Archive for January, 2010
Australian Open-Mens Final Comparison
Tennis newsRoger Federer vs Andy Murray.
Federer Murray
Age 28 22
Height 6-1 6-3
Weight 187 185
Rank 1 4
Career Money-x $53,414,588 $9,920,491
2010 Money-x $52,250 -
Grand Slam Finals 15-6 0-1
Career Titles 61 14
Australian Open Titles 3 0
2010 Titles - -
Head-to-Head 4-6 6-4
Career Record 687-162 227-76
2010 Record 9-1 6-0
2010 Record-Hard 9-1 6-0
Career Record-Grand Slam 194-27 47-16
Career Record-Australian 53-7 12-4
Career Record-Hard 405-88 165-46
Career [...]
Australian Open-Womens Final Comparison
Tennis newsSerena Williams vs Justine Henin.
Williams Henin
Age 28 27
Height 5-9 5-6
Weight 150 126
Rank 1 NR
Career Money-x $28,560,093 $19,480,375
2010 Money-x $53,100 $19,000
Grand Slam Finals 11-3 7-4
Career Titles 35 41
Australian Open Titles 4 1
2010 Titles - -
Head-to-Head 7-6 6-7
Career Record 458-98 503-108
2010 Record 9-1 10-1
2010 Record-Hard 9-1 10-1
Career Record-Grand Slam 187-29 133-24
Career Record-Australian 50-6 36-6
Career Record-Hard 293-56 262-57
Career [...]
Indian tennis player Sania Mirza ends engagement
Tennis newsIndian tennis star Sania Mirza has ended her engagement to a childhood friend, citing incompatibility.
“We were friends for five years but found ourselves incompatible during our engagement period, the 23-year-old said in a statement Thursday.
She had become engaged to Sohrab Mirza last July and earlier this month had said she would consider retiring from the [...]
Australian Open Road
Tennis newsMELBOURNE, Australia -Australian Open road to the semifinals and final.
Women
Serena Williams (1)
First Round - def. Urszula Radwanska, 6-2, 6-1.
Second Round - def. Petra Kvitova, 6-2, 6-1.
Third Round - def. Carla Suarez Navarro (32), 6-0, 6-3.
Fourth Round - def. Sam Stosur (13), 6-4, 6-2.
Quarterfinals - def. Victoria Azarenka (7), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2.
Semifinals - def. [...]
Li topples Venus in Aussie Open quarterfinals
Tennis newsDefending champion Serena Williams survived against Victoria Azarenka in a classic comeback win Wednesday, preventing back-to-back upsets after her sister Venus crashed out in a quarterfinal loss to Li Na.
Venus Williams had a chance to serve for the match in the second set against Li but she went down in a flurry of errors.
Serena Williams [...]
Australian Open Results
Tennis newsMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -Results Friday at the $22,14 million Australian Open at Melbourne Park.
Singles
Men
Third Round
Andy Roddick (7), United States, def. Feliciano Lopez, Spain, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (3).
Fernando Gonzalez (11), Chile, def. Evgeny Korolev, Kazakhstan, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Andy Murray (5), Britain, def. Florent Serra, France, 7-5, 6-1, 6-4.
Juan Martin Del Potro [...]
Nadal swats Luczak
Tennis newsRafael Nadal began his Australian Open title defence with a 7-6 6-1 6-4 victory over Peter Luczak, weathering a crowd-driven onslaught before powering away from the local hope yesterday.
The six-time Grand Slam champion came back from a break down in the first set before wrapping up the tiebreaker to love and breezing through the last [...]
Australian Open Results
Tennis newsResults Thursday from the $22,14 million Australian Open at Melbourne Park.
Singles
Men
Second Round
Nikolay Davydenko (6), Russia, def. Illya Marchenko, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-3, 6-0.
Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, def. Michael Berrer, Germany, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4.
Nicolas Almagro (26), Spain, def. Benjamin Becker, Germany, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3.
Novak Djokovic (3), Serbia, def. Marco Chiudinelli, Switzerland, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3.
Juan Monaco [...]
Wozniacki beats near-namesake at Australian Open
Tennis newsFourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark has won her first-round match at the Australian Open, beating Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak 6-4, 6-2.
Wozniacki, who lost the U.S. Open final last year to Kim Clijsters, has been to Melbourne Park twice before, advancing to the fourth round in 2008.
Its far from the first time the two have met to [...]
Anti-Israel protest threat for Peer fizzles out
Tennis newsIsraeli player Shahar Peer has grown accustomed to the worlds of politics and tennis colliding on her court.
Going into her first-round match at the Australian Open on Wednesday she wasnt aware of media reports about protests planned against her. But she figured thats why all the TV cameras were there.
“I didnt know if there was [...]
