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From the monthly archives: December 2009
Roger Federer said recently that 2009 was his most emotional season but not, technically, his best. He’s right, of course, this year he won “only” 4 titles and had the worst win-loss record of any of the 5 years he’s finished at the top (61-12 as opposed to say, 2006, when he finished the season [...]
Continue Reading →Justine Henin is coming back to tour with a new attitude, she says, which apparently means treating reporters like therapists. In interviews with the Times and The Independent, held during last weekend’s exhibition tournament in Beligium, Justine opens up about the loneliness of retirement, her mission to win Wimbledon, and her paralyzing fear of the [...]
Continue Reading →Yes, tennis! There sure was a lot of it in 2009, the busy calendar combining with enough epic five setters to boggle the minds of the sharpest tennis savants. So let’s take advantage of the off season and savor some of our favorite tennis matches of 2009 – before the tours start up in a [...]
Continue Reading →Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images via Daylife Two things we know without a doubt about the Spanish Davis Cup Team: They’re unbeatable at home (final score after Sunday’s dead rubber play: 5-0, Spain.) The U.N. is holding the team in a bomb shelter, in the event a nuclear apocalypse necessitates that a few choice human [...]
Continue Reading →AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert via Daylife JuJu’s back! Justine Henin has started her “second career,” as she’s calling it, on a two match winning streak. She took the trophy this weekend at the Women’s Tennis Trophy exhibition in Charleroi, Belgium, scoring a confidence boosting 6-4, 6-4 win over current World No. 12 and Fed Cup [...]
Continue Reading →The Spanish Armada was in intimidating form against the Czech Republic this weekend in Barcelona, winning the first three matches of the final and claiming the Davis Cup title for the second year in a row. A strong cocktail of red clay, home crowd and team spirit was just what Rafael Nadal needed to perk [...]
Continue Reading →Photo by REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (CHILE SPORT TENNIS) via Daylife Gisela Dulko and Maria Sharapova caused quite a frenzy (and some controversey) when they took to Centre Court this year in what the London Times called a “Battle of the Babes” and others called good looks-ism. The two WTA beauties are cashing in on the attention [...]
Continue Reading →Photo by REUTERS/Albert Gea (SPAIN) via Daylife.com The Davis Cup draw was released on Thursday, and Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych will be facing off in the first match of this weekend’s final in Barcelona. Here’s the full schedule: Friday, December 4 Rafael Nadal v Tomas Berdych David Ferrer v Radek Stepanek Saturday, December 5 [...]
Continue Reading →Rafael Nadal was asked his opinion on Tiger Woods’s admitted “transgressions” during a Davis Cup press conference this week (via DavisCup.com): “I am surprised you talk about that,” Nadal responded to the reporter. “That’s my surprise . . .we aren’t nobody to talk about his privacy life, no? He don’t have to say, explain to [...]
Continue Reading →REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE – Tags: HEADSHOT SPORT TENNIS) via Daylife 2009 has been a great year for tennis, but with the retirements of Marat Safin, Fabrice Santoro and now Amélie Mauresmo, who announced today via a press conference near Paris that she is leaving the game for good, it’s impossible not to feel a little [...]
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