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From the monthly archives: November 2009
Marat Safin almost played the last match of his career yesterday, fighting past three match points to beat the 168 ranked Thierry Ascione at the Paris Masters. After that close call, Marat told the ATP that he wants “to retire with dignity.” He also said that it won’t be “too painful” to lose to his [...]
Continue Reading →Photo by JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty Images via Daylife Marat Safin saved three match points today in the first round of the Paris Masters, a tournament he’s won three times in his career (a record he shares with Boris Becker). Watching him nearly flame-out against Thierry Ascione, a stocky 28-year-old French qualifier ranked 168 in the world, [...]
Continue Reading →Andre Agassi was on “60 Minutes” this Sunday, interviewed by Katie Couric to promote his new autobiography, “Open”. He and Couric cover the book’s big controversies: his nightmarish Tennis Dad, “Image is Everything”, Brooke Shields and his use of crystal meth and subsequent drug test cover-up. I got my hands on the book this weekend.* [...]
Continue Reading →On Sunday, Fabrice “the Magician” Santoro played what he says is the last professional tennis match of his 20-year career, losing to James Blake 6-4, 6-3 in the first round of the Paris Masters. After the match, Blake and Santoro exchanged “jerseys” and Santoro took his own kind of victory lap around the Bercy arena. [...]
Continue Reading →The ATP meets in Paris this week for the last Masters tournament of the year – the BNP Paribas Masters a.k.a. Bercy. Click here for the tournament’s website. Tennis Channel is broadcasting the tournament in the United States. Paris Masters Bercy Tennis TV Schedule 2009 Broadcast on Tennis Channel. All times Eastern. November 9, 2009 [...]
Continue Reading →Italy beat the USA 4-0 in the Fed Cup final this weekend on the red clay of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Flavia Pennetta beat the overmatched Alexa Glatch and Francesca Schiavone took down Melanie Oudin on Saturday, and Flavia clinched the victory against Oudin in Sunday’s first match. With the tie decided, the fourth singles rubber [...]
Continue Reading →Rafael Nadal did a lengthy interview with CNN’s Talk Asia while playing at the Shanghai Masters last month. “I’m not a machine,” Nadal revealed, “and like everybody I have better moments than others.” The second part features some great talk about the Fedal rivalry, Uncle Toni and the Mallorcan way of life: The final section [...]
Continue Reading →Andy Murray beat Mikhail Youzhny in the Valencia final on Sunday: 6-3, 6-2. Murray, the tournament’s top-seed, was playing his first tournament after six weeks off recovering from a wrist injury. Here’s Murray’s post-match interview: And some highlights from the match: Andy “the teetotal” Murray goes into the Paris Masters tournament with an undefeated indoor [...]
Continue Reading →Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 in the Davidoff Swiss Indoors tournament in Basel this Sunday. I admit it. Halfway through the first set I thought “Roger Federer’s forehand took off early – and is spending the offseason in Miami.” But there were no racquet smashes in this one – and no tears [...]
Continue Reading →The Fed Cup finals are finally here! A scrappy, Williams-sister-free Team USA is in the “toe” of the Italian boot this weekend, battling for Fed Cup glory on slow red clay. World No. 49 Melanie Oudin, who proved herself as a little-known underdog in the first round against Argentina this February, is now the team [...]
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