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Eventually, some player was going to take out a member of the Big 4 and win a Grand Slam. It had not occurred since 2009 when Juan Martin Del Potro stunned Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer at the US Open.
Indian Wells officials are hoping that recent hints might mean that Serena Williams is ready to set aside a feud of 13 years by signing up to play in the upcoming edition of the men's and women's Masters in the Californian desert.
Australia Day, the nation’s annual celebration of the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships, coincides with the Australian Open men’s final this year.
Dominika Cibulkova has reached her first Grand Slam event final at the Australian Open and while there were technical and physical issues she had to address during the off-season, the Slovak needed a mental boost too.
Li Na will have 1.3 billion fellow Chinese behind her while Dominika Cibulkova can only number 5.4 million fellow Slovaks. Nevertheless the world no.24 still insists being the first ever player from her country to contest a Grand Slam final: “It’s massive.”
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”, so reads the famous quotation from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’. These words, of course, turn out to be hollow, as all that remains of Ozymandias’ works are the decaying remnants of a once flourishing empire...
Rafael Nadal says that he gets more emotional for his matches against Roger Federer than against any other player, which is not surprising given that when the Spaniard arrived on the scene that the Swiss was the tour’s dominant competitor and looked unstoppable when he was on.
Perhaps Li Na appeared capable of winning her first Grand Slam title in 2011 when she reached the Australian Open final for the first time but she was not, as Kim Clijsters was a better player than she was then and Li was way too inconsistent.
The national obsession with cricket has dealt the Australian Open a television ratings blow, with the Ashes and one-day Twenty20 Big Bash matches drawing more viewers on average than the goings-on at Melbourne Park.
The British man charged by Melbourne Police with ‘court-siding’ or sending live point details from the Australian Open to his on-line betting agency Sporting Data Limited, is the son of a serving Metropolitan Police officer in London.
Beaten Australian Open quarterfinalist Andy Murray maintained it would have been ‘stupid’ to expect him to win the title in his first Grand Slam tournament after undergoing back surgery and insisted he was surprised to have progressed as far as the last eight.
Agnieszka Radwanska was not in the same position as Wawrinka or Dimitrov was entering their matches, but she had been in a bad way the past two years against fellow 24- year-old Victoria Azarenka, but she played more freely against then than she has at any time in recent memory and pulled off a 6-1 5-7 6-0 upset.
Given that they essentially dominated the tour in 2013, the odds of Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic meeting in another Grand Slam final were quite high entering the 2014 Australian Open. But tennis times always change, even if they do so at glacial pace.
Australian Open referee Wayne McKewen and fellow officials are still debating whether to hit David Ferrer with a retrospective $Aus 20,000 fine for pushing a line judge on his way to suffering a 6-1, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 defeat at the hands of seventh seed Tomas Berdych.
Melbourne. The third set of the match between Aggie and Vika was not to be believed. Some brilliant play. Some amazing tennis. Shotmaking and anticipation and finesse. It was closer than you would think for a "Bagel set ".
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