Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Brasil Open, SAP Open

ABN AMRO Tennis Tournament

With out any of the other top 4 in the tournament the path was safe for Roger Federer to win his 71st title and has extended his streak of winning one ATP tournament a year to 12 years. Roger Federer defeated Juan Martin Del Potro 6-1 6-4 in the final. The doubles winners were Llodra and Zimonjic.

Roger Federer and Juan Martin Del Potro





seedings for this tournament:


Brasil Open

Nicolas Almagro

Proving he deserved his world number 11 ranking Nicolas Almagro won the Brasil title, all 11 of his titles have come on clay courts and this is the third time he has won here! The Spaniard beat Filippo Volandri 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, Volandri reached his first ATP world tour final in six years! The doubles was won by the top seeds Butorac and Soares.

Seedings:






















SAP Open 

It seems one of the 'Future Winners' from 'Future Winners Friday' has won another tournament quicker than expected! Milos Raonic, the defending champion, won in San Jose, ahead of the number 1 and 2 seeds Gael Monfils and Andy Roddick. To read my profile on Milos Raonic click here. He defeated Denis Istomin 7-6(3), 6-2. Another  from my 'Future Winners Friday' feature did very well, Ryan Harrison reached the semi-finals, losing to Milos Raonic, Harrison was not seeded to read his profile check here.

 Doubles was won by Knowles and Malisse.



The seeds:


Ah I have now caught up with the tournaments starting on 13/02/12 and I will post the results of the tournament starting 20/02/12 before the results of the tournaments starting 27/02/12 on Sunday, meaning I will have caught up!

The tournament to look out for is definitely the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship!

Saturday, 18 February 2012

News Bite

Abit of news about what the top 2 players have been up to in their time off!

Rafael Nadal has been continuing his modelling career on the side and recently posed for an issue of Sports Illustrated called 'Bar and the boys' along with Bar Refaeli.


 Check here if you want to see the rest!


Novak Djokovic has been awarded the highest Serbian honour, president Boris Tadic has decorated him with the Karadjordjeva Star Medal, the highest Honor in the country. Tadic said Djokovic deserves the medal for "special merits in representing Serbia."

Djokovic has also been busy winning another award, the Laureus sportsman of the year. Djokovic talking about his win: