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Posted by WTM on March 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Randy Walker
How would you feel – and how would the tennis world be better or worse – if the finals of the Australian Open were played today? Well that was the case 39 years ago when the men’s and women’s singles finals at the 1971 Australian Open were played in Sydney. [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Roger Federer first placed his names among some of the greatest players of all time back in 2001, when he accounted for all three points in a 3-2 win for Switzerland over the United States in the first round of the 2001 Davis Cup. Federer’s accomplishment is documented below from the February 11 chapter of [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 5, 2010 · 1 Comment
Ivan Lendl announced this week that he will return to play competitive tennis when he will face Mats Wilander in an April 10 exhibition match in Atlantic City, N.J. in an event that will also feature Andy Roddick and Marat Safin. It was 25 years ago today, on February 5, 1985, that Lendl and Andy [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 4, 2010 · 1 Comment
Nine years ago, on February 4, 2001, Roger Federer finally broke through and won his first ATP singles title. As documented in the book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY, Federer, then relatively uncertain19-year-old struggling to live up to the heavy expectations thrust upon him, defeated Julien Boutter of France 6-4, 6-7, 6-4 in Milan, [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 2, 2010 · 1 Comment
February 2 is an historic day in the life and career of Roger Federer. As documented in the book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY, it was February 2, 2004 when Federer first became the No. 1 player in the world. It was one day after Federer won his first Australian Open title – and [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 26, 2010 · 1 Comment
On this day in tennis history, Rod Laver began his march to history. It was on this day, January 27, in 1969 that Laver won the first leg of his historic second Grand Slam title, defeating Andres Gimeno in the Australian final played in Brisbane as excerpted below from the book ON THIS DAY IN [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 24, 2010 · 1 Comment
By Bud Collins
Bud Collins, the world’s most famous tennis journalist and author of the definitive tennis history book THE BUD COLLINS HISTORY OF TENNIS, profiles matches Sunday featuring giants Ivo Karlovic and John Isner against Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray respectively at the Australian Open. The following story – and other musings from Down Under [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
It was 20 years ago today, on January 21, 1990, that John McEnroe was defaulted from his round of 16 match at the Australian Open against Mikael Pernfors. Video of the event can be seen on these two clips from YOUTUBE here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-52G_eaAni4 and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8IACYeL-c&feature=PlayList&p=7839D120564C40E0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18
This and other events that happened today in tennis history [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 19, 2010 · 1 Comment
Barbora Zahlavova Strykova of the Czech Republic and Russia’s Regina Kulikova created tennis history Tuesday playing the longest women’s match in the history of the Australian Open and the second longest match of all time.
Strykova won the first-round match, 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (10-12), 6-3, in 4-hours-19 minutes, played over two days because of Monday’s rain [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 19, 2010 · 1 Comment
Louk Sorensen became the first player since 1985 to represent Ireland in a Grand Slam tournament when he went through the qualifying rounds at the 2010 Australian Open. Sorensen is now into a second-round match with American John Isner by defeating Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei 6–4, 3–6, 6–2, 6–1 Tuesday, likely to result in [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 17, 2010 · 1 Comment
Monday, January 18, 2010 not only marks the opening day of the 2010 Australian Open, but it also marks 10 years to the day that Roger Federer played – and won – his first match at Australia’s Grand Slam tournament. As documented in the book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY ($19.95, New Chapter Press, [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Randy Walker
It was 22 years ago today, January 11, that the Australian Open entered a new era. It was on this day in 1988 when the Australian Open moved to its new location – then called Flinders Park and now called Melbourne Park with the centre court centerpiece – complete with the retractable roof [...]
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