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Watching the mens final today. What a great show for tennis. In the middle of the third set, I thought Rafa was cooked. It seemed like Nole had solved the puzzle.
Nobody knows the physical agonies and mental torment suffered by Rafael Nadal more than his coach and uncle Toni. And the man who has masterminded arguably the most dramatic and sensational tennis career of all time maintains his US Open winning nephew is still playing through pain.
The Scot has become the third player to qualify for the season finale, to be held at The O2 in London from November 4-11. Murray, who reached the quarter-finals at the US Open, secured his place at the season finale for the sixth straight year.
Serena Williams has never been one to hide how she is feeling, but she has been very diligent as of late about keeping calmer on court, which is one of the reasons why she won her 17th Grand Slam event title at the US Open with a victory over Victoria Azarenka in the final.
Rafael Nadal has now won 13 Grand Slam event titles, moving him to within just four of Roger Federer’s all time record and nudging the Spaniard from Majorca one behind Pete Sampras, but says winning this year’s US Open was the most moving...
Madrid's defeat as a candidate city for the 2020 Olympics came as a blow to Rafael Nadal as the Spanish tennis ace prepared for his US Open final with Novak Djokovic.
Andy Murray remains slightly doubtful of the actual work required to win many women's matches at the US Open and any other grand slam event, with the Scot querying the fairness of equal prize money.
Marion Bartoli, the reigning Wimbledon champion who announced her retirement from competitive tennis just 40 days after beating Sabine Lisicki to win her first major title, will return to the grass of London SW19 to play again this month.
Leander Paes became the oldest tennis player to win a Grand Slam in the Open era at the age of 40 when he and Radek Stepanek teamed up to win the US Open.
As the "baby” of the final days of the US Open, 24-year-old Victoria Azarenka is warning the world not to forget about her generation of WTA tennis talent.
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, the game’s two leading players at a time when male tennis has never had a better profile are many things.
Last week, as New York proudly hosted the US Open, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the signing of legislation to expand and improve the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Rafael Nadal sported a newer and more expensive Richard Mille watch during the US Open, with his latest model weighing in at a feathery 19 grams and costing a healthy $690,000.
Serena Williams professes not to notice the fact that she has become the first woman to surpass $9 million in annual prize earnings through her fifth US open title win at the weekend.
By winning her 17th Grand Slam title at the US Open on Sunday, the spectacular Serena Williams is now just one major crown behind Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova for fourth place on the all time list.
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