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  • Liam Collins · May 19, 2010 at 4:48 pm

    Hey guys,

    I was interested to see if you would like to contribute to our aussie sports site.

    Would help build traffic for your site in austalia also, can put your link in your articles to your site.

    What’s your email and I would like to send you an intro letter that we have for our writers

    This is an example from a writer for our tennis –

    http://www.thebigtip.com.au/tennis/80-opinion/446-what-we-can-gather-from-the-madrid-final

    I appreciate you thoughts

    cheers

    Liam

  • Liam Collins · July 7, 2010 at 4:44 am

    Hey guys,

    I like your article on the boxing stuff ha. Listen our site is really growing with traffic and and we have our site a new facelift – it looks pretty amazing – http://www.thebigtip.com.au.

    Anyway we’re working with various sites to help with each others traffic so we’re putting there logo on ours and they put ours on their site. Let me know if you would like to write an article for us, you ‘ll get great exposure espically in australia

    cheers

  • Daniel Bial · July 9, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    I’m a literary agency, and I’ve been approached by the agent for Rick Macci to find a co-writer to help him write a book. Preferably said writer would be able to sit down with him in Boca Raton, FL, and ask the pertinent questions.

    If interested, please send me your vita or resume so that I can forward it to Rick’s agent.

    Sincerely,

    –Daniel Bial

  • Mike · July 16, 2010 at 4:40 am

    Hi Mark

    As an avid tennis player and big fan of the sport, I find great value in tennis news blogs such as yours and read them often. As most of your readers are tennis players like myself, I thought I’d let you know about a website you may want to share with others through your blog.

    The site is called Juump (www.juump.com). It is an online tennis community helping people find courts and players right in their neighborhood. Juump solves the biggest problem…players cannot find compatible people to play with in their vicinity. With Juump, you can FIND players and groups who play at your favorite courts, MEET players with similar skill levels, interests and schedules, and PLAY more tennis.

    I’ve recently been involved in helping to spread the word of this free service to tennis players worldwide. Having been following your blog and its tennis coverage, I think your readers would be very interested to learn about this great new service that helps tennis fans get more involved by playing more often.

    Please check out the site, create a profile and let me know what you think. It’s been getting great reviews from users and as our community continues to grow, more and more people play more tennis.

    If you’d like more detailed information I’d be happy to provide it to you. I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

  • Doug Yurchey · August 28, 2010 at 8:23 pm

    TO RICHARD – my last email to him bounced back:

    I saw you on the Tennis Ch. and thought I’d write oncemore. I forget if I sent you the attachment previously of an INSTANT BUZZER in tennis which would solve the problems of line’s people errors and the whole Challenge System. It would ELIMINATE THEM! Can you imagine the end of lines-people as a thing that really could be achieved soon? It all depends on getting Hawk-Eye/Shot-Spot computers to recognize an OUT-ball much quicker…and ring a buzzer.

    I have sent the idea out to numerous tennis people with virtually no response. I have mailed hardcopies to John McEnroe’s Academy hoping he would get behind the idea and push (computer-people) for an INSTANT BUZZER.

    Thought I’d give it a shot – maybe you could pass it along to someone appropriate in the tennis community. Coming from little ol’ me, no one listens. This IS the future; it’s just a matter of when will tennis decide to develop and use it?

    I received a response from a person at the Hawk-Eye Company who told me it was not up to them to develop the INSTANT BUZZER. I wrote back that it was squarely on the shoulders of companies like Shot-Spot and Hawk-Eye to develop this FIRST…then, present it to tennis authorities. Never heard back from the person…or got a response from Johnny Mac, of course.

    One day, I’ll see tennis WITH THE INSTANT OUT-BUZZER and tell people, ‘see that…I thought of that first, but no one heard me.’

