Watch Live Djokovic vs Nadal: Free Streaming ATP Rome Final

The Rome Open final between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic has been re-scheduled to Monday due to heavy rain in Rome on Sunday.

So it is final now: Nadal has already qualified for the final beating fellow countryman Ferrero.

Would Djokovic defend his title? Nadal ponders!!

Now the world no.2 and the defending champion Novak Djokovic beats world no.2 Swiss Roger Federer 6-2, 7-6(4) Saturday-Sunday night and moves to the final to defend his title, Nadal has to be very assertive and resilient if he want to dominate the Serb.

Both Nadal and Djokovic have met 31 times before Sunday's title due and Nadal has a winning edge of 17-14 over the Serb. And of 13 matches of played on clay, Nadal has won all but two which were won over by Djokovic. Nadal last won on clay against Djokovic was at Monte Carlo 2012, and last lost to Djokovic here at Rome in 2011.

In the last ten matches played by both, the Serb has lost twice at the hands of Nadal at Monte Carlo and Tipsarevic at Madrid. Nadal on the other hand has lost once at Madrid at the hands of F. Verdasco. 

So while Novak Djokovic will try to defend his title Sunday, Nadal would try to avenge the Blues of the blue clay of Madrid.

The final of Internazionali BNL d'Italia - Rome, Italy was scheduled for Sunday 20th May at 14:00 GMT, however due to rain at Rome Sunday afternoon, the match has now been re-scheduled for Monday, 21 May at 10:00 GMT

Read More

Watch Djokovic vs Federer: ATP Rome Semis

Defending Champion and World No.1 Serbian Novak Djokovic moved into the Semi Finals of the ATP Rome after an easy 7-5, 6-1 win over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Friday. He now faces 2nd ranked Swiss Roger Federer in Saturday afternoon's semi final today.

Defending champion Djokovic [L] meets Federer [R] in ATP Romes semi finals Saturday today

Roger Federer, who was recently elevated to World No.2 ranking after his Madrid Masters triumph, beat Italian  Andreas Seppi 6-1, 6-2 in the quarterfinals Friday to move to the semis.

Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer will clash for the 25th time in Rome Masters semi-finals since 2006. Of these 25 encounters, the Swiss dominates the Serb 14-11. The last time the two clashed against each other was at ATP The Mubadala World Tennis Championship (UAE) in 2011 when the Swiss overpowered the Serb in straight simple two srts 6-2, 6-1.

Both players are in their best form whith Federer having a 9-1 win/loss of the last ten matches he played, while Djokovic lost two of his last ten matches against Nadal at Monte Carlo and J. Tipsarevic at Madrid.

Today's encounter would tell whether the Swiss allows the Serb to defend the title or takes upon himself to do hold the title silverware.

The match is scheduled for Saturday, 19 May 2012 at 18:00 GMT

Read More

Djokovic vs Tsonga: ATP Rome QF

Those travelling to Rome these days would be delighted to find all the big stars of the tennis world in the town too, playing the Internazionali BNL d’Italia tennis tournament or the ATP Rome. The tournament that enters the quarterfinals stage Friday today, has almost all the first top ranked eight players playing their quarterfinal matches. So while they move about in the beautiful and historic Rome, they may buy a ticket to watch these great names in the world of sports playing right in front of them - LIVE.

In one of such matches, the defending champion and world number 1 Serbian Novak Djokovic faces 5th ranked French Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Rome Internazionali BNL d’Italia tennis tournament.

Djokovic moves into the quarters after beating J Monaco 4-6 6-2 6-3 Thursday on  awindy day at Rome. Tsonga moves into the QF after a straight run over Del Potro 6-4, 6-1.

Both the Serb and the French have met 10 times before their clash today. Interestingly, the French has a winning dge over the Serbian of 6-4. All of their encounters so far have been on Grass or Hard courts - Friday's being their first match on the clay. Their most difficult match was the Australian Open 2010, when Tsonga won after a long hard contested match of five complete sets 7-6(8) 6-7(5) 1-6 6-3 6-1.

The form of both players at this point in time is almost equal as of the last ten matches played, Djokovic has lost two, while Tsonga has lost three. How it turns out to be, let us watch the match today afternoon.

The QF match which is scheduled for Friday, 18 May 2012 at 14:00 GMT

Read More

ATP Tennis: Battleground shifts from Madrid to Rome

The entire world's attention was focused on Madrid till late Sunday night when, after the Serena's victory in the women single title, Roger Federer was embattled with Tomas Berdych. The 2-1 win by Roger Federer over Tomas Berdych  did not come easy as Federer's biggest obstacle was to overcome an opponent who had beaten him in three of their previous five meetings. The win yesterday brings Federer back at No 2 after his third victory at the Madrid Open.

Top ranked stars for ATP Rome

Now from the controversial blue clay, the battleground changes to the traditional red clay again at Rome, where the ATP/WTA Rome commences Monday onward. Here World No.1 Djokovic will star defending his title, beside Nadal, Federer, Murray, Del Porto and Inser. 

The first round matches are already in play for both men / ladies singles and doubles. But excitement and mood of the tournament will set in when the big starts start to descend on the red clay. It now remains to be seen after Federer's tremendous resilience and firmness on the blue clay, would he be able to snatch the crown from the defending champion Norvak Djokovic or not.

While the free live streaming links of most of the round matches onward will be provided at my sports blog Movin' Sports,  I will also provide links for the important matches from quarterfinals onward here at Jaho Jalal as was in case of ATP/WTA Madrid and matches before.

Read More