http://www.gototennisblog.com Tennis blog. Tennis news. Tennis gossip. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:24:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.gototennisblog.com/2010/01/25/australian-open-day-eight-wrap-serena-so-good-speaking-of-federer/ http://www.gototennisblog.com/2010/01/25/australian-open-day-eight-wrap-serena-so-good-speaking-of-federer/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:25:03 +0000 freakyfrites http://www.gototennisblog.com/?p=15748
Let’s start with the obvious: Scary good and Especially Relentless against Stosur Everyone else (including Justine) has No chance to win the Australian Open AND: Free to Experiment with his plan D Even Hewitt Realized that the match was an Entertaining Recreation for Roger Disagree? Consider this an acrostic smack down. Roger Federer probably won’t have as much fun against Nikolay Davydenko in the quarterfinals. Kolya’s beaten Roger the past two [...]]]> http://www.gototennisblog.com/2010/01/25/australian-open-day-eight-wrap-serena-so-good-speaking-of-federer/feed/ 22 http://www.gototennisblog.com/2010/01/23/australian-open-day-six-wrap-tapped-out/ http://www.gototennisblog.com/2010/01/23/australian-open-day-six-wrap-tapped-out/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:37:59 +0000 freakyfrites http://www.gototennisblog.com/?p=15588
Sveta played a late night match on Friday, getting past Angelique Kerber in three close sets. Gotta love that game face. . . Now onto Day Six Down Under, which was notable for retirements, withdrawals and old fashioned beat-downs. The men didn’t get to four-sets until Tsonga and Haas played the last match on Hisense. It’s [...]]]> http://www.gototennisblog.com/2010/01/23/australian-open-day-six-wrap-tapped-out/feed/ 10 http://www.gototennisblog.com/2009/09/06/us-open-day-7-rafael-nadal-shirtless-victorious-against-almagro/ http://www.gototennisblog.com/2009/09/06/us-open-day-7-rafael-nadal-shirtless-victorious-against-almagro/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:04:34 +0000 freakyfrites http://www.gototennisblog.com/?p=12155
REUTERS/Shaun Best (UNITED STATES SPORT TENNIS) via Daylife I missed most of Sunday’s Rafael Nadal vs. Nicolas Almagro match due to air travel, but my mom gave me the update when I landed: Rafael Nadal took his shirt off and the crowd went wild! And he blushed and said he was “shy” when Mary Joe Fernandez [...]]]> http://www.gototennisblog.com/2009/09/06/us-open-day-7-rafael-nadal-shirtless-victorious-against-almagro/feed/ 19 http://www.gototennisblog.com/2009/04/23/barcelona-open-highlights/ http://www.gototennisblog.com/2009/04/23/barcelona-open-highlights/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:47:15 +0000 freakyfrites http://www.gototennisblog.com/?p=6382
Spaniards Rafael Nadal, Fernando Verdasco and Tommy Robredo all won their third round match ups Thursday at the Barcelona Open. Take a look at the highlights, above. All four of the top seeds will advance, with Friday’s quarterfinals as follows: Nikolay Davydenko (3) vs. Radek Stepanek (Czech leads head-to-head 4-3), David Ferrer (4) vs. Tommy Robredo (Ferrer [...]]]> http://www.gototennisblog.com/2009/04/23/barcelona-open-highlights/feed/ 0 http://www.gototennisblog.com/2009/03/01/weekend-in-review-williams-almagro-fish-win-big/ http://www.gototennisblog.com/2009/03/01/weekend-in-review-williams-almagro-fish-win-big/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:31:36 +0000 freakyfrites http://www.gototennisblog.com/?p=2597 Venus Williams, Nicolas Almagro and Mardy Fish joined Dubai champ Novak Djokovic in the winners’ circle this weekend. Mardy Fish won his third career title today in Delray Beach over qualifier Evgeny “Kournikova’s cousin” Korolev, who was in his first ATP final. This was a MUST win title for Mardy, considering the inexperience of his opponent [...]]]> http://www.gototennisblog.com/2009/03/01/weekend-in-review-williams-almagro-fish-win-big/feed/ 0