Foot Fault!

I have seen the likes Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova all play in 250/International events, but never have I seen any tournament go as far as to lay a red carpet down for their marquee star. That is, of course, until today. Rafa’s entrance to his match resembled a movie premiere [...]

Rafael Nadal has achieved it all; he has reached the summit of the ATP World Tour Ranking, he has won an Olympic Gold medal, clinched the Davis Cup twice, won 18 ATP 1000 titles, and most recently he achieved the Career Grand Slam, defeating Novak Djokovic to capture that elusive US Open title. He has [...]

The Tokyo quarterfinal lineup was completed today. In the top half, the biggest surprise was young American Coco Vandeweghe’s 6-3 6-0 demolition of Julia Goerges. She was duly joined by top seeded Caroline Wozniacki (who defeated Pavlyuchenkova in straight sets for the 95th time this year), Victora Azarenka and Aga Radwanska. The matches in the [...]

For those of you still doubting that Gilles Simon could ever impregnate a woman, here’s some proof. Cute, no?

He may have lost 7-6 (9/7) 6-4 to Olivier Rochus today, but after 8 months out with his wrist injury the result was probably irrelevant to Juan Martin Del Potro. The wrist was the main worry and concern for JMDP and after the match he is assessed it as “perfect”. Game on.

*OBVIOUSLY* But in all seriousness, there is never a dull moment in the WTA and especially when it involves Serena Williams. Just as we had all but resigned to the fact that Serena probably wasn’t going to play for the rest of the year, suddenly we hear that she’s planning on playing in Moscow. But [...]

So in the first tournament that Romina Oprandi teams up with Rainer Hoffman, she wins the biggest title of her career at the Saint Malo $100k+H. I know that most of us dislike the guy and everything, but that’s pretty good going, no? Romina has had some great results this year after a load of [...]

There was a huge shock today as Defending Champion Maria Sharapova was bounced out of Tokyo by Kimiko Date-Krumm on the eve of her 40th birthday. It has to be said that Maria was apparently visibly struggling with a bad cold all through the match. But still, she continued from where she left off in [...]

ATP Bangkok (250): Draw OOP With the likes of Rafa Nadal, Fernando Verdasco, Juan Martin Del Potro and Ernests Gulbis gracing the courts of Bangkok, it’s hard not to be excited about this event. Obviously this tournament marks Del Potro’s return to tennis, and he has been thrown right into the deep end with a [...]

Metz Final: G. Simon def. M. Zverev 6-3 6-2 After over a year of injury woes, it’s great to see Gilles healthy and back playing well. He has a few points to defend between now and the end of the year, but if he can continue to keep on improving his form and confidence, it [...]