Players
About the top tennis players such as Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray but also other players who play ATP World Tour events or Challengers and Futures.
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Player to watch: Pablo Carreno-Busta
Today 21-year-old Pablo Carreno-Busta (ranked 228 in the world, but was as high as 133 last year) beat Julien Benneteau in straight sets in Portugal Open. He already has a great clay court game and is definitely a guy to watch for the future. Some info on Pablo Carreno-Busta from the official ATP website: Age:21 […]
The Battle of Legends – Federer vs Nadal
The above clip reminded me about an old article I wrote about the Fedal rivalry or as I called it then: The Battle of Legends – Federer vs Nadal. I wrote it before Djokovic came thundering in and changed the conversation. Despite the Federer vs Nadal rivalry not being as competitive in head-to-head stats (Nadal […]
Remember Lukas Rosol? No One Match Wonder.
Yes, he is the guy who beat Rafa Nadal in Wimbledon 2012 after blasting winners left, right and center. People were raving about him then, but as soon as he lost the next match without much of a fight, he was rather quickly forgotten. But in ATP Bucharest he showed he is more than a […]
A Nadal Set of Tennis
I rarely want to write about the same player two times in a row, but I have just watched the conclusion of the first set of Almagro vs Nadal in ATP Barcelona. It was such a typical “Nadal set of tennis”. Let me tell you why. Nadal rarely comes out of the starting blocks strongly […]
Neurotic Nadal – Pulling Pants Out of His Ass
I wrote a post for Sportsuntapped a while ago about Nadal’s habit to pull his pants out of his ass between points. Now this is a very hot topic, first and foremost because Nadal-lovers want to defend his habit and Nadal-bashers want to label it as something disgusting. Personally I think that what a man […]
Tommy Robredo is back
There is no denying Tommy Robredo‘s return to the upper echelons of men’s tennis after first beating young star Grigor Dimitrov and today tournament number three seed and top ten player Tomas Berdych. It must feel strange to be a solid top ten player and then fall out for so long. Here is the chart […]
287 weeks
Federer: 287 weeks as world number one and all I got was this stinking shoe?
First week: Wimbledon insights
The first week of Wimbledon has passed and on the tennis free Sunday I will try to summarize some of the highlights or insights I’ve gathered in the first week with a dash of humor – the Tennisnerd way. Rosol who? We who follow tennis knows how hard it is to play the match of your life, […]
The mental strength of Roger Federer
Sometimes we doubt Federer’s resolve and hunger to keep on winning tennis matches. He has been prone to leave the court mentally in critical stages the last few years and the way he deflated against Djokovic in the French Open semifinal doesn’t exactly fill a Federer fan with confidence. Against Julien Benneteau in the third […]
Rafael Nadal’s eyebrows have a life of their own
Nadal’s interview skills are famous, but I think his left eyebrow should also get some credit. It’s working very hard! Click the image to see the video or click here And you do know that Nadal looks like a Capybara right?