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2014 BNP PARIBAS OPEN ENTRY LISTS HEADLINED BY 11 FORMER TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS AND 15 GRAND SLAM CHAMPIONS
Given that they essentially dominated the tour in 2013, the odds of Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic meeting in another Grand Slam final were quite high entering the 2014 Australian Open. But tennis times always change, even if they do so at glacial pace.
Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open and the Williams sisters have history. Hopefully now that Larry Ellison owns the tournament the sisters will return. They were always loved at the event. And they've been missed.
Melbourne. The third set of the match between Aggie and Vika was not to be believed. Some brilliant play. Some amazing tennis. Shotmaking and anticipation and finesse. It was closer than you would think for a "Bagel set ".
Going late into the third set, I thought Wawrinka was making a mistake in not engaging in more rallies involving movement like he and Djokovic demonstrated in the quarters. I felt that while Berdych is definitely an exquisite striker of the ball, he did not move as well as Wawrinka...
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...
Australian Bernard Tomic will miss at least the next three months of ATP play as the 21-year-old undergoes surgery for a hip defect which doctors say he has carried unknowingly for a decade and which has surely affected his tennis.
Eva Asderaki’s name is etched in tennis history as the umpire who had to weather the fiercest verbal onslaught ever known in a Grand Slam final when Serena Williams berated her decision-making at a crucial stage of the 2009 US Open.
Rafael Nadal was upset that he was called for multiple time violations in his 7-6 (3) 7-5 7-6 (3) fourth round win over Kei Nishikori but he’s been a serial offender of the rule, even if he is one of the tour’s greatest and most exciting competitors.
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The race may not always be to the swift, but right now, the swift are doing just fine, thank you. Rafael Nadal is #1, and he will stay #1, and he will be #1 by a very wide margin. We still don't know how wide, but he will lead Novak Djokovic by a lot more than a thousand points.
So much for the potentially dramatic rematch of the Doha final. Gael Monfils will almost certainly return to the Top Thirty, but just barely.
Darren Cahill has long been regarded as the measured Australian voice of tennis. His commentary work with ESPN and his stellar coaching of both Lleyton Hewitt and Andre Agassi to the world no.1 ranking earned him great respect. Now Cahill has serious words of warning for Bernard Tomic...
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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