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Grigor Dimitrov won the tourney in Bucharest. He beat Lukas Rosol 7-6, 6-1 to make that 3 ATP titles he has notched. His ranking will move up tomorrow when the ATP weekly rankings are posted. He is currently ranked 16. Will this put him in the top ten ? Or just near it.
Legendary tennis coach Nick Bollettieri has led life with the intensity of a fifth set tiebreaker. In his autobiography he tells all, from his humble beginnings in a suburb of New York to his triumphs on the center courts at Wimbledon, the French Open, the Australian Open and the U.S. Open.
How funny when Bethanie Mattek -Sands is calling Caroline Wozniacki out for what color is your hair? Was it red was it pink? It didn't help Rory McIlroy much.We hear their wedding is planned to be in NYC in November. A hard invite.
This is almost unheard of ! How is it possible that both Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal got what we call in tennis a "WALKOVER" ....ok , we get it a groin injury and a stomach bug. But really. There's no plan B ? You couldn't dig thru your mighty Rolodexes and make magic happen ?
Every time Serena Williams wins a match in the Sony Open, and she made quite a habit of doing so over the years after reaching the final nine times and winning the title on six of those occasions, the world no.1 gets asked the question: You really do love Miami.
When Maria Sharapova went up 3-1 in the first set, we couldn't help but think, "Waitaminit, wasn't she just getting her serve plastered?" Yes, she was, but somehow she had saved all the break points (four in just two service games), and Serena had blown one.
Maria Sharapova thinks today's teenage phenoms have it tougher than when she won Wimbledon as a 17-year-old in 2004.
This was a very long, very tough battle -- it really does seem as if Caroline Wozniacki is coming back to life. Coming back enough, at least, to have put herself in the Top Fifteen. But she had a lot of help -- Li Na made 32 errors in the first set, as against just one winner for Wozniacki.
The world’s concern about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 intensifies by the day and tennis players, for who international air travel is a weekly occurrence for much of the year, are feeling more apprehensive than most about the bizarre fate of the Boeing 777 that went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.
Na Li is the highest-paid Chinese athlete for the second year in a row, according to media group Titan Sports. Li was estimated as earning 124.5 million Yuan ($20 million) last year, making her by far the top earner in the rankings published by the group.
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We love Miami. Always have. Miami on a pretty day is spectacular. Life on the Islands and Bays are fun too. Traffic is terrible but what else is new ? We are @ the Sony Open but we are hardly impressed by their list of daily celebs ! It's Miami where are the real housewives of Miami ?
It's like Friday all over again: We wish we had something to tell you -- but we don't. Not really. Everything went as expected. Sunday's action opened with Novak Djokovic facing Tomas Berdych, needing to win to keep the tie between Serbia and the Czechs alive.
Rafael Nadal isn't giving Novak Djokovic much opportunity in the contest for #1 / This still isn't enough points to make any difference to Ana Ivanovic -- but the win moves her to 2-0, which obviously makes it very likely that she will reach the semifinal here.
Hardly a day goes by when its not over a hundred degrees Fahrenheit in Indian Wells California' in July. Right now at nine at night it's still 101.
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