Rafael Nadal pulls out of 2011 Paris Masters

World No.2 Rafael Nadal pulls out of 2011 BNP Paribas Masters tournament, schedule to play in Paris next week.

The 10-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal has posted a message on his Facebook page that, he has withdrawn from the next week’s 2011 BNP Paribas Masters tournament held in Paris. Nadal said, it’s been a tough decision taken by him and hopes to return back to 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals begin from 20th November at Arena O2 in London. Rafa added that he will return back to Paris Masters in 2012 season in the most beautiful city in the world.

The King of clay court Rafael Nadal has played his last tournament at Shanghai Rolex Masters tournament, although he made an early exit from the tournament, where he lost to Florian Mayer of Germany in two sets in the third round. Nadal has played well at Japan Open last month, but couldn’t overcome the title short against World No. 3 ranked Andy Murray.

The 25-year-old has been working hard in the training sessions at his home town at Manacor, before heading into the 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London. Nadal even concentrating to regain his fitness and working hard along with his uncle Miguel Angel Nadal and physical trainer Maymo, where he sustained foot injury at the US Open in August.

Novak Djokovic tops ATP Rankings

The Serbian Novak Djokovic, who has dream year of 2011 as he clinched 10-titles this season is tops the ATP rankings, after the clinching the Wimbledon title at the All England Club in London. Novak Djokovic has total of 13,295 points at No.1 in ATP rankings this week.

Former No.1 Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, who is bidding for No.1, are staying next behind Djokovic for the second successive week standing No.2 and No.3 in the ATP rankings. Swiss Maestro Roger Federer dropped to No.4 ranking in the ATP, after Murray claiming the title triumph at Shanghai Masters has a total of 5,185 points.

Meanwhile 30-year-old Federer competing in this week home tournament, and trying almost he could to move his plac

e to top-3 of the ATP rankings by the end of 2011 season. There are only few changes have been done in this week’s top-10, as Jo-Wilfred Tsonga winning the title at Vienna Open has earned 500-points to move to No.7 in the ATP rankings while, Mardy Fish has been dropped to No.8.

Rank	Name	Points
1	Novak Djokovic (SRB)	13295
2	Rafael Nadal (ESP)	9500
3	Andy Murray (GBR)	7200
4	Roger Federer (SUI)	5815
5	David Ferrer (ESP)	4300
6	Tomas Berdych (CZE)	2940
7	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)	2890
8	Mardy Fish (USA)	2875
9	Nicolas Almagro (ESP)	2370
10	Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)	2305

Roger Federer slips to No.4 in ATP Rankings

The Swiss legend Roger Federer was out of Top 3 in the ATP rankings for the first time since 2003. Federer's absence from the Asian tour has proved costly for his rankings. Andy Murray went on win his hat trick titles in Asia and cinched the number three spot from the Swiss Legend.

For the first time in eight years, Roger Federer has fallen out of the top 3 in the ATP rankings. Britain’s Andy Murray moved from fourth to third in the new rankings released Monday, with Federer dropping from No. 3 to No. 4. Novak Djokovic remains No. 1 and Rafael Nadal No. 2. Roger Federer is facing the toughest situation he has ever gone though a rough patch like this. Roger Federer started this season as No.2 and will be ending the 2011 as No.4.

Mighty Scot, Andy Murray surged from fourth to third in the new rankings released Monday, with Federer slumping from third to the fourth spot. Novak Djokovic remains on top and Rafael Nadal settles for second best.

Federer was absent from tour after his U.S. Open semi-final defeat against Novak Djokovic and consequently is out of the top 3 for the first time since July 2003. However, Federer has been sidelined with an injury, the Scot Murray will have only few points to defend his No.3 position before the end of the season, and Murray will be ending the season as No.3 for the first time.

Novak Djokovic will finish year as World No.1

Novak Djokovic becomes first Serbian player to clinch Year-End No. 1 crown. Djokovic will finish this year at top as the end of this calendar year and he the first Serbian to achieve this landmark in the history of tennis since 1973.

Novak Djokovic clinched the year-end No. 1 ranking on the ATP World Tour, finishing a season in which he won 41 consecutive matches and three Grand Slam titles.

The 24-year-old Novak Djokovic secured the title as World No.2 Rafael Nadal’s loss to Florian Mayer in the third round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters. Djokovic is 64-3 this year, with 10 tournament championships including 3 Grand Slam titles at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open.

Djokovic began the season with 41 consecutive victories. He defeated Nadal, last year’s No. 1-ranked player, six times this year and Roger Federer, the top-ranked player in 2009, four times. 16 players from nine countries have won the honor since 1973. Djokovic, the only Serb, has earned $10.6 million in prize money in 2011.

