4 time French Open champion Rafael Nadal gave very few chances to former world number 1 Lleyton Hewitt at the French Open on Saturday, winning the 3rd round match in straight sets. The 2 hours 28 minutes match ended with the Spaniard Nadal beating the 29th-seeded Hewitt 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. The 6th-seeded Roddick suffered a 3r -round defeat to [ Read More ]
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Serena and Venus Williams, and Justine Henin are all on their way to the finals with no surprises as of now.
Andy Roddick is into the third round of the French Open for the second year in a row.
Stefan Edberg, the childhood tennis hero of Roger Federer, is a former World #1 Swedish tennis player. Edberg came to the attention of the tennis world when he won all the grand slam junior titles in 1983. He later went on to win 6 grand slam single titles and 3 grand slam doubles titles. Lendl, who [ Read More ]
Michael Chang, born in 1972, shook the tennis world in 1989, when he rallied from 2 down to win the French Open against Lendl while suffering from cramps. Lendl was the heavyfavorite to win the match against the 15th seeded and 17-year-old Chang. From that time on, Michael Chang was a year-end top-10 player for 6 [ Read More ]
Otherwise known as the “Fire Vs. Ice”, the Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe rivalry consists of a total of 14 matches through the careers of these two athletes. While Bjorn Borg was known for his cool and emotionless demeanour on the court, McEnroe built his reputation for his courtside tantrums. Each player won 7 games [ Read More ]
Maria Sharapova advances into the second round of Roland Garros with a 6-3 – 6-2 win over fellow Russian Ksenia Pervak earlier today. Barely bothered by a few drops of rain on Court Suzanne Lenglen, the former world number one, seeded 12th in the torunament, Sharapova was broken early in the opening set against Pervak [ Read More ]
Our Tennis Rivals website went online only a few days ago and we decided to come up with a “Head Tennis Bag and Head Cross Bow 8 OS Racquet Giveaway” to promote our site. We just placed an order with Amazon to get 3 sets of these magnificent products and we will giving these out to [ Read More ]
Murray does it again. Andy Murray survived a 5-setter against Richard Gasquet in the 1st round of Roland Garros. We had seen this happen at Wimbledon in 2008 where Murray rallied from 2 sets down to beat Richard Gasquet. The final score was 4-6, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-2, 6-1. Gasquet missed the tournament last year [ Read More ]
Take a quick look at Roger Federer playing table tennis with a much more confident Wayne Rooney of Manchester United in the Nike Write the Future commercial. You can see in the image that FedEx is really trying hard while Rooney is standing still. Prior to this in the storyline, Rooney realizes that if he [ Read More ]
The tickets to US Open in New York are always scarce especially those that are front row are being sold for much more than their face-value by ticket brokers. If you are planning to attend US Open for years to come, it is smart to become a member of the USTA (US Tennis Association) and [ Read More ]
Roland Garros 2010 is set to run from May 23-June 6 in Paris. The tennis world is expecting a very likely epic battle between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in the finals but there are other interesting players that might surprise everyone on the “red clay” or “terre battue” to contend in the men’s draw. [ Read More ]
Following his victory in Madrid against Federer, “Neither of us played a perfect match,” Nadal said about Sunday’s final. “We both made a lot of mistakes. I think we know each other so much that we are only focusing on how to make each other play worse. I go for his backhand and that makes [ Read More ]
Even the mighty Roger Federer can blow a final shot. In the finals of the Madrid Master Final on Mat 16th, Federer apparently missed an easy forehand that sealed the game for Nadal at 6-4, 7-6 (5) victory. Having called the shot easy, it should have been easy for Federer since we have only seen [ Read More ]
Every sport needs its rivalries. It raises awareness and raises the very standards of the sport and tennis had its share of great rivalries. These are athletes that were all considered the best of their times. At one point, they may all even be considered the best ever. Then, came the next generation but their achievements, [ Read More ]
Hello From Tennis Rivals Team! We are online starting today and we will be providing info about everything related to tennis with a specific focus on great contenders whom we call the tennis rivals. Wikipedia describes a rival as “A rival is a competing person, company, team, or other organization. Rivals are not always similarly [ Read More ]
