The votes are in! We would like to thank all those who have participated in the poll! It is now time to reveal the winners of the Best Men’s Tennis Matches of 2018 poll. Best Tennis Matches of 2017 1) Novak Djokovic d. Rafael Nadal 6-4 3-6 7-6 3-6 10-8 Wimbledon, Semi-final The Wimbledon semi-final […]
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Best of 2018 – Vote for the best tennis matches of 2018
There were several intriguing matchups and outstanding matches throughout the 2018 tennis season. Vote for your favourite matches of the year now. You can select up to 3 matches. Voting closes on December 28, 23:59:59. If you don’t find your favourite match among the options provided, you can let us know in the text section […]
The ages of Grand Slam champions – A statistical comparison between the 4 majors
They say tennis is a young man’s sport. It’s hard to argue with that. It is among the most physically demanding sports out there. You need elite level physical conditioning – speed, power, athleticism, endurance – to be able to compete at the highest levels. And tennis players’ careers are typically over relatively earlier compared […]
All Time Greatest XI – Real Madrid
Real Madrid is arguably the most successful football club of all time. They’ve been European champions a record 12 times and Spanish champions a record 33 times across their illustrious history. And over the years, they’ve had a so-called Galactico culture. Throughout their history, Real Madrid have always boasted some of the greatest superstars of […]
Celebrating 14 years of Fedal – The 14 greatest Fedal moments (7-1)
7. Federer breaks Nadal’s 81 match clay court winning streak at Hamburg, 2007 Nadal was carrying an 81 match winning streak on clay into the 2007 Hamburg Masters final. Unsurprisingly, that was – and still is – a standing record for any surface. He had swept the clay swing in 2006, and had won everything […]
Celebrating 14 years of Fedal – The 14 greatest Fedal moments
Today marks the 14th anniversary of something truly special. On the 28th of March 2004, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal faced each other for the first time in the 3rd round at Miami. This was to be the start of the greatest rivalry in the history of tennis, and some might argue, all of sport. […]
The Top 10 Rivalries Of The 2017 Season (5-1)
5. Rafael Nadal 3 – 0 Grigor Dimitrov Rafael Nadal and Grigor Dimitrov met 3 times this season. Both players seemed to find their best tennis for large parts of the 3 matches. All 3 matches went into a deciding set. Unfortunately for Dimitrov, Nadal won all 3. Their first meeting came in the semi-final […]
The Top 10 Rivalries Of The 2017 Season
The 2017 ATP World Tour season was full of surprises, intrigue and great memories. It was a year full of the old and new. Fans got to see many old favourites rediscover their form and fire, while many younger players also made their mark. Over the course of the year, many intriguing matchups captured the […]
Top 20 Strangest Programming Languages (10-6)
10. Whenever Don’t you love it when, as a programmer, you tell the computer exactly what to do and when, and it just obeys your every command within milliseconds? Well, the Whenever language doesn’t. Whenever is a lot like your pet cat. It has no sense of urgency, and does what it wants, and when […]
Top 20 Strangest Programming Languages
In this article, we take a look at some truly bizarre programming languages. The first thought in your mind when you come across these programming languages would probably be “someone had way too much time on their hands.” Some of these languages actually were created to serve a specific purpose, while some of them were […]
Top 20 Strangest Programming Languages (5-1)
5. Piet AsciiDots and Grass have nothing on Piet. Piet is a programming language in which programs actually look like abstract paintings. The language is named after Piet Mondrian, who pioneered the field of geometric abstract art. The program is compiled by a pointer that will move around the image, from one section to the […]
How many atoms are you made up of?
Have you ever wondered exactly how many atoms you’re made up of? Or maybe specifically how many hydrogen atoms and how many oxygen atoms are there in your body? Well, the folks over at foresight.org have done the maths and according to them, an average 70-kg male human body contains almost 7 × 1027 atoms. […]
Your Essential Collection of Batman Jokes
What’s the difference between Batman and a robber? Batman can go into a store without Robin! What does Joker do when he’s not plotting or committing evil crimes? He rides his Harley. What is a Batman’s favorite part of the joke? The “punch” line! Where does Batman go to pee? The batroom. What do you […]
The Greatest Men’s Tennis Players, Ranked Scientifically
How do you measure the greatness of a tennis player? Who is the greatest? How would two greats stack up against each other? How would you compare the greatness of players across generations? These are all intriguing questions, and as in any sport, the greatness of various players is a hotly, and very commonly, debated […]
The 20 Best Superhero Movies Of All Time (10-1)
10. X-Men: Days of Future Past Everyone loves a good time travel plot. Add to it the X-Men, and it gets even better. In X-Men: Days of Future Past, we see Wolverine travel to the past in an attempt to change the course of history, which hasn’t turned out well for either mutants or humans. […]