Saturday, June 27, 2009

MURRAY IN LAST 16


The British number one, Andy Murray will face Stanislas Wawrinka in Monday's fourth round after winning a comfortable 6-2 6-3 6-4 win against Viktor Troicki in one hour 36 minutes on Centre Court.

Murray broke for the first time at 3-2 and Troicki crumbled, losing seven games in a row as the world number three almost toyed with his opponent.

Murray faced one break point in the entire match, saving it with an ace.

The match was played under leaden skies, but despite thunderstorms in the Wimbledon area, the rain never came - and Centre Court's new roof is still awaiting its competitive debut after six days of action.

"Obviously I wanted to finish the match as quickly as possible," said the 22-year-old. "It would have been a nice bit of history, but I wasn't that worried by it."

Murray pleased with opening week

The roof was immediately shut after the players went off, whereupon Murray told BBC Sport he felt he had not peaked yet.

"I have to give myself an A for coming through the first week," he said. "Today was very good. I felt a little bit uncomfortable at the start, but after the first set I started to feel more comfortable.

"I've got to be happy with the first week - I felt better and better with every match. But I'm going to have to play better next week if I want to come away with the title."

Murray's hopes of making his second Grand Slam final received a boost later on Saturday when Fernando Gonzalez, his conqueror at this year's French Open and a possible quarter-final opponent here, was beaten in five sets by Juan Carlos Ferrero.

But on this form, Murray has no-one to fear.

Troicki had won just one game in his last encounter against Murray at the Miami Masters, a tournament the Scot went on to win.

Murray consider this match to be far better than the previous one in this tournament and it will be a good sign for the forth coming matches.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

CRACKLING FIRST ROUND IN WIMBLEDON

Wimbledon has been so beautiful this year as a new retrackable roof has been covered in the centre court during rain. The centre court looks too good for the spectators to watch on. The crowd were also too good and pretty decent as well. Andy Murray being a local player won his first round against American Robert Kendrick 7-5, 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-4 on Tuesdaay. The match seems to be so exciting as Murray being a local player. If Murray win this wimbledon then he will be the first player in Britain since 1936 to win a wimbledon. Nadal feels that his opponent came so vigourous and Murray stayed calm and took the pressure off from him.

Fifth seed Juan Martin del Potro made a mockery of his supposed lack of grass-court prowess by hammering experienced Frenchman Arnaud Clement 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 in the first round.

Del Potro, who has won only two matches in two previous visits to Wimbledon, put Clement out of his misery when the Frenchman ballooned a forehand long after 1 hour, 37 minutes on Court 1. He will face 2002 champion Lleyton Hewitt of Australia, a 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 winner over American Robby Ginepri, in the second round.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

FEDERER FEELS FOR NADAL'S INJURY

Roger federer is so sad after hearing the news that Nadal withdrawn from the wimbledon because of his knee injury. Federer feels that he is the only rivalry who can fight against Federer and has already won a wimbledon last year by beating Federer. Nadal's loss will definitely make the fans so sad. Nadal is so young to tennis and played excellent tennis and he is the only man who can beat Roger Federer continuously for many a time. Without Nadal it will be easy for Roger to clinch the title of his 15 th Grand slam. If he picks up this title then he will be the first player to acquire 15 grand slams by beating Pete Sampras.

Friday, June 19, 2009

SAFINA CRUSHED IN ORDINA OPEN SEMIFINALS

Dinara Safina, world number one surprisely out of the Ordina open against unseeded Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn in the semifinals 7-5, 7-5. The match was so tough that it could turn to either way as it was the last game break in both the sets.

Tanasugarn, 32, beat Safina in the final of this event last year and once again proved too much for the Russian.

World number 42 Tanasugarn will meet Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer in the final after she beat Italy's Francesca Schiavone 7-6 (7-3) 2-6 6-3.

It will be the third time the 19-year-old Belgian Wickmayer - ranked 72 in the world - will contest a WTA final having lost to Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko in Birmingham, though she won in Estoril last year.


Safina must now pick herself up in time for the start of Wimbledon this Monday, as she goes in search of her first Grand slam title.

RAFAEL NADAL OUT OF WIMBLEDON 2009


Defending champion Rafael Nadal is out of the wimbledon because of the knee injury. He was suffering from the injury for the past 6 months and he was playing with the problem, which made him out of the early exit in the French open. Nadal feels that he is not concentrating on the match 100% as he feels that his knee has some problem. With such an intention no one can play to their 100%. He needs some rest in order to recover. When he comeback, he will comeback strongly with 100% in physical and mental. He also said that I am young and I have a plenty of career to spare. Definitely this problem is temporary and it is not going to affect my future career. Definitely this is a big loss to my Fans and the Wimbledon. But I and my fans need to bare it in order to proceed further.

Nadal, struggling with tendinitis, tested out his fitness in exhibition matches on Thursday and Friday, but was unhappy with the state of his knee.

Nadal is the first champion not to defend his SW19 crown since Goran Ivanisevic missed the event in 2002

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

RAFAEL NADAL WILL COME STRONG IN WIMBLEDON


Rafael Nadal, the world No.1 in tennis was unexpectedly moved out in the Round 4 of the French open. He was suffering from both Knee problems continuously for the past 4 months. He played with the pain in the French open so his game is little poor throughout the tournament. He cannot able to fight against Robin soderling because he always feels that his knees were paining. Rafael Nadal is mentally out in this tournament because of his knee problem. After the early exit in French open, he went to Barcelona to go on for the treatment. Nadal revealed that he will be 200% fit in the Wimbledon and he will give the best of him. It will be really good for most of his fans and tennis lovers to see a fantastic match. Roger also hope to wish him best of luck for his upcoming tournament and he hope that Rafael should be fully fit to play in Wimbledon.

