TAG: Sarasota

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 […]
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ATP · Chile · Marcelo Rios · Sarasota · Yonex

By Scoop Malinowski In a one-in-a-million chance miracle, two superstar ATP champions actually recently bought houses and are next-door neighbors. Kei Nishikori and Marcelo Rios actually live next door to each other on Bayshore Road in Sarasota, Florida. Rios lives with his family in a three story mansion which took almost two years to be […]
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IMG · Kei Nishikori · Marcelo Rios · Sarasota

Here is a sneak peak excerpt of my still in progress feature “Facing Monica Seles”, about one of the greatest champions in tennis history and the only woman to dominate Steffi Graf on a tennis court. Seles won eight Grand Slams in her first 14 attempts from 1989 to Australian Open 1993. After being stabbed […]
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Monica · Monica Seles · Nike · Sarasota · Yonex

Amazon has teamed up with a Chilean production company to produce a documentary about former ATP world no. 1 player Marcelo Rios. The usually media-shy winner of eighteen ATP singles titles is fully supporting the project and has an interest to have the story of his spectacular and controversial career and life told at last. […]
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ATP · Chile · Marcelo Rios · Nike · No. 1 · Sarasota · Yonex

By Scoop Malinowski Some renowned tennis rivals actually develop close relations after their epic duels on the court. Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert are dear friends today. As are John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg. Marat Safin and Thomas Johansson spent ten days together helping train Maria Sakkari last year in Monte Carlo, even hitting balls […]
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ATP · Australian Open · Bradenton · Marcelo Rios · Petr Korda · Sarasota