Four players have managed to achieve this milestone and amongst them are the World Number 2, Rafael Nadal (2008, 2010), World Number 3, Roger Federer (2004-2007, 2009), and famous rocket serve master, Andy Roddick (2003).

Novak Djokovic will be officially crowned the year-end World Number 1 at the closing ceremony of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. The ceremony will take place in London and Djokovic will feature in this tournament for the fifth consecutive time. The tournament is scheduled to be played from November 20-27.

Rafael Nadal hopes to be back in form

World No. 2 Rafael Nadal aims to be back in form at the 2011 Shanghai Rolex Masters tournament. Rafa also admitted that his game had dipped since his stellar 2010 campaign.

The 25-year-old Spaniard may have won the battle of Federer Vs Nadal that happened for many years and also for the tennis supremacy. But, now the form has transformed to Serbia's Novak Djokovic, who has won three Grand Slams defeating Rafael Nadal in all those finals.  However, Nadal is looking to turnaround to his top form where he won 3 majors in a year like Djokovic did, this year.

Rafael Nadal has won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open back-to-back last year, said his game had since faltered a little, contributing to his losing seven of 10 finals in 2011. Nadal added that he believe Rafa 2010 had something more special than Rafa 2011, especially in tough situations. 

The former World No.1 said that winning or losing depends on very, very, very small things. Nadal retained French Open crown but ended up losing to Djokovic at this year's Wimbledon and US Open finals. And added that those are probably very, very small things he did a little bit better in 2010 than 2011. It is hard to win big matches, as he lost a lot of finals this year.

Rafa said that he played worse than last year. He was very consistent, probably even more consistent than last year, but he played a little bit worse. Rafael felt that Roger played well, but lost few matches that in the past he never would have lost.

Toni Nadal: Novak Djokovic makes Rafael Nadal anxious

Uncle Tony Nadal said that former World No. 1 Rafael Nadal suffering too nervous, while playing to present World No. 1 Novak Djokovic. Rafa feels nervous against 4-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia this season.  

The 25-year-old Rafael Nada has lost all six Championship finals to World No. 1 Novak Djokovic this year, which includes 2 Grand Slam finals of Wimbledon and US Open. Recently, Nadal has lost US Open final to Djokovic in four sets with a 6–2, 6–4, 6–7(3–7) and 6–1. However, Spaniard fight hard in the third set to return back to win. Nadal and Djokovic has clashed for the 29 occasions overall, where Nadal leads with a 17-12 win loss head-to-head record.

Rafa uncle Tony Nadal said man in form Novak Djokovic has been showing outstanding performance this year. As he won three major titles with Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open. Meanwhile Nadal has won just one Grand Slam title this year at French Open in Roland Garros beating 16-time major title winner Roger Federer in four sets with a 7–5, 7–6(7–3), 5–7 and 6–1.  

The 2011 French Open champion Nadal has reached quarter finals of the 2011 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis tournamentNadal has been working hard on the court, as he will return back strongly to win the match against Djokovic in future says coach/Uncle Toni Nadal.  

Will Rafael Nadal rise to No.1 spot in ATP Rankings in 2011?

The 10-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal hopes to return back to No. 1 position in the ATP Rankings this year, after falling down to No. 2 position in July.

The Spainish player Rafael Nadal, who has lost his No. 1 position to Novak Djokovic, after reaching 2011 Wimbledon final at All England Club in July. Nadal has won just one Grand Slam title of French Open at Roland Garros, where he has overwhelmed 16-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer in the final in four set 7–5, 7–6(7–3), 5–7 and 6–1 to lift the title for sixth occasion in his career.

The 25-year-old Nadal has lost six championship finals to World No. 1 Novak Djokovic in five masters’ event including two major tournament finals at Wimbledon and US Open. Djokovic, who has played one his best season in his career, has bagged 10 titles this season along with Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open. Nadal had 6-0 win loss head-to-head record against Djokovic, where Spaniard has failed to beat Serbian in 2011.

The four-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic holds with a 14,720 points and Rafael Nadal had 10,620. Serbian leads with a 4100 points and holds number one position in the ATP Rankings. The World No. 3 ranked Roger Federer stands-up with an 8,380, while Britain star Andy Murray backing with 7,165 at No. 4 position.

Who will have Best Grand Slam Count:Djokovic, Nadal, Roger Federer?

The trio top players in men’s singles Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, can you guess  who is going to end the career with highest number of Grand Slam’s.

