Published: July 3, 2011
Left-hander Petra Kvitova played in her first major final and won her first Grand Slam title on Saturday with an upset win over Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4. Sharapova was the clear favorite heading into the finals but Kvitova was not to be denied her first major title after hitting her forehand strokes with great speed, [...]
Published: June 30, 2011
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France advanced to the semifinal round of the Wimbledon Championships at the expense of six-time winner Roger Federer on Wednesday, overcoming a two-set deficit to win in five sets 3-6, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.
Despite being down two sets, Tsonga held on to break Federer’s serve once in each of the [...]
Published: June 29, 2011
Maria Sharapova displayed the old form that won her Grand Slam titles as a teenager to defeat Dominika Cibulkova in straight sets 6-1, 6-1 on Tuesday to reach the semifinal round of the Wimbledon Championships. This is the first time that Sharapova is advancing to the semifinals since surgery on her right shoulder in 2006. [...]
Published: May 30, 2011
Novak Djokovic, the much anticipated Serbian who had been winning since his last 2 matches last year is yet adding another win just recently. He just defeated Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 Sunday in the fourth round of the French Open. This would mark his 43rd consecutive win including the last two that he had [...]
Published: May 16, 2011
Djokovic remains unbeaten and just claimed his 39th overall win after defeating world’s top seeded Rafael Nadal in the recently concluded Rome Finals. The game ended with 6-4 6-4 and marked the Serb’s 37th win for this year alone. This a Nadal-dominated tournament for 5 years but Djokovic just ended it this year.
Djokovic played that [...]
Published: May 11, 2011
Novak Djokovic stretched his unbeaten run for the year to 33 matches after crushing Polish qualifier Lukasz Kubot 6-0 6-3 with an imperious display in the second round of the Rome Masters on Wednesday.
Djokovic’s victory was never in doubt, however, as he marched on toward John McEnroe’s record 42-match winning run from the start of [...]
Published: May 10, 2011
The Serbian professional tennis player Novak Djokovic just outshined the world’s top seeded Rafael Nadal on his very own Madrid Final. The homecourt advantage of Nadal didn’t get pass through the great skills of Djokovic. Their game ended with 7-5 6-4 with Djokovic obtaining the trophy and the 590,000 euros ($824,200) prize for the first [...]
Published: May 2, 2011
Novak Djokovic won the Serbia Open without dropping a set after beating Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 7-6 6-2 in Sunday’s final to stretch his unbeaten record in 2011 to 27 matches.
It was the 23-year-old Serb’s fifth title this year, after he captured the Australian Open, the Dubai Championships as well as Masters series events in Indian [...]
Published: April 26, 2011
Novak Djokovic, the dangerous man in 2011, who is undefeated with a winning streak of 24-0 this season, is confident enough to end the era of the King of Clay, Rafael Nadal this season. The world no.2 Serbian has said that, he can stop the Rafael Nadal on clay this summer.
Rafael Nadal, the king of [...]
Published: April 26, 2011
Rafael Nadal Girlfriend Maria Perello Gets Her Attention Once Again - Other than Roger Federer, there is no bigger name in the field of tennis than Rafael Nadal. Anything related to him gets attention and that includes his girlfriend, Maria Francisca “Xisca” Perello. Rafael Nadal and Maria Perello have been dating for a few years now, and it is still hard to [...]