A lot of the same general preview can be given for the men and women, so if you didn’t see our preview for the two men’s events you can see it here. Of course, the women’s matches are best-of-3 all the way throughout the tournament, just like at the Slams and every other tournament. So [...]
London Olympics Tennis Preview: Men’s Singles and Doubles
There will be a lot of tennis played at the All-England clubs during the Olympics, so we’re going to split up our preview into two posts. In this post we’ll talk about the two men’s tournaments and in the next one we’ll talk about both women’s tournaments as well as mixed doubles (and we’ll hopefully [...]
Wimbledon Final Preview: Roger Federer vs Andy Murray
Federer’s Keys to Victory: 1. Serve well- For Federer, it might not all end with the serve, but it definitely all starts with it. It might not be the biggest, but Federer still has one of the best serves on tour. Even a great returner like Djokovic couldn’t do much against Federer’s serve when it [...]
Wimbledon Ladies Final Preview: Agnieszka Radwanska vs Serena Williams
Radwanska’s Keys to Victory: 1. Don’t let Serena set up- Here is the problem for Radwanska. She is a good all-court player who plays consistently and doesn’t make mistakes. She works her opponents around the court and makes them play shots they don’t want to play. And that’s great for her. It just got her [...]
Wimbledon Semifinals Preview
Roger Federer vs Novak Djokovic What a difference a round makes. If these two had met in the quarterfinals, we would all be looking at Djokovic as a prohibitive favorite. And maybe we still should be. But Federer looked dominant in beating Mikhail Youzhny today. Youzhny looked like someone who knew he was in a [...]
Wimbledon Ladies Semifinals Preview
Angelique Kerber vs Agnieszka Radwanska Kerber showed great defensive skills in getting by her hard-hitting countrywoman, Sabine Lisicki. Both Lisicki and Kerber showed a fair amount of nerves in their match on Centre Court, but hopefully getting through this will help Kerber deal with pressure situations in the future. A semifinal against another inexperienced opponent, [...]
Wimbledon Quarterfinals Preview
Novak Djokovic vs Florian Mayer Mayer has had quite a poor year coming into this tournament, actually. His 2012 of 9-15 before this tournament will stay below .500 unless he actually wins the title here. Mayer is a decent player and has been hanging around the top 50-100 for most of 8 years now-aside from [...]
Wimbledon Ladies Quarterfinals Preview
Sabine Lisicki vs Angelique Kerber Lisicki is a very talented player, but Wimbledon is without a doubt her Slam. She has reached the quarters and the semis the last two times she competed her (she missed the tournament in 2010). Lisicki has had to overcome some very tough injuries in her short career but is [...]
Wimbledon Round 3 Recap: Federer Survives
First of all, we have to give major credit to Yaroslava Shvedova. Shvedova, who really caught a lot of attention with her great French Open run, completed the first “golden set” in women’s tennis in the Open Era against Sara Errani in her third-round match. She won all 24 points to take the first set [...]
Wimbledon Round 2 Recap: Nadal Falls
Well, the seemingly unthinkable has finally happened. One of the “Big 4″ lost in the second round at a Slam. It was Rafael Nadal, World #2, competing against World #100 Lukas Rosol. Rosol has a good serve, big groundstrokes, and not much else. He had never been consitently accurate before in any match he played. [...]