The World Number Three ATP Men Singles FedEx Express has won the Charming Grand Slam title for 16 times, don’t forget that’s not the end of Roger era he has got several more years on the court. The 30 year old maybe playing for another 5 or 6 or might be 7 years or even 8 or 9 years or might be more depending on when the legend will say I am done. However he may add another 5-6 Grand Slam titles to his record or maybe more you just need to wait and watch. Federer has won 67 overall career titles so far. Roger Federer has won 16 Grand Slam titles, breaking the previous all-time men’s record of 14 by Pete Sampras.

Rafael Nadal has been having few ups and downs with his ATP ranking recently from 1st place to second place, but don’t forget he is 10-time Grand Slam Champion and he is not even half way of his career, he’s just at 25 and one most prolific athletes in tennis history and one of the youngest to achieve 10 Grand Slams. Until Federer joined Nadal in 2009 he was the only male player to simultaneously hold Grand Slam titles on clay, grass, and hard courts 2008 US Open, 2009 French Open and 2009 Wimbledon.

The stunning and dashing youngster current World Number 1 Novak Djokovic is looking unbreakable with massive force closing to finish the best year ever in his tennis career. Djokovic holds currently 4 Grand Slams but looking at the best of his career at 24 still a long way looking down the road.

He has got into the rivalry of Rafa-Roger and establishing it as Djokovic-Rafa-Roger rivalry, don’t forget he is the best currently finishing with three Majors and clinching the ATP Number Men’s Singles Raking. All three have got a long history to write, pick your favorite.

Will Roger Federer bounce back in 2012?

The Swiss Mastero Roger Federer, the greatest player of all time in the tennis history believes to return back strongly in the next season. Federer is hoping big to win other Grand Slam title in the upcoming season and increse his tally to 17 grand slams.

The 16-time Grand Slam winner Federer has faced some brethtaking defeats throughout the season, where he also has failed to win a single major title in 2011. This is first time since 2003 have finished ayear without a grand slam.Federer, who holds number one position for a record 237 consecutive weeks and 285 weeks overall in his career and one of the three players to win Grand Slams on all surfaces on clay, grass and hard courts.

The Swiss start said he can be a tough competitor for the top players like Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, after turning into 30 in August. Federer is the only player to defeat man-in-form and World No. 1 Novak Djokovic this year at the French Open semi finals in four sets with a 7–6, 6–3, 3–6 and 7–6 score line. Federer always like to play with World No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the Grand Slam tournament final, where Djokovic has dethroned the pair to win the major titles.

Former World No. 1 Federer also fall down to No. 3 position in the ATP Rankings, after his poor performance in this season. Federer might lose number three spot to Andy Murray in the ATP Rankings, as Britain’s star has been showing outstanding performance appeared at three Grand Slam semi finals and Australian Open final. Federer holds 8,380 points and Murray stands with 7,165 points, where World No. 4 has playing Thailand Open tournament at the moment to improve his position in the ATP Rankings.

Rafael Nadal set for Asian exhibition, begins practice

World No.2 Rafael Nadal has decided to play in Asia for 2011 Shanghai Masters and China Open, which will begin on next month in China. The Spaniard is just coming after minimal rest; he is ready to plays an exhibition with compatriot David Ferrer in tennis-starved Taiwan.

The 25-year-old Nadal, who has lost his Grand Slam final to World No. 1 Novak Djokovic at the 2011 US Open tournament final in four sets with 6–2, 6–4, 6–7(3–7) and 6–1. Nadal also played a crucial role in Spain’s Davis Cup tie match against France last week. Nadal posted on his Facebook wall that, he has begin training session along with his country mate Arnau Brugues, who won seventeen ITF tournaments on hard courts in his career.

Nadal will play in the 2011 Shanghai Masters tournament, which will begin from October 11th to 18th, held at the Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena in Shanghai, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the Association of Tennis Professionals. Spaniard also schedule to play in the China Open, an ATP 500 Series of the 2011 ATP World Tour, which will begin from 1st to 9th October at  the Olympic Green Tennis Center in Beijing.

The 10-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal is likely to seed No. 1 in the upcoming Shanghai Masters, where World No. 1 Novak Djokovic and 16-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer were pulled out of the event, due to injuries.

It will be end of Federer-Nadal era?

The greatest rivalry of modern era tennis is between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, but now it seems there is the of this modern era rivalry.

The 16-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, 10-time Grand Slam winner has the upper hand in all grand slam finals as it witnessed them in all the finals of majors. Recently, the present world no.1 Novak Djokovic has ended the greatest rivalry in the games history.

