Feb,17,2016
Rafael Nadal cruised past fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta 6-1, 6-4 on Tuesday to reach the Rio Open second round. After rolling in the opening set, the top-seed and 2014 champion broke Carreno Busta for a 2-1 lead in the second set. That break started a trend of five straight breaks between...Read more
Feb,12,2016
Rafael Nadal felt right at home playing once again on the Buenos Aires clay on Thursday. In a rematch of last year’s Argentina Open final, top-seed Nadal moved past Argentinean Juan Monaco 6-4, 6-4 to reach the tournament’s quarterfinals. Despite Nadal dropping serve three times, but displayed an...Read more
Jan,19,2016
It was all the ESPN announcers were discussing throughout its coverage of the Australian Open yesterday: The epic five-set semifinal between Spaniards Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco in 2009. And rightfully so, and the rematch on Tuesday between Nadal and Verdasco in the first-round did not...Read more
Jan,11,2016
While most of the country was enjoying the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs, there was some top tennis being played on the other side of the world as the opening tournaments of the 2016 season came to a close. Djokovic Buries Nadal for Doha Title World number one Novak Djokovic earned the 60th...Read more
Jan,08,2016
The Qatar ExxonMobil Open finals will be a star-studded affair as world number one Novak Djokovic will take on Rafael Nadal, after each player won their respective semifinal matches in straight sets on Friday. Nadal was up first on Friday and he squared off with Ukraine’s Illya Marchenko, who had...Read more
Jan,06,2016
World number one Novak Djokovic moved into the Qatar Open quarterfinals in Doha on Wednesday, downing Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-2, 6-2. “I’m very pleased with the way I have started this season, two matches, straight sets,” said Djokovic. “Tonight was tougher than the first round. Obviously I...Read more
Jan,05,2016
The theme of upsets on Tuesday carried over to the men’s side as well, as fourth-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer was bounced from the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in the first-round. Ukrainian Ilya Marchenko upended Ferrer 6-7(8), 6-3, 6-2. “It was a fantastic day for me, I am really happy with the...Read more
Dec,21,2015
Tennis journalist Mark “Scoop” Malinowski recently published his fourth tennis book, Facing Nadal: Symposium of a Champion . In the book, Malinowski talks to more than 50 ATP players, including greats such as Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, about what made 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal...Read more
Nov,20,2015
Rafael Nadal continued his run at the ATP World Tour Finals in London on Friday, coming back to defeat fellow Spaniard David Ferrer 6-7(2), 6-3, 6-4 to finish round-robin play with a 3-0 record. Although Nadal had already qualified for the semifinals before this match, the 14-time Grand Slam...Read more
Nov,18,2015
Rafael Nadal moved to 2-0 in the Ilie Nastase Group at the ATP World Tour Finals in London, needing just 92 minutes to defeat Andy Murray 6-4, 6-1 on Wednesday. Nadal began his run in London with a straight-set win over Stan Wawrinka in his first-round robin match, and looked every bit as strong in...Read more
Nov,04,2015
Andy Murray rolled into the third-round of the Paris Masters, downing Croat Borna Coric 6-1, 6-2 on Wednesday. The Scot dominated this match with his serve, winning 84 percent of his first serves, and converted two break points in each set to move past Coric routinely. “I lost to him quickly last...Read more
Nov,02,2015
Roger Federer hung on to beat Rafael Nadal at the Swiss Indoors Final on Sunday, downing the Spaniard 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 for his seventh career title at the Basel tournament. Playing for the first time in nearly two years, these two all-time greats did not disappoint in their match on Sunday. Federer...Read more
Oct,12,2015
Novak Djokovic won the sixth China Open title of his career on Sunday, routing Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-2 in just 91 minutes to win his 29 th straight match in Beijing. From the start, the world number one from Serbia was on his game. He converted on his first break point chance in the opening game, and...Read more
Oct,09,2015
Top-seeded Novak Djokovic and third-seeded Rafael Nadal both reached the semifinals of the China Open on Friday, each taking out Americans in the process to reach the final four in Beijing. Djokovic put together a clinical performance, ousting the sixth-seeded Jon Isner and moving past the top-...Read more
Sep,05,2015
In an exciting five-setter that ended well after 1:00 a.m. EST, Italian Fabio Fognini, the number 32 seed, under the lights of Arthur Ashe Stadium, came back to knock off the eighth-seeded Rafael Nadal, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. "I was starting to feel the ball really good, believe me," said Fognini...Read more