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#Tennis: #JohnIsner on being the humble serving king of the #ATP
Last year a survey of ATP players asked who they would nominate to play a tiebreak for them, if their lives depended on it.The answer, apparently, was almost universal, and it wasn’t Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic or Rafa Nadal. It… Read More ›
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#Forbes – #Tennis: #RogerFederer Say It’s ‘Obvious’ #Rafael #Nadal, #Novak #Djokovic ‘Will Win More’ #GrandSlam Titles Than Him
Roger Federer is locked in a historic battle with rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic for supremacy atop men’s tennis, but he knows time is not on his side. Entering 2020, the 38-year-old Federer is the all-time men’s leader with… Read More ›
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#Reuters – #Tennis: Buoyed #Djokovic banking on history repeating itself
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Champion Novak Djokovic will be gunning for his eighth Australian Open title in Melbourne under circumstances strikingly similar to those when he lifted his second after being inspired by success with his country. A 23-year old Djokovic,… Read More ›
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#Tennis: 5 records that can break at #AusOpen 2020
#1 Becoming the oldest Australian Open champion As of now, the record belongs to former Australian player Ken Rosewall who claimed the Grand Slam back in 1972 at the age of 37 years and 62 days. However, if Federer –… Read More ›
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#Tennis: #SerenaWilliams Wins First Title In Three Years, Donates Prize Money To #Australian Bushfire Relief
As the calendar turned to 2020, Serena Williams hadn’t won a tennis tournament in three years. Her last win came at the 2017 Australian Open, where she beat her older sister Venus in the final while Serena was pregnant with… Read More ›
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#Tennis: #RogerFederer on course to join billionaire athlete club
Roger Federer has made a career of piling up records on court, but he’s also approaching some big numbers off the court. The 20-time Grand Slam champion appears likely to break the $100 million mark in annual earnings for the first… Read More ›
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#Tennis champ Maria #Sharapova tells us how she lives life to the fullest
Maria Sharapova has one of the most recognisable faces in the world. The Grand Slam winner, Olympic medallist and now, entrepreneur, Sharapova is known as one of the most successful women of the tennis world. The tennis champion really knows… Read More ›
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#Tennis: #Canadians, #Americans poised for #AO2020 breakthrough
Todd Woodbridge, a 22-time Grand Slam doubles champion, believes a pair of Canadian stars – Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime – could achieve similar feats, exciting new tennis stars are unearthed, later this month. Read more at: https://ausopen.com/articles/news/canadians-americans-poised-ao2020-breakthrough
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#BBC Sports – #Tennis – #AndyMurray: Will 2020 #Olympics bring surprise happy ending?
The 2020 Olympics start very soon after the strawberries and cream are packed away. In a less taxing best-of-three-set format, could the champion from London and Rio strike gold again in Tokyo? The good thing about the Murray story, in… Read More ›
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