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• #Tennis: #Federer to fight for more slams

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on September 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  He’s 38 but Roger Federer maintains more grand slam chances await despite confessing to a “missed opportunity” after blowing a two-sets-to-one advantage in a shock US Open quarter-final defeat. Clearly hindered, a gracious Federer refused to blame a back issue… Read More ›

• #2019 – Raptors – First NBA title, Andreescu – First Canadian #Tennis #GrandSlam singles title.

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on September 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Not long after the #Toronto #Raptors conquered the #NBA for their first title, #Andreescu has a chance to become the first #Canadian to win a #GrandSlam singles title. It will be the teen prodigy Bianca Andreescu against the former teen… Read More ›

• #WSJ: The Rapid Rise of #Tennis Star #BiancaAndreescu

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on September 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Women’s tennis continues to add fresh talent, with five players age 24 or younger remaining in the U.S. Open. At the start of the season, no one had thought Bianca Andreescu would be one of them. Then she went berserk…. Read More ›

• #Tennis: One hundred matches and counting for #Federer at the #USOpen

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on August 29, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Federer, surely the most elegant and balletic athlete on the pro tennis circuit, is playing his 100th match at the US Open in 19 years is yet another marker of just how good Roger Federer has been — and for so… Read More ›

• #Tennis: At 21st #USOpen, #VenusWilliams still loves her ‘job,’ wins

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on August 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  NEW YORK — Venus Williams still loves her job. And she’s still capable of doing it rather well. Playing in the U.S. Open for the 21st time, tying Martina Navratilova’s record, Williams improved to 21-0 in first-round matches at Flushing… Read More ›

• #RodLaver: ‘#Federer is a complete champion, he can play #Tennis until he is 40’

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on August 19, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    Rod Laver: Roger, Rafa and Novak are three of my biggest champions. What Roger does on and off the court makes him a complete champion. He likes the game, this is how I feel when I see him competing…. Read More ›

• Shapovalov, Berdych audition for James Bond movie

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on August 2, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Earlier this summer, a few ATP stars tried out for a new James Bond movie. Tomas Berdych, Diego Schwartzman, Denis Shapovalov and Karen Khachanov all took part with Outside the Ball taking them through the audition. Schwartzman and Shapovalov both… Read More ›

• #Forbes: Visiting This Year’s #USOpen Means More Than #Tennis

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on August 1, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  The world’s greatest tennis players will be competing for record paydays when they visit New York City for the US Open beginning August 26. Both the men’s and women’s singles champions will receive a check for $3,850,000, while the men’s… Read More ›

• #WTA #Tennis: #Halep set to be #Olympic flag-bearer, awarded Order of the Star of #Romania

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on July 17, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Wimbledon champion Simona Halep is set to be the Romanian flag-bearer at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and has been awarded the Steaua României, the highest distinction of the Romanian state, in the wake of her second Slam triumph. Read… Read More ›

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