Bios
Yes, it is the week before a slam and that means one of the best week’s in the tennis calendar is taking place and that is the Qualy Tournament. It’s as big as the regular event at a slam, 124 players, and the men’s event started today in Paris for the French Open and the four young Americans who I think have the best chance to make a mark in the next five years all won.
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Hold Onto Your Seats Here! Fernando Romboli of Brazil Has Violated the ITF Anti-Doping Rules!!
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That’s right, folks, good folks who follow Tennis-Prose.com, I am scooping Scoop, dropping a big one here in announcing that Fernando Romboli, 24, ranked No. 452, has been caught violating the Anti-Doping rules. How did they catch this guy! What a great testing program that they catch a guy ranked No. 452 doping.
Fernando Romboli will not cheat himself to a top 450-ranking
In all due respect to the clay events in Monte Carlo and Madrid, I feel the real heart of the clay circuit is Rome and Paris. The stadium in Madrid is weird and the Spanish people who attend the matches all seem dressed up to the nines like they’re enduring the tennis so they can go out to a really super party afterward. It’s only in Rome where the people come out en masse and the courts are so gorgeous with the white statues adorning the stadiums.
Whaddaya say, people? All I hear from the Steve’s and the adp’s and the Mitch’s and Harold’s on this site is that I don’t know nuthin’ about tennis. And then I come to you good folks at the beginning of this very same week and tell you I just watched Kei Nishikori, yes the same Kei who’s shown game for around 4 years now, manhandle Jurgen Melzer, and I told you that Kei was hitting a nasty ball and ready for a breakout performance.
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Who Will Be the Next Slamless Player to Win a Slam?
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Andy Murray broke through last year after losing in his first three slam finals. The only other current player to reach a slam finals without yet winning one is Jo-Willy Tsonga. So who will be the next slam-less player to win a slam? I say it’s not going to be Tsonga, Del Po, Berdych or Raonic. I don’t even think the suddenly mildly-formidable Richard Gasquet is the answer or the ageless Tommy Haas. I believe you’ve got to look at the No. 15 and No. 16 players in the rankings to find your answer.
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A lot of tennis fans are not too pleased that Jimmy Connors has went public with the story that he impregnated Chris Evert during their previous romantic relationship, early in their professional careers. Astonishingly, Jimbo also revealed details that his former lover had an abortion. Chris Evert, nicknamed The Ice Maiden and Chris America, of [...]
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I went yesterday afternoon out to Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York with my 6-year-old son (soon to turn 7 on May 9) and my (she wouldn’t like it if I say her age so I won’t) mother. I had just taught two hot yoga classes, the first one with 50 students in it, the next with 27, so I was a bit tuckered. But we drove over the Whitestone Bridge with no traffic tie-ups and then parked (as you or I never can when the US Open is in session, right outside the back entrance to the National Tennis Center) and walked into the indoor facility where they were holding a tennis fair with a lot of camps, clothing and racquet designers there.
Every year there is a new anointed “Can’t Miss Star.” In the past few years, we’ve gotten Raonic, Harrison, Tomic, Nishikori and Gulbis. While Nishikori and Raonic, and very briefly Tomic and Gulbis, have had their shining moments, they’ve all basically settled into either dismal, mediocre or fine but nothing special careers. The latest in that line is Jerzy Janowicz.
Tomas Berdych says that he’s only been tested twice in the past four years outside of competition sites. For anyone who thinks tennis has any kind of thorough anti-doping program, this fact (that a Top 10 player has only been tested twice in four years) should cast great doubt in that belief.
“The system right now… I don’t know how it works with the others but with me, it does not work at all,”
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Text and Photos by Henk Abbink
Couldn’t wait sharing this special moment with our readers.
After another difficult win for Rafa against Tsonga (6-2, 7-6), his team celebrated with Tennis-Prose.com by complying with my special pose request, showing off their Richard Mille watches.
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