Nadal said that, reaching his rival Federer’s record of 16 Grand Slams remained as a dream in his career. Nadal has won his 10th Grand Slam title few days back at Roland Garros, where he on the three Grand Slams Australian Open, US Open and French Open in 2010. He is focusing to win the 11th major at Wimbledon.

After the victory at the All England Club would see Nadal along with Bjorn Borg and Rod Laver in all time standings, ahead of Roy Emerson with 12 titles, Pete Sampras with 14 crowns and Roger Federer with 16 majors. He is very far from the Federer’s record, but his dream to achieve that mark in his career says Nadal.

Nadal is going to play against Michael Russell of United States in the opening round of the Wimbledon 2011 at centre court here in London on Monday. Nadal said he is happy with his performance in the last year, where he won three Grand Slam titles in a row, definitely wants to repeat in 2011. The 25-year-old Nadal will remain as World No. 1 in the ATP Rankings, if he won the Wimbledon event.

After winning against Federer 7-5, 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-1, Nadal has equaled the record set by Bjorn Borg, after this feat there maybe questions rising whether Federer truly deserves to be called the Greatest of All Time.

Nadal has won his 10^th Grandslam which is just 6 away from Federer who holds 16 Grand Slam trophies, Nadal who turned 25 on Friday has got a long way still ahead in his tennis career, Federer and Nadal had met French open in 2005 semifinals, and the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011 finals and every time they had played on the clay court it was Nadal who had more off control.

Nadal stands at 45-1 for his career in Paris, and Nadal leads their head-to-head series 17-8. In This total Nadal has an of 6-2 advantage in Grand Slam finals and a 5-0 edge at the French Open.

As the French open is over, Nadal may be planning to visit popular casinos to play his favorite roulette and video poker where he enjoy his leisure time usually.

The final of Miami was magnificent fight between two giant players, battled for three hours and twenty one minutes. Djokovic recovered to record a 24th consecutive victory this season and his fourth title was won with forehand winner sparkle.

Nadal led 5-1 in first sets in three sets game, no one thought that game will prolong so long. It is difficult to recover from losing five straight to number one in the world in a best-of-three games. Beat the world number one twice in the next tournament, starting down on both occasions was a rare achievement.

Novak Djokovic is showing a pure sign of his domination of this year. He has won only one grand slam in 2010 and in 2011 he won two out of five tournaments. In the final Djokovic had won all 40 games of his service, saving 13 break points. He led the tournament statistics for games played back (53%); break points converted (65%) and points won returning first served basis (47%).

Rafael Nadal has reached 95% of first serves in the first set against Roger Federer in the semifinals. In late 2010, a year of three major titles for Nadal, the talk was whether Roger Federer was about to respond to the new season.

But it is Novak Djokovic; Roger Federer dismissed that, now it is time to wait for a tap Rafael Nadal.

Andy Murray, British No.1 needed cortisone injection before the semi-final clash between Rafael Nadal at Monte Carlo. Andy Murray lost that match to Rafael Nadal with agonizing pain as he injured his elbow. Earlier, this Monday he underwent surgery to elbow of his.

Andy Murray said that as per the advice of medical professionals, he had to withdraw from the Barcelona Open. Murray was the second seeded in the tournament with likes of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic was not playing, while Rafael Nadal being top seeded. Murray had an edge to defeat Nadal but he has to retire from the tournament due to injury.

Murray added that it needs four to five days of rest and then he will be practicing of the French Open 2011. He was not hitting the ball well and it was not a major concern. Murray played more than three hours with Nadal in semi-finals, so he can still hit the ball decently well but it was pain that hurting him a lot said Murray.

Andy Murray, 23-year-old is scheduled to play Madrid Masters 1000 which will kick-off on May 1 and followed by French Open on May 22.

Tomas Berdych, seventh ranked player was also pulled out of Barcelona Open due to stomach virus.

Federer, the top seeded players, who won his first title at Doha earlier in January, was defeated twice against, the inform player, Novak Djokovic, the world no.3. The first time he was defeated this season was against Djokovic, in the semi-finals of the Australian Open and last week, he lost the Dubai open against the Serbian.

The 29-years old federer has won three titles continuously in the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 at Indian wells and since then he hasn’t won a single title at Indian wells and in Miami, he has won continuously two titles in the years 2005 and 2006 .

Even though, Federer has lost his fourth tile in Dubai Open last week in straight sets against the world no.3 player, Djokovic, Federer was happy enough with his overall showing there and feels in good shape going into the next stage of the campaign.

Federer has said that, it just didn’t really happened in the end, but it’s better than the last few years in Dubai and has not played much match at Indian Wells and Miami. So this is big going into Indian Wells and Miami with a bit more tennis and confidence really.

He didn’t get much rest, after having played five days in a row and prepared to the west coast and get ready over there. He feels like, he needs more practice as there would be different conditions again. It’s going to be flying but it’s going to be slower.

Serena, worldno.11, has suffered an injury to her injured her right foot on July 7, 2010, in a freak accident at a restaurant in Germany, was undergoing a treatment since last July. The 29-year-old has been in New York consulting doctors for ongoing complications from her injured right foot, and the embolism was revealed upon her return to Los Angeles.

