Radek Stepanek, 35 years old and thin wrist, put note of suspense in the debut of Rafael Nadal in Indian Wells. The 1,000 points which defends the number one could vanish at the first hurdle in the California desert, but it went back to the Czech in a match played to pulls, strokes of caste: 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 in 2...
Rafael Nadal escapes strings against Stepanek
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Dolgopolov eliminates Rafael Nadal, sagging 955 points
Aleksander Dolgopolov decapitated Indian Wells and left the Masters 1,000 without their champion, Rafael Nadal, who loses these 955 points to the first hurdle in the marathon that you should take you to the defense of 6,100 in three months, until the end of Roland Garros. After 2 h:19, and after suffering in three sets already in the second round...
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Robredo and David Ferrer passed to knockout in Miami
The Spanish Tommy Robredo went today to the second round of the Masters Series in Miami by defeating Frenchman Julien Benneteau 6-3, 6-4, and will face Serbian Novak Djokovic, number two in the world. The match, who lasted an hour and 17 minutes, was dominated by the Spanish, who took advantage of four opportunities to break service of his opponent...
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Flavia Pennetta, out after losing against a 43-year Japanese
The 43-year-old Japanese Kimiko Date-Krumm gave the big surprise in the inaugural Monterrey open of tennis to overcome this Tuesday to Italy’s Flavia Pennetta, the first favorite, 7-5, 6-2. With nothing to lose, Date Krumm, 98 of the world list, she was patient and opted to maintain the effectiveness of its service and to expect the failure of Pennetta, erratic...
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Nicolas Almagro and Fernando Verdasco will play the final
The Spanish Fernando Verdasco, seeded fourth, beat Colombian Santiago Giraldo 6-4, 7-5 and reached the final of the tournament in Houston, which for the first time will be two Spaniards. Verdasco, twenty ninth in the world, will have as a rival in the final, his first of the year and the 18th as a professional, to Nicolas Almagro, third seeded,...
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Novak Djokovic is cleared and the scepter of Rafael Nadal is not in danger
Doubts are clearing Madrid. One was whether Novak Djokovic will play, and will not. That clarifies a second mystery: Rafael Nadal will remain number one on Monday no matter what happens in the Magic Box. Are other questions, such as whether Roger Federer, pending his next parenthood, finally lands today or prefer to stick with Mirka Vavrinek. Another question, perhaps...
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Garbine Muguruza crushes the number one, Serena Williams
The Venezuelan Spanish Garbine Muguruza (1.82 in height, father Gipuzkoa, Eibar, and mother of Venezuela) gave the big blow in the current Roland Garros tournament dethroning Serena Williams, reigning champion, number one in the world and champion of 17 individual titles in Grand Slam: in another midday as autumn, with the thermometer no more than 14 degrees in ParisMuguruza thumped...
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Rafael Nadal fulminating Ferrer and will see in semis with Murray
An unexpected Sun in its decline on the Lenglen track copper mousetrap shone the unusual end of a strange match where Rafael Nadal, the champion, signed his fifth consecutive semi-final at Roland Garros after disconnect absolutely to David Ferrer. After two hours and 34 minutes, Nadal beat Ferrer 4-6, 6-4, 6-0, 6-1 and finished a shift whose end no one...
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Nadal: “tennis has returned me what I removed in Australia”
The Spanish Rafael Nadal ensured the final of Roland Garros today against Serbian Novak Djokovic was “the worst physically” for him, but that “the illusion, motivation and desire to win” kept him on the track. “It is the final that I have most suffered from all. There were times when I felt very empty. I don’t know what would have...
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Toni Nadal: “Rafael comes with energy other than Wimbledon”
Toni Nadal, uncle and coach of Rafael Nadal, said today that the world number one tennis player arrives this year at Wimbledon with a different “energy”, after losing in the first rounds in the last two editions. “Rafael arrives with a different energy, with other attitude,” said the coach, who stressed that the past two years Wimbledon were an “ordeal”...
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Serena Williams still adding and holds on to the number one
American Serena Williams keeps one extra week at the head of the world rankings of women after winning the tournament in Miami, second Masters 1000 of the season, against the Russian Maria Sharapova, his highest form, and hangs on to the number one.
Williams, who accumulates a total of 48 individual titles and 22 doubles, 31-year-old leads the ranking with 11.115 points, followed by Sharapova and the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, who remains in third position with 9.325 points despite having lost 250 points because of their absence in Miami.
The first variation in classification has occurred within the “top ten” where Australia’s Samantha Stosur outplayed Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki, who is positioned well to the tail of the ten best players in the world.
Classification:
1. Serena Williams (USA) 11.115 points
2. Maria Sharapova (RUS) 10.015
3. Victoria Azarenka (BIE) 9.325
4. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 6.845
5. Na Li (CHN) 5.880
6. Angelique Kerber (ALE) 5.475
7. Sara Errani (ITA) 5.405
8. Petra Kvitova (RCH) 5.225
9. Samantha Stosur (AUS) 3.865
10. Caroline Wozniacki (DIN) 3.760
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Nadal is out of the ropes
The instinct for survival of the great prevented Rafael Nadal fell to the canvas in the quarterfinals of the Madrid Open mutual. The tyrant of Earth was able to escape strings that pushed David Ferrer, who was two points to take the match (6-5 and 15-30 in the second set to the rest), but spared. And forgive a killer is to give opportunity to you knocks. This is what happened: 4-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-0 in 2 h: 36.
Ferrer had before a wall of six consecutive defeats on clay against Nadal, and didn’t know it down. It was not easy. The King of clay has 43 victories followed in quarters on Earth tournaments. Not lost in that round and on the surface since 2005.
Ferru came out convinced that based on tap with deep balls and subtract as a madman would demolish it. And he succeeded in the first set. “Rafa, focus!”, thundered a spectator when of Manacor was going a break down in the first set (2-4), when he had already received a warning (the 15th year) by delaying making up the throw-in and already had taken out the demons from within protesting the umpire on change: “Are you okay with one warning mark me without telling me?”. But Nadal not slipped by balls, was placed with short steps perhaps as a precaution after the knee injury, and Ferrer opened many angles.
The mentality of wanting to win from Javea put wears the first partial. Favorite negotiated ball set against a second service and lost. Nadal finished this sleeve with a single point won with second serve of the 12 before…
In the second, Ferrer followed by piggybacking on high balls from Rafa as a madman. And it breaks occurred, three for each one to be reached to 5-5. With 6-5 and 15-30 Ferrer settled two points to take the match but missed a drive that was worth a semifinal (“I saved the ball with luck,” said Nadal)… and it was agreed that the wall that separates him from the four top is covered with spines. It did not profit them, and opened the door to a tie-brek, who noted the number five (7/3).
Nadal is out of the ropes, only had to take the initiative to finish the work. The world number four had unplugged, his mind thought on what happened, not what could still happen. And he undid to fit a doughnut.
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