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Prior to the start of the 2014 campaign, Stanislas Wawrinka did not have a Grand Slam title or even a Masters 1000 winner's trophy to his credit. Four months later, he has both.
There will be a first-time champion at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters in 2014, and for the first time since 2004 the man lifting the winner's trophy will be someone other than Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic.
David Ferrer beat Rafael Nadal for the sixth time in 27 tries and ended a 17-match losing streak on clay to the world No. 1 with a 7-6(1), 6-4 upset in the quarterfinals of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Friday afternoon.
How funny when Bethanie Mattek -Sands is calling Caroline Wozniacki out for what color is your hair? Was it red was it pink? It didn't help Rory McIlroy much.We hear their wedding is planned to be in NYC in November. A hard invite.
Like Novak Djokovic one day earlier, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer shut the door on second-round opponents at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Wednesday.
Novak Djokovic kicked off his title defense at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters with the loss of just one game on Tuesday afternoon. Djokovic thrashed Albert Montanes 6-1, 6-0 in a mere 45 minutes while saving all four of the break points he faced--all in the first set.
Monte Carlo might as well be a "masters"... What a great draw. Fantastic that Roger Federer took the wild card. We wish more draws had more wildcard spots. It would give the tournament so much more star power.
The Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters may not be a required 1000-point event, but this year's installment of the tournament does not look much different from any other 56-man Masters event.
The ITF has announced the results for the 2014 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group quarterfinals and Zone Group ties taking place on 4-6 April. A total of 27 ties took place this weekend. For the first time in World Group history three of the four quarterfinals were decided in a live fifth rubber.
The exodus of agents and players from big-name agencies to smaller operations continued as Lagardere agent Nicolas Lamperin and clients Gael Monfils and Kristina Mladenovic joined "StarWing" sports management, a management company started by former IMG and Lagardere agent Laurence Frankopan.
After an initial flourish of outspoken concern over the political situation in his troubled Ukraine homeland, Alexandr Dolgopolov realizes there may be little as an athlete that he can actually do to influence the situation.
What a Davis Cup kind of day. The doubles means a lot. And for the Swiss things didn't turn out so well. And Stan Wawrinka was literally knocked off his feet at the net on a match point volley.
The ITF has announced the latest results for the 2014 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group quarterfinals and Zone Group ties taking place on 4-6 April. A total of 27 ties are taking place this weekend.
Tennis Channel will provide exclusive live world-whiparound coverage during this weekend's quarterfinal competitions in Italy, France and Switzerland, with daylong blocks of comprehensive telecasts Friday-Sunday on Center Court.
Argentine tennis hero Juan Del Potro has emerged successfully from surgery on his left wrist. "Hi everyone, everything went fine in the operation," the player said on his Facebook page. "Many thanks for the best wishes from everyone."
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