International Blog – Michael Dickens After Novak Djokovic won the longest Wimbledon gentlemen’s singles final in history over Roger Federer, 7-6 (5), 1-6, 7-6 (4), 4-6 13-12 (3), which lasted an exhausting four hours and 57 minutes, it added to […]
LONDON, July 16, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Throughout the gentlemen’s singles final at the Wimbledon Championships Sunday, the margins were so small, the tension and excitement of a five-hour classic so great. It didn’t matter who won or lost. Novak […]
LONDON, July 8, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Two-time former champion and third seed Rafael Nadal powered into the quarter-finals of The Championships at Wimbledon on Manic Monday. The Spaniard defeated Portugal’s Joao Sousa 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 in an hour and […]
LONDON, July 4, 2019 Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal faced a tough challenge when he met Nick Kyrgios in Thursday’s second-round match on Centre Court. In the pair’s first meeting at SW19 in 2014, a 19-year-old Kyrgios stunned then-World No. […]
PARIS, June 10, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Twelve finals, twelve titles, across two different decades. Such has been the tale of Rafael Nadal, winning the French Open a dozen times. He has cut across generations of rivals and has had […]
PARIS, June 9, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Spanish World No. 2 Rafael Nadal made it an even dozen of titles in Paris as he defeated Austria’s Dominic Thiem 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 in a riveting three-hour one-minute final on Sunday. […]
PARIS, June 7, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Spaniard Rafael Nadal ended Roger Federer’s five-match winning streak against him, as he defeated the Swiss 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in two hours and 25 minutes in their semi-final at Roland Garros. Despite the […]
PARIS, May 31, 2019 Rafael Nadal cruised through the opening two rounds at Roland Garros, but the challenge stepped up a notch on Friday, with the 11-time Paris champion up against No. 27 seed David Goffin on Court Philippe Chatrier. […]
PARIS, May 29, 2019 Rafael Nadal advanced to the third round of the French Open. The 11-time champion at Roland Garros remained untroubled in his 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 win over Yannick Maden from Germany, who battled through the qualifying to […]
PARIS, May 27, 2019 (by Sharada Rajogapalan) If day one at the 2019 French Open did not have too many upsets, day two was just the opposite. Both in the men’s and women’s draw, upsets lined up as if they […]
