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The seedings for the Wimbledon Championships have been announced and the All England Club’s unique seeding formula has dictated defending champion Andy Murray has been promoted from fifth place on the ATP World Tour rankings to the Championships’ no.3 seed.
Rafael Nadal's first match since the French Open, which will come just three days after he captured a ninth Roland Garros title by defeating Novak Djokovic last weekend, is set for Wednesday against Dustin Brown during second-round action at the Gerry Weber Open.
It was Maria Sharapova holding the trophy at the finish of the women’s singles at Roland Garros. It was the second longest women’s final in the history of the tournament. Sharapova and her opponent Simona Halep traded the lead throughout the long sets. It was an extraordinarily exciting final after last year’s romp by Serena Williams.
Trading shots is what Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic do when they have a business meeting. They’ve been at it for more than a few years and including today’s match, they have met 42 times, which is the most head-to-head encounters in tour level play in the Open Era.
Andy Murray and Ernests Gulbis are part of another outstanding field at the Queen's Club's Aegon Championships, which begin on Monday. They are coming off semifinal showings at the French Open, where Murray and Gulbis lost to Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, respectively.
The grass-court season may be short, but to say it is also sweet would be an understatement. Two of the four weeks, of course, are spent at the All-England Club.
The final Friday of Roland Garros is like a day of reckoning for the men competing in the singles. For the duration of the tournament, up until then, it is like a winnowing process.
Here are some of today’s EPA photos of the day. Enjoy!
Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep have a date on Saturday. They will meet in the women’s singles final.
Only two of the top four seeds are still alive for semifinal action on Friday at Roland Garros, but three of the so-called "Big 4" have advanced. Ernests Gulbis is joining Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray for what is an intriguing lineup.
Rain began in the wee hours of Wednesday morning and it continued most of the day, putting quite a hitch in the plans for quarterfinal play at Roland Garros. An umbrella was the most popular accessory.
Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) and Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) tried to continue writing history on Tuesday at Roland-Garros as two Canadians were playing in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time.
For someone who swears she felt like a cow on ice each time she was competing on red clay only a few years ago, Maria Sharapova has made herself right at home on the surface, having won six of her last eight titles on terre battue. It has become her friend and a good friend indeed.
Six of the top eight seeds are through to the French Open quarterfinals on the men's side. And the only two that are not--Stan Wawrinka and Roger Federer--have worthy replacements in the form of Gael Monfils and Ernests Gulbis. The result is a blockbuster lineup in the last eight.
Light--or lack thereof--is once again an issue at Roland Garros. As a result, we are still missing one of the eight fourth-round matchups as the season's second Grand Slam hits its second week. Safely through, however, are Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Roger Federer.
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