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Scalpers again came up the winners at the Australian Open men's final between Stanislas Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal, with tickets to the match being sold on the internet for well over 10 times face value - and fans willing to pay the price.
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Rafael Nadal came in with a hand blister. He came out with a back injury -- and no title. Nadal suffered the injury in the second set, and some watchers thought he would retire. But he was already in trouble by then.
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Spanish Davis Cup captain Carlos Moya fears that the former iconic allure of the Davis Cup is fading among current players, with the former world number one calling the team event a sacrifice for competitors.
Don't know what to say really after watching the men's final Sunday night in Melbourne. Except this is what I have been wishing could happen at a grand slam for a while. I know the big 4 have dominated tennis for some time now but I kinda like that idea that more than just 4 guys have a chance coming into a slam to win.
Until this round, Roger Federer had looked like his old self. In this match, he looked like his old self in another way: He couldn't handle Rafael Nadal. Nadal's hand was a mess; he had bandages on all his fingers and his palm. But his shots didn't show any problems...
Eventually, some player was going to take out a member of the Big 4 and win a Grand Slam. It had not occurred since 2009 when Juan Martin Del Potro stunned Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer at the US Open.
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...
Rafael Nadal says that he gets more emotional for his matches against Roger Federer than against any other player, which is not surprising given that when the Spaniard arrived on the scene that the Swiss was the tour’s dominant competitor and looked unstoppable when he was on.
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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.
Beaten Australian Open quarterfinalist Andy Murray maintained it would have been ‘stupid’ to expect him to win the title in his first Grand Slam tournament after undergoing back surgery and insisted he was surprised to have progressed as far as the last eight.
Don't all daddy's? All good dads do! Or Papas. Roger and Mirka are so blessed with their twin daughters. The news of the sisters being BIG sisters in 2014 makes one wonder ???? Is Mirka having twins again? Rogers sister Diana has twins.....
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