ROGER WINS 14TH GRAND SLAM


The finals between Roger Federer and Robin soderling was taken easily by Roger Federer in straight sets. Roger wins his 14th grand slam to match Pete Sampras. The next moment after Roger took the match winning point, he started to cry and he continued after receiving the title. It was a brillant comebck from Roger Federer after continuous loss to Rafael Nadal. Robin said that "he knew the result the day before the match but he played to his full strength and can't able to succeed". Roger Federer will look forward for his Wimbledon as it is his favourite ground. If Roger wins the Grand slam in Wimbledon then he will the first man to go beyond Pete Sampras in the total number of grand slams won.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

KUZNETSOVA WINS THE FRENCH OPEN TITLE


Dinara Safina lost to her opponent Svetlana Kuznetsova in the French open finals. Safina was strong throughout the tournament but always lost in her finals. Safina was so upset with her performance that why she throw her bat down when she lost critical points. Kuznetsova knew that safina is under pressure to win this title. Kuznetsova played her normal tennis with less number of unforced errors. Safina was too ambitious to win this title. We can see the pressure on safina's face but Kuznetsova can be seen relaxed. It was a very confortable win for Kuznetsova over Safina 6-4, 6-2. It was Kuznetsova's second grand slam after winning the 2004 US open. Safina made too much of blunders by putting double faults during the match point for Kuznetsova.

"Today I think she was too tight," Kuznetsova said of her opponent. "She had so much pressure on her but I could bring my better game today - that's why I won."

Svetlana Kuznetsova

The 23-year-old has now lost in the French Open final for two years running, and was also heavily beaten by Serena Williams in January's Australian Open final.

"Here I am back in the same situation as last year," said Safina. "Hopefully one day I can win here."

ROBIN SODERLING WILL FACE ROGER IN FINALS


Robin soderling was impeccable during this french open 2009. He started off well with a huge margin defeat by the First round, second and third round opponent. He faced the world No.1 Rafael Nadal in his fourth round. Robin played an outstanding tennis against Rafael Nadal. He won so easily in the first set and the second set was in a tiebreaker to lose for Robin. But Robin was outstanding with his serve as his first serve average speed is about 200km/hr. It is consistent with him. Rafael has no choice to face Robin as his return with forehand is too strong for Rafael to move even a step. Rafael lost his third and foruth set to lose the first ever Roland Garros. Robin faced Fernando Gonzalez and he fired the first two sets but Robin lost his thrid and fourht set. Even at the last set Robin was lagging 1-4. Then Robin soderling came back strongly to take 5 consecutive games to win the match 6-3, 7-5, 5-7, 4-6, 6-4 against Fernando Gonzalez in semifinals to face Roger Federer in the finals. Roger will definitely be a tight contender as he is hungry to win this title. Let us hope for a complete entertainer.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

SAFINA WINS A THRILLER


Dinara Safina, the No.1 seed won against Victoria Azarenka to reach the french open semifinals. She won against Victoria Azarenka 1-6, 6-4, 6-2. Victoria started the match with the first set heavy double break points. The first set completed in just 23 minutes while the second set rallied for a long of 50 minutes. Safina was very tough to beat and she become ard as cement in the second set. She won by breaking 3 of the 4 break points while Azarenka break only 2 of her 2 break points. In the third set safina took two break points and easily opted her third set to qualify for her semifinals. Safina will play Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova in the last four after the 20th seed ended Maria Sharapova's revival in style, crushing her 6-0 6-2. Safina is very hard defeat at this level as she hasn't took any grand slam so far. So she will be very much hungry to pick the title.

Monday, June 1, 2009

A HUGE SHOCK TO NADAL FANS

Rafael Nadal lost by a surprise as he was not in his best in this match. At this level you cannot under estimate anybody around you and you cannot play normally. Rafael Seems to be out of power as Soderling returning the ball with extreme power which cannot be taken by Rafael. I think Rafael lost only because of his lack of power. Soderling was serving at 220 km/hr while Nadal is serving at 175 km/hr. This is a huge difference when it comes to international.

Soderling's win comes a month after he was beaten 6-1 6-0 by Nadal in Rome.

"I told myself this is just another match," said the 24-year-old Swede, who now plays 10th seed Nikolay Davydenko.

"All the time, I was trying to play as if it was a training session. When I was 4-1 up in the (fourth set) tie-break, I started to believe.


"I just couldn't believe it when I won that last point. I'm so proud of myself. This is the best win of my career against a man who is the greatest clay-court player in history."

"He didn't surprise me because I know how he plays and how dangerous he can be," said the 22-year-old.

"When I practised this morning I felt good. I felt very good, but it wasn't the case during the match. I didn't play my best. I played very short and I couldn't attack. I made it easy for him to play at his level. But I lost.

"I was not calm enough to face the important points, so I had to fight. But sometimes fighting is not enough. You have to play a good level of tennis.



MURRAY "THE ALL TIME FAVOURITE ENTERS QUARTER"


Andy Murray passed to the quarterfinals after a long fight against Marin Cilic 7-5, 7-6 (7-4), 6-1 and reach his last eight for the first time. From the start both the contenders were fighting hard and each of them broke in their first game of their first set. Finally Murray wins a thriller in tie-breaker. The first set was a tale of two in-form players exchanging blows but Murray broke at 5-5 before serving out. Murray took the second set on a tie-break after breaks were exchanged and the third seed stormed past a deflated Cilic in the third to wrap up victory. Gonzalez, the 12th seed from Chile, claimed an emphatic 6-2 6-4 6-2 win against Victor Hanescu. The pair have played twice previously - Gonzalez triumphed in Basel in 2005 and Murray in New York in 2006 - but never on clay. Murray will definitely win against Gonzalez in the quarter finals.