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• #Time: #RogerFederer Doesn’t Play #Tennis ‘Just to Protect That Record.’ But Another #GrandSlam Couldn’t Hurt

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel on January 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Australian John Millman, facing Roger Federer in the third round of the Australian Open on Friday evening down under, was leading 8-4 in a fifth-set tiebreaker, just two points away from pulling off the upset. But Millman’s end came soon… Read More ›

• #Tennis community pays tribute to #Basketball legend #KobeBryant, one of world’s ‘greatest sportsmen’

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel on January 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

• #NYTimes – #Tennis: #Federer Posts 100th Match Win at #Australian Open

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel on January 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Roger Federer has been pushed all the way before recording his 100th match win at the Australian Open and reaching the Round of 16 at Melbourne Park for the 18th time with a 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8)… Read More ›

• #Forbes- #Tennis: #RogerFederer Wins Epic Five-Set Thriller Over #JohnMillman To Advance At #AusOpen2020

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel on January 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Roger Federer was once again pushed to the brink by Australian John Millman in a Grand Slam encounter, but the 38-year-old Swiss dug deep to pull out the victory. Federer, the No. 3 seed and 20-time Grand Slam champion, prevailed… Read More ›

• #Tennis – #AusOpen2020: #Raonic upsets the sixth seeded #Tsitsipas at the #Australian Open

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel on January 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Milos Raonic is back and stronger than ever. After ending his 2019 far from the courts dealing with an injury, Raonic was facing his biggest challenge yet at the Australian Open. Having ousted Giustino and Garin in the earlier rounds,… Read More ›

• #Tennis: #JohnIsner on being the humble serving king of the #ATP

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel on January 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• #Forbes – #Tennis: #RogerFederer Say It’s ‘Obvious’ #Rafael #Nadal, #Novak #Djokovic ‘Will Win More’ #GrandSlam Titles Than Him

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel on January 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• #Reuters – #Tennis: Buoyed #Djokovic banking on history repeating itself

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel on January 15, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• #Tennis: 5 records that can break at #AusOpen 2020

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel on January 13, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  #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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