Editorial Product Review: :On July 6 2008, one dream ended, and a new one began on the Centre Court in Wimbledon. In the latest, magnificent chapter of their storied rivalry, Rafael Nadal dethroned five-time champion Roger Federer by winning the longest-ever Wimbledon men's final. The consistently heart stopping 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-7 (8-10), 9-7 classic began at 2.35 pm and, thanks to a couple of breaks for rain it ended at 9.15 pm with the 22-year-old from Mallorca dropping to the ground with his arms outstretched in celebration. With the win, Nadal matched ...
Editorial Product Review: :Roger Federer retained his crown as king of Wimbledon on Sunday 8th July 2007, beating young Spanish prince Rafael Nadal to secure his fifth consecutive title, matching the legendary reign of the watching Bjorn Borg, the king of this court in a previous era.The 7-6 (9-7) 4-6 7-6 (7-3) 2-6 6-2 victory he achieved followed a feast of tennis fit for any king. At three hours and 45 minutes, it was the third longest men's single final in Wimbledon's history and the most thrilling climax to the Championships since Goran Ivanisevic's ...
Editorial Product Review: :Roger Federer had served notice that he was a force to be reckoned with at Wimbledon when he made his Centre Court debut in 2001 defeating Pete Sampras in a 5-set, fourth round epic, ending Pete's 31-match Wimbledon winning streak. Federer would rise through the ranks of tennis, earning the number one world ranking in 2004, and facing the former holder of that ranking, the hard serving American Andy Roddick for the Men's Singles final at Wimbledon. Roddick came into the tournament as the current U.S. Open champion and the number ...
Editorial Product Review: :This is the definitive story of The Championships. In the Men's Singles Roger Federer was attempting to become the first man in the modern era to win six consecutive titles. His main rival, Rafael Nadal, started his quest to become the first man since Bjorn Borg to win both the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year. In the Women's Singles, defending champion Venus Williams was attempting to win her fifth title. Russia was the most represented nation at SW19. In the biggest shock of the first week, Marat Safin ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Wimbledon - The Record Breakers is a powerful, revealing account of some of the most important records to have been achieved at The Wimbledon Championships in the modern era.In 1985 Boris Becker shocked the world by winning the Men's Singles Final at the age of 17. Becker recalls his magical journey to become the youngest men's champion, the first German and the first unseeded player to win the Men's Singles title.With nine Ladies Singles titles to her name, the naturalized American Martina Navratilova is the most successful woman to have played at ...
Editorial Product Review: :Coming into the 2001 Championships, Pete Sampras was a seven times Wimbledon champion. He had dominated the Centre Court for almost a decade and his powerful, athletic tennis had lifted the sport into new realms. The twenty nine year old American was no longer at the peak of his game though, ranked six, he was still the favorite to win an unprecedented eighth Wimbledon title. But, in the round of sixteen, he met a nineteen year old Swiss who had ambitions of his own. Roger Federer was a Junior Wimbledon champion. ...
Editorial Product Review: :Wimbledon: The 2004 Official Film features the championship runs of Roger Federerer and Maria Sharapova. While beating Andy Roddick was just another day at the office for the top-ranked Federerer, Russian teen Sharapova turned heads by offering a fresh new face on the women's tour, and it didn't hurt a bit that the face looked like that of a model--'Anna Kournikova with a title,' she was quickly dubbed. Other moments of the fortnight captured here include Goran Ivanesevic's farewell, the scoring controversy that might have cost Venus Williams a match, and--because this ...
Editorial Product Review: :Innovation and familiarity were the two themes for Wimbledon 2007.Innovation as Centre Court lay uncovered for the first and last time, awaiting its sumptuous sliding roof for 2009 and as the revolutionary line call system, that allows players to question Umpires' calls, made its debut at S.W.19.Familiarity as Roger Federer and Venus Williams, two of the great Champions of the current era, cemented their dominance on the grass courts, their victories arguably putting them in the pantheon of the truly great.Over the fortnight, one of the wettest on record, players, officials ...
This raw work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture 1.5 could make life easier for photographers who need to cull, retouch, and output large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.
This raw work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture 1.5 could make life easier for photographers who need to cull, retouch, and output large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.