Archive for November 2015
Casper Ruud the number one seed in the 18s and ITF No 5 in the world was second on court one and he straight setted an American I never heard of before Oliver Crawford. Ruud is very solid baseliner with all the shots - and he is the son of former ATP player Christian Ruud of Norway. A couple courts away - Nick's court - featured a hard hitting practice with a shirtless Andrey Rublev and Italian youngster Gianluigi Quinzi a lefty who hit a VERY VERY HEAVY ball. Quinzi (age 19) won junior Wimby two years ago and is now ranked in the 300s. Continue to read full article...
Another fascinating chapter to the greatest rivarly in sports today - Novak Djokovic was forced once again and responded with another tennis masterpiece to subdue yet another frenzied challenge by the remarkable Roger Federer at the ATP London World Tour Finals 63 64. Djokovic was again pushed to his limits but responded with another display of tennis genius - summoning his A PLUS level with full intensity Continue to read full article...
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Jean-Julien Rojer Biofile Interview
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By Scoop Malinowski Status: Winner of 35 ATP doubles titles. Best ATP ranking was no. 3 in 2015. Winner of four Grand Slam doubles titles, Wimbledon 2015, US Open 2017, French Open 2022, French Open mixed doubles in 2014. Competed in three Olympic Games representing Netherlands Antilles. DOB: August 25, 1981 In: Willemsted, Netherlands, Antilles […] Continue to read full article...
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Working on the "Facing Federer Nadal and Hewitt" series books several surprising quirky ATP head to head stats came to attention.
For instance - Roger Federer is 8-0 vs Alejandro Falla but Rafael Nadal has never played Falla once in his career. Nadal has also never once played Yen-Hsun Lu. LLeyton Hewitt is about the identical age of Ivan Ljubicic but they only played once early in Ivan's career (won by Hewitt in three sets). Hewitt also only played Andy Murray once (Andy's first ATP title in San Jose). Continue to read full article...
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Novak Djokovic did not give Roger Federer full credit yesterday as Federer defeated the world's best player 75 62 in the round robin clash at the ATP World Tour Finals in London: “You have those days when you are not feeling your best, not even close to the best. Credit to Roger for mixing up the pace, giving me always a different ball. He used the slice and spin very wisely. He served very efficiently" said Djokovic. “I made a lot of, lot of unforced errors. I just handed him the win, especially in the second set. Continue to read full article...
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They feel extremely snug and comfortable - even cushiony - the power cushion concept seems to be an underrated innovation in the tennis shoe industry - for the player who relies on heavy movement and lots of running and retrieving I think the Yonex Power Cushion 308 is the ultimate choice - the model is from a couple of years ago and I haven't tried the new Yonex offerings (they could be better) but I highly recommend trying these 308s if you have foot problems caused by physical tennis - remember Lleyton Hewitt was plagued by foot troubles likely caused before his Yonex endorsement - Continue to read full article...
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“I am not sure if it is 100 percent fair that we qualify for the World Tour Finals playing on grass, hard, clay and indoors, and since 2005, when I qualified [for the first time], it is already 11 years that every single time [it has been played] on indoor hard courts,†Rafael Nadal told the Daily Mail. Continue to read full article...
All the great minds of tennis tried but failed again to solve the puzzle of how to end the dominance of the mighty emperor of professional tennis Novak Djokovic. For the fourth season - and second in a row - Djokovic will be the year end No. 1 - if he can do it again next year, he will equal Federer's five years as the year end kingpin.
The records continue to be smashed by Djokovic - winning yesterday in Paris (over Andy Murray) was his 26th overall Masters Series title - and a ATP record sixth in a single season Continue to read full article...
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@Serenawilliams want to play doubles @ausopen? @mariasharapova
@rogerfederer @mirka and I are proud to announce another set of twin boys which we have named Novak and Rafael
@Rafanadal @uncletoni has retired from coaching - my new coach will be @jimmyconnors
@marcelorios it's an honor and privilege to be elected to international @tennisfame
@wimbledon Congratulations to our new gentlemans singles champion @johnisner Continue to read full article...
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The Californian seemed poised for a breakout last spring in Sarasota where he reached the semifinals of the Sarasota Challenger, losing 46 in the third to eventual champion Nick Kyrgios. But the breakout didn't happen - instead the former UCLA Bruin (for one season) disappeared from the tennis landscape. Continue to read full article...