Tag Archives: Wimbledon

Damn! Rafa Can’t Even Beat THIS Guy

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

What’s with the tennis journeymen who play the match of their lives against Rafael Nadal? (See 100th-ranked Lukas Rosol at last year’s Wimbledon for details.) Latest edition: Yesterday’s finals loss at the VTR Open in Chile to Horacio Zeballos, only … Continue reading →

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Jason Gay Has Strawberries And Cream With Bud Collins

Posted on July 10, 2012 by

Venerable tennis savant Bud Collins couldn’t be in the house for Sunday’s gentlemen’s finals at the All England Club (ruptured quad tendon), so estimable Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay was in Collins’s Brookline house to view it with him. … Continue reading →

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You Heard It Here First: Nadal-Killer Goes Down Like The Hindenburg

Posted on July 1, 2012 by

Just as the hardworking staff predicted, a guy who beat Rafael Nadal one time in ten tries defeated the guy who beat Rafael Nadal one time in one tries at Wimbledon yesterday. From the New York Times: For Nadal’s Conqueror, … Continue reading →

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What – Nadal Just Can’t Beat THIS Guy Either?

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk: The hardwatching staff yields to no man in our admiration and respect for Rafael Nadal. So it’s not bad enough that he’s been buffeted by Hurricane Novak the past year and a half? Now … Continue reading →

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I Miss Lord Stanley’s Wild Rumpus

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

That’s all. I’ll get past it. Probably around the Wimbledon men’s final.

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Jason Gay And The Dignity Of Defeat

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

During the past couple of weeks, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay has written a couple of terrific pieces about the losers of major sporting events. Exhibit A: A Loser’s Winning Moment Rafael Nadal’s Grace Helps Him Shine in the … Continue reading →

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Nadal Just Can’t Beat This Guy (II)

Posted on July 3, 2011 by

This is getting downright depressing for Rafael Nadal. As the hardworking staff has noted before, Novak Djokovich has Nadal’s number and at this point is so far inside Nadal’s head he should be paying condo fees. Via Bloomberg: Djokovic Beats … Continue reading →

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Federer Reserve

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

The hardwatching staff has seen the great Roger Federer play a ton of matches over the past half-dozen years, but we’ve rarely seen him perform the way he did against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga yesterday. From the Los Angeles Times: Roger Federer … Continue reading →

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No Djok: Order Restored To French Open

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

Roger Federer did Rafael Nadal a favor by defeating Novak (41-0) Djokovic in Friday’s French Open semifinal. Nadal did not return the favor in Sunday’s French Open Final. Instead he reverted to form, beating Federer for the fourth straight time … Continue reading →

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Class Acts o’ the Day (Mo & Rafa Edition)

Posted on July 5, 2010 by

Let’s start with Rafael Nadal, winner of the Gentleman’s Final at Wimbledon – and the Gentleman’s Anything everywhere else. How classy is Nadal? He absolutely manhandled Tomas Berdych, but afterward made the match sound like some Strawberries-and-Cream Smackdown. To paraphrase: … Continue reading →

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