    Take care. Love to hear what you thought. THANKS. Sincerely, Doug

    old email:

    (Hi Doug:
    Thank you- I will read this tomorrow when I get in. Thanks so much for sending it. I am looking forward to it!

    all the best,
    Richard)
    ________________________________

  • Bob Litwin · September 9, 2010 at 12:59 pm

    Hey Scoop:
    Here is my contact info if you would like to do an interview or something with me.
    Bob Litwin
    focused130@aol.com
    516/849-6155

  • max · September 18, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    Don’t you guys think that there is something awefully fishy about the fact that neither Roddick nor the Bryan brothers are playing the tie in Colombia? For a tie that has the importance of this one, as well as the fact that it will be P.McEnroe’s last tie, you would think that, at the very least, the Bryans would come down to secure that ever so important doubles point. I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any strech of the imagination, but coudl it be that the current players are not happy with McEnroe’s leadership and would not really mind to see his leguacy tarnished by losing to a lower tier team like Colombia? I know Roddick is not exaclty a powerhouse on clay but he can perform just as well, if not better, than Fish or Querrey and on topof that his Davis Cup record is stellar. Im confused about all this….

  • Scoop Malinowski · September 19, 2010 at 12:07 am

    Max you are right, something is fishy about it. After Patrick McEnroe’s Davis Cup press conference at the US Open, the tennis media was abuzz. The Bryans took the high road on being left out though and they said they did make themselves available. It’s really confusing. We may never know the truth. There’s not enough to even speculate. The tennis media guys I know are totally stumped. I’ve never sensed anything about the core team being unhappy with McEnroe’s leadership, but it could be possible. I respect the job he is doing, and the fact that Jack Sock and Denis Kudla played in the US Open boys final reflects well that progress is being made. If you read Patrick’s book, which is excellent by the way, one thing that’s clear is that it’s very difficult to deal with all the egos on the team and lead it without upsetting someone. Not an easy job, so it’s a wonder Patrick lasted so long (ten years) and actually won the Davis Cup in 2007 in Portland.

  • Charlotte Lazimi · November 3, 2010 at 3:37 pm

    Hello,
    My name is Charlotte Lazimi. I’m a French journalist for the female magazine Be.
    I would like to interview Esther Vergeer.
    I’m searching to contact her to her press agent. Would you like to help me get it?

    Thank you very much,

    Best regards,

    Charlotte Lazimi

  • Robby · January 5, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    I would like to delete the comments I made. Can you tell me how it is possible or can you do it for me. Thank you and best regards

  • Michael · March 18, 2011 at 7:27 am

    Mark,

    I enjoyed hitting with you a couple of weeks ago on Longboat Key. Maybe we can do that again?

    Michael

  • Scoop Malinowski · March 18, 2011 at 12:47 pm

    Sure M, Let’s hit tomorrow, can’t hit today. There are two nice free courts right near the library on Anna Maria Island about 2 miles in from the bridge. -Mark

  • Peter De Voecht · March 24, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    Hello Scoop,

    Here’s my e-mail adress if you want more info about the Marcel Rios picture Roland Garros 2001.

    Best Regards,

    Peter De Voecht

  • MEL DIGIACOMO · April 12, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    IT IS EASIER TO REACH CHARLES MANSON THAN TO REACH RICHARD PAGS.I HAVE PHOTOS FOR HIM [201]767 0870

  • Andrew Miller · April 17, 2011 at 3:43 am

    Hello Tennis-Prose: Wanted to ask if TP was going to write on some of the ideas from the book “Born to Run” and how some of it may be helpful to tennis. There is a lot of myth when it comes to movement and endurance and some players may be getting tired because they aren’t playing on the balls of their feet according to how we’re supposed to use the feet. I recognize that any discussion of biomechanics is pretty wonky and far out there. But what if TP can solve tennis injuries or at least throw something into the mix? I think it would be cool.

    Thanks for considering! Andrew

  • KING ARTHUR USA · July 6, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    Hi Richard Pagliaro, I have an interview with Peter Fleming,The quote McEnroe and anyone else” is explained I have sent to you but no reply. I also got a great interview with Virginia wade. Let me know if I send them to you.

