Ever since, Dimitrov has been called as Baby Fed, every tennis fan is eager to see a match between Fed and Dimi. And that is happening now in quarter finals at Basel.
“I think he was a bit better than me today. Both sets could have gone either way. So, it’s clearly a pity I couldn’t win either of the sets because I was starting to feel better towards the end of the match. But unfortunately I couldn’t push him further and create more chances today.
Roger Federer , completed his first title draught with Garre -weber open at Halle . Grass surface is considered to be most succesful surface Federer. It is interesting that, finally he won title at his favourite surface.
Shear dominance from Rafael Nadal against Roger in the final at Rome today 6-1,6-3. Everybody including Roger expected a good match , but that didn't happen. Such a dominance from Rafa.
It's not the Federer that I've seen earlier this week when he lost to Nishikori . He definitely brought back his own game in last 4 matches. And he is really looking forward to another match against his long time rival Rafael Nadal .
Back to back exits before reaching semis atleast for Novak Djokovic. This happened less than 2 weeks in two ATP masters . One exit when he faced Baby Federer , Grigor Dimitrov in the second round of Madrid open , and today in quarter-final match in Rome against Tomas Berdych .
World no.5 Rafael Nadal won his 5th title this year in the 7 tournaments he played after his comeback from knee injury. If he continue his form like this, we can see great contest from top players who faces Rafa in quarters itself. The draw will be interesting at Roland Garros.
Roger federer felt very bad about his performance against Kei Nishikori . He is going straight to practice court, he was unable find his rhythm in the play except in the second set. He went for
Novak Djokovic, World no.1 and dominating the tennis world for the recent 2years and recently defeated Nadal at his own den (Monte Carlo). Grigor Dimitrov, a 21 year old
Stanislas Wawrinka the sussie won portuagal open after defeating David Ferrer with 6-1 6-4 in just 65 minutes. Great play from Stan. He is able to defeat top seeded players consistently, he almost edged Djokovic in Australian Open this year, and recently Murray and now David Ferrer. Good to see this.
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240"] David Ferrer (Photo credit: Passion Leica)[/caption] Four time finalist, top seed David Ferrer faced an early exit to Tursonov in the second round of Barcelona open. Tursunov won with 7-5 3-6 6-1. And the over hyped Dimitrov lost to Former world no.5 Tommy Robredo with 5-7 1-6. Seven time champion Rafael Nadal started his campaign towards 8th title with win over Berlocq 6-4, 6-2. And Fellow spaniard Almagro through to 3rd round. Raonic advances to third round after defeating Roger-Vasselin.
Before the match, it is more than half guarantee that Rafa will win for the ninth time in nine years. And all of sudden Djokovic started very strongly with almost 4 bagel points, but Rafa survived and looked like he would be extending first set to tie breaker . But Novak didn't let that happen. Novak bagged first set with 6-2.
Djodal. New name :) As Fedal, the rivalry between Federer and Nadal . It is just same Djodal, between Djokovic and Nadal. The Djodal rivalry is resuming tomorrow at Monte-Carlo final show down.
As everybody expecting Grigor Dimitrov ( the baby fed ) is improving at rapid rate. And today he set clash with Rafael Nadal , 8 time champion here, and almost beat him in the third set.
Roger Federer skipped Monte Carlo masters , an ATP 1000 tournament which is not mandatory of course. Monte Carlo administration offered a wild card for Roger. The last date to accept the wild card is Apr 11, 2013, just 2 days before the
Somdevvarman failed to upset world no.1 Novak Djokovic at Sony open in Miami. Of course it was not expected. But Somdev played really well. He is moving quickly around the court, and make Djokoer difficult to get the point.
Rafael Nadal ousted Juan Martin Delpotro to achieve his third title after his come back from knee injury. Thrilling match between these two guys. In first set, Nadal broke the first service game
Juan Martin Delpotro is playing great tennis in IW(Indian Wells) beating two among the top 4 players and ready to fight with Rafael Nadal for the title. Delpo beaten Andy Murray in quarters in thrilling 3 sets.
Nothing seemed right there, no movement in the court , very easily giving up the rallies, trying hard to put the ball in the back hand side of Nadal, and uneven shot selection and losing rhythm and little back pain, all concluded to another loss in the journey to defend the title for Roger Federer.