Richey Reneberg – Bethesda MD, financial sector, Taconic Capitol Advisors.
Vince Spadea – private lessons, dates model, working on various media/entertainment projects, contemplating a return to professional tennis competition.
Geoff Grant – head pro Court Sense Tennis Club in Tenafly, NJ.
Mary Pierce – privately coaches one female teen, deeply religious Christian, based in Bradenton, FL.
Hana Mandlikova – Mother of teenaged twins, both play USTA tournaments, based in Bradenton.
Julian Alonso – runs his own academy in Bradenton FL.
Attila Savolt – runs his own academy in Bradenton FL.
Tim Mayotte – runs his own small tennis academy in NYC area.
Brian Barker – runs James Blake’s club programs in Trumbull, CT.
Marat Safin – Moscow based bachelor, elected to Russian parliament but it’s a part time job, for 2-3 days of work a month.
Carling Bassett – Resides in Sarasota with husband Robert Seguso, four children including two very young daughters under five.
Ken Flach – Opened a restaurant called Best Li’l Porkhouse in San Rafael, CA.
Angelica Gavaldon – runs her own academy in Coronado, CA, also started a tennis clothing line in 2007.
Luke & Murphy Jensen – both are touring pros at Sea island Resort in Georgia; Murphy is head coach of World Team Tennis champions Washington Kastles.
Alex O’Brien – Founded Littlefield Ranch, an online business which markets, and distributes prime steaks. His family has been in the beef business for 60 years. O’Brien is currently President and part owner of the Bank of Commerce, a small community online bank with branches in Amarillo and McLean, Texas.
Derrick Rostagno – lawyer based in Los Angeles.
Gardnar Mulloy – Recently turned a hundred years old, resides in Miami, FL.
Johan Kriek – Runs his own academy in Charlotte, NC.
Kathleen Horvath – Worked at Goldman Sachs. Resides in Short Hills, NJ with husband and children, currently touring America with her family.
Marcelo Rios – resides in Santiago, Chile with wife Paula and five children. Rios recently created a new website http://marcelorios.cl/ and works as coach with Chilean Davis Cup team and as part time TV analyst. Rios also plays occasional events on the ATP Champions Tour.
Dan Markowitz · August 12, 2014 at 8:52 pm
I talked to this guy named Kas who apparently was Mary Pierce’s coach at one point. He said Mary really got her heart broken by Roberto Alomar.
I love the part about Ken Flach opening up a restaurant called Best Li’l Porkhouse. You can’t make stuff like that up.
Now Scoop, how do you know Kathleen Horvath is currently touring the country with her family? I wonder what Jeff Borowiak is doing?
Scoop Malinowski · August 12, 2014 at 10:08 pm
Dan, Mary is single as far as I know. Kathy Horvath and fam are in Colorado now, I know this from Facebook she is a friend. Re: Jeff Borowiak…from his son Andres, also a Facebook friend (he read my Rios book)…
My dad is well, having just relocated from Seattle where he was for 12-13 years, down to his original home of Berkeley CA.
He is still his same energetic and eccentric self. Still plays tennis everyday, many hours a day.
Facebook is a wonderful thing, 🙂
Dan Markowitz · August 13, 2014 at 7:30 am
Facebook is good, I guess, if used properly. Wasn’t Borowiak the guy who drove to tournaments in a van? Or was he the guy who used to ride his bike to the tournament site? Amazing, he still plays tennis every day, several hours a day. No, now it’s come to me, I’m thinking of Richard Matuszewski, but he might not be the guy either, because Wikipedia says he was from Newark, and the guy I’m thinking of was from upstate NY.
Who would you say has been the most successful in a field other than tennis? We know Johnny Mac, who’s been getting some negative press of late with his son, Kevin, being busted for buying cocaine in the East Village, and The Post reporting that his charity tennis events, one of which is coming up on Aug. 21 with Djokovic and Noah Rubin, doesn’t benefit low-income kids looking for a scholarship to his academy, but actually benefits talented kids like Rubin who get free lessons and such, has had the art gallery and had his own talk show, but he really hasn’t shined outside of tennis.
Probably Alex O’Brien, who has a very successful business, but it was his family-run business. It’s interesting that in tennis, where usually the players come from well-to-do families and have good education, we haven’t seen Congressman or Senators the way we have with other sports like basketball, football and baseball.
Scoop Malinowski · August 13, 2014 at 8:05 am
Dan, Jeff Borowiak is before my time but I do remember he was the player in Bodo’s 79’s Inside Tennis book who told Bodo he was losing a match and a ballkid told him he should go to the net more. Borowiak followed the advice and won that match. The guy who drove a VW van to tourneys, the original Dustin Brown, was Derrick Rostagno. Good question about which tennis players achieved the most success outside of tennis post tennis career. Have to think about that.
Jack · August 13, 2014 at 1:21 pm
Before the 2009 AUS open, John McEnroe speculating whether Nadal could have enough stamina for the final after a grueling semi-final, and only 1 days rest (Roger had two days rest before the final).
