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It’s a given that, after achieving a record-breaking career milestone, suffering a letdown in the aftermath can be an unavoidable consequence. That’s exactly what happened to Rafael Nadal on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Gerry Open. Coming off of his record seventh win at Roland Garros on Monday morning, Nadal fell to Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-4 at Halle on Friday....
Published: June 5, 2012
The guy everyone wants to talk about isn’t playing on Tuesday, so while Rafael Nadal awaits his own quarterfinals matchup, it leaves tennis fans to ponder the fates of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic as they take to the clay on Tuesday. There seemed to be some cause for concern with regards to both Federer and Djokovic during Sunday’s fourth round, when they both went down early...
Published: June 4, 2012
On Sunday, he was the Tiger Woods of old. He was fist-pumping after big shots (and, for once, there were big shots), he was jovial with the media, he was smiling and making jokes, telling them he wasn’t necessarily the Tiger of old but he certainly felt older. And Tiger was right about that one thing—he’s not the Tiger Woods of old. Not yet. We learned one important thing from...
Published: June 1, 2012
We all remember what happened the last time Tiger Woods looked decent and we all got ahead of ourselves. After he destroyed the competition at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in late March, earning his first PGA Tour win in over two years, we began talking about a potential Masters win—and then, at Augusta, he crumbled, finishing 40th after being dubbed the favorite to win. Now, almost...
Published: May 23, 2012
After his big win at the HP Byron Nelson Championship, Jason Dufner will compete with Hunter Mahan to become the first member of the PGA Tour with three wins this year. The action will go down in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Colonial Country Club, a par-70, 7,204-yard course that ranks 22nd among the 51 most difficult courses played on the tour in 2011, according to SportsNews.com. Although it’s...
Published: May 21, 2012
Rafael Nadal slipped from his world No. 2 ranking after a shocking loss at the Madrid Open, but all doubters were silenced after his win over No. 1 Novak Djokovic in Rome just over a week later. Coming off of a loss to Fernando Verdasco in the third round at Madrid on May 10, Nadal had a lot to prove—mostly that he could still contend with top competition…as long as the courts were to his...
Published: May 16, 2012
The Byron Nelson is where the next big things come to make names for themselves on the PGA Tour. Right on the heels of an exciting win for Matt Kuchar at the Players Championship, the action turns to Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, for the HP Byron Nelson Championship, where only the strongest survive the wind’s fury. The course tends to be a tough one where, last year, the wind blew consistently...
Published: May 15, 2012
Something doesn’t add up in the tale of Erik Kuselias’ “move up” from the Golf Channel to NBC Sports Talk, suggesting that his most recent switcheroo might have been provoked for the same reason as his first. Kuselias was once a talking head at ESPN, but the Worldwide Leader let his contract expire in 2009 without seeming to make an effort to keep him around. In 2011, he moved...
Published: May 15, 2012
Rafael Nadal shouldn’t have dropped to No. 3 in the world rankings because he never should’ve lost in the third round of the Madrid Open. The world knows it, and he knows it: If he hadn’t been so preoccupied with the new blue courts in Madrid, the outcome of that tournament would’ve been very different, and he probably wouldn’t have fallen out of the top two spots...
Published: May 11, 2012
Ian Poulter and Martin Laird are going to have to keep looking over their shoulders as the second round of the Players Championship progresses, because the competition is quickly catching up. Laird finished the first round in sole possession of the lead after shooting a seven-under 65, and Poulter—after playing “one of the top-10 rounds of golf” he’s ever played in...