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By Scoop Malinowski Status: Former ATP no. 2 ranked player. Won Wimbledon in 1991 and 1992 Olympic gold medal in doubles with Boris Becker. DOB: October 18, 1968 In: Elmshorn, Germany First Tennis Memory: My parents always took me to the tennis courts at Lawn Tennis Club Elmshorn, our local club, and one of the […] Continue to read full article...
Andre Agassi · Germany · Jimmy Connors · Michael Stich · Olympic Games · Reebok · Wimbledon
In 2022 tennis great Pam Shriver revealed she had a relationship with her much older coach Don Candy, which supposedly began after she told him inside a rental car that she loved him – when she was seventeen and he was fifty. “I still have conflicted feelings about Don. Yes, he and I became involved […] Continue to read full article...
Don Candy · Martina Navratilova · Olympic Games · Pam Shriver
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Djokovic Explains Why Olympic Gold Is His Ultimate Achievement
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“I though that 2012 Olympic ceremony in London, carrying the flag for my country – the opening ceremony, the opening of the Olympic Games – is the best feeling an athlete can have. Until today. This kind of supersedes everything that I imagined, that I hoped that I could experience and thought I could feel.” […] Continue to read full article...
The stage is set for the greatest Olympic gold medal tennis final between the greatest champion of all time and his heir apparent. It will be a unique clash of the oldest and youngest Olympic gold medal finalists. Of course, everybody reading this post doesn’t need to be told the names of the combatants and […] Continue to read full article...
Qinwen Zheng and Emma Navarro don’t see eye to eye in terms of how they compete and their locker room sociability skills… After losing to her today at the Olympics 76 67 16, Navarro supposedly told Zheng she doesn’t approve of her approach to competing: “I just told her I didn’t respect her as a […] Continue to read full article...
China · Emma Navarro · Olympic Games · Qinwen Zheng · USA
Two of the most unforgettable matches I ever saw were at Olympic tennis. The first that comes to mind was the 2004 doubles gold medal match in Athens. The German team of Rainer Schuettler and Nicolas Kiefer had four gold medal points vs. the Chilean duo of Nicolas Massu and Fernando Gonzalez at 6-2 in […] Continue to read full article...
Alexander Zverev · Iga Swiatek · Novak Djokovic · Olympic Games · Rafael Nadal
By Scoop Malinowski Status: Father and coach of Serena and Venus Williams, who won a combined 122 WTA singles titles and 30 combined Grand Slam singles titles. Both were ranked world no. 1. DOB: February 14, 1942 In: Shreveport, LA Childhood Heroes: My mom – Julia Mae Williams. Hobbies/Interests: I used to play golf, basketball […] Continue to read full article...
Australian Open · French Open · Olympic Games · Richard Williams · Serena Williams · US Open · Venus Williams · Wimbledon · WTA
Alexander Zverev said this week in Hamburg that the Olympic Games in Paris are his priority over the ATP World Tour, unlike the players who will compete in the simultaneous ATP 250 Washington DC Open (including Ben Shelton, Sebastian Korda and Frances Tiafoe). Zverev made the comments to Nicholas Albek of Inside Sport … The […] Continue to read full article...
Denmark’s Holger Rune still hasn’t won his first Grand Slam title yet but the 21 year old is aspiring to be like Alexander Zverev and Jennifer Capriati… two supreme tennis talents who won their first major titles at the Olympic Games (Zverev won his gold medal in Tokyo 2021, Capriati in 1992 in Barcelona). Rune […] Continue to read full article...
Olympic Games. They are multidisciplinary sporting events (Like how EasyBet Casino has multi game tournaments) in which athletes from various parts of the world participate, in ancient Greece they were dedicated to the god Zeus. There are three types of Olympic Games: the Summer Olympic Games, the Winter Olympic Games, and the Youth Olympic Games, which were […] Continue to read full article...
Greece · IOC · Olympiad · Olympic Games · Olympic Torch · Olympics · Winter Olympics
