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Djokovic wins the Grand Slam

05/06/2016

Malaga, 05-06-2016 In his fourth final in Paris, Novak Djokovic, undisputed number one in the world, won Roland Garros tournament beating Andy Murray 3-6 6-1 6-2 6-4. The Serbian thus becomes the eighth man, who has won the four Grand Slam titles, after Don Budge, Fred Perry, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, and he comes in for his own right in the Olympus of the tennis giants. Most single GS titles Djokovic has also achieved the four tournamen ...

Wawrinka and Thiem reinforced

22/05/2016

Malaga, 22-05-2016 Stan Wawrinka and Dominic Thiem were the winners of the tennis week. The Swiss was prophet in his homeland rising the title in the Geneva ATP 250 defeating in the final to Croatian Marin Cilic, 6-4 7-6 (11). For his part, Thiem won the Nice tournament winning the duel of promises against the German Alexander Zverev, 6-4 3-6 6-0. Wawrinka achieved his third title of the year, after Chennai and Dubai, and takes out the bad taste in his mouth accumulated in the three Ma ...

Murray stuns Djokovic

16/05/2016

Malaga, 15-05-2016 Andy Murray celebrated his 29th birthday in style. A stunning backhand, executed almost from the stands, closed the Masters 1000 tournament final in Rome, defeating world number one, the Serbian Novak Djokovic, by the score of 6-3 6-3. It is the first title of the year for the Scot and his 12th in Masters 1000 with what he overcomes Pete Sampras in number of victories in tournaments of this category. The Scottish has played the final of all Masters 1000 tournament in th ...

64th title for Djokovic

09/05/2016

Malaga, 08-05-2016 Novak Djokovic, world number one, was the winner of the Madrid Masters 1000 tournament, his fifth title of the season, defeating in a tense and hard-fought final to Andy Murray 6-2 3-6 6-3. The Serbian thus confirms his leadership in world tennis and shows his early elimination in Monte Carlo was nothing more than an accident. With this victory the Serbian raises his number of titles to 64, catching up with Bjorn Borg and Pete Sampras, only five away from Nadal. Besi ...

Almagro wins again

01/05/2016

Malaga, 01-05-2016 Three very long and extremely disputed finals - never before six tie-breaks were played in the finals of the same week – marked the end of a tennis week in which the German Philipp Kohlschreiber, the Argentinian Diego Schwartzman and the Spanish Nicolas Almagro were the winners in Munich, Istanbul and Estoril, respectively. Nicolas Almagro won in Estoril, beating Pablo Carreño-Busta, 6-7 (6) 7-6 (5) 6-3 to raise his 13th ATP title - all on clay - four ye ...

Nadal catches Vilas

24/04/2016

Malaga, 24-04-2016 Confirming the optimal sensations he is showing lately, Rafael Nadal has won his ninth Conde de Godo, in a magnificent and competitive final defeating Japanese Kei Nishikori by the score of 6-4 7-5. Nadal thus confirms the excellent moment he is going through and shows, a week after he did it at the Country Club, that the terrible ordeal of 2015 is fully overcome. With this victory Nadal reaches 49 titles on clay, tying the legendary register, absolute ATP record, th ...

Nadal is back again

17/04/2016

The impressive forehand of Rafael Nadal flew over the line to land on the right corner of an exhausted Gael Monfils, finalising with that last bounce the final of the Masters 1000 tournament in Monte Carlo, 7-5 5-7 6-0. On the other side of the court, Nadal fell to his knees and kissed the clay, his clay, of the court Rainier III of the legendary Country Club. It was his ninth title in the Principality, his 28th Masters 1000, the 48th got on clay, the 68th of his career in his 100th final ...

Argentinian party

11/04/2016

Two Argentinian, Federico Delbonis and Juan Monaco, were the winners of a week in which the big players chosen to hide the cards – the only one top-20 competing was John Isner, in Houston - reserving forces for the intense clay calendar that Monte Carlo opens from today. Delbonis continuing his great season start triumphing in Marrakech, the second ATP title of his career, after the successful in Sao Paulo two years ago. The left-handed Argentine, showing he is in a great form and c ...

Djokovic, absolute king

04/04/2016

Miami Masters has been, as expected, another triumphant tour of the tennis´s King, Novak Djokovic that becomes, with this victory, the first player to win 28 Masters 1000 titles, surpassing the stratospheric mark of 27 which holds Rafael Nadal. Most titles Masters 1000 The data are so overwhelming as the domain the Serbian exerts on the circuit. And endless, there are many records the Serbian is destroying in his path. Since 2011, the undisputed number one world has won 23 of the 47 ...

