Andy Roddick booked his flight out of England.  It was a tight serving affair with the final score being 6-7, 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 in favor of the Serb.  More bad [...]

Wimbledon Day 3, 2008 round up. Djokovic dusted.

Well Bjorn Borg will have so explaining to do.  The Swede predicted Novak Djokovic to win Wimbledon this year, ahead of Roger Federer, and the Serbian could not even make it out of the second round of the event this year. Again, I do not take any credit away Marat Safin as beating the number [...]

Wimbledon Day 2, 2008 round up

Day 2 of Wimbledon went very much the same as the opening day of the Championship.  Once again it was a good day to be a seed.  Nadal’s got through his match in straights even though the scoreline showed that the match was pretty tight on paper.  Rafa showed his improved serve nailing 17 aces [...]

Creating an ATP Bionic Man

The tour is filled with great players with great strokes. There has always been much discussion as to which player has the biggest serve, strongest forehand, etc. Imagine the possibility of taking the best strokes and abilities in the game and putting it all into one player. Well, here are my choices.
Rules for criteria:
 - must [...]

Wimbledon Day 1 round up 2008, Seeds go through, Nalbandian goes home

Day one The Championships is in the books. There were no relative surprises on the men’s side, with 1)Roger Federer, (wearing a new sweater and belt), 3)Novak Djokovic and 5) David Ferrer moving to the second round with relative ease. The same can not be said for David Nalbandian, the tournaments 7th seed crashed out at [...]

Wimbledon Seed Report and Draw Analysis 2008

Summer time in England and the All England Club is getting ready to open its gates. Wimbledon will be the focus of the tennis world as the finest tennis players in the world will be looking to showcase their talents for the next two weeks. Will Roger Federer claim a record 6th straight championship, or will the in form Rafael [...]


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