For a long time, Roger Federer struggled against two players: David Nalbandian and Lleyton Hewitt. Some say that it was Rafael Nadal that pushed Federer to be better, but it was originally Nalbandian and Hewitt that originally pushed Federer. In the old days, Federer wasn't the baseliner he is today. He altered his game so
Here's a trivia question. Who is the number 2 player in the world? Unless you're an avid tennis fan, you probably wouldn't have picked Novak Djokovic. Unless you're an avid fan, you'll scratch your head wondering how Djokovic became number 2. It goes something like this. What's the last tournament Nadal won? You have to
No. 7 ranked Elena Dementieva of Russia is seeded No. 1 for the $700,000 WTA Open GDF Suez being played in Paris, France, February 8-10, 2010. After a 1st round bye, Dementieva will take on Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia who was a 1st round winner over Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic. The top seeds
No. 14 ranked Vera Zvonareva of Russia has received the top seed of the WTA PTT Pattaya Women's Open which started Feb. 7 in Pattaya City, Thailand. She is the defending champion of the tournament. Zvonareva slipped out of the Top 10 last week after failing to repeat her run to the semis of the
Two tennis stars have come out on top of a new survey asking people about the leading role models in sports. Steffi Graf and Roger Federer were named as the top female and male sports role models respectively in a survey of 1,500 people run by Barclays - sponsors of the English Premier League. Perhaps
Serbian tennis beauty, Ana Ivanovic, will be wearing adidas products for a long, long time after extending her agreement with German sportswear brand Adidas AG for the remainder of her tennis career and beyond.. The twenty-two year old former Roland Garros champion has also relaunched her personal website which, according to web traffic monitor Alexa,
In American football, it's said that a good defense beats a good offense. American football, it seems, is a game of errors. The defense attempts to make the offense produce errors that cause the ball to go from the opposition's defense to a favorable position for their own offense. For a long time, tennis was
World No. 2, Dinara Safina of Russia, has been forced to pull out of next week's Dubai Tennis Championships because of ongoing back problems. She said on her website, "Unfortunately, I will not be able to play the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships this year because of the back injury that's been bothering me since the
Cooperative hitting should be a big part of your practice routine! If it’s not already then definitely take a listen to today’s podcast episode. My guest on the show is Andy Zodin who hosts “In The Tennis Zone”, a tennis radio show in CO. He and I discuss why cooperative hitting is so important. Download
It's the week after the Australian Open and more tournaments are being played. Consider how many players get to the fourth round of a Slam. It's 16. With 128 players in the original draw, more than 100 players have already failed to reach the fourth round, and are therefore out in the first week of
