Dubai – Fabulous Federer!
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March 1, 2014
Welcome back to the King of Tennis; Fabulous Federer wins in Dubai It was like that line from the old Beatles song: “I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello.” Many of us weren’t listening. We’ll listen now. We thought we might have said farewell to the very best of him. Instead it […]
Grand Slam Tournaments: The Run Down
Debenture News
February 21, 2014
Grand Slam History: Wonderful Wimbledon Aces Them All All the Grand Slams have their history – but nowhere has quite as much as Wimbledon. You can feel it when you walk in. That magic took many years to create. You can’t feel it anywhere else, for all the qualities and diversity of the world’s other […]
Happily Ever After – Tennis Romances
Debenture News
February 10, 2014
Let’s Hear It For The Partners The team at WimbledonDebentureHolders.com have come up with their own Happily Ever After #HEA rating for our favourite tennis couples. Do you agree? Join in the conversation on twitter It’s amazing how many stable romances there are at the top of tennis. Especially when the top stars could have […]
Congratulations Australia – The Happy Slam!
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January 26, 2014
Australian Open – The Happy Slam Two great finals – both with gripping first sets in very different ways. 2014 Champion – Li Na Li Na was not in control of the newcomer. Both appeared not to settle although this was Li’s third Aussie final, the petite Slovakian, Dominika Cibulkova did not disappoint in her first. […]
Super Stan In Dreamland After Downing Tearful Rafa
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The tournament of shocks has ended with yet another. Stanislas Wawrinka out-gunned an injured Rafa Nadal to take the Australian Open 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. In doing so he became the first man in twenty years to beat the top two players on the way to winning a Slam. No one had ever beaten Novak […]
Third Time Lucky as Comedienne Li Na Lives The Dream
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January 25, 2014
Wonderful Li Na won her second Grand Slam – then brought the house down with one of her trademark comedy routines in Melbourne. She thrilled hundreds of millions in China on the way – and took her career earnings well beyond £50 million. But the whole world is rejoicing for one of the most popular […]
Nadal In Blistering Form
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January 24, 2014
Rafa Nadal Takes Down Federer On His Way To The Australian Open Final Rafa Nadal cruised past a weary Roger Federer, despite having to deal with a painful, raw blister on his left hand. In doing so the dynamic Spaniard gave himself the chance to draw level with the legendary Pete Sampras by winning his […]
‘Stan The Man’ Wawrinka Deserves His Big Moment
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January 23, 2014
Who isn’t delighted for Stanislas Wawrinka? His four-set victory over Tomas Berdych means that Stan The Man has earned his reward for all the great entertainment he has given us in recent times. Those epic five-setters against Novak Djokovic, all those years of trying to break into the sport’s elite…now Wawrinka has something to show […]
Roger Rolls Back The Years!
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January 22, 2014
Graceful Roger Federer moved like a youngster but used years of experience to defeat a ring-rusty Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3. Let off a controversial double bounce on the way to glory, Federer nevertheless deserved his win, having squandered match points in the third. Now we can look forward to yet another epic between […]
Novak Out In Epic…Stan’s The Man !
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January 21, 2014
Stanislas Wawrinka produced one of the great Grand Slam shocks to end the extraordinary winning run of Novak Djokovic. The gutsy Swiss won another five-set epic 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 9-7. In doing so, he ended Novak’s 28-match winning run, a separate 25-match winning streak at Melbourne, and a 14-match sequence of victories over Wawrinka […]