Archive for October 2013
Oct/13
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Michael Chang Explains How Smaller Players Can Slay Dragons
28 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Bios
Michael Chang was one of the more fascinating great players of the modern era. How he won the French Open as a seventeen year old was one of the most remarkable achievements in tennis history.
Chang recently did an interview with the Australian based tennis site www.TennisFrontier.com and shared some of his views on the modern game. Continue to read full article...
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On the way back from cycling over to Tenafly Racquet Club to interview Geoff Grant for my "Facing Hewitt" book - he beat Hewitt in straight sets at the Winnetka Challenger before winning the title - I saw a singles match being played at Argonne Park in Teaneck while I stopped to do a few sets of pull-ups.
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A Tribute To David Nalbandian
Richard Pagliaro Tennis Magazine: "I'll never forget the 2005 U.S. Open when Nalbandian carved up Federer and Federer came into the interview room afterward and made that famous 'he plays contra tennis' line just one of the few times I ever saw Federer almost admit he had no answer for an opponent. Even his early losses to Rafael Nadal, Federer often said he was 'collecting information' like he was figuring it out but that day vs. Nalbandian he almost admitted he had no answer or the time Nalbandian just crushed Rafa in Paris Indoors - just completely took him apart."
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Oct/13
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Let’s Give Sam Some Love He Just Whupped Wawrinka
7 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Articles, Scoop
Sam gets nothing but flak around here for his underachieving. He literally gets picked apart physically and mentally for lacking footwork, speed, creativity, mental toughness, eye of the tiger, the list goes on.
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Oct/13
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Nadal was clearly not a fan of Djokovic’s imitations (quote)
18 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Articles, Scoop
Researching my "Facing Hewitt" book (due in Jan.) I stumbled across this quote asking Rafa Nadal about Novak Djokovic's imitations, at Montreal Masters in 2008...
Q. Don't you think that since Yannick Noah left and since Djokovic earlier said that he finished with mimicking everyone on the court, that some entertaining is just get out of the tennis, of the game? It's just became just finish the job, no more entertaining?
RAFAEL NADAL: I think this is not a show, no? Continue to read full article...
We keep saying how Harrison, Tomic, Dimitrov struggle to make gains. Well, I looked at the old 2002 Orange Bowl draws. THe big players back then have also struggled. Or never made it. In the l6 Boys the number one seed was Patrick Woefler of Austria – he lost first round to C Clayton of […] Continue to read full article...
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