When in Rome…don’t do as Rafael Nadal did. Rafa lost 7-5, 6-1 to Juan Carlos Ferrero in the second round of the Rome Masters, a tournament Rafa has won the last three years.
Bummer, dude. I’m not sure if I expected Rafa to sweep all the clay court tournaments this season or not. I never really […]
Rafael Nadal won the Barcelona title Sunday. It wasn’t in parade fashion as many of his recent victories have been. It took a three-set effort (6-1, 4-6, 6-1) for Nadal to dispatch David Ferrer. With the win, Nadal became the first man to win four consecutive Barcelona titles.
I wonder how it feels. That whole making […]
Let’s get down and dirty, straight to the point:
Maria Sharapova is pissed off at the WTA for forcing her to either do a promotional photo shoot or pony up $700 grand for skipping it. The shoot is scheduled for the day before the Italian Open starts May 12. Sharapova is mad about the timing; the […]
It’s time for another ra-ra Rafa post. Partly because Rafael Nadal didn’t take the glory for himself but mostly because I just like what he does that much - especially on clay.
At the Barcelona Open, Nadal moved into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Feliciano Lopez. Whoop-dee-doo. That’s not the fun part. With […]
What a week of clay court tennis it has been! If there was any doubt that Rafael Nadal still owned the clay court crown, he dispelled those doubts with 7-5, 7-5 victory over Roger Federer in the Monte Carlo Masters final.
Rafa was facing a dismal 4-0 hole in the second set but clawed his way […]
Now that the college basketball season is officially behind us, it’s time to focus on another race to number one that proves to be exciting even if it is a little slower paced.
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic all are vying for the top spot. Well - Federer has the top spot and he’s […]
I stumbled across Rafael Nadal’s blog. Well - stumbled as much as possible when you’re on Tennis.com. It’s really quite good. I was impressed and that’s a difficult thing to do.
There are some funny moments - especially Rafa’s response to a reader’s question about what he thought of Mikhail Youzhny beating himself with his racket. […]
Well, I wasn’t really expecting it, but Nikolay Davydenko steam-rolled Rafael Nadal in the final of the Sony Ericsson Open 6-4, 6-2.
Actually, it was a clinic on Davydenko’s part. Nadal didn’t ever really get his feet under him, and he didn’t know what to do with Davydenko’s cross-court winners. They had a wicked slice and […]
I was hanging on every updated point in the Rafael Nadal/James Blake quarterfinal when the game tracker punked out. It quit. Everytime I clicked on it - and believe me, it was a lot - I got an error message that said the “HTML can not be displayed.” HTML my butt, where’s my tennis scores!?!
However, […]
Because it’s March Madness, I didn’t watch tennis today. That was mistake number one. (How was I supposed to ditch my team when they needed me most, though?) Mardy Fish. Remember that name, because he beat Roger Federer in straight sets at the Pacific Life Open 6-3, 6-2.
Yeah - you read that right. Wow. Crazy.
Fish’s […]
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