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Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in 1-2 punch.

June 10th 2006 05:43


Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal face each other in the finals of Roland Garros on Sunday.

Rafael leads Roger in the head-to-head, with the Spanish teenager beating Roger in the last 3 matches on clay.

Whilst Rafael looks to defend his title, the first time since Gustavo Kuerton in 2002, Roger looks to be the first man since Rod Laver to win the Grand Slam, currently holding all of Wimbledon, US Open, and Australian Open Titles. This is the first time Roger is in a French Open final.

It was almost not going to be a 1-2 match, with Roger's semi-final opponent David Nalbandian winning the first set 6-3 and breaking Roger's serve early in the second set. It would have been a shock, one-sided affair but Roger broke back and broke again to level the score with 1 set each. Roger was leading 5-2 in the third set when David retired from the match. Nalbandian said he had sustained an abdominal injury in his quarterfinals match but had hoped it would have improved by the start of the match yesterday.

Rafael beat 4th seed Ivan Ljubicic 6-4, 6-2, 7-6(7) in two hours, 49 minutes. He extends his streak to 59 on clay and 23-0 on clay this year.

*photo courtesy of www.ATPtennis.com
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Nadal free ride to semis

June 9th 2006 12:17
From Barnaby Chesterman in Paris
June 08, 2006

RAFAEL Nadal advanced to the semi-finals of the French Open after Serbia teen Novak Djokovic withdrew injured when trailing two sets to love overnight.



The 20-year-old Spaniard extended his winning streak on clay to 58 matches after his opponent retired trailing 6-4 6-4.

The defending champion will face fourth seed Ivan Ljubicic in the last four after the 2005 Davis Cup winner strolled past unseeded Frenchman Julien Benneteau 6-2 6-2 6-3.

Wilting under the sun, Djokovic looked bothered by his back after serves when trailing 3-0 in the second set and also turned his ankle when he fell over.

The 19-year-old from Belgrade had admitted, after defeating France's Gael Monfils in the last 16, he was a spent force.

"I had a couple of chances to win my first game (of the second set) and then I felt pain in my back," said the Serbian. "I was fighting till the end but I just couldn't hold on anymore. It would not have done me any good to continue playing with pain in my back."

Nadal had a word of sympathy for his beaten rival.

"This tournament is very hard, the matches are very long and that can take its toll," he said. "I was surprised because I saw he had some problems in the second set but he was still playing well. In the third I saw him serve a little bit slowler and then on the third point I was surprised because he said stop."

Playing Nadal is hardly the tonic for a weakened state.

The clay sensation will have found this shortened run-out a welcome break, having spent four hours more on court than main rival Roger Federer in reaching the last eight.

"Now I can play the semi-final with more confidence," said Nadal. "I don't feel tired, I was good, I lost a bit of concentration in the second with his problems because I didn't understand that. Every time he served he put his hand on his back but then he played good points. I lost concentration."

Nadal was quickly into his running against his nervous teen, breaking Djokovic's first two service games before serving out the first set.

Djokovic failed to hold any of his first three service games in the secind and although he broke two of Nadal's first three, he again came up short.

The third set lasted only three points before a dejected-looking Djokovic ambled to the net with his head hung low to congratulate his vanquisher.

Nadal allowed himself a brief moment afterwards to look ahead to a potential final with world No.1 Federer, who must overcome Masters Cup champion David Nalbandian in the semi-final.

Asked who he thought the favourite for that was, Nadal replied: "Who is the No.1? He is the favourite but for sure Nalbandian can beat him."

But first he must overcome the rapidly improving Ljubicic, who has surprised even himself with his run to the last four on clay.

The big-serving Croatian dominated the home player after a brief struggle when Beeneteau seemed inspired by the occasion.

Benneteau broke Ljubicic in the fourth seed's opening two service games, but only held serve himself once in the first two sets as he was quickly overwhelmed in just over two-and-a-quarter hours.

Ljubicic smashed down 13 aces as he progressed with minimal fuss, although a far sterner test awaits him tomorrow.

"I dont think there's any doubt that he (Nadal) is the big favourite, not only for the semi-final but in the final as well. Of the four left he's the favourite, then Roger, David and me," said Ljubicic.

"Just by reaching the semi-final I did something incredible so there is zero pressure on me on Friday.

"I am definitely going to have a chance and if I take those chances, I can win."

*article copyright www.news.com.au. All rights reserved.*
*photo of Rafael Nadal from www.corbis.com. Copyright, used with permission, all rights reserved.*
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Roger Federer

June 7th 2006 11:21
ITF WORLD CHAMPION 2005

Roger was crowned the International Tennis Federation's World Champion for 2005. The award was handed to Roger at the annual World Champions Dinner in Paris on Tuesday night.

Roger is only the sixth man to be named ITF world champion in consecutive years, following in the footsteps of Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, Pete Sampras and Lleyton Hewitt. He defended his Wimbledon and US Open titles, winning a total of 11 tournaments for the second consecutive season. He maintained the world number one ranking throughout the year, posting an 81-4 overall win-loss record.

