By Amanda H. LeMay
Fish and Querrey seen eating at a posh steakhouse prior to their quarterfinal match. Roddick’s choice? A local Italian favorite.
Del Potro and Stepanek teaming up for doubles and forgoing their usual bright colored kits for some matchy black and white. Too bad they lost!
(Canadian) Milos Raonic yelling “VAMOS!” after sealing the deal to make it through to his second straight semi-final this season. Guess he likes to mix it up.
Lleyton Hewitt’s parents sitting courtside cheering on their son in his match with Roddick. Lots of “Come awn mate,†coming from his box!
Melanie Oudin, watching both Milos and Roddick matches courtside with her boyfriend. Yes they are still together!
Raonic’s older sister watching him all week – Always one seat down from his coach. Fun fact: Milos is the uncle of nine- month old twins.
Tournament director Bill Rapp receiving Canadian gifts from Raonic as a thank you for the WC – Turkey Hill maple syrup and maple cream chocolates. Something tells me he might get a few more WCs with that kind of treatment.
Mardy Fish, commenting on his defeat of good friend Sam Querrey by saying that “Sam is the future of American tennis.â€Â
Hewitt, when asked about the three foot-fault calls in his match against Roddick, lamenting that the line calls were worse than the foot-faults! Now why couldn’t just one of those foot-faults have been on Roddick – every tournament needs a little drama. HA!
And finally, Roddick, when asked about Hewitt as a player, showing his respect by saying that Lleyton is an amazing competitor and will be a Hall of Famer.
Amanda H. Lemay is a www.Tennis-prose.com correspondent. She is in Memphis this week covering the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships.
Scoop Malinowski · February 19, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Thanks for the excellent observations Amanda, very enjoyable quick read. Seems like you have everything covered down there, very well done.
Andrew Miller · February 20, 2011 at 12:25 am
Roddick-Raonic….good luck Roddick!
Scoop Malinowski · February 20, 2011 at 1:09 pm
He might need it! If Raonic pulls off this one, and I think it’s 50-50, then he can win a major this year.