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US Open Day 15 Open Thread - Men's Final
Rafael Nadal (ESP)[1] vs Novak Djokovic (SRB)[3] For the third straight year, the US Open ends on a Monday. Hope most of you will be able to see at least some of it.
Rafael Nadal Completes Resurrection, Reclaims Roland Garros and #1 Ranking
Rafael Nadal crashed to the dirt in joy as he had so many times before, adding the another exclamation point onto his clay court resume with a dominant 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 win over fifth-seeded Robin Soderling to win his fifth French Open title and seventh grand slam overall. Next to perhaps his 2008...
Rafael Nadal Learns, Burns Through Monte Carlo
I've said on here many times before that I think Rafael Nadal is, for all intents and purposes, done. I said that he was a great talent, but one whose style of play would take an inevitably ruinous toll on his durability. Nadal shone brightly, but he had burned out, never to reignite again like...
Federer, del Potro, Soderling, Davydenko Through on Tiebreakers
With three players finishing round robin play Group B was decided by the first tiebreaking criteria, number of sets won and lost. Soderling (5-2) and Davydenko (5-3) barely edged out Djokovic (4-3) for the two semifinal spots, despite being the two lowest ranked players in their group. But as...
WTF! Soderling Blasts Through Nadal Again, Djokovic Outlasts Davydenko
In his first time playing in London since winning that epic Wimbledon final in 2008, Rafael Nadal looked like a shadow of the player he was then in his first WTF match against Robin Soderling, which was won in straight sets by the Swede by the tally of 6-4, 6-4. Soderling came off the blocks...
King Roger Guillotined by Commoner in Paris
There was only one upset in the matches second round matches Wednesday involving top ten players, but it was a big one. Top seed and world #1 Roger Federer fell in his first match at Paris-Bercy to France's Julien Benneteau, who pulled off the upset by the score of 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-4. With his...
Cilic Chops Up Nadal in Beijing
Marin Cilic demolished top-seed Rafael Nadal in the Beijing semifinals, winning 6-1, 6-3 in a match that was exactly as close as the score indicates. It's tough to know what to make of Marin Cilic these last few months. I saw him play terribly in Washington, losing his first match there to Somdev...
US Open Day 14: Mama Knocks Out Second US Open Title
Women's Singles Final: Kim Clijsters BEL def. Caroline Wozniacki DEN (9) 7-5, 6-3 -- The player who won the U.S. Open wasn't even playing professional tennis as of July. That's pretty crazy. In her first grand slam in two years (and only her third tournament of any kind), unranked, unseeded wild...
US Open Day 13: Serena's Foot (and Mouth) Fault Ends Match
One of the most bizarre days of tennis I can remember. I'll have more on the ending of Serena-Clijsters a bit later, but for now a more tennis-focused recap of the day's matches: Women's Semifinals: Kim Clijsters BEL def. Serena Williams USA (2) 6-4, 7-5 -- For as much as the ending of this match...
US Open Day 11: Del Potro Wakes Up In Time, Rain On Nadal's Parade
For the first time in this tournament, there was a rain delay. For the first time in this tournament, there was a rain delay so long that matches had to be postponed until the next day. For this to happen early on in the tournament would not have been too disruptive, but for it to delay the final...
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