  • Dr. Don R. Mueller · August 16, 2011 at 11:15 pm

    Greetings:

    Hello, my name is Don R. Mueller (physics professor and “Two Racket Guy”). With the U.S. Open (Tennis) on the horizon, I have a tennis item that you might find intriguing for your readers, it’s called two-racket tennis. There are two-racket players around the U.S. and even in Russia where they have the Two-racket Tennis Federation. During the summer months, I’ve been giving demonstrations of the two-racket technique. Would you be interested in doing a story about the two-racket game? I would simply call a tennis facility in your area for some court time. We even have one player who calls himself the “Octopus Man.”

    Two-racket Tennis

    In what follows, I’ve put together several links to the two-racket game. Feel free to give it a go.

    My website is http://www.tworacket.com (By the way, the ‘Godfather’ of two-racket tennis, Dock Houk, can be found at http://www.boobackhands.com)

    Two-racket Tennis Videos:

    Edward Scissorhands of Tennis (Times-Herald Record)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWzercfKZM4&feature=player_embedded#

    Tennis Connected: (Adobe Flash Player) ABC News Interview
    http://tennisconnected.com/home/2010/07/30/two-rackets-better-than-one/

    Can’t get enough Two-racket Tennis? (Two-racket Tennis in Two minutes)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnyQhiMhFoE

    Serving with Two Rackets
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeYQKBj6Kg4&feature=channel_page

    News items:

    Professor defies USTA with two-racket approach (Jersey Journal)
    http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2011/08/njcu_and_william_paterson_univ.html

    Physics professor promotes two-racket tennis (NY Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/sports/tennis/24rackets.html?ref=sports

    Two-racket Tennis – Just Ludicrous (Times Herald-Record)
    http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100725/SPORTS/7250345&emailAFriend=1

    Take Care,

    Don

    Don R. Mueller, Ph.D.
    Phone: (845) 406-4623
    email: drmueller@optonline.net

  • Steve · September 27, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    Scoop did you get to see Jimmy Connors play this week on the Champion’s Tour. I YouTube’d some of it and he’s still using that Prince Mono and looking good at 59.

  • Scoop Malinowski · September 27, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    No Steve but gonna take a look for that, saw him hit at US Open last year and he looked as solid and consistent as ever. The game is still there. Who did he play and how did he fare?

  • Steve · September 28, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    He played and lost toCourier but I don’t what the score was. I know Courier ended up losing the Sampras in the final. I’ve owned and sold two Prince Mono’s. Very fun stick to play with.

  • David Trejo · December 4, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    I need tu talk with Mark. I have a very interesting story about Marcelo Rios in Viña del Mar, when he play the “American Cup”.
    If you want to know that story, you can send me an e mail. May be you can use that for the spanish version of the book
    Bye

  • Sammy · December 5, 2011 at 3:52 am

    Max you are right, something is fishy about it. After Patrick McEnroe’s Davis Cup press conference at the US Open, the tennis media was abuzz. The Bryans took the high road on being left out though and they said they did make themselves available. It’s really confusing. We may never know the truth. There’s not enough to even speculate. The tennis media guys I know are totally stumped. I’ve never sensed anything about the core team being unhappy with McEnroe’s leadership, but it could be possible. I respect the job he is doing, and the fact that Jack Sock and Denis Kudla played in the US Open boys final reflects well that progress is being made. If you read Patrick’s book, which is excellent by the way, one thing that’s clear is that it’s very difficult to deal with all the egos on the team and lead it without upsetting someone. Not an easy job, so it’s a wonder Patrick lasted so long (ten years) and actually won the Davis Cup in 2007 in Portland.
    +1

  • Brian · December 21, 2011 at 4:39 am

    Mark, if you need someone to play tennis with again, in Holmes Beach, FL, just email me and I’ll email you my number. It was fun playing and trying to return your wicked serve.

  • Winton R. Filipek · December 22, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    Malinowski sound Polish. Our family has a home made kielbasa business in Meriden, CT.

