TENNIS - Wimbledon 2013 will be the first Grand Slam to feature Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal since last year’s Wimbledon tournament. Nadal pulled out of the 2012 US Open and 2013 Australian Open with an injury, as did Andy Murray at Roland Garros 2013.
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TENNIS - Rafael Nadal is looking for an unprecedented eighth triumph in the same Major tournament, as Roland Garros gets underway on Sunday. Click on the picture to see our full Infographic.
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TENNIS - Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer both reached the final in the ATP Masters Series in Rome on Saturday. Nadal has reached the final in Rome for a record eighth time.
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TENNIS - Rafael Nadal easily negotiated his first hurdle of the 2013 Monte Carlo 1000 Masters tournament, a championship that the Spaniard has won in each of the previous eight years. He is attempting to become the first player to win the same ATP tournament on nine different occasions.
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TENNIS - As the ATP Tour begins its clay court season with three Masters tournaments prior to Roland Garros, Rafael Nadal looks to continue his extraordinary record in these events. Below is a comprehensive preview to the clay court season.
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TENNIS - The Sony Open in Miami is this season’s second Masters 1000 series and the two players that lead tournaments of that level in career singles titles, Rafael Nadal (22) and Roger Federer (21), have chosen to forego this championship. Of the players taking part this year, Novak Djokovic (13) has most career Masters 1000 titles under his belt. Our Infographic shows the Top 10. You can access it by clicking ‘Read More’.
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TENNIS - Roger Federer will face Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals of Indian Wells. Remarkably, of the 28 previous singles meetings between the two, NONE came at the quarterfinal stage. They met in finals (19), semifinals (7), Last 32 (1) and Round Robin (1). Nadal leads the series 18-10. The last meeting between the two came in last year’s semifinals at Indian Wells. Federer triumphed.
TENNIS - Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal from the Australian Open has caused concern among his fans. They can rest assured as long as the Spanish star returns by springtime. The autumn and winter combined have only resulted in one-eighth of his 50 career tournament victories, two-thirds of which are being won in the spring.
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TENNIS - With Rafael Nadal’s announcement to return to the tennis court in an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi in December, his 2012 season has officially come to an end. The Spaniard will forego the ATP World Tour Finals (for which he had already qualified) and the Davis Cup final, both tournaments taking place in November.
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TENNIS - Lukáš Rosol beats Rafael Nadal in the second round. It is the first time since the 2005 Wimbledon that Nadal failed to reach the 3rd round at a Grand Slam.
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TENNIS - Rafael Nadal will start his 2012 Wimbledon campaign on Tuesday 26 June, when he faces Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci. The Spaniard has never suffered an opening round defeat in his 32 previous appearances in the men’s singles tournament of a Grand Slam (Open era).
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TENNIS - Rafael Nadal set a record by winning his seventh men’s singles title at Roland Garros, surpassing the mark of six by Björn Borg. He also joined Borg on 11 Grand Slam titles and in that sense he has only three players ahead of him: Roger Federer (16), Pete Sampras (14) and Roy Emerson (12).
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TENNIS - Rafael Nadal advanced to the semifinals at Roland Garros at the expense of Nicolás Almagro on Wednesday, giving Nadal his 50th singles win at the Porte d’Auteuil. He improved his career record to 50-1 at Roland Garros, having suffered his only defeat in the fourth round of 2009, when he was beaten by Robin Söderling.
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TENNIS - Rafael Nadal is 26 years old today. Rafa was 17 years old when he reached the third round at Wimbledon, making him the youngest player to achieve that. It was a sign of things to come. By now, he has won a career Grand Slam, 10 Majors in total, excelling especially in the clay court events, in which he is virtually invincible. Known for his prodigious mental strength, Nadal is the reigning Olympic champion and a former world number one.
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TENNIS - Rafael Nadal is about to embark on what could become a record setting seventh men’s singles title at Roland Garros. The prolific Spaniard has won 45 of the 46 matches he has played on the Parisian clay, losing only to Robin Söderling in their fourth round match in 2009. We have compared Nadal to others in Open era at Roland Garros.
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