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Dec/23
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Alarcon Remembers Beating Spadea At Wimbledon
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Today I went to hit at GT Bray Park in Bradenton with a friend Peter Carpenter and another friend was there, Felipe Alarcon, with his brother and coach Andres Alarcon, who played Davis Cup for Ecuador. When asked who is the best player he ever played, Andres Alarcon said, “Vince Spadea. Do you remember him? […] Continue to read full article...
Andres Alarcon · Davis Cup · Ecuador · Vince Spadea · Wimbledon
Oct/23
10
Remembering Pennetta’s Amazing US Open Triumph
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Flavia Pennetta has been nominated for election to the International Tennis Hall of Fame next summer. The Italian’s most notable success was her unlikely victory at the 2015 US Open, which nobody predicted. Pennetta, at 33, became the oldest first time Grand Slam champion. She became the first woman to win her first Grand Slam […] Continue to read full article...
Feb/23
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Remembering Rika Hiraki’s One Grand Slam Title
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By Scoop Malinowski Rika Hiraki is a name most tennis observers may not remember. But the Japanese woman won a Grand Slam title in 1997 at Roland Garros with Mahesh Bhupathi. It was a thrilling, historic win. In Hiraki’s career she never got passed the third round of any Grand Slam in any draw but […] Continue to read full article...
By Scoop Malinowski Former Wimbledon and Australian Open champion of 1951 Dick Savitt has passed away at age 95 in New York City. Savitt was born on March 4, 1927 in Bayonne, NJ. At fourteen he taught himself tennis and claims to have never taken a tennis lesson in his life. In 1944 at age […] Continue to read full article...
Australian Open · Dick Savitt · NYC · US Open · Wimbledon
Dec/22
1
Roger Smith Remembers Beating Ivan Lendl
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World no. 1 Ivan Lendl lost 62 63 to Roger Smith in the second found of Stratton Mountain in Vermont in July 1988. This year at US Open I ran into Roger Smith – on his way to coach a WTA player in qualies – by the Ashe Stadium fountains and we did this quick […] Continue to read full article...
Bahamas · Ivan Lendl · Roger Smith · US Open
Feb/22
12
Great Players Most Remembered For Losses
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By Scoop Malinowski A strange quirk of tennis is how certain great players are not remembered for their finest triumphs but for an agonizing loss… Alex Corretja won 17 ATP singles titles, two Masters Series titles (Indian Wells, Rome), played in two Roland Garros finals, beat Pete Sampras in Davis Cup on grass but the […] Continue to read full article...
Alex Corretja · ATP · Guillermo Coria · Roland Garros · US Open · WTA
Jul/21
7
Remember Vladimir Voltchkov’s Wimbledon Semifinal Run
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Vladimir Voltchkov was a highly-touted Russian junior who won the Wimbledon boys title in 1996. By 2000 he was age 22 and struggling in the professional ranks. At Wimbledon 2000, Voltchkov had to qualify as he was ranked 237 after he won Fergana, Uzbekistan Challenger in May by beating 357th ranked Igor Kunitsyn in the […] Continue to read full article...
In 1999 at Wimbledon, Alexandra Stevenson accomplished one of the most memorable runs in Grand Slam history. Just 18 and two weeks out of high school, the Californian entered Wimbledon qualies as the no. 1 seed. Stevenson defeated Sandra Cacic 63 75 in her first professional grass court match (she played the junior even in […] Continue to read full article...
The unorthodox German lefthander Karsten Braasch is probably most remembered for beating Venus and Serena Williams in practice sets at the 1998 Australian Open. Born in 1967, Braasch turned pro in 1987 and retired in 2005. Though he never won an ATP singles title, he did reach a career best ranking of 38 in 1994. […] Continue to read full article...
ATP · Germany · Karsten Braasch · Volkl
Apr/20
16
Cherkasov Remembers Beating Sampras From Two Sets Down at ’92 Olympics
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Pete Sampras is considered one of the greatest champions in tennis history, having won seven Wimbledon titles, five US Opens and two Australians. Besides Roland Garros, where Sampras reached the semifinal in 1996 and three quarterfinals in thirteen overall attempts to snatch the elusive major title, there was one other special tournament where the Hall […] Continue to read full article...
