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Tony's Tennis: November 2014

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Tuesday, 4 November 2014. Novak - 2014s best, whatever the ranking points. The recent hype surrounding a "battle" for year end number one ATP ranking between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer is purely statistical and unfairly has overshadowed the clear fact that once again Novak has been the player of the year. An interesting fact - if Federer finished 2014 ranked number one he would be the first in the Open Era to do so without winning a major in that year, since John McEnroe in 1982. I sense a double s...

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Tony's Tennis: Novak Djokovic Supreme

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Monday, 13 July 2015. Despite his compelling achievements over the past several years, many are still reluctant to afford the best male tennis player on the planet his due full credit. Amazingly some writers continue to couch the Djokovic stats in terms of a tired "Big Four" picture. But more of that later. The question apparently took on more weight given the thrashing dished out to Andy Murray by Federer in the semi final. Set two saw no service breaks in the first nine games, but a double fault from F...

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Tony's Tennis: Round one done - lessons learned

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Wednesday, 1 July 2015. Round one done - lessons learned. What have we gained from watching the first round of singles matches at Wimbledon 2015, apart from the beginnings of a fortnights insufficient sleep? We now know that Petra Kvitova has found her path to a title defence, and third Wimbledon crown much clearer with the shock dismissal of third seed Simona Halep. Eugenie Bouchard, last year's runner-up, also departed in round one, but that sadly has become her MO for 2015. Another Australian, John Mi...

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Tony's Tennis: July 2014

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Monday, 7 July 2014. Novak and Roger deliver a classic. Too rarely the final match of a Grand Slam tournament is an anti climax to what has gone before, but no need for concern with the Gentlemen's Singles Final at Wimbledon 2014. Novak won here in 2011, but had not tasted major success since the Australian Open in 2013, despite making three finals in that time. He ached for this one at least as much as Roger. The second set was the stage for a Djokovic revival, not that he had been missing for much....

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Tony's Tennis: Serena's Sweet Sixth Wimbledon

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Sunday, 12 July 2015. Serenas Sweet Sixth Wimbledon. It may not have been her best tennis match, but when you have set a standard as high as Serena Williams over her illustrious career, anything offered on a tennis court now would be difficult to rate as the best, and after all, winning a Grand Slam tournament is all about defeating your opponent, not necessarily having to play perfect tennis, but the type of tennis for the occasion. The ninth game of set two was riveting. Serena double faulted and G...

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Tony's Tennis: September 2014

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Tuesday, 9 September 2014. Finals create history with little contest. Unfortunately the two singles finals in the 2014 US Open were no more than exhibitions by Serena Williams and Marin Cilic. Luckily the tennis from these two champions was of a high enough calibre, not only in the finale, but in preceding matches to warrant the trophies and prodigious amounts of money headed their way. Both the finalists, together with Dimitrov and Raonic, and possibly Tsonga, must capitalise on the diminishing effect o...

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Tony's Tennis: January 2015

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Saturday, 31 January 2015. Williams does it yet again! So all the preliminaries had been completed and after the upsets and promising performances we were left with the top two seeds to fittingly play off for the 2015 Aus Open Women's Singles title. Not since top seed Justine Henin defeated second seed Kim Clijsters in 2004 had the two top seeded women played off at Melbourne Park. Sharapova won the toss and served and didn't serve well, Serena threw in a couple of sizzling returns and a double fault gav...

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Tony's Tennis: Muguruza and Gasquet add spice to semis

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Thursday, 9 July 2015. Muguruza and Gasquet add spice to semis. The top three men's seeds have manoeuvred their ways to Wimbledon 2015 semi final spots, while the fourth seed threw away a two sets to one lead. The top women's seed will do battle with the fourth seed in one semi and the other finalist will come from a fight between a debut semi finalist at GS level and the thirteenth seed who was runner up three years ago on the Wimbledon grass. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Steve Furgal's Internati...

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Tony's Tennis: March 2015

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Monday, 23 March 2015. Djokovic beats Federer in a big Final again. The stats are amazing - Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic have played each other 38 times with Federer leading 20-18. And nothing can take away from the brilliant tennis provided in those clashes, including the most recent - the 2015 Indian Wells final. Djokovic has won 12 of the past 19 matches against Federer, broken down as follows:. He has won 4 of 6 at Grand Slam level, including the only final between the two in that period. While w...

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Tony's Tennis: Favourites hard to beat at Wimbledon 2015

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Monday, 29 June 2015. Favourites hard to beat at Wimbledon 2015. As highly likely as there will be many upsets thrown up at Wimbledon this year, according to rankings at least, the final days are just as probably going to be populated with the favourites in the men's draw. I cannot see the top four seeds being beaten en route to the semis - troubled at times, but not defeated. The women's contest however is not so predictable, apart maybe from Serena Williams, if switched on to her task. The other semi i...