This week in tennis featured the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali, Indonesia for the women. It also featured the Swiss Indoors Basel in Basel, Switzerland and the Valencia Open 500 in Valencia, Spain for the men. The Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions was a small tournament, only featuring 8 different players. These are [...]

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This week in Tennis featured plenty of tournaments for both the men and the women. The men met in both the PTT Thailand Open and the Malaysian Open, while the women met in the Toray Pan Pacific Open. The first major tournament for the men was the PTT Thailand Open, held in Bangkok. An ATP [...]

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This week is tennis featured four different tournaments, two each for the men and women. The men competed in The MercedesCup (clay court) and the SkiStar Swedish Open (clay court). The women found themselves at the XXIII Internazionali Femminili Di Palermo SNAI Open and the ECM Prague Open, both on clay courts. The SkiStar Swedish [...]

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The week following Wimbledon was still relatively busy, featuring multiple men’s and women’s tournaments with few big-name players. The men were busy with the Davis Cup and the Campbell’s Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, while the women battled it out in the Collector Swedish Open. The Davis Cup Quarterfinals brought some exciting tennis and some [...]

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This week in tennis featured the start of Wimbledon, one of the biggest championships of the year. All of the biggest names in Tennis are featured in this year’s Wimbledon, with some expected and predictable rankings. The top 5 seeds in the Men’s Draw are as follows: (1) Roger Federer, (2) Rafael Nadal, (3) Novak [...]

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Rafael Nadal won his 17th Masters championship on Sunday in the Rome Masters, defeating David Ferrer 7-5, 6-2. Nadal has defeated Ferrer the last 7 times they’ve met, and few were surprised by the win since this was Ferrer’s first time in a Masters final. This marks the 4th time Nadal has won here in [...]

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Spain won the Davis Cup on Sunday with a decisive 5-0 victory over the Czech Republic with singles wins by Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer. Nadal won the first matchup with Tomas Berdych on Friday, and Ferrer won a 5-set victory over Radek Stepanek which upped Spain’s Friday lead to 2-0. The Czech Republic tried [...]

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