At last the First Grand Slam of the year is here. The Australian Open A.K.A the Happy Slam has always been a gruelling test of survival of the fittest for the men and women of tennis, with it’s wiltering heat and humidity, scorching sunshine and huge, shock upsets. Records could be broken all over the place…
Novak Djokovic remained on course for his 3rd consecutive Masters Series title, with a dominant victory over arch-rival Rafael Nadal. The World No1 who has been in supreme form in 2015, was just far too good and solid for the King of Clay. Coming into the semi’s, Nadal who also lost to Djokovic in the 2013 Monte…
1. Slovakia’s Martin Klizan claims 3rd career title in Casablanca, with straight sets win over Daniel Gimeno-Traver. 2. Rising American star Jack Sock, wins maiden singles title in Houston. 3. Angelique Kerber back in the big time, after Charleston triumph. Kerber overcoming rising sensation, Madison Keys in a tough 3 setter. 4. Anna Schmiedlova denies Camila…
Venus and Serena Williams continued to march on course for a SF showdown, after both legendary sisters recorded 3 set comeback victories. Serena was edged out by rising star Elina Svitolina in the first set, before dropping only 2 games afterwards in progressing to round 4. Venus had things a little tougher, as she also…
Roger Federer ended a brilliant week, by winning his first ever Shanghai Masters title over Frenchman, Gilles Simon. The new World No.2 battled back from a 5-3 deficit in the first set, to go on and eventually win in two tie-break sets.
In the final week for the Championships at Wimbledon, the top WTA and ATP Tour players fine- tuned their games in the joint Men’s and Women’s events in Eastbourne and Hertogenbosch. Let’s see what happened in both tournaments.
The biggest shock of Indian Wells (and there’ve been a few already) so far, happened on day 6 when World number1 and defending champion Rafael Nadal, suffered a surprising loss to Alexandr Dolgopolov. Nadal who beat Juan Martin Del Potro to win last years event, was seemingly out of sorts in the dramatic 3 set…
All Things Tennis- from Hamza Shakeel 