Leander Paes: Can the Legend defy his age at Rio Olympics?
It was 1996, the 26th olympics games at Atlanta. Tennis court it was and there stood a 23 year old from India who stole the world's attention by bringing back the world's second most populated nation its only 2nd individual...
Qweekly : A Quiz on French Open
After seven years, the French Open 2016 will see two new champions as Garbiñe Muguruza won the Women’s Singles beating Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic faces Andy Murray tonight in the Men’s Singles final to complete his career slam....
No-land Garros – The missed French Kisses that pinched the most
A career Grand Slam is perhaps the holy grail of modern day tennis. While Rod Laver, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal complete the elite list of winning all the four Slams at least once in their lifetime...
30th April : A day that changed the trajectory of women’s tennis
30th April, no doubt, is a dark day in tennis fraternity. The day was all about a maniac fan of a player affecting an assault to a rival player (Monica Seles, in this case) in the hope of seeing...
European Clay Season : The resurgence of the ‘King of clay’
It was a Novak Djokovic show right from the start of the year till recently. But, the Rafael Nadal fans now have something to cheer for.
The World no. 1 started the year with the same form that he ended...
Tennis Hall of Shame : Maria Sharapova and the other faces of ‘doping’
The 7th March press conference at Los Angeles perhaps has shocked the sporting fraternity at large with the evil of ‘doping’ raising its ugly head once again. And this time it was the Russian career Grand Slam winner Maria...
The Curse Course – When Federer, Nadal or Djokovic is beaten
We have already talked about the ‘Rafa curse’ in an earlier article. In this article we will extend the discussion further by incorporating into it similar statistics of another two top players – Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic –...
Farewell tribute to Lleyton Hewitt – A dazzling star that flickered
Well quite a late tribute to perhaps the most recent legendary Australian to have played the sport, but the timing has been deliberate on my part to make the readers aware of his place in men’s tennis of which...
Australian Open 2016 – FIVE ‘award-less’ winners
No winner’s trophies to show for, not even a runner’s plate. But these five are definitely winners no less than those who can show off the visible accolades and if not, may be better.
The major reason behind it is...
Curse of Rafa – When statistics corroborate a superstition
The curse of Rafa or simply the ‘Rafa curse’ has been a popular terminology in tennis fraternity, especially among the fans, experts and authors. A simple definition of the term is that whenever a player defeats (or eliminates) the...