Safina announces her withdrawal from Brisbane International due to back injury, one of the warm up tournaments of Australian Open.
Such injury has been bothering her for couple of months. She was broken into tears and had to withdraw from the year ended Sony Ericsson Championships.
Safina is now fighting against time to be fit enough...
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What will you do around New Year? Work? Partying? Or a bit of both? Six of the ATP players will participate at the Capitala World Tennis Championship at Abu Dhabi from 31 Dec 09 to 2 Jan 10.
The six contenders are 09 Year ended No.1 Roger Federer, No.2 Rafael Nadal, ATP World Tour Finals...
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I am a bit late on this, as I have been working on the layout of this site. Sorry guys! Also I have been addicted in playing Virtua Tennis 2009 Wii game. It’s a very exciting game, I like it.
Okay we got Nadal and Verdasco here. Both players both had an unfortunate run at...
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Serena Williams escaped ban from playing grand slam tournaments, as she has been fined $175,000 with 2 years behaviour probation for her foul mouthed tirade at US Open in September. According to International Tennis Federation (ITF), any further offence at a grand slam in the next two years would see her suspended from the...
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Last year finalist Nikolay Davydenko beated Juan Martin Del Potro at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.
Davydenko won 6-3, 6-4 in an hour and 24 minutes to claim the title. He is the first Russian to lift the World Tour Finals trophy.
Such important triumph in his career would guaranteed the Russian to finish the...
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Nikolay Davydenko produced one of his most important triumphs in recent years, as he eliminated 15 times grand slam championship Roger Federer 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 at the semi final of ATP World Tour Final.
The Russian refused to become the Swiss’s punching bag for the thirteenth time – Davydenko had lost all 12 of his...
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In my previous entry I was talking about the successful 2009 season and busy off court life for Serena Williams. Oops, she now faces a possible penalisation of $1 million fine; as well as ban from playing a grand slam tournament.
Williams was cited for committing a major offence during the semi final match against...
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Does anyone expect that Djokovic would be knocked out in the preliminary round at the ATP Finals?
As the defending champion, Djokovic enters this tournament with a 10 match winning streak; and back-to-back ATP titles (Basel and BNP Paribas).
At the ATP Finals he managed to defeat Nadal in straight sets 7-6(5), 6-3 and defeated Davydenko...
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The intense and chaotic competition between Federer, Murray and Del Potro has to solve with Mathematics.
In their last round robin matches Murray beat Verdasco 6-4, 6-7(4), 7-6 (3); while Del Potro again defeat Federer 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3. Verdasco is definitely out of contention while the other 3 players all finished their round robin matches...
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Shot (shock) maker Sodeling is the first contender advanced to the semis at the ATP World Tour Finals. He defeats a weary looking Djokovic 7-6(5), 6-1.
After defeating Davydenko in 2 hours 47 minutes match 2 days ago, Djokovic seemed physically hampered, and could not resisted Soderling’s powerful serve and groundstroke.
In the other match, Davydenko...
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