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With only one title in nine tournaments and four losses on clay this season, Rafael Nadal may be suffering a crisis in confidence. If only he played John Isner every time he took the court, perhaps that would not be an issue.
Here are the latest photos via Instagram. Enjoy!
10sballs.com tasked me with covering the Rome ATP event this week. Intending to provide ample literary fodder, a funny thing happened on the way to Italy.
Two-time defending champion Rafael Nadal advanced to the quarterfinals of the Mutua Madrid Open with a 6-2, 6-2 rout of Simone Bolelli on Thursday afternoon. Nadal needed just one hour and 12 minutes--a blink of an eye by his standards--to set up a showdown with Grigor Dimitrov.
Tennis is rich with rivalries; McEnroe and Borg, Evert and Navratilova, Sampras and Agassi, Federer and Nadal. However the battle for one-upmanship between the two June-staged grass court tournaments at Queen’s Club, London and Halle in Germany has been intense for the last 22 years.
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer could face each other in the semifinals of the Mutua Madrid Open, but Nadal--and Federer, for that matter--will not be looking that far ahead.
One of the issues that befall this chick is getting about in Spain. Staying in someone’s apartment just a few minutes’ walk away from the Caja Magica and as luck would have it, two other tennis nuts are staying at the same place.
Click here to see photos from the Mutua Madrid Open and some from the BMW Open tournament in Munich.
So Global Chick hits the road once more, and worked diligently on the plane to preview the week ahead in sunny Madrid. What a difference a couple of hours makes. The sun was NOT shining, and stars fell a-plenty today on ladies day at The Magic Box.
Check out some of the latest photos from Istanbul, Estoril, Munich, and Madrid.
Roger Federer has not exactly been dominant at the inaugural TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open, but he has done enough to reach the semifinals. Federer outlasted an in-form Daniel Gimeno-Traver 7-6(3), 6-7(5), 6-3 during quarterfinal action on Friday afternoon.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal could face each other in the semifinals of the Mutua Madrid Open after they landed in the same half of the draw on Friday afternoon.
Former champion Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the Mutua Madrid Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament that begins on Sunday.
He may no longer be a teenager, but Nick Kyrgios remains one of the ATP World Tour’s hottest young stars. As he celebrates his 20th birthday (on 27 April), the Australian features in the May issue of Vogue.
Borna Coric, the 18 year old Croatian who is the youngest player in the world's top 100, has a new coach in the shape of former Australian Open champion Thomas Johansson.
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