I did not stay up to watch Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer in a five-set thriller to win the Australian Open. What has gotten the most attention, though, is Federer crying after the match and his statements about how tough the loss was. Nadal is now 13-6 in matches against Federer, and has beaten hi...

Man, I wish Australia wasn’t on such a different time schedule from us because they really screwed up my sleeping routine as I had to stay up late watching this epic battle. The awesomeness of the competition between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the finals of their five set match in Melbo...

Rafael Nadal ESP (1) vs. Roger Federer SUI (2). For the seventh time in a Grand Slam final, Federer and Nadal will face each other as the two top players in the world. Nadal has won 4 of those matches, including the instant classic from Wimbledon 2008, which some commentators are calling the greates...

It’s very hard to find a live streaming of Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal battle it out over at Australian Open 2009 final. And for free. Anyone has a clue? I try googling using keyword “live streaming roger federer rafael nadal australian open 2009″, and guess what? All first 20 li...

It will be the finish to the Australian Open that many wanted though Fernando Verdasco, the conqueror of Andy Murray in the fourth round, played the match of his life as he fought to be the Spanish left-hander who would face Roger Federer on Sunday evening here. Verdasco, who had never gone beyond t...

When Andy Roddick beat Roger Federer for only the second time in his life in Miami last year, he suggested that the law of statistics had finally worked in his favour: "Roger hadn't missed a ball against me for about six years." He missed very few again in the Rod Laver Arena against the American, w...

QF: Roddick def Djokovic6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2, 2-1 ret. SARS, bird flu, anthrax, now we can add heat exhaustion to Novak's long list of ailments. "Djokovic is one retirement away from the Retirement Slam." — Patrick McEnroe, pointing out that Novak has now retired in all slams except for one, the US O...

The 2009 Australian Open Men's semifinals are now set. Mad Professah has been too busy with other things to be posting my regular predictions in the last week or so. This Men's semifinal preview (like the Women's Semifinal Preview posted earlier) are my best predictions with the caveat that I have n...

13-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer was simply outplayed for slightly more than two sets in his fourth round match against Czech 23-year-old Tomas Berdych at the Australian Open yesterday. After finding his form about half-way through the Federer still managed to win the match 4-6,6-7(4), 6-4,...

On Andy Murray's way to the US Open final last autumn, the first time that the Scot had reached such a rarefied level in a slam, his worst scare came in the third round against Jürgen Melzer, the Austrian left-hander being a couple of points away from victory before Murray prevailed 6–7, 4–6, 7...