Saturday, July 4, 2015

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer Wimbledon Update


Roger Federer continues to make amazing plays on this year's Wimbledon:
 

While Rafael Nadal seem unable to regain his old form as he loses to 102nd ranked Dustin Brown:


More about this incredible young player who was born in Germany but has Jamiacan father: Dustin Brown (born December 8, 1984, Celle)[1] is a German professional tennis player. Brown competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 78 in June 2014 and his highest doubles ranking of World No. 43 in May 2012.[2][3] He is one of only a few players to have a winning record against the 14 time major champion and former No. 1 Rafael Nadal, having beaten him on more than one occasion with both of his wins coming on grass at the 2014 Gerry Weber Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships.

 2012 Brown had his best year yet in 2012, reaching three doubles finals and winning a second ATP title. He teamed with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to reach the final in Marseille, where they lost to Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin. He won the Casablanca doubles title with Paul Hanley, defeating Italians Daniele Bracciali and Fabio Fognini in the final. Again with Hanley, he was runner-up in Kitzbühel.

2013 He qualified for Wimbledon in singles where he defeated world No. 67, Guillermo García-López, in the first round, and the 2002 Wimbledon Champion and former world No. 1, Lleyton Hewitt, in four sets, in the second round.

2014 Brown volleying during his second round match at the 2015 Wimbledon qualifying tournament In spite of losing in the 1st round at Roland Garros to Australian Marinko Matosevic, he recorded a famous straight sets victory over Rafael Nadal in his native Germany, at the Gerry Weber open in Halle. He also lost to Marcos Baghdatis at Wimbledon, and Bernard Tomic at the US Open — both in the first round. 2015 Brown began his season in Doha where he recorded victories over Paolo Lorenzi and Jan-Lennard Struff. A loss to David Ferrer in the quarterfinals would end his run in Doha. Two weeks later Brown competed at the Australian Open but was defeated by 10th seed Grigor Dimitrov in the first round. At Wimbledon Brown came through qualifying without dropping a set. After beating Yen-hsun Lu in the first round, Brown then went on to play arguably the match of his career and beat 10th seed Rafael Nadal in four sets in the second round.[14] By beating Nadal, he became the first qualifier to ever defeat Nadal at a Grand Slam event.

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