Today, Andy Roddick played against Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Western and Southern Open, where he lost his senses and lobbed a ball into the audience. He lost 6:7, 7:5, 6:1. When he lost the second set, Roddick got a warning about smashing his tennis racket, and at the beginning of the third set, he lobbed the ball into the audience, so the judge gave him a penalty point, and it was already 30: 40 for Kohlschreiber, so Andy Roddick lost the game. After that, he lost the match too. Not cool Roddick, not cool.

Despite the fact that he is number one tennis racket, Novak Djokovic is also famous by his sense of humor and his jokes, pranks and impersonations on and off the court. Here is another one in Montreal, silly Djokovic 🙂

As I have said before, this years Rogers Cup is a strange tournament, where an amazing turn of events have happened. Yesterday Federer lost from Tsonga, Djokovic had 2 chances to be eliminated, but the biggest surprise was the Nadal-Dodog match, where an amazing thing happened in the third set, which resulted in victory for Dodig. Although he is ranked 41 on the singles ATP list, he was handling it very well playing against the second tennis racket in the world and that is why he managed to struggle this game and win.

Nadal on the other side seemed very disappointed, mainly because he was giving his best, and yet he lost this match. But that`s tennis as he said, sometimes you win , sometimes you lose. It`s all about the moving and the moving on :).

The Federer-Tsonga match is just about to start. It is gonna be an interesting match I think, according to the latest happenings with those two on Wimbledon, where Tsonga defeated Federer. Before Montreal Tsonga was relaxing a little bit, he only played on the Davis Cup, where he won Philipp Kohlschreiber. Federer on the other side , just turned 30, but he is still optimistic about his profession, announcing that he will continue to play tennis for the next 3 or 4 years. The match began with a great backhand return from Tsonga. Federer returned with four amazing serves, two of which were aces. The second game is followed by a very aggressive game from  Federer. Tsonga is not considering to play on Federer`s forehand side, because every forehand return seems like a projectile on the other side. However, Tsonga won the second game, and the result now is 1:1. The next two games did not have any particular excitement, so they both goth one game, but in the next game Federer showed a little more aggressive tactic, so he won the fifth game, the result is 3:2. The 6-th game started with unforced errors from both players, but Tsonga managed do save the result with great service and then a forehand return. He seems very comfortable in this match, maybe because of the victory over Federer on Wimbledon.  He equaled the result, 3:3 it is, and the next game continues with equal result. Federer is on serve and he did no manage to return the passing shot from Tsonga, which resulted in game for him. But, karma is a bitch 🙂 so, Federer was not very merciful with Jo-Wilfried in the 7th game. Read the rest of this entry »

So, here we are in Montreal (not literally):), where an amazing match is taking place at this very moment, Djokovic v.s Davidenko. Watching the game, it looks like someone, and by someone I mean Davidenko has been practicing a lot, while Djokovic was relaxing after becoming the world number one tennis racket. Well, I guess this match is going to be a reality check for Novak. It is like the story about the aunt and the grasshopper :). Currently, the result is 4:1 for Davidenko. The guy is on fire. He won 2 breaks, and looks very confident, like he was preparing all his life to win this match.  The 6th game just finished, with a break won by Novak Djokovic. It seems like he will be back on track. I guess he was expecting less from this match. But Davidenko is showing amazing psychic skills. He is “reading” every movement of Djokovic, so in the seventh game there was a point where he went after the ball even before Djokovic knew where he would hit it there. The 8-th game has finished with a result 4:4. Novak Djokovic is back in the game, but yeat again he is making some unforced errors, and on the other side, Nikolaj is fighting to win back this set. It is really one strange set. In one moment, the Serb is making mistakes that he must not do, and Davidenko is having the well known psychological condition called fear of success, and that is why he “gave away” 3 games . Now it is 5:4 for Davidenko, and he is again showing this unnecessary fear toward Djokovic. And here we go, it is 15:40 , and Davidenko just won a great point with an overhead. The game continues with deuce and advantage for Davidenko, and deuce again. Now Djokovic is having a break point, so he ties the result, 5:5, and just 13 minutes ago it was 4:1 for Davidenko. Amazing.  The weath

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Today, Marcel Granollers won the Swiss Open in Gstaad. He managed to win over Fernando Verdasco in amazing three sets, 6-4,3-6,6-3. After Wimbledon, Granollers have had constant pains in his arm, so after that, he haven`t had any training at all. On Sunday he came at Gstaad, rested and ready to play, and amazingly he won the tournament. We noticed an improvement in his first serve which was one of the key factors that affected his game and his confidence during the game. The match wasn`t easy at all, because Verdasco is an amazing player. Although he is ranked better than Granollers, Verdasco did not win a tournament this year. Last time Granollers won an ATP tournament was back in 2008 in Houston. Congratulations on the new Swiss Open champion.

Maria Sharapova

The World No.5 Maria Sharapova will attend the major coup for the Brisbane International that will take place in Queensland. The 2011 Wimbledon finalist has never been to Brisbane, and she thinks that the attendance to this coup would be a good start for her. Cameron Pearson, the Director of the Brisbane International Tournament said that he is very delighted that the popular Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova will be part of 2012 Brisbane International. He claims that Sharapova will be extremly popular on this tournament, and the fans will be delighted to see her live.

In a spectacular show, the artist Jean-Pierre Blanchard did amazing painting of Roger Federer in four minutes. The portrait was done at the presentation of the SVC Enterpreneur Award in Zurich. Jean-Pierre is a great adimierer of Roger Federer. He said that he has a great face which is relatively easy to paint. The painting was put on auction and the highest bid came from Ernst & Young`s Thomas Sauber, who acquired the painting for 16.100 swiss francs. The money from this bid will go to the Foundation of Roger Federer that supports under-privileged children in Africa.

The 20 year old Canadian Milos Raonic, had a hip surgery after his injury on Wimbledon. He suffered a right hip injury in a second round match. Raonic was serving at 2-1 in the first set against Giller Muller, when he slipped on the grass, and after the break for medical attention, he continued, but after the first serve, he retired from the game. Today he had a surgery, and he is hoping to play on US Open. We hope so too. Raonic is currently ranked 26-th.

After winning Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic became officially World Number 1. And why is that so? Well, watching his game, we can notice that Novak became the best returner in the tennis game, which is proven by the fact that he has won 39% of the returns. Playing against Nadal in the finals, tells us that something has to be changed, and that is Nadals strategy, because Nole became unstoppable. Anyway, what I was trying to say is that now, when Novak became no.1 , Head announced a video in order to celebrate the victory of Novak Djokovic. Respect for them and respect for Nole, we salute you. Enjoy the video;)