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Huge tennis fan. Looking for a career in sport journalism. Ana Ivanovic and Andy Murray are my favourites.
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World number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia is in hot form as we are heading towards the ATP world tour finals, the last ATP…
Ana Ivanovic won the French Open in 2008 and became number one in the world, however the Serb suffered a massive downfall in her…
Britain's top tennis player Andy Murray has appointed former women's world number one and two time Grand Slam champion Amelie Mauresmo as his new…
Maria Sharapova of Russia made it back into the French Open final for the third straight year, beating Eugenie Bouchard of Canada 4-6, 7-5,…
We are heading into the final stages of the French Open, this year's second Grand Slam. The men's four semifinalists have been decided and…
A year ago Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova competed in the final of Roland Garros, but there will be no repeat of last year's…
Who is best place to make a run at the French Open Women's title? I have named the top-five contenders to take out the…
Kvitova must find her form for grass season. Other wise she might not even make into the Singapore Year end championship. Also Ivanovic must go deep in the two grass tournaments that she will play to keep alive in the top 10 of the YEC ranking list.
Kvitova and Ivanovic again disappoint on the big stage
That’s not what I wrote at all. I wrote “2012 French Open runner up took on big-serving Milos Raonic of Canada next in quarter finals where he battled past the Canadian 7-5, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 to reach the last four. ” The Roar has edited it wrong. And I have no idea how to change it.
The stage is set for the men's Roland Garros semi finals
It is possible that Federer can win this year. He is still in the top 5.
Roger Federer and the last quest at Wimbledon
Serena Williams is going to win this for sure. No doubt about that. Also every year when the American won Rome, she has gone to take the French crown.
2014 French Open: Women's preview
Currently Halep has won only one match at Roland Garros. It is exciting to see how she does this year. Radwanska just won her opening round match. It is hard to consider the Pole as a title contender this year. Radwanska has choked couple of times when she had the Grand Slam on her hand. Notably at Wimbledon last year and Australian Open this year where she was the clear favourite to win when all the contenders faltered before semi finals. But surprisingly she lost those two semis to players that she should have defeated. Right now her form on clay is questionable and apparently she is not comfortable on clay as on hard and grass surfaces. So it is hard to put Radwanska into the title contender’s group for clay court grand slam.
To be honest Serena and Sharapova are the first two contenders for the title. But as I mentioned in my article above one of them will lose before semis – most likely the Russian. If Li Na fails in an early round, l it is exciting to see who goes to the final from the bottom half. If Ana Ivanovic can pick up where she left off, she must be the one to reach the final. Halep might block Ana’s path to the final for sure. There are plenty more potential players to enter the final from bottom half too apart from the trio I mentioned. Errani. Jankovic, Kvitova and perhaps Kuznetsova too.
Thus the bottom half is clearly open with both Serena and Sharapova (along with Radwanska too) are in the top half of the draw.
Serena could face Sharapova in a French Open quarterfinal
Thanks for the feedback Mark! Of course, Ana is one of contenders for major titles in 2015, particularly for the Aussie Open.
Ana Ivanovic is back to her best