French Open 2019: Frederer and Nadal to date in Semis on Friday

The heartbeats in Paris are getting stronger and faster as the ongoing French Open 2019 or the Roland Garros is reaching its crucial stage of semis. While Serena crashed out in the third round to make a history, men are doing pretty well without any major set back so far.

And in the first decided semi final Roger Federer and Nadal have a date to decide who moves into the final. The Federer-Nadal semi is being played on Friday. So who is going to march into finals is hard to tell for now, but most pin hopes on Nadal who feels more at home on the clay than Federer who is king of grass.

Rafael Nadal, the defending champion,  had an easy 6-1 6-1 6-3 win over Kei Nishikori in the quarter-finals, while Federer had a rather tough time of playing down fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka in four sets.

20-times Grand Slam winner Federer is playing at Roland Garros for the first time in four years, having missed the 2016 event with a back injury and skipped the past two clay-court swings to preserve his body.

Nadal is playing his 12th semi-final at Roland Garros and has won the tournament on all of the 11 previous occasions he has reached this stage.

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Roger Federer tops world tennis ranking

The aging yet energetic and super fit Swiss Roger Federer is showing no signs of decline in his physical fitness and is here to stay for quite sometime now.

As per the latest world tennis ranking, Roger Federer is back to world no 1 position with 8670 points. He pushes back Rafael Nadal to no. 2 position with 7950 points,  fell in the quarterfinals of last week's Mutua Madrid Open.

Nadal, who won the Masters 1000 event in Madrid last year, needed to defend all of his champion’s points to hang onto the ATP tour's top spot, but those hopes were cut short by a 7-5, 6-3 loss to Dominic Thiem.

On the contrary, Federer who hasn't played any match since March this year, climbed up to replace Nadal. it is unfortunate to find Novak Djokovic who is not there even in the first five position. He is at no. 18th position with mere 1905 points - which means he is seemingly done for for any top ranking positions in future.

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Federer walks away with his Eighth Wimbledon title

It was a great day for aging Roger Federer on the Center Court at Wimbledon this Sunday when he walked away with his eight Wimbledon tennis title.

Federer beat Marin Cilic in straight easy sets 6-3, 6-1 and 6-4 to his record 19 Grand Slam title. He thus becomes the oldest man in the Open era to win at the All England Club. He also becomes the first tennis star to win five titles in succession at Wimbledon and US Open.

Federer thus supersedes Pete Sampans with seven Wimbledon titles and is only one title behind Martina Navratilova who has bagged Wimbledon title for record nine times.

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Roger Federer beat Nadal to win the Australian Open 2017

Oh boy what a match it was today between the two tennis giants; The seventeen times Grand Slam winner Roger Federer and fourteen times Grand Slam title holder Rafael Nadal.

As I wrote yesterday that age does not matter for some, it is true for America's Serena Williams and Swiss Roger Federer. Like Serena Williams, the same age 35-year-old Federer claimed his eighteenth Grand Slam title by beating Nadal 6-4 3-6 6-1 3-6 6-3.

But for Federer the match was not easy as Nadal, coming back to finals after years of injuries preventing him to climb up the ladder. Nadal and Federer won one set after the other and it was the fifth set in which Nadal finally gave away the title to Federer.


It was federer's fifth Australian title, which also takes him on top of the world list as for men's single titles are concerned.

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Australian Open 2017: Nadal in his first Grand Slam semis in years

Rafael Nadal, the fourteen times Grand Slam winner, has qualified for a Grand Slam final since 2014 after beating Milos Raonic.

The Spaniard bat his Canadian opponent 6-4 7-6 (9-7) 6-4. He now faces 15th seed Grigor Dimitrov on Friday.

Nadal seems to have overcome his injuries that are plaguing him in recent years and have prevented him from defending any of his title. 

If all goes well, Nadal may regain his 2009 title by defeating 35 years old roger Federer who plays his semi against fellow countryman Stan Wawrink on Thursday.

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Djokovic to contest his 5th Grand Slam Final after defeating Federer

In a dramatic semi final of the on going Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the new year 2016, world number one Serbian Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer of Switzerland in the semi final to qualify for the Australian Open final.

After two easy wins of 6-1, 6-2 over Federer, Djokovic got a return jolt when Federer temporarily came back to the game and won the third set 6-3.  However, not losing his nerves, the Serbian won over Federer in the fourth set, sailing into his consecutive 5th Grand Slam final.