Swiss Mastero Roger Federer and Spanish player Rafael Nadal have fight hard for the top spot from several years, as the pair’s supremacy, since 2004. Both modern greats have paired up six consecutive calendar years as the top two ranked players on the ATP Tour. In the period of 2005 and 2010, Federer was ranked No. 1 for a record 237 consecutive weeks beginning in February 2004. While Nadal spent 4 years and 10 months at No. 2 in July 2005 and held this spot for a record 160 consecutive weeks before surpassing Federer in August 2008.

Finally, the 24-year-old Novak Djolkovic has ended the supremacy of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal era. The Seriban has dream year of 2011 as he won three majors of Wimbledon, French Open and recently finished U.S. Open. However, Rafael Nadal is World No.2 and Roger Federer is palced at 3 in ATP rankings.

Let’s hope that both Fedex and Rafa raise their game and be at their top to entertain their fans and add more gand slams to their tally!

Roger Federer ends 2011, without a grand slam

World No.4 Roger Federer has finished the year 2011 without a single Grand slam, although he is still in good touch and in best of from. The top seeded players like Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray the around Swiss legend have raised their game standards and levels.

Federer ends 2011 without a Grand Slam, since 2003

The 16 time singles Grand Slam title winner find it hard to win another major, as all the majors have been ended up with recent Us Open. Federer has finished off 2011 without a Grand Slam and this is first time for Swiss player to end a year without winning any major since 2003. Novak Djokovic clinched three Grand Slams of Wimbledon, Australian and US Open while Rafael Nadal has won French Open as Fedex remained without any title in 2011.

Former World No.1 Roger Federer, said that his greatest rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are playing at greater level of game, than the earlier times when he was simply beating the rivals at Grand Slams. Djokovic was compared to all time rivals of federer like Lleyton Hewitt, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick who were at their best when Roger has defeated all the odds against them. 

However, the 47-year old Sweden’s former World No. 1 Mats Wilander said that there is no question of Roger Federer is better now than he is ever been. But the 30-year-old was just not finishing the game on a winning note. However, Novak Djokovic is way better than the opposition he had four, five years ago. He even added the top players are far better now than of earlier. When asked whether Roger the best of all time? He answered yes, because he has 16 Grand Slams and that’s where it all ends. Sixteen majors make Roger Federer the best player of all time.

The perfect solution for the Swiss star and god of tennis in modern era has to find new strategies to his current game and move ahead to add more majors to his gallery of 16 Grand Slams.

Rafael Nadal to miss out Spain Davis Cup semifinals

Former World No.1 Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal could miss out Spain's Davis Cup semi-final against France, due to tiredness. Rafa looked to be tired as he lost a demanding US Open final to world no.1 Novak Djokovic on Monday. The Spanish star then flew back to Spain to join up with fellow Davis Cup team-mates David Ferrer, Fernando Verdasco and Feliciano Lopez ahead of the semifinal, which begins in Corboda Friday.

Rafael Nadal might miss Spain's Davis Cup semis

The 10-time Grand Slam title winner explained that his participation is in the hands of team captain Albert Costa. He added they were here as a team and, what is more is he would not play if the captain feels another teammate is better prepared than me. Rafael Nadal feels that he is fully exhausted after the US Open finals and suffering a toe injury.

However, Nadal added that Spain would still be able to present a powerful side, if teams captain Costa decided to rest him. The world no. 2 Rafael Nadal quoted that if he is not in shape, luckily Spain is still has there top-level players. Spain has chosen to play the match on their red clay surface, which is their favorite.

Rafael Nadal have been have been competing at the highest level for three weeks, now there is a change of surface and that is something to assess. Nadal missed out last year's quarter-final defeat to the French. Spain and France have met seven times in the Davis Cup, Spain has the upper hand with 5 wins.

Djokovic outplays Nadal to clinch US Open 2011

The Serbian Novak Djokovic has claimed his third Grand Slam of the year and first US Open title as he outplayed defending champion Rafael Nadal to win the 2011 US Open men's singles title at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, USA. World No.1 Novak Djokovic recorded his sixth victory over Rafael Nadal this season to lift the 2011 US Open with score line of 6-2, 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-1, and this will be the season's last major. 

Djokovic overcomes Nadal in US Open 2011 finals

The inform player Djokovic had a bad start to the match by losing his serve in the second game, but he managed to wrap up the set at 6-2. Nadal seemed to gain early advantage but soon Djokovic comeback with a four game reel-off when Nadal showed some confidence in leveling the set 4-4. Djokovic then raised the level of his game to win the second set with 6-4. 

