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Roger Federer's 2015 French Open campaign got off to a stellar start on Sunday, when he made routine 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 work of familiar foe Alejandro Falla.
Ah Roland Garros – the queues for the concessions, the laid back Sunday start, and some interesting things on day one. Here goes with our recap!
On Tuesday, seeded players went 5-1 at the bet-at-home Open and were one point away from going 6-0. To say the tide turned on Wednesday would be an understatement.
Seeded players took care of business for the most part on Tuesday at the bet-at-home Open and the Claro Open Colombia. They compiled a 5-1 record and were one point away from being a perfect 6-0, as the lone blemish came when Marcel Granollers missed a match point in his second-round showdown against Dominic Thiem...
Roger Federer and the one player who has most modeled his strokes after those of Federer (Grigor Dimitrov), are in fine form heading into the upcoming installment of the Wimbledon Championships, which begin next week at the All-England Club.
Competing in the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany must be like always finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for Roger Federer. When he won the final point today, it was his seventh singles title here.
There cannot be too many head-to-head histories in which the majority of meetings between two players have come on grass. There are simply not enough such tournaments in a season for that to be a normality.
Watching the progression of play at a tennis tournament is rather like opening a present that reveals yet another mystery package and yet another, until the final match is at hand. The time finally arrives where it is a surety that the last ribbon will be untied, and the unknown becomes a statistic in the record books.
To see some great photos from the Gerry Weber Open & the Aegon Classics, click here.
Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) advanced to the fourth round of a WTA Premier event for the first time in her career of Sunday at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California.
Jeremy Chardy ha dado la sorpresa esta mañana al derrotar al cuarto cabeza de serie del Valencia Open 500 ATP World Tour, John Isner, por 7-6(7), 6-3.
The Novak Djokovic Foundation, Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi’s Stop War Start Tennis, and the Washington Tennis & Education Fund have been selected for charity grant
Day one of the Miami Tennis Cup kicks off with an Evening Session of Matches featuring top ranked US Player, john Isner
German Philipp Kohlschreiber, the No. 16 seed, defeated American Ryan Harrison 6-4, 6-4 in 73 minutes on Sunday for a place in the Shanghai Rolex Masters second round.
Roger Federer has boosted his Wimbledon confidence even further with his three-set winning start over Alejandro Falla at the London Olympic tournament.
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