Earlier today before checking out the latest tennis news I had a feeling Novak Djokovic would lose early on in the Miami event. Don’t ask me why. So what happens?
I just headed over to the atp tennis website and the first thing I saw was that Djokovic lost his first match at the tournament […]

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Novak Djokovic has been suffering from flu-like symptoms all week. As a result he pulled out of his opening Davis Cup singles match. He made a brave return to the doubles to lead Serbia to a win over the Russians.
In the reverse singles the world no. 3 was hoping to help Serbia take the […]

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Novak Djokovic loves to represent his country in Davis Cup tennis. Unfortunately for him and Serbia Djokovic has been forced out of the opening match against Mikhail Youzhny due to flu like symptoms.
The Serbs just can’t win as Janko Tipsarevic has also been hit by illness and is fighting of a stomach bug. […]

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The 2008 edition of the Davis Cup tennis will serve it up from Friday 8 February. The most interesting opening round tie looks like being the clash between Serbia and Russia. The Russians will be hosting the tie in Moscow.
The Russian team who only last December was playing in the final will be […]

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Adidas tennis would have been estatic about the results of the Australian Open tennis. Three of the four finalists were sponsored by the German sporting giant. You’ve got to be happy about that if you are a tennis clothing sponsor. It would have been really great if Ana Ivanovic managed to win her first […]

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Novak Djokovic jumped to an early lead taking the first game of the 2008 Australian Open Tennis men’s final. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga hit back immediately then slowly worked his way to the front in set one. After picking up another service break he won the first 6-4. At this stage he was hitting Djokovic off […]

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Novak Djokovic has ended the Australian Open tennis win streak of Roger Federer with a hard fought straight sets win. Federer was attempting to win three straight Australian Open titles. In 2005 he also failed at the semi final stage.
This time around Federer started well and was serving for the first set at 5-4. […]

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It was a match Australian’s were looking forward to as they sat down on Monday evening to watch more Australian Open tennis action. Lleyton Hewitt after his epic 5 set battle with Marcos Baghdatis was taking on the no. 3 seed Novak Djokovic.
The question everyone had to ask was how would Hewitt feel […]

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For just the second time since the introduction of the World Group in 1981 Australia has been relegated to the zone group. This came following a 4-1 loss in the World Group playoff against Serbia in Belgrade.

Serbia featuring world number 3 Novak Djokovic were too strong for the Australian team headlined by former world number 1 Lleyton Hewitt. Going into the last day Serbia held a 2-1 lead. The Aussie team threw Chris Guccione in against Novak Djokovic in the vital fourth rubber. Lleyton Hewitt was due to play however he succumbed to the effects of a viral infection.

Guccione made Djokovic work hard for the victory. When Djokovic heard he was to play Guccione instead of Hewitt he said he felt some relief however the big Aussie probably played as tough as Hewitt would have. The final score was 6-3, 7-6, 7-6. Australian Davis Cup captain John Fitzgerald said he thought Djokovic was looking a bit tired during the match and it could have been a different story had Guccione won one of the tie breaks.

Next year Serbia can look forward to a World Group berth while Australia will need to fight hard to rejoin the elite World Group competition.

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A win for Roger Federer over Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko has setup a final show down against Novak Djokovic. The final score was 7-5, 6-1, 7-5.

The match lasted 2hr 21 minutes. Despite not playing his best tennis Federer got through this match without dropping a set. Davydenko had several chances in the third set to take the match to the fourth set. With Federer serving at 4-5 30-40 Davendenko missed by a matter of inches grabbing the set. He had played a patient point and had the opening down the line. Federer was beaten however the shot was just wide. After this Federer stepped up a gear to close out the match.

In the other US Open tennis men’s semi final Novak Djokovic overcame the heat and a tough opponent in the form of Spain’s David Ferrer. After going down 1-4 in the first set Djokovic stormed back to take the first set 6-4.

Twice in the match Djokovic had to call for the trainer. He appeared to be suffering from the heat. With the final the next day hopefully he is fresh enough to challenge Federer. In today’s match he fought doggedly to overcome his opponent and took the second set 6-4. He then closed out the match 6-3 to reach his first grand slam final.

Federer will be looking to turn around the last result he had against Djokovic. Just a couple of weeks ago Djokovic defeated Federer in the final of the Montreal Master’s series final. In that tournament the young Serbian player defeated Roddick, Nadal and Federer in consecutive matches.

Djokovic will be lining up against Federer who will be playing in his 10th consecutive grand slam final. The final is the second time the two players have met in a grand slam. Earlier this year Federer defeated Djokovic in straight sets at the Australian Open. On that occasion it was a round of 16 matchup.

If Federer can win the US Open final he will claim his fourth consecutive crown and grand slam tournament win number 12.

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