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Two days after winning the Stuttgart title for just his second winner’s trophy of the season, Rafael Nadal saw his relative hot streak stopped in the first round of the AEGON Championships on Tuesday afternoon.
Click here to see some photos from the Gerry Weber Open tennis in Halle & and the Aegon Champioships in London.
Tennis tournaments seem to schedule a variety of matches that are not to be missed for one reason or another. As always, everyone has favorites.
Roger Federer made a great escape in the first round of the Gerry Weber Open on Monday, outlasting Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6(8), 3-6, 7-6(5). Federer fired 15 aces and needed two hours and 11 minutes to keep his title defense alive.
The Gerry Weber Open began in earnest on Monday, June 15, 2015. The event has been in existence since 1993. The tournament itself was the end product of a dream that Gerry Weber had.
The week after a Slam is always pretty peaceful, the sound of birds flying through the summer breeze, the gentle clinking of glasses as Pimms is enjoyed on the patio… the scampering of feet as the rainclouds gather!
Let’s be honest – the only grass we really care about is almost at the end of the District Line (that’s the green one on the Underground map) and we are getting ever closer to strawberries and Pimms.
Check out the latest photos from our tennis friends via Instagram.
Click here to see the latest tennis draws from the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, the AEGON Championships in London, and the Aegon Classic in Birmingham.
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.
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.
The matches contested on Center Court at the Gerry Weber Open have a certain opulent flavor that belies the rural area where the venue is located. Over the 22 seasons that the tournament has been contested, most every top ranked player has passed through the gates of the venue at least once.
Check out the updated draws and order of play from the Gerry Weber Open.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal must feel as if they had slipped back in time, but only partially. It is Thursday at the Gerry Weber Open and both men contested their first match of the tournament, that could move them up the ladder in giant steps, without so much as having to strike a ball during actual play until this afternoon.
Check out these great photos from the Gerry Weber Open tournament in Halle, Germany.
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