Archive: richard-gasquet
Roger Federer isn’t about to hop on the ‘Viktor Troicki is unfortunate’ bandwagon and instead of sympathizing with the Serb for being banned from tennis for a year after a misunderstanding over the taking of a drugs test, maintains rules are there for a reason and tennis needs to be even more vigilant on anti-doping matters.
This was the day's first singles match, and it wasn't as routine as the score -- both players seemed nervous (both had more errors than winners), and it took Roger Federer half a dozen match points to finish.
Ilie Nastase had this to say about 22-year-old Simona Halep who won her sixth title of the year in Sofia. "To finish the year with a win like this is great for Simona. It will give her confidence going into the new year, which begins pretty soon in Australia." . . .
Juan Martin Del Potro is still reeling from having his suitcase stolen in Paris just before he boarded a train to head to the London for the ATP World Tour finals on Saturday. In fact, he says he’ s been miserable since the incident occurred.
Roger Federer was preparing for a re-match with rival Novak Djokovic within hours of losing a Paris Masters semi-final to the Serb. The two are now in London for this week's season-ending World Tour Finals.
Juan Martin del Potro is insistent London is one of his favorite places to visit after this summer’s memorable Wimbledon semi-final battle.
Many of the world’s Top 8 singles players and doubles teams, including the likes of Juan Martin del Potro, Tomas Berdych, Richard Gasquet and Stanislas Wawrinka, hit the red carpet last night
David Ferrer was determined not to have yet another of his feeble matches against Rafael Nadal. He didn't exactly dominate, but he wasn't broken until he served for the match the first time -- and, having been broken, at once broke back and served it out.
As matches go, this was pretty dull. As drama goes, Novak Djokovic is doing his best. Rafael Nadal doesn't need much more to clinch the year-end #1, but Djokovic continues to apply all the pressure he can -- not just winning but winning easily.
Roger Federer had a succinct phrase to describe the fact that all eight players who have qualified for the ATP World Finals in London
Milos Raonic had a near-miss with tennis history but was unable to capitalize on his chance of becoming the first Canadian to play in the year-end ATP event in singles.
Tuesday report from Bercy
Here was an interesting conundrum: With the Paris draw as it now stands, Roger Federer is sure to make it to London. So could he withdraw from Paris after wearing himself out this week?
I spent a couple of hours this morning writing what I thought was a very nice piece about the one and only way Federer could be kept out of qualifying for London. Simple as one-two-three. It was just math.
There really seems to be something wrong with David Ferrer these days. Half a dozen straight finals blown. And that after leading by a break in the second set. Not even the Spanish crowd could hold him together. He was broken four times.
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