The Roland Garros Stadium Tour has been a dream of mine ever since I became a fan of tennis, watching iconic matches like the 2008 Federer vs. Nadal Wimbledon final and since then, I have kept a close eye on grand slams. Growing up in India, cricket was the sport …
Read More »Double Fault at Rio 2016
Sania Mirza, Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna, these are some of the most popular faces of Indian Tennis. Mirza and Paes are winners of some of the prestigious Grand Slam events of the sport. Sania Mirza is at her lethal best alongside Martina Hingis. “Santina” are a terror on the court …
Read More »Roger Federer – the reason I watch tennis
Just like any other kid, I too had role model. The only difference was that I had role models in different areas – sports, politics, entertainment etc. On the sports front I enjoyed watching a lot of sports. Mainly focused on Cricket, I did enjoy watching speeding F1 cars, the …
Read More »Hawk Eye and its impact on Sports
With Technology improving on a daily basis and new tools emerging almost daily, technology is now at the heart of everything. Be it the in news LIGO observatory in USA that was successful in finding the Gravitational Waves after Einstein’s prediction over 100 years ago or be it the device …
Read More »Novak ‘Fantastico’ Djokovic
Novak ‘Fantastico’ Djokovic nicknamed Djoker is regarded as the most humorous player off court but on the court he’s invincible. He may be a great impersonator of famous tennis players like Nadal and Sharapova off court, but he’s brutal on the court, no matter which surface it is. Powerful forehands, …
Read More »Fantastico Serena got ‘Kerber’ed at Australian Open
Serena Williams is possibly the best Woman’s Single player in the open era Tennis. She has been at the top for few years now and has been playing exceptionally well. She has won a record number of majors title – 36 of them – and is only behind the great …
Read More »The Fantastico Federer
I write this post amidst the news of the tennis great Roger Federer going down against Djokovic in the Australian Open Semi Final match. He lost 6-1,6-2, 3-6, 6-3 Roger Federer is one name that is synonymous with Tennis and he is the only reason I started following the game. …
Read More »Time for the legends to call it a day
Sachin Tendulkar and Roger Federer have been the best ambassadors possible for their respective games. Both Tennis and Cricket have had a large number of people following for the sole reason being their presence on the field. But the recent slump in their form have prompted the critics to go …
Read More »Azarenka – The Undisputed Champion.
Victoria Azarenka – my favorite has given me a reason to smile today 🙂 ! She has successfully defended her Australian Open title. She has been playing exceptionally well in the recent past and we can see the results. In my last post, I had predicted Azarenka the winner and …
Read More »Murray edges past 'clueless' Federer
Yes, Fedex was clueless today. He was ace-less for almost 2 sets ! (Well when have we seen Fedex do that bad ?) Nothing went right today for Fedex. Murray looked way better and in form. So it will be Djokovic vs Murray. According to the history books, in the matches played between Murray and Federer, the player who …
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