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DJOKOVIC'S COUNTDOWN TO GREATNESS


The final stage of Novak Djokovic’s drive to complete a career Grand Slam, thereby joining the elite club whose membership also includes his rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, began today, in the second week of the 2014 French Open. I draw a line of demarcation there for a number of reasons, starting with the fact that job number one for top contenders at any Slam is making it...

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DJOKOVIC MAKES SHORT WORK OF TSONGA

“I haven’t played many good matches this year,” an admirably honest Jo-Wilfried Tsonga said before his fourth-round  meeting with Novak Djokovic at Roland Garros. It’s true: The Frenchman, who has been ranked as high as No. 5, has dropped all the way to No. 14 in 2014. But he may have reached a new low in Paris today, where he lost 6-1, 6-4, 6-1 to Djokovic in what can barely be....

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GULBIS TALKS THE TALK AND KNOCKS OUT FED


Ernests Gulbis had done a lot of talking—about how dull the top players are, about opponents who were little princesses, about how the guys ranked ahead of him weren't as good as he was, about how he was going to be No. 1 someday. But before this tournament, he hadn’t done anything to back those words up in the matches and tournaments that mattered. Coming to Paris....

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