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It is the first week of the clay-court season which is going to the end in June (after the Roland Garros final). In the meantime, there won’t be any tournament on a different surface than clay. In Casablanca unexpectedly triumphed … Continue reading
Rainer Schuettler [87], the oldest player in the Top 100 (almost 35 years) lost his first round match in Houston to a 15 years younger opponent – Grigor Dimitrov [70] 0-6, 2-6. It’s not the most lopsided defeat in career … Continue reading
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Here is a statistical summary of the first quarter of the season. I will make three similar posts: before Wimbledon ’11, at the end of August, and at the end of the season in December. The first quarter of the … Continue reading
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Novak Djokovic [2] has the best start of the year of any player since 1986. The Serb has won 24 consecutive matches to start the 2011 year, the last man who won more matches in the first few months of … Continue reading
(2)Novak Djokovic d. (1)Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4) [3:21 h] Two weeks after a final at Indian Wells, Nadal and Djokovic, two best players in the world, met again in the final. Nadal stung first, … Continue reading
Impressive streak of Novak Djokovic [2] continues. Nothing can interrupt his astonishing concentration, today his semifinal against Mardy Fish [15] was halted after the first four games due to rain for almost an hour. After the break, Djokovic was even … Continue reading
Thursday. Gilles Simon [27] got booed leaving the court. The Frenchman played only three games (won 2 points, lost 12) in ten minutes against Roger Federer [3] and retired due to a stiff neck. “It’s not the way you want … Continue reading
The three best players again won their matches without any troubles (it is boring, isn’t?), none of them lost four games in a set. Roger Federer‘s match with Olivier Rochus (6-3, 6-1) started after midnight at 12:37, in their first … Continue reading
Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer comfortably won their third round matches, especially Djokovic, who destroyed again his opponent (James Blake). The Serb has the fourth best start of a year in the Open era, only Ivan Lendl and … Continue reading
I have added a new page today: T-line________ All the most interesting events of the Open era (major titles, records, rises and falls…) have been included there. The choice of photos isn’t accidental, I consider these 17 players depicted in … Continue reading
