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Roger Federer, who was knocked out of the Wimbledon tennis tournament at the quarterfinal level has been working with a new coach, Paul Annacone. Paul Annacone was the coach of Pete Sampras, and others such as Tim Henman, and Marat Safin. More recently, Roger Federer was beaten at the Toronto title by Andy Murray. Murray had a good match, where he became the first, since Andre Agassi,...

In an unsurprising win at Wimbledon on Sunday, Rafael Nadal, the number 2, won the match against Tomas Berdych, the number 12. As with the women’s finals, the match was fairly short, with the winner winning in straight sets. In the men’s finals, Rafael Nadal beat Tomas Berdych in three sets, 6 - 3, 7 - 5, and 6 - 4. In the women’s finals, Serena Williams...

Wimbledon’s women’s finals will be taking place on center court between Vera Zvonareva from Russia, and Serena Williams from the USA. Zvonareva is the 21st seed, and Serena Williams, who is well known at Wimbledon is the 1st seed. Zvonareva beat the world number 82nd, Pronkova, in one hour and 46 minutes on center court in the semifinals match. Serena Williams played Petra Kvitova in her semifinal, winning the...

Day nine of Wimbledon has come and gone, and was certainly not the day that anyone expected it to be. Roger Federer, whom many expected to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament, was defeated in the quarterfinals by Tomas Berdych. This will be the first time that Federer will not be playing in the Wimbledon finals this year, as he has done every year since 2002, when he was defeated by...

The two sisters, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams have been dominating Wimbledon’s tennis finals for a few years now. This year, however, there will be no final game played between the Williams sisters, because Venus lost her match against Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria, who is an unseeded player. Venus is seeded second, and has just sustained the worst loss of her Wimbledon career. The first seed, Serena, however, is...

John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut after an epic tennis match that lasted for eleven hours and five minutes. The American finally managed to beat Mahut on the third day of their match. Isner won the first set 6-4, Mahut won the second set 6-3, Mahut won the third set 7-6, and Isner won the fourth set 7-6. The fifth set was the one that everybody is talking about, in...

A couple of weeks ago, the French Open tennis championship was won by Rafael Nadal for the fifth time in six years. The women’s French Open championship was won by Francesca Schiavone. Nadal is now the number one seed in the world, however, when Wimbledon begins soon, he will not be the defending champion. Wimbledon is one of the few tennis tournaments that seeds players according to their records...

The French Open tennis tournament is underway, with the excitement growing as the tournament heads toward the second round, set to take place on the 27th March 2010. Punters are placing their bets, and waiting to see who will win this tennis tournament played on clay courts. Sportsbooks certainly seem to be supporting Federer as the favorite, with Nadal a close second, and with Djokovic as another of the favorites. Roger...

Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick has pulled out of next week's World Tour finals, citing a left knee injury. French Open runner-up Robin Soderling will replace the American star in the field and make his debut at the prestigious eight-man event. Andy Roddick, who qualified for this tourney for a seventh straight year, has not played anywhere since suffering a knee injury in Shanghai last month. "I am really disappointed to miss...

Spaniard Rafael Nadal appears on the front cover of the Chinese-language edition of Sports Illustrated this month (October 2009). The former ATP World Tour World No. 1, who captured the singles gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, features in a 9-page profile for the mag. Rafael Nadal, who is competing at the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 Presented by Rolex this week, expressed his desire to regain No. 1...