    Our dad passed unexpectly 7 years ago at which time we began the Wint Filipek Sr. Memorial Tennis Tournament. It is the biggest in New England and maybe the USA – 631 entries in 2011, 9 day event, 5 HS divisions, 4 round robins for junior boys & girls and a Free Clinic & Fun Day for kids. This is a non-profit event and we have donated $47,400 to tennis playing seniors and the tennis community. I would like to send you some information in the spring and maybe we could partner is some fashion. Could I have your mailing address and email contact please? You can contact me at any time and thank you.

    Wint Filipek Jr.
    Wint Filipek Sr. Memorial Tennis Tournament
    http://www.wintfilipesrtennis.com

  • Winton R. Filipek · December 22, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    Please contact me.

  • Craig Berg · February 5, 2012 at 2:07 am

    Hi Mark,
    You’ll recall we met at the Delray tournament and talked about the use of TM (Transcendental Meditation) by top tennis players. I can now tell you that Rafa Nadal is using TM daily.

    This past year the Brazilian licensed version of Tennis Magazine ran an article based on their interview with me. You can read the original version I wrote in English: http://cb108.blogspot.com/2011/02/transcendental-tennis.html
    (The portuguese final version is also there in case you read portuguese).

    I will be coming down to Delray again this year for the tourney. Let me know if you want to meet when I am down there (I now live in West Virginia).

  • Tom D · February 5, 2012 at 6:17 am

    hi mark,
    i met you at holmes beach courts on thursday and we talked for a sec about this cat from chile who it looks like you took to heart, i do not have internet at my mom’s house in anna maria and am taking care of her so i dont hit the hot spots to get internet regularly – long way of saying, my phone number is 779 1085, and if you want to hit manana, football sunday, for an hour or so in the afternoon, give me a call, or, you can send me your phone number and so i will have it next time i get to the chamber of commerce for some free netting,thanks, tom d

  • Lou Dimock · March 12, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    HELLO! Just got article of Daddy Bryant from ITF practice site in Turkey who have been reading my web site. Check out…just been up two weeks…..
    http://www.rehabusta.com. I want to put the Brynat article up but would like to have permission from Wayne.
    Can you help me?
    I actually feel that the country is going to have a rebellion in tennis against the USTA. By the way, Jack Sharpe and I were college room mates. Cell is 845-242-8687

    Lou Dimock

  • The Nod · March 19, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    Is anyone loving RadioTennis.com like me? Man…what a breath of fresh air. Their recent 12 day coverage of the BNP Paribas / Indian Wells was amazing.

  • Andrew W. · June 15, 2012 at 5:51 pm

    Hey I’m looking to get in touch with Richard Pagliaro about a tennis article I’m writing for NBC for the Olympics, if he could shoot me an email, I’d love to get the chance to pick his brain on a couple things.

  • Richard Berkemeier · July 13, 2012 at 1:37 pm

    Mark:

    Good to meet up in Newport. Enjoyed talking. You might consider doing an article on Christian Harrison. I think that would be quite interesting. Hope to wee you over the weekend.

    Best

  • Scoop Malinowski · July 13, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Hi Richard; I spoke with Pat Harrison, Christian’s father at the practice hard courts on King Street across the street, he was there twice on Tuesday. Pat told me Christian missed two years and for many months he couldn’t do any training at all because his leg was incapacitated. He has made a nice recovery and looked good hitting with Matt Ebden and Carsten Ball, with Todd Martin hovering nearby. Christian also has a very intelligent analytical tennis mind, just like Ryan, Mr. Harrison told me. I will do a feature on Christian at some point for sure. See you,

  • LIsette Camara · July 28, 2012 at 2:37 am

    could I have leander paes’s email add?

  • Regis · August 8, 2012 at 10:02 am

    Hello Scoop,

    I am a french journalist who currently working for a paper about Marcelo Rios and I would like to ask you some questions, as a biograph of the former player. Can you give me an email address to send you a mail ?

