When he won the U.S. Open on Monday night, his third Grand Slam title of the year, Novak Djokovic didn’t dance to the hip-hop music blaring over the Arthur Ashe Stadium loudspeakers in New York.
The All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), which hosts the Wimbledon tennis championships each year, goes out of its way to foster a Corinthian spirit among its competitors.
For the fourth time in French Open history, Roger Federer faced Rafael Nadal in the final. And for the fourth time, Federer failed to beat his arch-rival on the Roland Garros clay.
OK, it’s called a “tweener,” but NewsFeed was terrified of people misreading the headline “Roger Federer Hits A Tweener.”
After Roger Federer lost at the quarterfinals of the French Open a few weeks ago, Newsfeed cautioned against ruing the end of a tennis dynasty. “An era will truly end when Federer fails to reach the semis at Wimbledon,” we wrote, “a tournament he can probably win while changing the diapers of his twin daughters.” [...]
“I definitely got very lucky today out there.” – ROGER FEDERER, tennis player, on his five-set victory against unseeded Alejandro Falla (Via MSNBC)
The Boston Red Sox were still cursed. Tweets were still bird noises. And Greece was prepping to host the Summer Olympics, not the scourge of the global economy. Such was life in May of 2004, which, until today, marked the last time Roger Federer failed to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam tennis tournament.
Over the past five years, Roger Federer has lost to only one man at the French Open: Rafael Nadal. With 2010′s edition set to start in less than 48 hours, Federer is still the one facing most of the questions.
