TAG: Marcelo Rios
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
18
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
12
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...
Jan/25
10
Marcelo Rios Explained Why He Didn’t Always Sign Autographs
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This week I met an old coach at IMG Academy who shared an interesting story about why Marcelo Rios, the former world no. 1 player in 1998, sometimes didn’t sign autographs for kids. Rios was the best player in the world and so of course, attracted a lot of attention from fans with his standout […] Continue to read full article...
Former world no. 1 ATP player Marcelo Rios didn’t like to talk to the mainstream media during his career (1994-2003) and so he rarely spoke his true feelings about tennis. This unfortunate reality of Rios distrusting the tennis media cost the sport to learn about what the Chilean grandmaster wizard really, deeply thought about the […] Continue to read full article...
ATP · Chile · Marcelo Rios · Sarasota · Yonex
Dec/24
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Kafelnikov’s Most Talented Players May Surprise You
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By Scoop Malinowski Last week former ATP world no. 1, Grand Slam and Olympic champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov told me that the two talented players he ever saw were a pair of unique champions that most people would be surprised to learn. “Marcelo Rios and Nick Kyrgios are the two most talented players I ever saw,” […] Continue to read full article...
