Global News Post: Wimbledon

Djokovic beats Nadal to win Wimbledon title

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">MOSCOW</span></i></st1:place></st1:city><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> (RIA Novosti) </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Serbia</span></i></st1:country-region><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">'s Novak Djokovic won his first <st1:place w:st="on">Wimbledon</st1:place> title with a 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3 win over Rafael Nadal on Sunday.</span></i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Serbia</span></i></st1:country-region><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">'s Novak Djokovic won his first <st1:place w:st="on">Wimbledon</st1:place> title with a 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3 win over Rafael Nadal on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">The victory was the Serb’s 50th win in 51 matches. It was also his fifth win over Nadal this year.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">Djokovic, the first Serb to win Wimbledon, is now the new men’s world number one.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">"It's really hard to describe this with any words except as the best day of my life, the most special day of my life," he said<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">This is his third Grand Slam title after two Australian Open victories.</span></i></div>

Djokovic beats Nadal to win Wimbledon title

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) Serbia 's Novak Djokovic won his first Wimbledon title with a 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3 win over Rafael Nadal on Sunday. ...

Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova Wins Wimbledon Women’s Title

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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmett_hume/3901773989/" title="Petra Kvitova by emmett.hume, on Flickr"><img alt="Petra Kvitova" height="279" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3461/3901773989_47be329a11.jpg" width="320" /></a><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The <st1:placename w:st="on">Czech</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype>'s <st1:city w:st="on">Petra</st1:city> Kvitova stunned the tennis world Saturday, defeating favored Russian Maria Sharapova to win the <st1:place w:st="on">Wimbledon</st1:place> women's title.</span></i><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kvitova, a tall lefthander playing in her first Grand Slam singles final, dominated the match Saturday at the All England Club in London, winning in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some tennis analysts had expected Sharapova, the world's fourth-ranked player and the 2004 <st1:place w:st="on">Wimbledon</st1:place> champion, to notch her fourth Grand Slam title. But it was the 21-year-old Kvitova, ranked eighth in the world, who ascended from her semi-final finish at <st1:place w:st="on">Wimbledon</st1:place> last year to the title.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kvitova's groundstrokes often caught Sharapova leaning the wrong way. Sharapova had six double faults in the match and won just 27 percent of her second serves.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As a youth, Kvitova idolized Czech tennis great Martina Navratilova, the last lefthander to win at <st1:place w:st="on">Wimbledon</st1:place> in 1990. Navratilova watched Saturday's match from the Royal Box along with another former singles champion from the Czech Republic, Jana Novotna.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kvitova said she was grateful for the support of the former Czech champions and said they “gave me some advices.” </span></i><b><i><span style="font-size: 8pt;">VOA News</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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