Andy Roddick should thank the man who developed Hawk-Eye and it was this replay technology which helped the American to reach the semifinal at the Queen’s Cup in the Wimbledon warm-up tournament. Roddick began rather poorly as his British opponent Alex Bogdanovic seized the first set 6-4. The American then crawled back into the game [...]
With Wimbledon just around the corner, every player is working hard to prepare for the ultimate battle in the world of tennis. Andy Roddick is one such player who always enjoys the fast and bouncy grass courts at Wimbledon. Once again demonstrating how good he is on grass court, Roddick defeated France’s Nicolas Mahut 4-6, [...]
Jelena Jankovic is one of the brightest talents around in the WTA circuit at the moment. Not only she is physically fit but also her mental concentration is comparable to world number one Justine Henin. Jankovic continuing her flawless tennis defeated Maria Sharapova in a tight three setter 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 to win grass court [...]
Andy Murray has been itching for a comeback but it seems his wrist injury would keep him out of action for some more time. The 20-year-old tennis player’s campaign for this year’s Wimbledon received a jolt after it was announced that Murray would sit out of the inaugural day’s action in the Boodles Challenge at [...]
As expected, Roger Federer and Justine Henin have been given the top seedings in the men’s and women’s singles respectively at this year’s Wimbledon tennis championship. Britain will have its hopes pinned on 20-year-old Andy Murray who has been seeded eighth in men’s singles. Murray’s participation, however, remains shrouded in a cloud of uncertainty as [...]
Injury continues to cast a shadow over this year’s Wimbledon and now Mario Ancic and Li Na have joined the list of wounded players who pulled out of the prestigious Grand Slam event at the All England Club. Croatian Ancic’s prolonged illness ruled him out of the event while Chinese Li was indisposed with a [...]
Andy Murray is leaving no stone unturned in his desperate effort to get into the shape but his wrist injury threatens to mar his show in this year’s Wimbledon, which kicks off on Monday. British number one Murray had a practice session with a sparring partner under the watchful eyes of coach Brad Gilbert and [...]
Tennis found an emerging star in Janko Tipsarevic after the unheralded Serbian pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the men’s singles event in Wimbledon by edging out fifth seed Fernando Gonzalez of Chile. It was an edge-of-the-seat five set thriller between Tipsarevic and Gonzalez and in the end, it was the Serbian who [...]
Despite of third and final set fight back of Safin, Federer registered his fifty first straight win on grass court. In Wimbledon 2007 defending champion Roger Federer overpowered Marat Safin by a straight set victory 6 – 1, 6 – 4, 7 – 6 ( 7 – 4) and booked his seat very convincingly to [...]
Jelena Jankovic almost fell by the wayside before the third seeded Serbian staged a brilliant comeback to scrape past Lucie Safarova in a see-saw third round match in Wimbledon. Swiss miss and former world number one Martina Hingis, however, was not as lucky as Jankovic and Hingis bowed out of the event with a defeat [...]
