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Posts tagged with "Olympics"
Aug. 24 |
By Randy Walker
Serena Williams sent shockwaves through women’s tennis with the relative ease in which she breezed through the field en route to winning the Olympic Games earlier this summer. In her six Olympic singles matches, she lost only...
Aug. 7 |
by Randy Walker
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga’s silver medal effort in men’s doubles with Michael Llodra and his quarterfinal finish in singles was enough for France to win Olympic team gold in men’s tennis at the 2012 Olympic tennis competition that...
Aug. 5 |
By Randy Walker
What Andy Murray couldn’t do at Wimbledon, he could do in Olympic tennis.
Four weeks after losing a heart-breaking Wimbledon singles final to Roger Federer, Andy Murray of Britain turned the tables on the greatest tennis player...
Aug. 4 |
By Randy Walker
Venus and Serena Williams are without question the poster children for Olympic tennis.
The sisters guaranteed that they would both become the most decorated U.S. tennis Olympians in history with four medals with their 7-5, 6-4...
Aug. 4 |
By Randy Walker
Serena Williams now has a tennis trophy case that is the envy of all.
The American completed a “Career Golden Grand Slam” by blitzing Maria Sharapova of Russia 6-0, 6-1 Saturday to win the Olympic gold medal in women’s singles...
Aug. 3 |
By Randy Walker
In what is being described as the greatest Olympic tennis match ever played, Roger Federer defeated Juan Martin del Potro 3-6, 7-6 (5),19-17 in 4 hours, 26 minutes Friday in an epic Olympic men’s semifinal on Centre Court at...
Aug. 1 |
by Randy Walker
Rennae Stubbs, the former standout women’s doubles player now TV commentator, said at the start of the broadcast of Olympic tennis on Bravo television in the United States that Wednesday’s schedule at Olympic tennis at Wimbledon...
Jul. 31 |
By Randy Walker
An Olympic marathon took place Tuesday at Wimbledon but it didn’t involve any nation’s track and field teams.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France and Milos Raonic of Canada played the longest best-of-three-set match – and the longest...
Jul. 31 |
By Randy Walker
Novak Djokovic played close to a perfect match Tuesday to knock Andy Roddick out of the 2012 Olympics, defeating the former world No. 1 6-2, 6-1 in the second round.
The No. 2 ranked Serb smacked an incredible 33 winners against...
Jul. 30 |
By Randy Walker
The Williams sisters. The Bryan brothers. The Radwanska sisters. The Murray brothers. Is there a more family friendly Olympic sport than tennis?
Siblings are seemingly omnipresent around the grounds, including in a second-round clash...
Jul. 28 |
By Randy Walker
The All England Lawn Tennis Club was in a flurry of color on the opening day of the Olympic tennis competition at the 2012 London Games Saturday.
The club that normally has a strict “all-white” rule on its courts was awash...
Jul. 26 |
One could argue that Roger Federer is more of a favorite to win Olympic gold in the men’s singles competition at the 2012 Games than he was in 2004 and 2008 when he in the midst of his dominating stretch through the men’s game.
However, it is curious...