Dr. Shirin Shafazand, pulmonology specialist at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has said that, a pulmonary embolism is blood clot, which effect in the lungs and blocks one or more arteries, which can cause shortness of breath, chest pains and coughing up blood,. It can be life-threatening, if not treated quickly. In many cases, this condition is caused by blood clots that originate in the legs (deep vein thrombosis) and travel to the lungs.

Serena with back to back injury and health conditions, this time she will be out of court for a period of six-months, the 13-time Grand Slam singles winner, will be off the court and would be out of the French Open, which starts May 22, and jeopardize her defense of the championship at Wimbledon, which begins June 20.

Serena while speaking with various sources on Wednesday has said that, she wants to thank everyone the prayers, concerns, and support. This has been extremely hard, scary, and disappointing, and said that, she is doing better and working with the doctors to keep everything under control at her home.

Djokovic, the Australian open champion and last week’s Dubai open winner, has defended his title by defeating the world no.2 Federer in the finals of the Dubai Open. Ahead of winning, he has said that, he wants to prepare for the forthcoming tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami, earlier in years, djokovic has not performed very well in US. So in fact, now he wants to work hard and get some good results in the U.S.

The defending Davis Cup champion’s will play their first round series against India in the three-day series in northern Serbian city of Novi Sad on Friday, 04.03.2011.

The Serbia’s will be missing the world no.3, Djokovic. However, they are still a favorite team against Indians with Viktor Troicki and Janko Tipsarevic as the singles.

India is also having a setback with Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, the top seeded doubles pair withdrawing from the Davis cup, due to injuries.

The top seeded Indian player Leander Paes is suffering form wrist injury, while his double’s patner Mahesh Bhupathi is out due to a groin problem. The top seeded Indian players have been replaced by doubles pair, Karan Rastogi and Yuki Bhambri.

And in the singles Indian will be pairing-up with Somdev Devvarman and Rohan Bopanna.

Novak Djokovic will be playing his next tournament in Masters 1000, which will be held at Indian Wells, California form 9th March, 2011.

Rafael Nadal, the 24-year-old, Spanish player has defeated Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez in 2008 Olympics in Beijing, to claim gold medal and has taken his game to another level in the years since. Nadal thrashed out Gonzalez in a three set thriller by 6–3, 7–6(2), 6–3.

Nadal, after his injury in 2010 at Australian Open, came back strongly and won the remaining three Grand Slam titles and achieved the career-best raking of being world no.1 by overcoming Roger Federer in the 2010 season.

Nadal after receiving the Laureus Sports Awards in Abu Dhabi of best sportsman of the year has said that he hoped to still be in good enough form to qualify for the next Olympics because everyone would like to play Olympics and said that he would be ready to play in the in the London Olympics.

The Spanish tennis players have very high competition in Spain and said that, if he is not playing his best in the qualifying rounds or else if he is not prepared 100 percent, and then it would be difficult for him to make into the London Olympics. However he said that he loved the spirit of the Olympic Games and being in the (Olympic) village with the rest of the sportsmen and sportswomen of the world.

Nadal, who won his first Laureus Sportsman of the Year’ trophy, has already proved that, he is one of the all-time greats in the world sports, and has done enough to electrify the Laureus judges, who voted him against the likes of Manny Pacquiao (Filipino boxer), Kobe Bryant (American basketball star LA Lakers’), Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta (Barcelona-soccer teammates) for the prestigious award.

The Spaniard, after receiving the Laureus Sportsman of the Year’ trophy said that, “it is the most important award in world sport”, and “My real goal is to continue to be competitive in every game. I did not have the perfect start this season, but it has not been terrible.

Nadal, had a fabulous season, in the year 2010, as he regained the world No.1 ranking on 7 June 2010, and has won the US Open, French open and Wimbledon titles. However, the Spaniard, who was aiming to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slam titles in a stretch, was defeated by fellow ATP team-mate, David Ferrer, in the Australian Open, due to Thigh Muscle Tear. And, he is out of action for a short period.

Roger Federer, Tennis rival of Nadal, won Sportsman of the Year for four times in succession between 2005 and 2008. Nadal said that, he was delighted with his latest achievement.

It was the domination of Spanish country at the Laureus awards, as Rafael Nadal was nominated as a Laureus Sportsman of the Year and the Spanish-soccer team winning the World Team of the Year for their victory in World Cup.

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Continue Reading »]]> Novak Djokovic, the 23 year- old Serbian, has withdrawn from the Rotterdam event, due to a shoulder injury.

The two-time Australian Open Champion Djokovic will miss the next week ATP event in Rotterdam, due to a shoulder injury. Djokovic, the world No. 3 star would have been the top seeded player at Rotterdam event, which will be held next week in Ahoy Stadium.

With the injury of Djokovic, Robin Soderling (seeded no.4) and Andy Murray (seeded no.5) are now favorites to win the title. Robin Soderling, the Swedish star and the two-time French open runner-up will be the top seeded player in the Rotterdam event.

Richard Krajicek, Tournament director for the Rotterdam event and the 1996 Wimbledon winner, revealed that Novak Djokovic, will miss the tournament and said that, Novak Djokovic has individually called and said to proclaim that, he will not be able to present in Rotterdam, as he is recovering form a shoulder injury.

Due to the injury, he will be unable to attend the training for a week, and would be disappointed for not playing the Rotterdam event.

The world no.3, place in the draw, has now been taken by, Theimo de Bakker, Dutchman, while Djokovic’s absence means Murray and Robin Soderling are now favorites to win the title.