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Popular Davis Cup captain and former number 1 Patrick Rafter has been promoted into one of the top jobs in Australian tennis, with the former two-time grand slam winner being named as performance director for Tennis Australia.
Three hours and 26 minutes--an outstanding marathon time even more serious, dedicated runners. Run that as a full-time, year-round professional athlete in a different sport and what you have on your hands is an absolutely incredible feat of athleticism.
The team here @10sballs.com are packing up the bags and counting down the hours till their arrivals in London. It looks like a small circus. But then again this week we saw players traveling with massage tables and hyperbaric chambers...
Andy Roddick will face old rival Greg Rusedski in the round-robin stages of the Statoil Masters Tennis after the draw and order of play for the IMG-owned and staged event at the Royal Albert Hall were revealed.
The World Tour Finals draw ceremony was held on Monday afternoon. With only eight players in the field, it did not take long for everything to be figured out. Novak Djokovic was already guaranteed to be in Group A as the No. 1 player in the world and No. 1 seed, while Roger Federer was assured of being in Group B at No. 2. That left only six men to be drawn.
Apart from a strange, brief and eventually irrelevant period midway through the first set when his opponent won eight consecutive points, Novak Djokovic was rarely troubled as he retained his BNP Paribas Masters title here at Bercy with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Milos Raonic.
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan captured their 102nd tour title on Sunday at the Paris Master Series Event as they defeated Marcin Matkowski of Poland and Austrian Jurgen Melzer 7-6(5), 5-7, 10-6 in the final. It is the Bryans’ 32nd Masters 1000 in their 50th final.
Check out these EPA photos from the final match between Novak Djokovic & Milos Raonic at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris, France.
Check out the latest photos from the 2014 BNP Paribas Masters tennis tournament in Paris, France.
Novak Djokovic, looking like the world No 1 and Milos Roanic, who is starting to look as if he wants to challenge for that position, will face off in the final of the BNP Paribas Masters here on Sunday.
The 2014 World Tour Finals singles field is set thanks to Milos Raonic's quarterfinal win at the BNP Paribas Masters on Friday followed by David Ferrer's loss. Facing a must-win situation, Raonic beat Roger Federer for the first time in his career. Ferrer had to answer with a victory of his own, but he fell to Kei Nishikori 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-4.
Milos Raonic, clinging on to the possibility of making the top eight for the ATP Finals in London, finally worked out a way to beat Roger Federer in the quarter-finals of the BNP Paribas Masters here, winning a tight struggle 7-6, 7-5.
Andy Murray's late-season surge officially has him in the World Tour Finals after the Scot rolled over Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 6-3 in the third round of the BNP Paribas Masters on Thursday afternoon. Murray, who is 20-2 since the U.S. Open with all three of his 2014 titles coming this fall, cruised into the Paris quarterfinals and set up a showdown with world No. 1 Novak Djokovic.
A little clarity emerged from the rubble of the Omnipalais here at Bercy as Andy Murray confirmed his place in the ATP Finals in London by eliminating one of the contenders, Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 6-3. It has been hard to find one’s way around this stadium this week as the whole place is under construction and work has only stopped for ten days...
Check out the latest photos from the BNP Paribas Masters tournament in Paris, France.
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