Djokovic, the records breaker

21/03/2016

In his tireless race to the legend - some say that also to the honorific title of best player in history - Novak Djokovic continues destroying records in his path. In these two weeks of Indian Wells are several which he has broken, starting with some of the own tournament: more titles (5) and best percentage of victories (88,68%). He shares with Roger Federer the number of finals (6) and more consecutive titles and finals (3 in each case) and with Lleyton Hewitt, the shortest final in num ...

Djokovic and Murray suffer but win

07/03/2016

The duel by excellence in the Davis Cup, Australia-USA, finished with a comfortable victory for the Americans on the grass of Kooyong. Nick Kyrgios down was drawbacks that not even the experience of Lleyton Hewitt, who made partner with John Peers in the double, could avoid. John Isner became the lord and master of the qualifying round, dispensing with 49 aces to Bernard Tomic and 20 to Sam Groth. The grass at the end, prepared by Hewitt to get the most out of the game of Kyrgios, was an inv ...

Djokovic reaches 700 victories

29/02/2016

The week started with ephemeris in Dubai. Novak Djokovic reached, in his second round match before Malek Jaziri, 700 ATP victories, expanding to 13 members the exclusive club of players who have reached that number of victories. Most ATP wins The achievement, outstanding in itself, is even more remarkable considering that to reach that round number, the Serbian has only needed 847 matches, equivalent to a percentage of 82,65%, the second best in the ATP history, just behind Bjorn Borg who ...

The Weekly Data: First title to Kyrgios

22/02/2016

The young Nick Kyrgios has released his ATP record with his victory in the ATP 250 of Marseille. He becomes, at age 20, the youngest player in the circuit with at least one title, displacing the Austrian Dominic Thiem of this honourable position. In recent years, only Raonic and Tomic have won his first title at an earlier age than Kyrgios. The victory of the Australian was based on an impregnable service which has allowed him to finish the tournament without a single break. His statistic ...

Nadal fails in Buenos Aires

15/02/2016

Nadal cannot get his head above the water in this beginning of season. The ghosts that seemed to dissipate in the last months of 2015 reappeared with strength in the semis of Buenos Aires, when the Austrian Dominic Thiem could overcome a match point to win finally 6-4 4-6 7-6 (4). The Balearic, once unbeatable on clay, does not seem to take up again with his best version. Rafa just lost 14 matches on clay in the period 2005-2014. Between 2015 and 2016 so far he already accumulated 7 defeats o ...

Idylls

08/02/2016

The idylls also exist in tennis. And I don't mean the couples that may arise between players, as Dimitrov-Sharapova, already broken-up, or Pennetta-Fognini, nor other alleged affairs that was commented a few months ago, Nick Kyrgios willing, of Vekic-Wawrinka-Kokkinakis. Niet. What I mean is the connection that sometimes appears between a player and a particular tournament. Either for technical reasons - height, temperature, characteristics of the court or other - which are adapted espec ...

Sixth Australian Open to Djokovic

01/02/2016

As everyone expected, maybe even the same players, Novak Djokovic has won his sixth Australian Open, equalling Roy Emerson as the player with more titles in this tournament. Of course, there are records and records. Emerson won his six titles in an era in which the best players in the world did not dispute the Slam because they competed on the professional circuit, this is said with all due respect to the great Australian champion. The truth is that the comparison of the path followed by both in ...

Federer reaches the 300th Grand Slam victory

24/01/2016

With the conclusion of the third round, Australian Open 2016 reaches its equator, ready to take place the final rounds in its second week. Of the 128 players who started in the tournament 16 remain in the fight. Of them, 13 were expected - the seeded system has worked almost to perfection in Melbourne - and only three have crept in fourth round above his previous classification: Andrei Kuznetsov, Gael Monfils and Roberto Bautista Agut, who have gotten into the gaps that Rafael Nadal, Kevin A ...

The Weekly Data-Troicki again in Sydney

17/01/2016

The week of January 11 brought us two warm-up tournaments for the Australia Open, Auckland and Sydney. Both are tournaments with much tradition. Auckland is disputed with continuity since the mid-50s. Sydney, whose first edition dates back to 1885 as New South Wales Championship, is the sixth most ancient tournament of which are still playing today and it was, for many years, one of the main events on the Australian calendar. Most ancient tournaments still playing In Auckland, David Ferrer, w ...

The Weekly Data-60 titles for Djokovic

11/01/2016

  The section that we open today in thetennisbase pretend to be the most specific and empirical blog of our site. We aspire to be an indispensable guide for lovers of the data; records, statistics, analysis, and percentages will parade here, with the support of functions and tools which we have on the web. In this first week of competition, we have had tournaments in Doha, Chennai and Brisbane, with Wawrinka, Djokovic and Federer as top seeds. The first two fulfilled with their role a ...