Rotterdam Open Final

Tomas Berdych to Face Stan Wawrinka in Rotterdam Open Final on Sunday

 February 15, 2015   R K Gupta

, ,

Czech Republic’s Tomas Berdych is just one match away from retaining his title that he won last year at Rotterdam’s ABN AMRO ATP 500 Tournament. His opponent will be Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka, who is playing here for the first time after 10 years. Berdych has been deeply focused from the start of the tournament and […]

Read more
Chennai Open

Stanislas Wawrinka Defends His Chennai Open Title

 January 14, 2015   R K Gupta

, , , ,

Last year, Stan Wawrinka won at Chennai and went on to win the year’s first Grand Slam at Melbourne. Therefore, he had no hesitation in returning to Chennai in 2015 not only to defend his title but to use the good-luck charm once again that brought him the season opener Australian Open in 2014. Wawrinka’s […]

Read more
 
Davis Cup swiss vs france

France and Switzerland Share Honors on Day 1 of the Davis Cup Final at Lille

 November 22, 2014   R K Gupta

, , , ,

The first day of the prestigious Davis Cup final between hosts France and Switzerland at the state-of-the-art Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille, where a crowd of over 27000 was privy to some truly engrossing and memorable tennis action. While such attendance can be called a no-crowd for football matches, the number of tennis enthusiasts, who […]

Read more
Davis Cup Final

Davis Cup Final Preview: Federer and Wawrinka Need to Rise Above Unseemly Mirka Spat

 November 20, 2014   R K Gupta

, , , ,

It wasn’t very pleasant of Mirka Federer to call Wawrinka a crybaby. It was in bad taste as the spat forced Switzerland’s no.1 and no.2 players on a war of words. Besides the back problem, if there was any, the ugly intervention by Federer’s wife during the semifinal between the Swiss duo became another reason […]

Read more
 
Roland Garros

Fall of Two Australian Open Champions and Other Stories As Third Day Ends At French Open

 May 28, 2014   R K Gupta

, ,

The infamous red clay of the Roland Garros claimed two Australian Open champions on Monday and Tuesday. The unprecedented first round losses in men’s and women’s singles champions from the immediately preceding major became historical first-time incident for the Grand Slam tournament. After three days of play, most of the other top seeded players in […]

Read more
Wawrinka with team Tennis Coaches

Big Money in Sports and Influence of Celebrity Coaches on Celebrated Tennis Stars

 January 31, 2014   R K Gupta

,

Lethal combination of unabated commercialization, and ever-increasing glut of tournament prize-money, has changed the face of popular team/individual sports. Unlike, about 25 years ago, modern sportspersons assign so much importance to their personal earnings that honor or prestige of representing their countries has become secondary. There are countless instances of players refusing to play for […]

Read more
 
Stanislas Wawrinka aus win 2014

Stanislas Wawrinka Wins in a Poorly Contested Australian Open Final.

 January 26, 2014   R K Gupta

, , ,

It is a little over 4 years ago that Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro won the 2009 US Open. Since then, every tennis Grand Slam has been won by one of the big four men in the game. That jinx was broken on Sunday, when Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka defeated world’s no.1 men’s player, the irrepressible […]

Read more

Stanislas Wawrinka Enters His First Ever Grand Slam Final

 January 25, 2014   R K Gupta

, ,

After he caused a major upset on Tuesday by outlasting the reigning champion and second seed Novak Djokovic, eighth seed Stanislas Wawrinka could be weighing his chances of winning the Australian Open title. Knowing that the road ahead would be treacherous, he took the first step as he went into Thursday’s semifinal with the highly […]

Read more