Five Parting Thoughts on Wimbledon 2010

This is why I’ll remember the 2010 Wimbledon Championships: 1) The grass is always greener on the other side and nobody knows it better than Rafael Nadal . The Spaniard continues his stubborn march towards tennis’s highest ranks and he’s doing it on a surface other than clay. For all of Nadal’s brilliance over the past few months (he’s now won the ‘summer double’... 

2010 Wimbledon Men’s Singles Finals Preview and Prediction

In the summer of 2004, a young Tomas Berdych ended one of Roger Federer’s few incomplete dreams of winning an Olympic Gold medal in the Men’s singles competition. Six years forth and the prodigious Czech is back again on a bigger and grander stage.  Having overpowered the Swiss legend on the latter’s beloved Centre Court, Berdych promptly went on to prove that his victory was... 

2010 Wimbledon: Men’s Semifinal Previews and Predictions

And we’re down to the Final Four.  And there’s no Federer . And it feels strange.  But somehow it just doesn’t feel wrong.  Berdych deserved every bit of his upset. Djokovic got lucky only because he ran into Lu instead of Roddick but the way the Serb was playing, it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. Nadal flipped the match around completely after being... 

Wimbledon 2010: Previews and Predictions of the Men’s Quarterfinal Showdowns

The script writer for Wimbledon 2010 could not have written it better. Five setters by the dozen, enough scares to the top seeds and of course, the Isner-Mahut “match of the century. Somewhere at the start of the second week, he made a slight error—a typo. The Gentlemen’s Singles quarterfinals lineup is as consistent as expected. With the ousting of a Davydenko once again uneasy on... 

Wimbledon Memories: Goran’s Golden Moment

For every tennis fan who believes that nothing could better the atmosphere and tension during the 2008 “Match of the Century” between Federer and Nadal, remind yourself of the last game when one Goran Ivanisevic served at 8-7 for the championship. Believe me, no sporting moment is arguably worth recounting more. Looking at a scoreline of 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, even the most ardent of... 

Wimbledon 2010 Previews and Predictions: Seven Days, Seven Matches

After a week of absolutely brilliant weather, scintillating five-setters, scares to the tournament favorites and the most amazing tennis match that any spectator will ever witness, the seventh day at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club promises match-ups the likes of which we haven’t seen at this stage of a Grand Slam in recent memory.    Roger Federer vs. Jurgen Melzer Centre... 

2010 Wimbledon Widgets

1) Is it just me or did someone else get the impression that Roger Federer won not because he played better tennis, but because Falla suddenly realized that he was playing against arguably the greatest grass court player ever? Either way, on a day like that, even the great man himself acknowledged that he probably deserved to lose. For those that have already written him off, it might help to remember... 

Why Wimbledon 2010 Will Forever Define Roger Federer

  “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same”  — Rudyard Kipling Having tasted enough of the “triumph” that Kipling refers to, it seems senseless and ignorant to believe that Roger Federer still has something to prove to the tennis fraternity. Unfortunately for the Swiss maestro, he seems to have fallen into a... 

Ten Parting Thoughts On Roland Garros 2010

It’s been a strangely fortuitous fortnight, but now that the dust has settled on the red clay of Roland Garros, we’re reminded of how strangely fulfilling this years French Open has been. Here’s what I’ll remember of the past couple of weeks: 1) Rafael Nadal is not just good on clay. He’s scary good. No disrespect to Bjorn the legend but there’s only one thing that... 

2010 French Open: Why Robin Soderling Finally Beat Roger Federer

  There are many reasons why Roger Federer finally failed to make it to the semifinals of a Grand Slam. Foremost among these is the fact that all streaks which involve winning have to end. And this wasn’t a “participating-in-a-major kind of streak”. It was more of a “beating-five-of-the-world’s-top-players-at-every-major-for-six-years” kind of streak! Notice... 

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