For years Roger Federer has steamrolled, dismantled, and humbled his opponents with consummate ease. The ranking of the opponents or the stage of the tournament didn’t really matter. The comments that followed from the vanquished ranged from ‘I played my best Tennis but he still outclassed me’ to ‘To be called [...]
The Million Dollar Question - Is it just me getting old fashioned or is sports really changing too fast ?
Is the modern day sportsperson chasing that dream so hard that its becoming difficult to make him the role model ? At some stage we are inherently uncomfortable with the concept of watching a sportsperson competing [...]
When you join the growing list of Novak Jokovic’s fans and search Youtube for his many videos, you will find that he does a few brilliantly funny ones of Maria Sharapova (”just friends”), Andy Roddick, Goran Ivanisevic, Lleyton Hewitt and Rafael Nadal. They’re complete with mannerisms and all. He does not even stop at Rafa’s [...]
Now, thats not even a headline I thought of. Its an ad slogan for FedEx and since this is a post about Roger Federer, it just seemed kinda apt.
The US Open is about to enter its second week and as is becoming common (as opposed to boring), the guy to beat is this gent here.
Its [...]
Out on a sunny Centre Court enter two men that are different. As different as red clay is to green grass. So different you’d think they were from different planets or at least different eras. And yet both here chase similar dreams - Emulate Bjorn Borg.
Roger Federer, white pants, white vest and white monogrammed [...]
This is what Roger’s father had to say after the match.
“It was a game against history, for both of them. Only Rafa was good enough.”
He turned 21 last week. (And already has an asteroid named after him)
Its tennis season. Things go kind of crazy. Earlier this month somebody spent 19 days (and $1.63 m) to prepare a court which was half grass-half clay. And then matched Federer and Nadal in an exhibition game on it. Nadal won.
Now though, for the real thing. Yesterday, through a bit of rain we started off [...]
Roger Federer won his first Grand Slam under Peter Lundgren’s guidance. Wimbledon 2003. Six months later, they parted ways.
In Feb 2004, without a coach, Federer became World no 1. He also won 3 more Grand Slams. All except the French Open.
In 2005, he signed up with Tony Roche. Who’d until then worked Ivan Lendl [...]
I think the reason that I look at Cricket the way I do is because it symbolised a lot. And so a lot of excellence that one sees, one likes to equate with cricket. And so, even tho I might say this is a cricket blog, I’ll pretty shamelessly write here, (probably increasingly) about anything [...]