McEnroe called Nadal “the Lance Armstrong of tennis.
Of course Armstrong hadn’t been caught at that time.
from :
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/31/sports/sp-australian-open31
I wish someone would point this out to Mac today, and get his response.
Jack · August 13, 2014 at 1:23 pm
Sorry, just read the article again. Apparently it was PATRICK McEnroe.
Scoop Malinowski · August 13, 2014 at 1:55 pm
LOL Jack. Good find.
Dan markowitz · August 13, 2014 at 2:49 pm
That match though where Nadal came back to beat Fed in the finals is why people think Nadal could be taking steroids. I don’t care how fit you are or how mentally tough, playing 10 sets in 3 days against great competition in a slam semis and finals is a very tall order.
Mitch · August 13, 2014 at 6:46 pm
Ion Tiriac has a bit of a business empire, no?
Scoop Malinowski · August 13, 2014 at 9:31 pm
Tiriac may be the most successful former pro player Mitch, good call. Donald Dell was also very successful. As was Jack Kramer, Lacoste, Yannick Noah.
jblitz · August 14, 2014 at 7:55 am
“That match though where Nadal came back to beat Fed in the finals is why people think Nadal could be taking steroids.”
For a guy that claims to know so much about tennis you sure say some stupid things. If you had read Nadal’s book, you would know that he didn’t think he was going to be able to play the Federer match because he was in such rough shape up to just a couple of hours before the match. And yes, it was a very tall order to be able to go out there and do it but that’s what champions do and there are very few champions like Rafa Nadal. If the other guys on tour worked as hard as Rafa, they might have a chance to be as good as him and be in similar physical condition.
I always have to laugh at the people who claim Rafa took steroids. Those must have been some pretty high-grade magical steroids that could target only certain areas of his body. His left arm is very muscular but his right arm is just a normal size. I doubt if you’ve ever seen Nadal in person or seen him play live or you’d know that he is actually taller and much slimmer than he looks on tv. Your constant claims are ridiculous.
Jack · August 14, 2014 at 11:00 am
Fanboy alert. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I participate on a number of forums, and the reactions by the fanboys to suspicions against their hero, is always the same.
They act like they “know” the athlete, because they have been a fan. They say why it is “impossible” that the athlete dopes. As though their favorite athlete is an angel.
It was the same for Lance, until he confessed. Lance was never an angel (he was the exact opposite), yet the Lance fans swore he was.
The truth is, human nature is much less pretty than these useful idiots (usually a younger foolish male with a huge ego), would believe.
Dan Markowitz · August 14, 2014 at 11:57 am
Jblitz,
I don’t claim to know a lot about tennis, I just do. Played the game a pretty high level, played college tennis, satellites, been on the court with Connors, Gerulaitis, PMac, Spadea, Salzenstein. Written for every Times, SI, Tennis Magazine, World Tennis Magazine, Tennis Week and of course one of the best as-told-to books in tennis, “Break Point,” so I know a lot about tennis.
And what does steroid use have anything to do with Rafa’s left arm being humongous and not his right arm. Obviously, other tennis players, notable lefties, have had this same abnormality, but they weren’t on steroids. The suspicions that Rafa is on steroids or has taken them in the past are very high. It’s not conclusive yet, but the boy from Mallorca is a prime candidate when one talks about steroids in sports.
Andrew Miller · August 14, 2014 at 2:35 pm
I dont suspect nadal. I just dont like the six months on six months off routine. I think the commonly used and quite legal platelet therapy is one reason for longetivity . And i think nadals will and toughness is the real deal probably because the guy is a little crazy – ocd. I think the coaching from the stands from Toni is unacceptable.
jblitz · August 15, 2014 at 12:34 am
Hi Jack. I recognize your comments and style from a couple of other forums – which you have been banned from. Is this the only one left which you’re allowed to post on?
And Dan, the suspicion that only Rafa is on steroids is high only amongst a select few that like to stir up trouble on the internet who, while not large in number, are very prolific and vitriolic…like your friend Jack. It’s laughable that Rafa is singled out for the hate when if someone really wanted to discuss the issue reasonably and intelligently they would look at many other players whose performances and size merit a closer examination, especially the other two of the top three ranked players. I’d look particularly closely at the once top ranked American who underwent an amazing physical change and within a couple of years had to quit because of heart problems.
jblitz · August 15, 2014 at 12:52 am
Andrew, I’m surprised at your (false) claim that Rafa is six months on and six months off. That is simply not true. Only once in his career has he had to take six, actually eight, months off and that was in 2012. Considering he plays such a physical game with a congenital birth defect in a bone in his foot, the treatment of which has as the doctors predicted caused resultant problems with his knees and his back, it’s surprising that he hasn’t missed more time.
Someone on another forum put some numbers together of how many matches Nadal, Djokovic and Federer have played in the last 10 years and up to the end of last week’s Toronto, both Rafa and Roger had played 765 matches each while Djokovic had only played 713. They all regularly play around 80 matches most years.
