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Fields of Glory (V): Wimbledon Day 5 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/29/2012

We analyze several of the most notable matches to watch as the third round begins at Wimbledon.

Fields of Glory (IV): Wimbledon Day 4 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/28/2012

We guide you through the matches of greatest interest on the fourth day of Wimbledon.

Fields of Glory (III): Wimbledon Day 3 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/27/2012

We analyze the most intriguing matches on the third day of the season's third major..

Fields of Glory (II): Wimbledon Day 2 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/26/2012

We glance across some of the most intriguing matches on the second day of Wimbledon.

Fields of Glory (I): Wimbledon Day 1 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/25/2012

We select the most notable matches to preview on Day 1 of Wimbledon.

Whose Grass is Greenest? (II) WTA Wimbledon Draw Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/24/2012

We analyze the women's draw at Wimbledon, one quarter at a time.

Whose Grass is Greenest? ATP Wimbledon Draw Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/23/2012

We break down each quarter of the Wimbledon men's draw.

Splendor in the Grass (The Sequel): WTA Wimbledon Contenders

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/20/2012

We discuss the leading women's contenders in an intriguing Wimbledon field.

Splendor in the Grass: Wimbledon ATP Contenders

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/18/2012

We discuss the six most leading men's contenders for the fortnight at Wimbledon.

Don't Forget These Five (Either): Best Matches of the First Half (ATP Edition)

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/16/2012

We discuss the five best and three worst men's matches of 2012 so far.

Don't Forget These Five: Best Matches of the First Half (WTA)

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/16/2012

We bring you the five best (and three worst) WTA matches of 2012.

Plotlines to Ponder: Grass Season Edition

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/14/2012

We discuss ten themes of the grass season to come.

Judgments of Paris: Roland Garros in Review

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Sixteen days seemed barely enough to contain all of the drama that occurred at Roland Garros 2012. Before the dust settled, history had halted history, the sport’s most exclusive club had welcomed its most glamorous member, and one of...

Eva Asderaki

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Someone needs to inform this overzealous umpire that her hindrance calls constitute a greater hindrance themselves than the behavior to which she applies them. After she penalized Razzano for a pain-induced yelp on a crucial point, even...

Mother Nature

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Perhaps a Federer fan, she did her best to ruin the most anticipated match of the year so far. Not until 5-5 in the fourth set did the labors of the top two men bring a smile from her, allowing this 16-day tournament to finish in the sunny...

French Fans

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

The local sans-culottes didn’t give their city and country quite as bad a reputation as usual, although one sympathized with Federer’s snarl at them for untoward noise in a tiebreak. While they could have celebrated...

Francesca Schiavone

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Schiavone: At the major where she had reached consecutive finals, the Italian daredevil had one last chance to arrest her seemingly terminal decline. She failed it resoundingly, and one struggles to imagine any way back to the elite...

Serena Williams

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Labeled by many the pre-tournament favorite, she fell in the first round of a major for the first time in her stratospheric career. Despite leading for much of the match, Serena strangely never looked confident, especially during the...

Agnieszka Radwanska

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

While clay will remain her least profitable surface, one expected more from her than a 1-and-2 loss to Kuznetsova, hardly the sort of player who should challenge someone as steady as the Pole. Having lost to nobody but Azarenka through the...

John Isner

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

The only player ever to force Nadal into a fifth set at Roland Garros, Isner embroiled himself in another of his mind-numbing marathons at a major, this time against the unheralded Mathieu. Viewers might have found themselves justified in...

Virgine Razzano

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Trailing Serena by a set and 5-1 in the second-set tiebreak, she somehow still thought that she could win. Almost the only person in the stadium who nourished that hope, Razzano thrilled the FFT leadership and thousands of her compatriots...

David Goffin / Yaroslava Shvedova

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

One of them needed to come through the qualifying draw, while the other actually lost in the qualifying. But both found themselves in the second week of Roland Garros, Shvedova in the quarterfinals, despite rankings outside the top...

Caroline Wozniacki

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

A second straight third-round loss at Roland Garros came as scant surprise for a player who has sagged to the fringes of the top 10 and has won no title outside New Haven in the last twelve months. Never at her best on clay, Wozniacki in...

Li Na

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

When the clay season began, our first instinct warned us that Li would implode under the burden of defending her first major title. As it progressed, though, we grew more confident; a sturdy performance in Madrid preceded a finals appearance...

Juan Monaco

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Dismantled with horrific efficiency by Nadal, this smaller Argentine nevertheless continued the best season of his career with a five-set victory over Milos Raonic. Not once did he lose his serve for four and a half hours, despite the...

Rising American Women

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Buoyed by confidence from a sprinkling of ITF titles, Oudin proved that she deserved her wildcard into the Roland Garros main draw by winning her first match, a significant improvement upon her lopsided losses at majors recently. By no...