It remains to be seen who out of Britain's Andy Murray and 13th seed Raonic take position in front of the charged world number one in the final on Sunday at the Melbourne Park.

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Djokovic beats Federer to win ATP World Tour title

Novak Djokovic has proved to be one of the greatest tennis players as he remains on top of the world despite many threats to his position. The year ends with Djokovic still standing tall as he wins the ATP World Tour title beating Roger Federer.

The world number one broke serve three times to win 6-3 6-4 at London's O2 Arena against Federer in just 80 minutes - just like around the world in 80 days!!

28-year-old Serbian has now won the season finale five times and surpasses Ivan Lendl's 1987 achievement, when he won his third straight Tour Finals title in New York.

With 16,585 points, Djokovic has almost twice the numerical lead over Andy Murray, second on the ranking table with 8,670 points, followed by Federer with 8,265 points.

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Djokovic beats Federer to be the US Open 2015 Champion

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Well to the dismay of many Roger Federer fans, it is the world number one Serbian Novak Djokovic who lifted the US OPen 2015 trophy Sunday.

It was their 42 encounter and aging Federer found it much harder to beat the much younger Serbian and let Djokovic win 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.  Now both have equal wins and losses - 21 each.

For Djokovic, it is his 10th Grand Slam title and he does not give any signs of waning and has his sight set high for many more years and many Grand Slam titles.

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Federer at 33 not lucky as Serena - loses Wimbledon final to Djokovic

While Serena Williams celebrated her 21st Grand Slam and sixth Wimbledon title at the age of 33 yesterday, Roger Federer at 33 too was not lucky to win the Wimbledon title today.

Playing against Novak Djokovic, the world no.1 at the Centre Court today, Federer was able to fight back to equlaise the score 1-1 in the first two sets. But thereafter lost the next two sets much to easily to Djokovic.

At 28, it’s Novak Djokovic’s ninth grand slam and third Wimbledon title. As for Federer, he has won Wimbledon title seven times and Grand Slam titles including Wimbledon 17 times.

Final score Djokovic: 7(7)-6(1), 6(10)-7(12), 6-4, 6-3

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Federer marches into Wimbledon final beating Andy Murray in straight sets

Much against the wishes and aspirations of the Londoners, Andy Murray crumbled in front of 33 years old Roger Federer in the Wimbledon semi final on the Centre Court today.

Roger Federer beat Murray 7-5, 7-5 and 6-4 to march into his 10th Wimbledon final. Federer now eyes his eight Wimbledon title on Sunday, playing against world no.1 Novak Djokovic.

Federer will now be playing his 26th Grand Slam final and eyeing his 18th Grand Slam title and also become the first man in history to win Wimbledon eight times.

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Tearful Andy departs Centre Court empty handed

Few hours before, Andy Murray the darling of England was determined to win his maiden Wimbledon title and bring an end to the title-less drought for his country of 74 years.

But now that the event is over and Swiss Roger Federer bags his seventh Wimbledon title, equaling the record held by William Renshaew and Pete Sempras, a tearful Andy, along with his tear full mother and girl friend left the Centre Court empty handed. And also made the Londoners weep too for the loss.

Congratulations Federer and good luck Andy.

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Murray ends Britain's 74 years long wait at Wimbledon Final

Andy did it !! 

This is what everyone said when British no.1 Scot Andy Murray beat Frenchman Tsonga in the Wimbledon men's singles semi final and marched into the finals.

Andy Murray wins his maiden entry into Wimbledon men's singles final [Photo: Sports Chat Place]

Andy thus ended Britain's long wait of 74 years at the Wimbledon's final - a presence that was last made by Bunny Austin in 1938.

Swiss Roger Federer eyeing the Wimbledon title for the seventh time

Andy Murray now faces a tough challenge against world no.3 Swiss Roger Federer, who marches into the Wimbledon final for the eighth time and eyes to win the title seventh time and equal it to that of William Renshaw and Pete Sempras, both having won the title seven times.

So both players are set to make history: Andy to bring a maiden win not for himself, on his maiden entry into the final, but also to bring the trophy to his trophy starved country for 74 years. And Federer of course eyeing to win the title for the seventh time and go down in history along with the names of William Renshaw and Pete Sempras.

Who do you think will triumph?  Keep your fingers crossed till Sunday 8 July when the two march into the Centre Court of Wimbledon.

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