Thursday, November 30, 2017

They announced the changes to the WTA rules

The Women`s Tennis Association (WTA) press service has published a list of innovations in the rules that will come into force next season in 2018. All non-Premier WTA tournaments will be able to give wild cards to tennis players without worrying about their world rankings. Officially, the maximum time between the points during a match adviced by tennis picks will be 20 seconds, and in case of a violation of this rule, the servant loses his first bet. It also simplifies the re-entry procedure after pregnancy, and it will no longer be necessary for the athletes to return to the court for one year after the birth.

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Ibrahimovic and Pogba are back on Saturday?

Manchester United`s top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic has almost recovered from a severe knee injury and will certainly return to play by the end of this year. This revealed the manager of `red devils` Jose Mourinho. According to the Sun, the Swedish may join the Newcastle fight on Saturday after he has begun training with his teammates this week. Polg Pogba is also preparing for a full turn, who may also be in the United for the clash with the Swarovski. He is a lion, a fighter, I think that`s a good description, and he`s been anger all the time, and that`s why he`s almost ready, as he expected, he shortened his recovery time and returned2017, which is amazing, `said Mourinho in front of Sky Sports.

Ibra has not played since April, while Pogba missed the last 12 Manchester United matches.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Nadal`s bearings in London are not over

The world number one and winner of 16 Grand Slam titles again Rafael Nadal will not be able to win only prestigious tournament that still eludes him - ATP finals. As is known, in London matador stepped in trisetova battle of David Goffin and announced then that will be able to continue its participation in the O2 Arena. So, this season, the 31-year-old celebrity leftist will remain without prestigious honors. He has a simple explanation for his woes in this tournament - he is held in a hall where Matadora does not feel comfortable, and his results suggest it. Of their 75 career titles, only two have been achieved in indoor hard courts.

Unfortunately, this is the sixth time he has to refuse to take part in the ATP Finals in his 13th place. Here are Nadal`s most unfortunate attempts to reach the finals in the final tournament of the year:






2006 - semifinals

Nadal beat Nikolay Davydenko and Tommy Robredo in Tokyo after losing to Dzheyms Bleyk in his first group match. He was then defeated by Roger Federer`s number one in the world, for whom it is the fourth consecutive ranking of the final and followed by a third triumph after winning precisely over Blake.

2007 - Semifinals

Nadal this time started with a victory over Richard Gasque in the group, then retired in three sets of David Ferrer, but beat Novak Djokovic. Only Roger Federer was expected again in the semifinals and the Maestro defeated his famous rival with 6: 4, 6: 1 in 59 minutes, and then raised his fourth titles with success over Ferrer.

2009 - dropping in the group stage

In the first edition of the tournament in London, Nadal suffered a real failure, losing their three matches in the group stage. The defeats came from Robin Soderling, future champion Nikolay Davydenko and Novak Djokovic.

2010 - Finals

Matadora this time won all ma tches in the group with Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic and Tomas Berdih before eliminating semi-finals and Andy Murray with the tiebreak in the final set. In perhaps his best attempt to reach the title but Nadal gave Federer again in the battle for the title, although he took a part - 3: 6, 6: 3, 1: 6.

2011 - dropping out in the group phase




The Spaniard is not in an optimal phycical state, starting the tournament via today soccer games after a five-week break from the world tour. He lost to Mardy Fish in three grueling sets before Federer to inflict one of the worst defeats of his career at all - 3: 6, 0: 6 for 60 minutes. In spite of the shoulder injury, Matador wrestled against Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, but lost this match in three sets.

2013 - Finals

Rafa is again at the top level and overcomes his treacherous rivals in the group stage - David Ferrer, Stan Wawrinka and Tomas Berdih. Nadal even manages to overcome Federer after 7: 5, 6: 3 to reach the 14th in the season. However, Novak Djokovic stops him 6: 3, 6: 4 and becomes the seventh tennis player with at least three triumphs in the ATP Finals.

2015 - Semifinals

For the third time in his career, Nadal overcame the group stage with impressive victories over Wawrinka, Andy Murray and David Ferrer. In the semifinals, however, Djokovic turns out to be an insurmountable obstacle - 6: 3, 6: 3, after which the left-hander from Manakor

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Tim Werner returned the noise to Leipzig

With two goals in the final 20 minutes, Leipzig managed to make Hannover 96 very hard for the final adviced by questions for football tipsters 2-1 in the 11th round of the Bundesliga. With this household success, the champion of the Champions League at least briefly pushed Borussia (Dortmund) from second place in the standings.

Above all was Timo Werner, who assisted for the first and realized the second goal for his team. Separately he once hit the beam.

Once again, this season the guests presented themselves very steadily and deservedly led after a yellow card in the 56th minute. But then the red bulls showed why they were among the leading clubs in the league. In the 70th minute, a naive mistake by Salipe Sane allowed Werner to give Yussuf Poulsen a 1-1 draw on the empty side, and five minutes before the end, Emily Forschberg found the German national 2-1.




In the last round, the newcomers beat Borussia (Dortmund), but today they did not withstand the pressure of Razenbalsport.

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