Saturday, May 25, 2013

French Open 2013 Preview

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 !

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