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“He shanks balls and doesn’t serve that good. His whole entire game is not as sharp as later in the rounds.”
Top-seeded Roger Federer beat Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 Wednesday to reach the third round of the Paris Masters and earn a chance to avenge his loss to David Nalbandian less than two weeks ago. via CBS SportsLine
Top-seeded Roger Federer beat Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 Wednesday to reach the third round of the Paris Masters and earn a chance to avenge a recent loss to David Nalbandian. The 12-time Grand Slam champion has reached the final of every tournament he’s entered since losing to Filippo Volandri in the third round of the Rome Masters on May 10.
Roger Federer will face Croatian Ivo Karlovic for the second time in five days when he enters the Paris Masters Series tournament tomorrow.
Second round action resumes Wednesday at the Paris Masters with 10 of the Top 16 seeds in second round play, including the Top 4 players in the world: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Nikolay Davydenko. AD
Roger Federer will face Croatian Ivo Karlovic for the second time in five days when he enters the Paris Masters Series tournament on Wednesday. via Reuters
“To beat such great players as I did this week makes it important.”
Roger Federer should have seen it coming. One by one, David Nalbandian was picking off the best that tennis has to offer.
Nalbandian beat Federer 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Sunday to win the Madrid Masters. On his way to the final against the world’s top-ranked player, Nalbandian also defeated No. 2 Rafael Nadal and No. 3 Novak Djokovic.
‘I usually play better in the finals, but it had something to do with the way he played today,’ said Federer, the tournament’s defending champion. ‘I guess when you beat Djokovic and Nadal back-to-back, you come into the final here very ready.’ Read more
Roger Federer won his seventh tournament of the season today to clinch the world number one ranking for the fourth year in a row.
Roger Federer won his seventh tournament of the season today to clinch the world number one ranking for the fourth year in a row.
Roger Federer beat Jarkko Nieminen 6-3, 6-4 Sunday to win his second straight Swiss Indoors and clinch the No. 1 ranking for the fourth consecutive year. Federer joins Pete Sampras, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl as the only men’s players to end the season ranked No. 1 four or more times since the inception of the ATP rankings in 1973.
World No. 1 Roger Federer captured his seventh title of the year and clinched the No. 1 ranking for 2007 on Sunday with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Jarkko Nieminen in the final of his hometown event at the Davidoff Swiss Ind
