TAG: Marcelo Rios
Todd Martin: Chief Strategy and Operations Officer at Swing Paddle & Racquet Charlotte, NC Anne White: Director of tennis at Beverly Hills Tennis Club. Vince Spadea: Real estate agent Palm Beach, FL. Alex Bogomolov Jr: Tennis pro at Park Avenue Tennis in Oakhurst, NJ. Jimmy Arias: Tennis director at IMG Academy and TV analyst. Michelle […] Continue to read full article...
Amanda Coetzer · Arnaud Boetsch · Lilia Osterloh · Marcelo Rios · Taylor Dent
Always a thrill to get positive feedback from a satisfied reader who likes my books… This one arrived from Harry Collins on X: Ordered Agassi last week. Hewitt arrived today. Won’t be long until I order Safin @scoopmalinowski Hey! Just wanted to say – really enjoying the book(s). Always been an Agassi fan. Naturally purchased […] Continue to read full article...
Andre Agassi · Andy Murray · Lleyton Hewitt · Marcelo Rios · Pete Sampras · Roger Federer
Former world no. 1 Marcelo Rios was kicked out of a bar in Chile after a loud argument with his girlfriend. He was filmed talking with police in the street. Alexander Zverev has stopped following Sinner and Alcaraz on Instagram. Barbora Krejcikova yelled at the crowd to “SHUT UP!” during a match in Rome vs […] Continue to read full article...
First Tennis Memory: Meeting Chris Evert at a hotel lobby in Boston in early 70s. Mom said to get her autograph because she is famous. I didn’t know what tennis was then but she was so nice to my brother and I she made me love her and the sport which I started watching years […] Continue to read full article...
Marcelo Rios · Miami Open · Newport · Novak Djokovic · Scoop Malinowski
Nov/25
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Five Puzzle Players Courier Could Not Solve
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Jim Courier was ATP world no. 1 and a four time winner of Grand Slam major titles but he had five prominent players he was unable to beat. Three of these puzzling players never won a major title. Courier was 0-3 vs Marcelo Rios, 0-4 vs Alex Corretja and 0-2 vs Alberto Berasategui. The two […] Continue to read full article...
Andre Agassi · Australian Open · French Open · Ivan Lendl · Jim Courier · Marcelo Rios · Pete Sampras
By Scoop Malinowski Status: Former ATP World no. 1. Winner of 18 ATP singles titles and $9,713,771 in career prize money. Competed on the ATP World Tour from 1994-2004. Ht: 5-9 Wt: 160 DOB: December 26, 1975 In: Santiago, Chile I attempted this Biofile with Marcelo Rios at his 1999 US Open press conference following […] Continue to read full article...
ATP · Chile · Marcelo Rios · Miami Open · US Open · Yonex
Tennis is a fascinating game that has produced wondrous action, marvelous champions and also a few very profound quotations… “Tennis is a fistfight without the fists.” – Tracy Austin “I handle pressure differently than Borg. I’d rather go berserk on court for 30 seconds than let it build up for years. If you keep it […] Continue to read full article...
Apr/25
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Forgotten Match: When Sandra Cacic Beat Marcelo Rios
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By Scoop Malinowski We all know about the famous Houston Astrodome Battle of the Sexes match – or hoax event as some imply – but there was another fusion clash between the sexes that happened on the practice courts at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in 1996. I had never heard about it, the story […] Continue to read full article...
IMG · Marcelo Rios · Nick Bollettieri · Sandra Cacic · WTA
People like to talk and there are a lot of connected people here at the Elizabeth Moore Sarasota Open, that like to talk! Here are a handful of interesting tennis related scoops… Matteo Berrettini called Nick Bollettieri several times and they talked on the phone in the last weeks of the coach and academy founder […] Continue to read full article...
Bjorn Borg · Elizabeth Moore Sarasota Open · Marcelo Rios · Matteo Berrettini · Nick Bollettieri · Sarasota Open
Feb/25
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Great Players You Never Heard Of: Dave Marcinko
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New feature alert. There are so many great players out there who never made it big in pro tennis and this new series will showcase some interesting court masters who never made it to the big show Dave Marcinko played college tennis at South Florida in the 80s and was still a high level hitting […] Continue to read full article...