    Thanks a lot for your quick answer.

    Regards,
    Regis

  • Scoop Malinowski · August 8, 2012 at 1:37 pm

    Hello Regis, Thanks for the inquiry, I will be happy to answer any questions you have. My email is mrbiofile@aol.com.

  • Victoria Coppola · October 1, 2012 at 1:00 am

    Hi Scoop,

    I was on the courts in Teaneck this past Saturday with my friend. You thought we were playing in a league. I haven’t played in a while so my game was very rusty…lol My friend plays in a league, I am trying to but hasn’t happened yet. I read your bio about how you used to go to the Pathmark Tennis Classic in Mahwah. I went to that for years with my mom.
    I’m looking forward to exploring more of your site.
    Thanks for giving me your card.

    Victoria

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  • Jonathan · December 9, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    Really enjoyed your post about whos’ been a big disappointment – https://www.tennis-prose.com/articles/who-has-been-the-biggest-disappointment/ agree with most of them, Cillic certainly looks to be heading that way after early promise beating Murray at US Open etc.

    Just put my own post on the subject together:

    http://www.perfect-tennis.co.uk/who-are-the-biggest-wasted-talents-in-tennis/

    Cheers!

  • Diego González · December 28, 2012 at 10:04 am

    Hi, my name is Diego González, I´m writing from Chile, interested in get in touch with Mark Malinowski. Can you help me with an e-mail or phone number? Thanks for the help.

    Greetings.

    dieggo.gonzalez@gmail.com

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  • Wayne Bigelow · January 27, 2013 at 8:36 am

    Hey Mark, would you like to go out and hit some balls today or tomorrow
    on the Perico courts?
    tele 360-601-8464. wayne

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  • Greg · February 6, 2013 at 11:41 am

    Hi Mark
    this is a link to a interview in polish with Jerzy Janowicz you should read just find someone to translate it.
    http://www.sport.pl/celebrities/1,129705,13342545,Tenis__Jerzy_Janowicz__Musze_miec_w_reku_kalacha.html

    Best of all.

  • Adrian Harding · February 8, 2013 at 8:59 am

    Dear tennisprose,

    I am trying to discover information about my father, Stanley George Perry HARDING, an Englishman who lived in Chile from 1924 until 1930, in Iquique. He played tennis, and I understand he participated in the Chilean National Championship. We have information that he won many tennis matches in Chile, but we do not have any exact information. Does anyone have any record of tennis in Chile at that time? Can you inform me where I must look for this?

    Yours sincerely,

    Adrian Harding
    aharding@aup.fr

  • Wayne Bigelow · April 22, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    Mark
    Are you still staying in Perico?
    Wayne

  • Rebecca Peterson · April 26, 2013 at 11:15 am

    Dear Tennis-Prose,

    This story is amazing and good for tennis!
    Ex-cop Rob Peterson, 51, is training for the pro tour against players young enough to be his grandchildren!
    he holds 7 world records………..I think he can do it (of course, I am his wife, so go figure!). Check out his progress on http://www.tennisprounderdog.com

    ACES!!!!

