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There are a number of skeptics out there who don’t believe that the forthcoming International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), which will play its first season from November 28 to December 20, will really fly, but Morgan Menahem, the CEO of the IPTL, thinks that the league has bright future.
Gael Monfils really does like playing in France. And indoor hardcourts. This was career final #21. He has won only five of them. Four of the titles (Metz 2009, Montpellier 2010, Stockholm 2011, and now Montpellier 2013) have been on indoor hardcourts, and three (all but Stockholm 2011) have been in France. This marks the first time he has ever won a title twice.
The difference here was probably the second serves. Jerzy Janowicz won only 56% of his second serve points; Richard Gasquet won 70%. And so Gasquet is back in the final. He will stay at #9; Janowicz will stay at #21. It's almost as if this match didn't happen....
Andy Murray has taken a late wild card entry into the Rotterdam Open next week, with the Scot joining Juan Del Potro in the field after the injury withdrawal of Australian Open winner Stanislas Wawrinka.
The ITF has announced the latest results for the 2014 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group first round and Zone Group ties taking place on 31 January - 2 February. A total of 30 ties are taking place this week.
Pete Sampras attended the Australian Open in celebration of the 20th anniversary of his 1994 title win and met up with a bunch of his former playing peers including Michael Chang, Jim Courier, Ivan Lendl, Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg, all of who are coaching in some capacity.
So, the story was an all Swiss final, it's staring us right in the face, right? Stan's already in and Feds's got a new coach, new racquet, and is playing great, already having beaten Tsonga and Murray both former finalists down under. Plus Rafa's got that blister that everyone's talking about...
“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...
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.
Roger Federer is reaping the benefits of both newly appointed part-time celebrity coach Stefan Edberg’s encouragement to play more attacking tennis and the bigger, more powerful Wilson racket he will now probably use for the remainder of his career.
At 2-3 in the third set, Mats Wilander commented on EuroSport on Federer's aggressiveness forcing Murray to start going forward himself: "…and suddenly we are looking at a completely different style of tennis, … and how healthy would that be?"
Roger Federer went back to the future with a dominating vintage win over hammered Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 on Monday to start the second week with a fourth-round victory. The Swiss played plenty of serve-and volley the day after the birthday of new coach Stefan Edberg...
"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...
So much for the potentially dramatic rematch of the Doha final. Gael Monfils will almost certainly return to the Top Thirty, but just barely.
On the other hand, this opens a big opportunity for Murray and for David Ferrer. Juan Martin del Potro seemed to be rather dazed by the end -- perhaps the heat got to him; he's a very big guy, after all -- and Roberto Bautista Agut played very good tennis, and it ended with del Potro the first of the top ten seeds to fall.
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