Rafael Nadal News

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic returns the ball to Spain’s Fernando Velasco at the Rome Masters tennis tournament, in Rome, Friday, April 30, 2010.

Roger Federer has clearly lost his mojo. Unfortunately, he misplaced it, or it abandoned him, at just about the same time Rafael Nadal , Federer’s career archrival, has found his.

This is not a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. It is a Kevin Anderson fairy tale — but a grim one all the same.

Expert picks are here to stay through the remainder of the Rome Masters. Friday’s version features a blockbuster quarterfinal lineup.

Novak Djokovic earned a chance at revenge on the clay, reaching the quarter-finals of the Rome Masters Thursday to set up a re-match with Spaniard Fernando Verdasco.

After displaying the confident tennis that lifted him to world number two last year in his Rome Masters opener, Andy Murray once again struggled in a 6-3 6-4 loss to Spain’s David Ferrer .

Hawai’i’s Tadd Fujikawa shot a 2-over-par 72 today and was seven strokes off the lead in a tie for 74th place after the first round of the $1.247 million Crowns golf tournament at Aichi, Japan.

There will be two extra All-Stars this summer. Rosters have been expanded again by commissioner Bud Selig’s special committee for on-field matters, with each team bringing 34 players to the July 13 game in Anaheim, Calif.

WORKSOP teenager Zoey Myles is set to share the same tennis court as British number one Andy Murray.

If you are Robin Soderling, do you really want to even play Rafael Nadal on Friday? That is question in front of the Swede who is just a Stan Wawrinka away from a going face-to-face again with Nadal.

Novak Djokovic won the Rome title in 2008. Third round action on Thursday features six of the top eight seeds, led by No.

The announcement we have been waiting to hear for the last several years. It took longer than most thought it would, but finally, Rafael Nadal and his uncle Toni Nadal have decided to streamline their tennis schedule.

ATP Rome. Click here to bet. Click here for latest tennis results Click here for Andy Schooler’s Net Talk Click here for 2010 ATP Tour calendar Click here for 2010 WTA Tour calendar Click here for latest ATP Tour rankings Click here for latest WTA Tour rankings Click here for more tennis news Rafael Nadal avoided the same fate which befell Roger …

“I think as the tournament would have gone forward I would have found my groove more and more, and who knows what would have happened?” said Roger Federer after blowing three match points in a three set loss to Marcos Baghdatis in Indian Wells.

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