Tag: Simon

Can you beleive it? Feliciano is back! The Spaniard has been battling with some injuries to slip to a world no.39 rank. Lopez wasn't even sure if he was able to play this tournament, to finally come and win it! The final wasn't of a very...

Gilles Simon defeats Andreas Seppi in straight sets in the 2013 Aegon International

Simon and Feliciano Lopez will try to get their first title of the season. It's actually interesting how the so called "warm-up" tournaments are finally more than a warm-up for tennis players. In fact, Simon hasn't won a title so far this year and we...

It's Federer no. 900... but that wasn't easy. Roger often struggles with Gilles Simon. In 2011 at the Australian Open he had to win in 5 sets and he had to repeat himself this year at the Roland Garros. The beginning of the match was rather...

It took only 62 minutes for the Maestro to beat Gilles Simon. Roger played a spotless match to break his opponent 4 times without even conceding a single break point. This was a great result for Roger as he has always struggled with Simon in...

The world no.3 had a very hard task against the German that wasn't giving any rhythm to his shots. Murray had some problems to cope with his physical conditions. At a certain point he was even struggling to breathe during the first tie break. From Murray “Yeah,...

Gilles Simon aims at breaking in the top 10 after reaching a 6th career high rank in 2009. The 2013 season hasn't been as good to reach 3 semifinals in Rotterdam, Marseille and Bucharest. To reach the extra mile Simon decided  to hire German Jan de...

Gilles Simon becomes the favorite to win the tournament in Bucharest after beating Daniel Brands and Tipsarevic's unexpected defeat. It took 78 minutes for Simon to win his match against the German.  "It was a perfect start for me," said the Frenchman . "I was serving...

The seed no.11 and local favorite Gilles Simon fell in Monte Carlo in straight sets. Gilles Simon, world no.13, had quite a bad match to drop his service 7 times out of 10 service games (!!!). The Freshman admitted that he couldn't play his best...

A "Del Potro less" Argentina will play a "Gasquet less" France in the quarters in Buenos Aires. Argentina won't have its most representative player (it seems that there are some tensions in the team), but also France had to cope with an important absence as...