Germans

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Probably on the eve of retirement, sentimental favorite Haas distinguished himself with a pair of victories. The most impressive fortnight for his compatriots came from a predictable source, though, as Kerber navigated through an...

Other Frenchmen

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Into the second week for the second straight year, Gasquet then executed his classic vanishing act against Murray once again. But that collapse should not detract from another sturdy effort by the man who once crumbled routinely at his...

Andy Murray

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

After he nearly retired from the tournament in the second round, the Scot somehow plodded to the quarterfinals. Most notable of his victories was yet another comeback against Gasquet, the third of his career against that Frenchman at majors. ...

Victoria Azarenka

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Further and further removed from her 26-match winning streak, she found clay a stumbling block to her momentum that cost her the #1 ranking and snuffed out any suspicion that she might become the WTA’s Djokovic. Lucky to escape the...

Tomas Berdych

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

While he acquitted himself reasonably well, he ended the fortnight on a deflating note for someone who enjoyed the best pre-Roland Garros clay season of anyone outside the top three. Berdych himself sounded surprised and disappointed by the...

Kaia Kanepi

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

In a section inhabited by Serena and Wozniacki, the heavy-hitting Estonian imposed her offensive style on the clay and took advantage of the opportunities that fell into her hands. She almost retched up two separate 5-1 leads against the...

Juan Martin Del Potro

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Despite the knee injury that he brought from Rome, he weathered the most lethal first-week section of the draw to outlast dirt devil Montanes and avenge a Madrid loss to Berdych. Closer to defeating a member of the top three than he had come...

David Ferrer / Nicolas Almagro

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Yielding to Nadal in the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively, his two compatriots carved through their draws while losing one total set. Especially courageous was the effort of Ferrer, who reached his first Roland Garros semifinal...

Dominika Cibulkova

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

A former semifinalist at Roland Garros, she tore through the first week as the inconsistency that had plagued her all season deserted her at an ideal time. With a quarterfinal berth at stake, she reveled in expelling world #1 Azarenka just...

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Dismissing any hope that a Frenchman could win the title here, the top-ranked player from the home country then spared no effort in trying to prove himself wrong. His quarterfinal defeat to Djokovic, in which he held four match points,...

Petra Kvitova

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Handed the draw of her dreams, she did her best to make life interesting for herself through five matches in which she played no opponent ranked higher than #63 Lepchenko. Dropping sets to two different players outside the top 100, Kvitova...

Samantha Stosur

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Through five rounds, the former finalist did not lose a set in straightforward performances that cast her as the best player in the women’s field. Preserving her poise more consistently than usual, she faced few tense situations until...

Roger Federer

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Not a memorable tournament for the GOAT, Roland Garros represented the fourth straight major at which he failed to reach the final and the third straight in which he lost to one of the two men ranked above him. At his best in none of his...

Sara Errani

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

The third straight Italian woman to reach the Roland Garros final, she extended that nation’s tradition of producing plucky, clever competitors with an affinity for the surface. If Sharapova’s triumph demonstrated that virtually...

Novak Djokovic

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

Although his quest for a Nole Slam ended in the worst possible way, Djokovic responded to the disappointment with remarkable maturity. Not bursting into tears on the podium, as Federer had in similar circumstances, or firing venomous glances...

Rafael Nadal

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

The man who has garnered more laurels in Paris than any of the legends before him effectively played two tournaments in one fortnight. After the six signature routs that started his march to a seventh Roland Garros crown, Nadal then endured...

Maria Sharapova

By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/12/2012

When Sharapova returned from career-threatening shoulder surgery in 2009, most had felt that she could not recapture the #1 ranking. On a windswept Thursday afternoon in Paris, she did. In 2009, most had felt that she could not win...

Reign of Terre (XV): Roland Garros Day 15 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/10/2012

We analyze the key themes in the men's final at Roland Garros.

Queen of Clay: Sharapova's Feat in Verse

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/10/2012

We share a poem on Sharapova's achievement of the career Grand Slam on June 9, 2012: Seven little players What held their bags of tricks? Cadantu couldnt win a game And then there were just six. Six little players Trying to stay alive Morita ate...

Reign of Terre (XIV): Roland Garros Day 14 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/09/2012

We wrap our mind around the first meeting ever between two first-time Roland Garros finalists.

Reign of Terre (XIII): Roland Garros Day 13 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/08/2012

We glance ahead to the men's semifinals in Paris, which feature four of the top six men.

Reign of Terre (XII): Roland Garros Day 12 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/07/2012

We look ahead to the women's semifinals on Thursday in Paris.

Reign of Terre (XI): Roland Garros Day 11 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/06/2012

We investigate the remaining quarterfinals in Paris on Wednesday.

Reign of Terre (X): Roland Garros Day 10 Preview

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By ChrisSkelton @ Sharapovanovic- Your Ticket to Tennis! 06/05/2012

We analyze all four of the quarterfinals scheduled for Tuesday at Roland Garros.

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