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It's never too early to start thinking about 2017--no matter that there is still one more Grand Slam to go in 2016 and it begins on Monday.
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It may not be quite Derek Jeter getting his 3,000th hit in the form of a home run, but Roger Federer accomplished another feat of his own in a fashion befitting of Federer's legendary career. The 33-year-old Swiss earned his 1,000th match victory by winning the Brisbane International title on Sunday. He held off a hard-charging Milos Raonic 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-2 in two hours and 13 minutes.
Roger Federer thrashed Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 6-2 in the semifinals of the Brisbane International on Saturday, one day after destroying James Duckworth 6-0, 6-1. That means Federer is through to a second consecutive Brisbane final and has a chance to capture his first title at this event.
(UPDATED) Click here for the latest tennis update from the ASB Classic & Shenzhen Open.
Roger Federer will take on Grigor Dimitrov in the semi-finals of the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp on Saturday, as he edges closer to becoming the third player in the Open Era (since 1968) to record 1,000 career match wins.
Bernard Tomic is looking leaner and meaner--in the tennis sense, of course--at the beginning of this 2015 season. Combine the result of what appears to be a more determined work ethic with Tomic's favorite time of the year (the Australian summer) and you have a man who can do serious damage at this week's Brisbane International.
Novak Djokovic has already played four matches this week--two in singles and two in doubles at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open. Rafael Nadal, also in Doha, has already played three (one in singles and two in doubles). Roger Federer, on the other hand, has not yet taken the court at the Brisbane International.
Click here for the latest results and schedule for the Brisbane International in Australia.
Click here for the latest draws & schedule of play for the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand and for the Brisbane International in Brisbane, Australia.
Check out these EPA / Instagram photos from Brisbane.
Check out the latest results & order of play from the tennis tournaments in Brisbane & Auckland.
(UPDATED) Check out the order of play from the tennis tournament being held in Brisbane, Australia.
“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...
"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...
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