The second grand slam of the year is going to tick off in 5 hours time , now lets took at a preview of how the European clay court season went on for every one .
The top four Clay court tournament as per the following Order :
In Monte Carlo , Djokovic ended Nadal's supremacy by beating the king clay 6-2 7-6
In Barcelona , Nadal beat his fellow countrymen Nicolas 6-4 6-3
In the Madrid open , it was a tournament of upsets where Novak , Roger , Murray all made early exits , Wawrinka was like the main highlight of the whole tournament where he had unstoppable run to the finals but he was stopped by king of clay .
In Rome , Roger Federer made a huge come back by reaching the final of tournament but he had again been stopped by the tracks of the king of clay " Rafael Nadal "
Again the top favourite for the tournament is Rafael Nadal , is bidding to be the first to win 8 grand slams at a particular slam event . Will it happen ? well the only man to stop in his tracks is Novak Djokovic , as he is the only man to beat Nadal on clay 3 times , Roger has 2 wins against the Spaniard on clay .
Two big players are forced to withdraw from the tournament , Andy wont be able to play due to a lower back injury and Del Potro is skipping the tournament to a virus .
Djokovic will be Looking For a Major Set - Top seed Novak Djokovic is looking to become the eighth player to complete the Grand Slam of four major titles. He reached the Roland Garros final last year (l. to Nadal).
Federer hoping Chasing No. 18 - World No. 3 Roger Federer is bidding to win his 18th major championship and lift the trophy at Roland Garros for the second time, having triumphed in 2009 (d. Soderling)
.Ferrer eagerly Looking For a Breakthrough - Fourth seed David Ferrer is looking to reach his first Grand Slam final. The Spaniard, a winner of 20 ATP World Tour titles, reached the semi-finals in Paris 2012 (l. to Nadal).
Bedrych will also be a threat to the players as he coming out of a good clay court season .
Grigor Dimitrov will be the man to watch out who upseted the world number 1 at the Madrid open in the 2nd round and also pulled Nadal to 3 grilling sets at the Monte Carlo
Roger Federer will begin his Campaign against a qualifier , Novak will have his campaign started against David Goffin , David last year became the first lucky loser in the open Era to go on till the 4th round but lost against his Tennis Idol Roger Federer.
Nadal will play against Sergiy Stakhovsky in his first round match , Nadal could face against Lukas Rosol, who won their 2012 Wimbledon clash, or No. 27 seed Fabio Fognini in the third round.
Who will come out on top ? Will it be Nadal to create history ? will it be Novak to complete the Career Slam ? Or will the Roger Federer come out to win his 2nd french Open Title ?
Stay tune for more Updates on the French open 2013 !
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Ruthless Nadal masters Rome
Rafael Nadal wins yet another clay courts as he literally dismantled federer to win his 7th Rome title , 6th title of the year for Rafael nadal . He won against Federer 6-1 6-3.Rafael Nadal also continues to extent his on record on ATP masters titles , he now has 24 ATP masters titles .
Set 1
Even though Roger had the smoothest opening services game , his game to go all out to Nadal never worked on bit , Roger was making allot of errors , but Rafael Nadal just went on rouge of hitting amazing passing shots having a simple minded strategy to play against Roger .
First blood of match game from the federer side of things blunder of errors allowed Nadal to break at the 4th game of the match and there on it was just him , hitting brilliant backhand winners and a sight to see .
Errors and errors were following and Nadal wrapped up the first set in just 23 minutes
Set 2
Federer had to something to turn the match around , but with Rafa there it was very tough .Nadal raced to a 3-0 lead courtesy of errors from Federer and a couple of stunning winners from Nadal . When Nadal had a chance to serve out the match at 5-1 , there came a little bit of resistance from Federer has he was able to break back Nadal . But the Nadal express just couldn't stop , he executed his game plan and he was successful at the end of the day winning an exclusive 24th ATP masters title
Set 1
Even though Roger had the smoothest opening services game , his game to go all out to Nadal never worked on bit , Roger was making allot of errors , but Rafael Nadal just went on rouge of hitting amazing passing shots having a simple minded strategy to play against Roger .
First blood of match game from the federer side of things blunder of errors allowed Nadal to break at the 4th game of the match and there on it was just him , hitting brilliant backhand winners and a sight to see .
Errors and errors were following and Nadal wrapped up the first set in just 23 minutes
Set 2
Federer had to something to turn the match around , but with Rafa there it was very tough .Nadal raced to a 3-0 lead courtesy of errors from Federer and a couple of stunning winners from Nadal . When Nadal had a chance to serve out the match at 5-1 , there came a little bit of resistance from Federer has he was able to break back Nadal . But the Nadal express just couldn't stop , he executed his game plan and he was successful at the end of the day winning an exclusive 24th ATP masters title
Rome 2013 final preview
It has finally come to this , a final which the whole world wanted, the "FEDAL Final " . Lets look at the review of the their performances this tournament .
Federer coming back strongly after a huge upset in Madrid , he has a fairly good campaign not dropping one set . Nadal on the other had a few tough matches against both Gulbis and Ferrer .
This is will be the 30th time both the players meet . This is their first final for them since the French open 2011 .
Nadal is on brilliant form ever since his come back and he has played 8 tournaments and reached the final in every tournament he played , such a brilliant comeback has allowed Nadal push on the drivers seat for the battle of year ending world number 1 slot against Djokovic .
Federer on the other hand before entering this tournament he had a 14-5 record and was the only top 10 not a reach an ATP final , but he has surely shut his critics .
Both these Gladiators already have contested on final at Rome on 2006 and what a match that was , it was one of the most memorable final and world has ever witness .
Finals history :
Nadal Appearing in his 79th career ATP World Tour level final…55-23 in finals (5-2 in 2013)
Appearing in his 35th career ATP Masters 1000 final........23-11 in finals (17-5 on clay)
Federer Appearing in his 111th career ATP World Tour final……..76-34 in finals (first in 2013)
Appearing in his 34th career ATP Masters 1000 final........21-12 in finals (6-7 on clay)
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Federer coming back strongly after a huge upset in Madrid , he has a fairly good campaign not dropping one set . Nadal on the other had a few tough matches against both Gulbis and Ferrer .
Nadal is on brilliant form ever since his come back and he has played 8 tournaments and reached the final in every tournament he played , such a brilliant comeback has allowed Nadal push on the drivers seat for the battle of year ending world number 1 slot against Djokovic .
Federer on the other hand before entering this tournament he had a 14-5 record and was the only top 10 not a reach an ATP final , but he has surely shut his critics .
Both these Gladiators already have contested on final at Rome on 2006 and what a match that was , it was one of the most memorable final and world has ever witness .
Finals history :
Nadal Appearing in his 79th career ATP World Tour level final…55-23 in finals (5-2 in 2013)
Appearing in his 35th career ATP Masters 1000 final........23-11 in finals (17-5 on clay)
Federer Appearing in his 111th career ATP World Tour final……..76-34 in finals (first in 2013)
Appearing in his 34th career ATP Masters 1000 final........21-12 in finals (6-7 on clay)
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