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And At His Age
Queens, Final (6) Cilic d. (10) Nalbandian, 6/7 4/3 default When Tommy Haas – who I am contractually bound to point out is 34 years old – upset Roger Federer in the Halle final, you would have been forgiven for … Continue reading
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A Modest Proposal
Halle, Semifinals The finalists at both Queens and Halle have been decided, and the line-up is about what one might expect, assuming you have just emerged from a decade-long coma. (If you have, then allow me to be the first … Continue reading
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Scarlet Billows
French Open, Day 13 (2) Nadal d. (6) Ferrer, 6/2 6/2 6/1 (1) Djokovic d. (3) Federer, 6/4 7/5 6/3 By the time a tennis tournament has been reduced to just four men – continuing with my nuclear chemistry theme … Continue reading
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Les Particules élémentaires
French Open, Day Ten Much like other radioactive substances, the tournament draw at the 2012 French Open cleaves to a more or less fixed rate of exponential decay, weather permitting. After a slow start, the event discards precisely half its … Continue reading
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A Torrent of High Comedy
French Open, Day 8 (3) Federer d. (LL) Goffin, 5/7 7/5 6/2 6/4 Roger Federer today defeated David Goffin in four sets, and thereby moved through to his 32nd consecutive quarterfinal at Grand Slam level. This equates to eight years … Continue reading
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Minor Records and Major Drama
French Open, Day Two Kukushkin d. Gulbis, 6/4 7/6 5/7 2/6 6/4 For the first two and half sets of his match against Mikhail Kukushkin in the Roland Garros first round, Ernests Gulbis played like a man killing time, and … Continue reading
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Intrepid Naturalists
Rome Masters, Semifinals (1) Djokovic d. (3) Federer, 6/2 7/6 Until he stepped up to serve for tonight’s second semifinal at the Rome Masters, Novak Djokovic had dropped just one point on his first serve. It was an impressive stat … Continue reading
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The Drama Category
Rome Masters, Third Round Seppi d. Wawrinka, 6/7 7/6 7/6 The question of why Rome is my favourite Masters tournament was addressed with devastating intensity by Andreas Seppi and Stanislas Wawrinka on Court Nicola Pietrangeli today, ably supported by a … Continue reading
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Increasingly Jiggy With It
Madrid Masters, Final (3) Federer d. (6) Berdych, 3/6 7/5 7/5 Roger Federer today defeated Tomas Berdych in the final of the Madrid Masters, thereby cementing his place as the premiere blue clay player of our time. It was his … Continue reading
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A Profane Space
Madrid Masters, Semifinals (3) Federer d. (7) Tipsarevic, 6/2 6/3 To the extravagant array of trying conditions already prevailing at the Madrid Masters, today’s second semifinal added a fitful and swirling breeze. Roger Federer was already favoured to win, and, … Continue reading
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