And I hope that you think the coaching from the stands for most of the other players is unacceptable too. Djokovic has actually received more warnings than Nadal has and virtually all the other coaches do plenty of talking too. I’m not saying it’s fine if Uncle Toni coaches but I just don’t understand why you’d single Rafa out. Even the saintly Federer’s team does it at times too.
Dan Markowitz · August 15, 2014 at 1:55 am
Jblitz, by no means do I think Rafa may be the only guy out there using PED’s. Murray comes under my suspicion, too, because the guy went from being a rail to being built like an NFL cornerback.
Djokovic went from being a guy who couldn’t breathe and had injury/stamina issues to being a guy with other-worldly fitness and well-being on the court. Nadal is a guy, though, who has flown under the radar his whole career. He’s kept his same team and didn’t go to Barcelona to train when he was young.
And other players have told me that his ability to recover during stressful matches from point to point without even breathing hard is suspicious. But by no means do I think Nadal is the only one out there who may be taking PED’s. He’s have much more than 14 slams now if he were.
jblitz · August 15, 2014 at 2:24 am
And Mardy Fish? You strangely don’t mention him.
Rafa hasn’t flown under the radar his whole career. What in the world are you talking about??? He’s been playing internationally since he was about ten years old. Why in the world would he go to Barcelona as a kid when he had the best coach and training he could get in Mallorca. That has to be one of the weirdest accusations I’ve heard against him yet. Do you think his family was filling him full of PEDs when he was a youngster????
Scoop Malinowski · August 15, 2014 at 8:39 am
Who knows. I read that Lionel Messi was diagnosed with some kind of condition as a child by the family doctor and was prescribed to take hgh, read this in a soccer magazine. Anything is possible.
Scoop Malinowski · August 15, 2014 at 8:50 am
Jblitz, I thought of Fish but didn’t mention it because it’s so well known. Everyone knows he’s done with tennis and trying his hand at pro golf. Mentioning Fish would be like saying John McEnroe works as a TV commentator and runs a tennis academy on Randall’s Island – everyone knows this.
Scoop Malinowski · August 15, 2014 at 8:51 am
I tried to mention the players that most people wouldn’t know what they are up to.
Dan Markowitz · August 15, 2014 at 1:07 pm
Fish taking steroids. I’ve never heard that claim. Mardy Mardy Fish. He got skinnier. Not exactly a Murray/Nadal physique. But I know there’s EPO and HGH, but Fish had the whole story about his diet. And I’ve never heard steroid use causes anxiety and heart issues. But it’s not outside the realm of possibility. The guy in the span of a year went from being No. 90 to No. 8. That’s hard to do without a little help.
bjk · August 15, 2014 at 5:29 pm
Amphetamines would explain the heart problems & the weight loss, though a google search for Fish & speed turns up no results. Apparently nobody else has considered that possibility. The Mardy Fish story is just bizarre.
Dan Markowitz · August 15, 2014 at 6:09 pm
I agree, bjk, totally bizarre is the only way to express it. Since Roddick’s heyday, Fish was really the only American with a splash of Izzie, to show he could play consistently well against the Big Boys. He was stepping on the Big Boys’ feet. And then two years ago, in the third round against Fed at the Open, he defaults less than an hour from the match start time. Ever since he’s been like Greta Garbo. His story would be interesting to hear.
Did he just lose heart and get scared of the big stadium lights? Did he actually have a heart problem and how did it occur? Or was he taking some supplements/PED’s that started this whole bizarre disappearance act in action. The guy was Top 10 when he left the game at 31. That doesn’t happen too often.
Scoop Malinowski · August 15, 2014 at 7:26 pm
Fish was really playing great tennis too. He was handling Murray and going toe to toe with Fed and Djokovic. If he started playing like that in his early 20s, he could have and maybe should have been a top 5 dynamo. At his best Fish was really a great player to watch, big respect for his game. Credit to him for finally finding that level, it was a pleasure to see.
Bryan · August 18, 2014 at 6:11 pm
Another more recent where are they now? Mardy Fish, playing golf and a stay at home dad. He retired citing heart/health issues but as I said repeatedly it was due to panic attacks. He finally admitted it to USA Today, which quotes him discussing when he retired:
“I was basically getting anxiety attacks every 30 minutes of the day at that time,” he says. “That was the worst of it. They would just never stop.”
Bryan · August 18, 2014 at 6:16 pm
“And then two years ago, in the third round against Fed at the Open, he defaults less than an hour from the match start time. Ever since he’s been like Greta Garbo. His story would be interesting to hear.”
Dan, Mardy Fish had a panic attack an hour before playing Federer. That’s why he withdrew. Oftentimes the most anxiety happens before you step on the court. When I was a boxer the hour before a fight was always the worst. Most world class athletes come to terms with that stress but Mardy could not, so he quit.