The female player to take home the award was Kim Clijsters.

ATP - ROGER THROUGH TO THE SEMIS

Roger won his 26th Grand Slam match in a row, beating No. 12-seeded Mario Ancic 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 in Paris this afternoon.

This now brings Roger to his eighth consecutive semi-final at a major event, two shy of Ivan Lendl’s Open era record. “To make it to the semis was my first objective in Paris,” Roger said, anticipating a possible showdown Sunday against defending champion Rafael Nadal. “I’m much more relaxed now. There was enormous pressure at the start of the tournament, with everybody speaking about a final against Nadal, but first you have to win the matches before you get there.”

Roger's opponent on Friday will be No. 3-seeded David Nalbandian, who beat No. 6 Nikolay Davydenko 6-3, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.

With his 26th consecutive Grand Slam victory Roger has already overtaken Americans Pete Sampras as well as Jimmy Connors. The only one to be more succesful during the Open Era was Rod Laver, who won 29 matches between the Australian Open 1969 and Wimbledon 1970.

*article courtesy of www.rogerfederer.com, copyright, all rights reserved*.
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French Open ~ Nadal, Hewitt, Monfils and Djokovic

June 6th 2006 05:24
Defending champion Rafael Nadal claimed his first career win over former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt to charge into the Roland Garros quarterfinals. The 20-year-old Spaniard improved his perfect record at Roland Garros to 11-0 and extended his Open Era record clay court winning streak to 57 matches. His career record on clay is 97-12.

Hewitt (now 3-1) is one of only five players with a winning head-to-head record against Nadal. But before today the pair last played at the Australian Open in January 2005, when Nadal had just one tournament victory to his name and was ranked No. 47 in the INDESIT ATP Rankings. Hewitt was ranked No. 2


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French Open Results

June 3rd 2006 22:45
Lleyton Hewitt steamrolls into round 4, defeating Mathieu Montcourt on Thursday and Dominik Hrbarty yesterday 7-6(2) 6-2 6-2 to face defending Champion Rafael Nadal in the next round.

Lleyton Hewitt into round 4
Lleyton Hewitt into round 4

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Nadal beats Vilas' record, Roddick, Murray, Safin

May 31st 2006 10:19
Rafael Nadal has become the player with the highest clay court streak ever, beating Guillermo Vilas' record of 53 consecutive wins on clay after he defeated Robin Soderling of Sweden in the first round of the French Open.

Nadal had a easy straight sets victory, beating Soderling 6-2 7-5 6-1. The Spanish teenager looks to defend his Grand Slam title here, with the main competitor for the title being World Number 1 Roger Federer, who looks to complete his Grand Slam resume by adding the only one that is missing to his collection


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Federer scare Rafa writes for Roland Garros!

May 29th 2006 09:13
It's FRENCH OPEN TIME!

Roger Federer, who looks to be the first person since Rod Laver to win a Grand Slam, had a tough start to his campaign yesterday when he was faced with a "lucky loser" in Diego Hartfield of Argentina. The 156th ranked opponent managed to gain the upper hand early in the first round and Roger lost the first two of his service games, Diego leading at one time 3-0. Hartfield looked to make it 4-0 but Roger broke his serve back. From there Roger managed to break him again and take the set 7-5


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Injured!

May 25th 2006 13:30
ANDY RODDICK (US) and LLEYTON HEWITT (AUS) have both pulled out of their respective tournaments with injuries within days of each other.

Andy suffered a foot injury playing at the ARAG World Team Cup in Germany, retiring whilst trailing 2-4 in a set against Nicholas Massu of Chile


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Newbies in Hamburg!

May 20th 2006 11:40
Mario Ancic, Jose Acasuso, Tommy Robredo and Radek Stepanek are all into the semifinals for their chance to hold their first ATP Series Masters Titles.

It is especially exciting for Mario Ancic and Tommy Robredo who are on their career high ATP Rankings, Mario at No. 13 and Tommy at No. 8


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Hamburg - onto the quarterfinals!

May 19th 2006 05:06
Croatian Mario Ancic has blasted into the quarterfinals with a win over James Blake!

It's his 3rd appearance in a quarterfinal at a Masters Series event this season. He beat the American 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(4


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Nadal levels with Vilas' record

May 15th 2006 10:03
NADAL WON!!!!!

Rafael Nadal (credit ATPtennis.com)

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Rome on Saturday

May 13th 2006 12:59
FedExpress rolls on
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Rome!

May 12th 2006 12:24
From the ATP site:

Men's singles - Third round


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Rome Masters, Day 2

May 10th 2006 10:22
Rafael Nadal started his Internationali d'Italia campaign yesterday, beating compatriot and good friend Carlos Moya (ESP) 6-1, 2-6, 6-2.

The 19 year old Spaniard is on the way to equalling Guillermo Vilas' record of 53 consecutive wins on clay should he defend his title here in Rome


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