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Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal wasted no time winning their opening matches at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Wednesday afternoon. Federer trounced Jeremy Chardy 6-2, 6-1 and Nadal advanced by the exact same scoreline at the expense of Lucas Pouille.
Two of the top seven seeds went south in South Beach on Sunday, when Stan Wawrinka's loss to Adrian Mannarino preceded Fernando Verdasco's stunner against Rafael Nadal. But the mass of fourth-round entrants was not entirely surprising.
Four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt has been guaranteed a wild card into the Aegon Championships after confirming that he would like to play the tournament at The Queen’s Club one more time before retiring.
By now we think the “no-one beats [/insert name] [/insert number of times] in a row" has been done to death but it has to be said that Tomas Berdych delivered the performance of his life against an up and down Rafael Nadal to book his place once more in the Australian Open semi-final.
Babolat announced it already in May 2014 " In 2015 we will have more and more players using Babolat PLAY on the Tour. I am convinced that within the next 10 years, Tennis world will be 100% connected ".
By recent standards, this is already a successful Australian Open for the American men. Two are through to the third round as of Thursday afternoon Australia time and both John Isner and Steve Johnson have advanced in convincing fashion. But it could be oh so much better.
It is almost as if the tennis heavenly bodies were reading our observations of the stars feeling jittery on their first time out. The drama was to be had in the iconic Rod Laver Arena as first hot favourite Maria Sharapova, then Roger Federer, and then finally Rafael Nadal all took their turn to broil in the Round Two pressure cooker.
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For a fleeting moment it felt like Roger Federer would suffer the same fate that had befallen Rafael Nadal in Doha: a first-match ouster. Instead, Federer fought back to beat John Millman 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in round two of the Brisbane International on Thursday.
Novak Djokovic kicked off his 2015 campaign in fine form, taking care of fellow Serb Dusan Lajovic 6-2, 6-1 in round one of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open on Tuesday. Djokovic needed just 59 minutes to set up a meeting with Sergiy Stakhovsky.
Check out the latest photos from the Abu Dhabi tennis tournament in United Arab Emirates.
Comebacks are nothing new for Rafael Nadal and after his latest hiatus from the main tennis stage, which this time has lasted a mere 69 days, he knows what to expect today as he steps back into action at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship.
The Tommy Hilfiger Group, which is wholly owned by PVH Corp. [NYSE: PVH], announces that internationally renowned tennis star Rafael Nadal will appear as the global brand ambassador for the Tommy Hilfiger underwear and Tommy Hilfiger Tailored collections beginning in Fall 2015.
In 2014, we welcomed three first-time participants to the World Tour Finals--Kei Nishikori, Marin Cilic, and Milos Raonic. Will we see something similar in 2015, perhaps from Grigor Dimitrov? Or will Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin Del Potro manage to stay healthy and restore order to the London lineup?
Recovering Rafael Nadal has admitted that he will be starting 2015 from the depths as the 14-time grand slam event winner attempts a comeback after another injury-plagued and disappointing season. The 28-year-old Spaniard told Spanish newspaper AS that so far he is merely happy to be back in training again...
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