The third set looked no less than a decider when Djokovic faced stiff resistance from the defending champion and despite squandering opportunities like an initial break of serve and 6-5 lead to serve for the championship, saw the set go into a tie-break where Nadal dominated to win it by 7 points to 3.

The fourth set saw another shift in momentum and despite the back pain and the medical time out; Djokovic managed to bring his best and claimed the uneven set to win the championship. The match has taken 4 hours and 10 minutes of play. Djokovic hit a total of whopping 55 winners in the entire match while Nadal has only 32.

This is Djokovic's first US Open title and his fourth major after wins in Australia Open in 2008 & 2011 and Wimbledon in 2011. With a win in New York, Djokovic picked up his tenth singles title of the year and third major, following up with his wins in Melbourne, Dubai, Belgrade, Rome, Madrid, Indian Wells, Miami, Wimbledon and Montreal. Djokovic has collected the winner's check of a US$ 2.3 million that included a bonus of US$ 500,000 for finishing runner up at the Olympus US Open series.

Djokovic, Nadal in finals of US Open 2011

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal, world no.2 will be clashing in the U.S. Open final for the second year in a row after winning their semi-finals at Flushing Meadows on Saturday. Djokovic defeated Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal outplayed andy Murray to reach the finals of US Open 2011.

Novak Djokovic continues his good run  and proved once again he is the hottest player in the game right now, where he saved two match points to roar back from the brink of defeat and beat Roger Federer in a 5 set thriller with 6-7 (7-9) 4-6 6-3 6-2 7-5. Meanwhile in the other semi-final Nadal showed his form and confidence soaring with each match he played and powered past Britain's Andy Murray  in 3 straight sets 6-4 6-2 3-6 6-2. 

Nadal defeated Djokovic 12 months ago, where he won all the grand slam titles and there after the Serbian has upper hand over Nadal. The Spaniard added that he lost his last five matches against him, five finals. Djokovic is the favorite to clinch the title and Nadal added that he needs to do more than what he is used to do agan=inst him to defeat Djokovic considering his form. Djokovic has already won two grand slam titles this year, at the Australian Open and Wimbledon.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will be clashing in the finals of US Open 2011 on Monday, Sep, 12.

Nadal clashes Murray in US Open 2011 semifinals

Defending champion Rafael Nadal and world no. 4 Andy Murray will face each other in the semifinals of the U.S.Open 2011 at Flushing Meadows.The top four seeded players men's will once again show their are a class apart from their rivals.

In the first quarter final round on Friday Andy Murray defeated John Inner in four sets 7-5 6-4 3-6 7-6, and Rafael Nadal outplayed Andy Roddick in three straight sets 6-2 6-1 6-3. Now the British player Murray and Spaniard Rafael Nadal will be clashing with each other in the semi-final of US Open.   

Nadal and Murray are no strangers to playing each other this year. The pair met at the same stage of both Wimbledon and the French Open earlier in 2011, where Nadal victorious both times.

Nadal said that it is always a pleasure to face Andy Murray. He is one of the most talented players on the ATP Tour. He recalled that Murray defeated him at US Open in 2008 and went into finals; it will be a tough match.  However, Murray trails Nadal 12-4 in career meetings; Murray is confodent of over coming Nadal on semis and reach finals of US Open 2011. 

On Thursday, Worl No.1 Novak Djokovic and 5-time US Open champion Roger Federer secured their semis place, Now Nadal and Murray made it a top clean sweep for the top four seeds with victories on Friday.

Nadal crashes Roddick at US Open quarters

World No. 2 Rafael Nadal completed a comprehensive win over former US Open champ and World No. 21 Andy Roddick in three straight sets of   6-2 6-1 6-3.  Nadal advances into semi-final of the 2011 US Open, where he will meet World No. 4 Andy Murray.

Defending champion Rafael Nadal was never looked stugling with his cramp, despite he outplayed American player Andy Roddick of America in straight sets with a 6-2 6-1 6-3.  The Spaniard Rafael Nadal just took 1 hour and 53 minutes finish the natch, Nadal converted 6 out of 7 break points, while Roddick failed to convert a single one out of 4 break points.

The 10-time Grand Slam champion taken the attack and got early lead of 4-0 in the first set and continued his awesome play right through and completed comprehensive win. Meanwhile Roddick appeared to be struggling physically in the latter stages of the game, but it was a highly impressive show from Nadal.

In the other quarterfinal of Andy Murray Vs John Isner, Murray defeated Isner in four sets with score card of 7-5 6-4 3-6 7-6. Now Andy Murray will fight with Rafael Nadal in the semi’s of US Open 2011.