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What can you say about Spa, eh? What a brilliant restart to the season we were treated to today. For the first time in 2010, Q1 was actually worth watching, Q2 provided shocks, and although Q3 was a little flat, it has produced a tantalizing grid! Qualifying One Di Grassi opened the session, followed by almost all the other drivers. Belgium’s weather has been as unpredictable...
Published: August 28, 2010
Besides finding herself out the door early and often at many tournaments during the North American hard court season, Jelena Jankovic, the No. 4 seed at the U.S. Open, suffers from a tough draw heading into New York. The summer has not been kind to the Serb with the patented slide along the baseline as she tries to change directions quickly. Jankovic of late finds herself increasingly...
Published: August 28, 2010
James Blake has not had a good year on the tennis courts. It started promising enough, when he pushed last year’s US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro to five sets in the second round of the Australian Open, but since then he has compiled a record of 11-14 for 2010, having been forced to spend three months recovering from a knee injury this spring. He is currently ranked No. 111. Off...
Published: August 28, 2010
The final Grand Slam of the 2010 tennis season starts on Monday. Unfortunately, 2009 US Open Champion Juan Martin Del Potro won’t be able to defend his title in Flushing Meadows, due to an injury that has sidelined him since the Australian Open in January. Hopefully, he’ll recover soon and work his way back to the top of the ATP rankings. Rafael Nadal, the No. 1 in the world and current...
Published: August 28, 2010
Lil Wayne, one of America’s best known rappers, may be in prison, but that won’t stop him from writing about what he loves. We’ve already seen his post-Miami Heat NBA breakdown. Now he’s come out with a new piece of sports material, a preview of the U.S. Open. Not just a preview, but a handwritten special to SI.com. Go to TheSportingRave.com to read Weezy’s...
Published: August 28, 2010
With grunts coming at the end from both players, exhaustion ignored for the importance not only for this tournament but also the US Open next week, the two players battled on in the semi-finals of the Pilot Pen tournament tonight. Despite her first set win 6-1, Elena Dementieva was clearly uncertain in the second losing to Caroline Wozniacki 6-3. It was the third set, however, that made this one of...
Published: August 28, 2010
It was an unhealthy marriage that diminished the untouchable game of Tiger Woods, with havoc and tension diagnosing a precarious relationship in shambles. Every once in a while in a sport, a well-known athlete struggles finding rhythm and loses swagger when burdens of the personal life evoke countless interruptions, which publicly affects the well-being of a well-respected icon. It took a car accident...
Published: August 28, 2010
As Fernando Alonso and the rest of the F1 circus splutters back into life this week, so do the All-Motorsport Power Rankings, fully recovered and relaxed after two weeks on a lounger around a pool surrounded by other tongue-in-cheek sports columns (and yes, the Germans still get their towels there first). Returning this week we cast a sideways eye over the best news of not only this week, but some...
Published: August 28, 2010
Thank God for tennis. The U.S. Open returns on August 30, and as always, it’s going to be loaded with beauty and talent everywhere you look. There’s beautiful women sitting in the stands and there’s hot chicks playing tennis on the courts. Who will come out on top of this list? A WAG or an athlete? You’ve got 50 women to click through to find out. Enjoy! Begin Slideshow Read More →
Published: August 27, 2010
Rafael Nadal (1) def. Teymuraz Gabashvili The No. 1 player in the world opens his quest for a first U.S. Open title against a man he beat twice in straight sets last year. Denis Istomin def. Maximo Gonzalez Istomin is 22-19 this year, while Gonzalez is just 2-4. Gilles Simon def. Donald Young In their only two career meetings, which both took place in ’08, Simon defeated...