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Tennis - Nadal And Serena Favorites To Win Sony Ericsson Open
For this year the favorite spots are set to the both World No.1 seeds, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal, from whom everyone expects great performances. The No.1 and two-time defending champion, Serena Williams, will be back on track after skipping her participation at the Indian Wells at the beginning of the month. She has won the tournament 5 times in the last seven years. She has enjoyed it very much since she considers this is her home tournament; she lives just 90 minutes away. "I love playing here," said Williams about the tournament. "I have so many friends that come down. Some of them can't come in the beginning; they can only come at the end. So I always joke that I've got to be playing at the end of the tournament. It has worked for me in the past." Serena, who has also won the last two Grand Slams, including the Australian Open at the beginning of the year, has been widely criticized before for not giving tennis the importance that it might have, but last year she announced that Tennis will be her No. 1 priority, making her level of competition much more higher than other years and this may give her a lot of chances to dominate again in the 2009 campaign. Her first match is scheduled for Friday against either Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland or American wild card Alexa Glatch. On the other side, for men competition the favorite is Rafael Nadal, who just played the final at the Indian Wells tournament beating Andy Murray in two sets. Rafa will try to win a second elite ATP Masters 1000 title as he already arrived to Florida fresh from his last victory expecting to give a great performance as always. Nadal has six Grand Slam titles under his belt; the last one was the Australian Open when he beat Roger Federer at Melbourne Park. He is now expecting to win the Miami’s trophy since the last two times that he has participated he has lost; the first one in 2005 against Roger Federer and the second one last year against Nikolay Davydenko. Nadal expressed in a press conference that he has a lot of pressure since everybody wants him to win every single tournament that he participates on. He explained that he feels more confident on the competition level that he is having right now, but he says that it is very difficult to play on his best level during the whole year. His first match will be Saturday night on Stadium Court against the winner of the match between Teimuraz Gabashvili and Simone Bolelli. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Audrey Nolan is a top senior copy writer for the international tennis championships as well as the top ranking sportsbetting:www.instantactionsports.com/uk/ Feel free to reprint this article in its entirety on your site, make sure to leave all links in place and do not modify any of the content. |
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