  • . JIM PIERCE · June 22, 2013 at 11:02 pm

    I WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND TO THE PERSON “” ANDREW MILLER “”WHO KNOWS ZERO , “” NOTHING “” OF WHAT HE IS BLABBERING ABOUT , WHO WROTE ON APRIL 28,2013 AR 10:47A.M. , WHEREIN HE STATED THAT “” FOR ALL TALK OF HER DAD “”BY THE WAY I AM MARY PIERCE’S FATHER “” FRENCH TENNIS PLAYER , RETIRED , ANDREW MILLER WROTE THAT IT WAS MARY PIERCE’S BROTHER DAVID WHO GOT HER READY TO TAKE PARIS ,,,,,,, THAT IS AN OUT AND OUT LIE ,,,,, I TRAINED MY DAUGHTER MARY PIERCE FOR 2 AND 1/2 MONTHS JUST BEFORE THE FRENCH OPEN , JUST THE WEEK BEFORE SHE WENT TO INDIAN WELLS CALIF. TO INDIAN WELLS IN YEAR 2000 WHERE SHE TRASHED , DESTROYED SERENA WILLIAMS 6-2- 6-1 I DO BELIEVE ,ITS EASY TO LOOK UP ,,,,,, I TOLD MARY TO BRING MY SON DAVID FROM ENGLAND SO HE COULD GO ON THE TOUR AND KEEP HER TIMING , MARY FIRST CALLED ME FROM JAPAN IN JAN. 2000 AND SAID THAT I MUST TRAIN HER AGAIN AS SHE HAD LOST TO SOME TIM BUCK 2 PLAYER IN AUSTRALIA , I TOLD HER TO COME HERE IN BRADENTON FLA. AND DO “” OUR “” TRAINING , SHE CAME HERE WITH ROBERTO ALOMAR , NICK GAVE US A COURT IN THE BACK OF IMG TENNIS CENTER , AND I WAS THE ONE ON THE COURT DOING THE TELLIN , MIXING THE RECIPE, USING MY WIFE’S NEPHEW PHILIP HORYNA FROM ZURICH SWISS. TO BE THE SPARRING PARTNER ON THE FOREHAND AND I WOULD INVITE SOME OF THE WANNA BE PROS “” MEN ONLY “” TO COME BE THE BACKHAND SPARRING PARTNER , MARY WOULD BURN THEM INTO THE GROUNG ONE AT A TIME , WHEN SHE FIRST ARRIVED SHE WAS 15 POUNDS OVERWEIGHT , THE FIRST WEEK SHE LOST 7 AND 1/2 POUNDS , I WAS THE DRIVING FOECE AS I ALWAYS HAD BEEN , THIS IS EASILY VERIFIED BY NICK BOLLETTIERI , WHO LET US USE THE COURT , AND NICK WAS “” NOT “” INVOLVED 1 MINUTW , HE NEVER BOTHERED US , HE NEVER CAME ON THE COURT , NEITHER DID MY SON DAVID , AFTER I HAD PUT MARY IN “” SUPREME “” CONDITION , IN AGASSI CONDITION, WE WENT TO MIAMI WHERE WE MET MY SON DAVID , WHEN MARY FIRST CAME BACK TO DO “” MY “” TRAINING SHE COULD NOT RUN SIDE TO SIDE FOR 1 MINUTE , AFTER OUR TRAINING SHE COULD RUN “” 15 “” MINUTES SIDE TO SIDE WITHOUT STOPPING ,FROM DOUBLES ALLEY TO DOUBLES ALLEY ,AFTER MARY WON THE FRENCH OPEN “” SINGLES AND DOUBLES , NICK BOLLETTIERI CAME UP TO ME AND HE SAID , “” WHEN I SAW MARY WORKING WITH YOU I KNEW SHE WOULD BE ALRIGHT ,,,, GAME, SET , MATCH , MY AD , ANDREW MILLER YOU KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT WHAT YOU WRITE , WHERE DO PEOPLE LIKE YOU WRITE AND DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT , BYE THE BYE , IN 2005 WHEN MARY HAD ANOTHER GREAT YEAR SHE CALLED ME FROM BELGIUM AND SAID DADDY I WANT TO PLAY GOOD AGAIN , I TOLD HER TO COME HERE & DO “” OUR “” TRAINING , TRAINING THAT I LEARNED FROM THE WORLDS GREATEST COACH EVER , “” MISTER HARRY HOPMAN “” AND ALVARO BETANCUR MARYS FIRST COACH AND THE WORLDS FINEST LIVING TENNIS COACH TODAY IN MY OPINION , I PATTERENED MARY AFTER G. VILAS ,BORIS BECKER , IVAN LENDL , SO ANDREW MILLER SHUT YOUR MOUTH , JIM PIERCE , FATHER OF MARY PIERCE , WHO WENT TO FRANCE TO PLAY UNDER THE FRENCH FLAG BECAUSE MY U.S.A. DOES NOT HELP ITS ATHLETES , BUY THEY WILL GIVE THOSE SCHOLORSHIPS OUT LIKE CANDY BARS TO THE RUSSIANS AND OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES , FORGIVE MY MISSPELLED WORDS , NO PROOF READING , JIM PIERCE

