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From the monthly archives: July 2009
Hurray! Finally some good news coming out of the Nadal camp. Recent tests show positive improvements to Rafael Nadal’s knee injury, and he plans to start practicing on Monday in anticipation of next month’s Rogers Cup tournament, which beings on August 10. Here’s the scoop from his website: Manacor, Balearic Islands – Spain, July 14th, [...]
Continue Reading →Video game company EA Sports threw a cross-sport promotional event yesterday in Vancouver, bringing together Venus Williams, NBA star Dwight Howard, hockey’s Milan Lucic and soccer’s Sacha Kljestan. Each athlete taught the others (and a group of invited media types) the secrets of his or her sport before competing against one another to decide who [...]
Continue Reading →The two athletes discuss some other things, like the Roger Federer Foundation, life after tennis and Roger’s US Open outfit (black and red.) I guess Nike made Rio Ferdinand tell Roger that he loved the Michael Jackson jacket and vest combo at Wimbledon. It’s funny to hear Roger admitting that some people didn’t like it. [...]
Continue Reading →Davis Cup is the most emotional event in tennis. The pressures of playing for team and country either lift players up to the heights of glory or push them deep into dank pits of shame and despair. Which from a fan perspective, makes Davis Cup damn entertaining, even if you’re watching a fuzzy broadcast of [...]
Continue Reading →If you’ve been following tennis (ha!) you’ve probably read or read about a disgusting FoxSports column that was written about Serena Williams after Wimbledon. It pains me to even copy and paste this garbage, but I’d rather not make you visit the jerk’s site. There is so much wrong with this sentence, I could write [...]
Continue Reading →Monica Seles was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday in Newport, Rhode Island. Also inducted were Andres Gimeno, the oldest man to ever win the French Open at age 34 years, 10 months (inducted by Stan Smith), Donald Dell (in the contributor category for his work promoting tennis) and Dr. Robert [...]
Continue Reading →We’d heard that Novak Djokovic and his girlfriend, Jelena Ristic, were planning a sand and sea vacation this month (possibly on a new 2.5 million dollar yacht) but didn’t have any visual evidence. For those of you who were worried that Nole was running wind sprints with his fitness trainer, instead, these photos will make [...]
Continue Reading →Yes, I know we’ve had our fill of Roger Federer Wimbledon videos (right?) but this is probably one of the best video interviews I’ve ever seen of him. Roger talks frankly to Boris Becker and Greg Rusedski about being amongst legends, watching Mirka in the stands and how he feels about breaking the records. I [...]
Continue Reading →It’s like Tennis’ Summer Break right now. Sure there’s Davis Cup, but even stalwarts like Andy Roddick and Rafael Nadal have (understandably) withdrawn. The WTA has two clay court tournaments – in Bastad and Budapest (yes, the tennis calendar is crazy) and Santoro and friends are playing on waterlogged grass in Newport, Rhode Island. But [...]
Continue Reading →The nice thing about being a blogger is that you can write about whatever you damn well please. Which means you can also ignore topics that annoy you to pieces. But it seems like this jacket discussion is not going away. It’s in Sports Illustrated, it’s on the Times U.K. , it’s in the forums. [...]
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