May 7th, 2016 | 0 commentsWhen Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray meet in the final of the Mutua Madrid Open it will be meeting 32 with Djokovic holding an overwhelming 22-9 advantage. Djokovic advanced to the final with a 6-3, 7-6 victory over Kei Nishikori and Murray took a step closer to the defending the title by beating Rafa Nadal, just as he did in Madrid last...
May 7th, 2016 | 0 commentsNovak Djokovic will face Kei Nishikori and Rafa Nadal will take on Andy Murray in the semis of the Mutua Madrid Open. Djokovic is on a six match win streak against Nishikori who was a Madrid finalist in 2014 and overall has a 7-2 record against the Japanese player. Djokovic has won nine of the last 13 ATP Masters 1000 events however he...
April 19th, 2016 | 0 commentsFor the third time in his career Novak Djokovic won the Laureus World Sports Awards, being honoured as 2015 Male Athlete of the Year. The world No.1 enjoyed an amazing season last year that saw him reach all four finals at the majors winning three, reach the finals of every ATP Masters 1000 he played, eight of them, winning six including...
April 18th, 2016 | 0 comments
Welcome to the Shanghai Rolex Masters podcast wrapping up the 2016 ATP Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo. Your host is Craig Gabriel.
April 18th, 2016 | 0 commentsRafa Nadal has broken a nine month title drought and a near two-year drought at the ATP Masters 1000 level by winning the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters defeating Gael Monfils 7-5, 5-7, 6-0 in two hours 46 minutes. It was a stunning roll through in the final set and pure vintage Nadal on red clay.
The win was his ninth at the Monte Carlo...
April 3rd, 2016 | 0 commentsWhen Novak Djokovic made it third time lucky on match point he kissed his finger tips and then spread his hand over the court surface. It was something he did after his semi-final win against David Goffin explaining it was to show the court how much it meant to him and he hoped then it would bring him luck for the final.
Obviously the...
April 2nd, 2016 | 0 commentsKei Nishikori advanced to his first Miami Open final and will take on world No.1 Novak Djokovic. Nishikori proved too steady for Nick Kyrgios in the one hour 24 minute semifinal they played with Nishikori scoring a 6-3 7-5 result, breaking the Kyrgios serve as the Australian tried to force the second set into a tiebreaker. Nishikori...
April 1st, 2016 | 0 commentsNovak Djokovic kissed the centre court when he won his semi-final and reached his seventh final at the Miami Open. He is now in a position to equal Andre Agassi's record of six titles. The world No.1 and our reigning champion defeated David Goffin, who was playing his second consecutive ATP Masters 1000 semifinal, 7-6, 6-4. This is the...