Final Preparations for Wimbledon
With Wimbledon just 1 week away, we will take a look at what’s up for grabs this week and who will be making appearance just before the Grand Slam event to try polish their Grass game
Author: Asen Peshev
Grass Court Season Heats up
Both Halle and Queen’s Club Grass court tournaments which will take place from June 15 got promoted to category 500 from this year. While the women are heading to Birmingham for a Premier event with a 48 player draw which will give us some answers about the current state of the players. Let’s take a tour around and see who will participate and what we can expect
RG Men’s Final Preview
Djokovic in pursuit of immortality
(1) Novak Djokovic v (8) Stan Wawrinka
After a gruelling 5 set victory over Andy Murray that needed 2 days to conclude – Novak Djokovic is only one win away from becoming only the 8-th player in history to have won all 4 Major Titles.
The world number one took his winning streak to 27 matches and picked up his 8-th win in a row vs his rival Murray by triumphing 6-3 6-3 5-7 5-7 6-1. Play resumed yesterday with the score tied 3-3 in the 4-th set after forecast of thunderstorm plus the approaching darkness forced the organizers to postpone the conclusion of
RG Women’s Final Preview
Lots of questions surrounding our Women’s final preview.
(1) Serena Williams v (13) Lucie Safarova
Serena will try to win her 20-th Grand Slam title when she faces surprising first time Grand Slam finalist Lucie Safaroava in Saturday’s final. If she wins, Williams who is a winner here in 2002 and 2013, will tie Steffi Graf’s record of 22 Grand Slam Titles, with Margaret Court’s 24 looking closer and closer.
The inconsistency of the American these two weeks continued with yet another come from behind win in the semifinals versus the Swiss Timea Bacsinzsky. This however was the most dramatic one to date, as Serena was visibly sick.
RG Men’s Semi Final 2
(14) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga v (8) Stan Wawrinka
This semifinal may be overlooked, but both are in very good form coming in and if they show the same high level of tennis this could be an epic 4 or 5 setter that can compete for the match of the tournament.
Both will be looking to make only their second Grand Slam final. And while Stan The Man succeeded while getting there by defeating Nadal in 2014 Australian Open, Tsonga dropped a 4 set decision to Novak Djokovic 7 years ago in the same tournament.
Has been long time coming for the Frenchman as he missed significant time with a persisting