  • . JIM PIERCE · June 22, 2013 at 11:36 pm

    MY DAUGHTER MARY PIERCE SHOULD OF WON EASILY AT LEAST 10 OR MORE GRAND SLAMS , BUT EVERYTIME I PUT HER BACK INTO SHAPE SHE WOULD TAKE JUST ABOUT ANYBODY INTO HER CAMP AND GO HER MERRY WAY FOR A WHILE , , AND SOONER THAN LATER I WOULD HAVE TO REPAIR HER AGAIN , MUCH TO MY SORROW MARY GOT SOME BAD ADVICE ALONG THE WAY , AND FOR THE RECORD I “” WAS NOT “” NEVER “” ABUSIVE TO MY DAUGHTER MARY PIERCE , MY DAUGHTER NEVER HAD A SPANKING IN HER LIFE ,AND I AM WAITING FOR HER TO CORRECT THAT , SHE NEEDS TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE , AND I LEARNED LONG AGO , WHEN I SAY SOMETHING I AM READY TO TAKE A LIE DETECTOR TEST TO BACK UP MY STATEMENTS, NEITHER DID MY SON DAVID EVER HAVE A SPANKING , I WAS VERY TOUGH IN TRAINING ON THE COURT TO MAKE HE VERY STRONG PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY , I WILL TAKE ANY WOMENS TOP 50. 60 , 70, 80 , 90, 100 TENNIS PLAYER IN “” DECENT SHAPE WITH A DECENY FOREHAND , DECENT 2 HANDED BACK HAND , DECENT SERVE , DECENT PHYSICAL FRAME TO BUILD ON, “” NOTICE I SAID DECENT EVERYTHING “” I WILL SUPPLY THE REST , AND I WILL TRAIN THAT PLAYER IN 2 1/2 MONTHS TO BE A DOMINATING PLAYER ABLE TO BEAT HER WAY INTO THE YOP 20 AND THEN WORK HERSELF DEEPER INTO THE RANKINGS , GUARENTEED , ALL I ASK IS THEY BRING THE SUITCASE WITH THE MONEY, UP FRONT , PARENTS ARE WELCOME TO WATCH , LOTS OF COACHES DON’T WANT YOU TO WATCH THEIR TRAINING BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT THEY DO NOT KNOW , BRING ME THAT PLAYER , MAKE ME EAT MY WORDS , JIM PIERCE

  • Mark · June 25, 2013 at 8:10 am

    I enjoyed your Bio of Johan Kriek. Growing up in the early ’80’s, he was my favorite player. I’ve always pulled for the “Underdog” and Kriek, while extremely talented, usually hovered just outside of barely in, the top 10. He was quite the “hot head” and this trait often helped derail him in matches he should have won, but may have also motivated him to victories, like the won he mentioned over Agassi at Memphis in ’89. He and McEnroe always had great matches, and he beat McEnroe a few times. One of Johan’s best wins, which he does not mention in the Bio interview, was against McEnroe in the final at Memphis in 1982. McEnroe was at his absolute peak at the tie, and to beat him then, in a final, was quite an achievement. When Memphis tournament director was asked years later what match stood out to him as the best in tournament history, he cited this match. Sadly, very view of Kriek’s matches are on “You Tube.” He was tryly a unique player

  • Richard E. · August 3, 2013 at 8:57 pm

    Hey Mark,

    Nice talking to you by the practice wall with Christian earlier this fine summer day.
    Nice web site and articles. The site I was
    referring to I usually see, fyi is Bleacher Report/
    tennis edition. See you at the park and good continued
    success with your writing.

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