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From the monthly archives: August 2010
Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic were hitting serves on side-by-side practice courts this afternoon at Rogers Cup just as Andy Murray was putting away Rafael Nadal on Centre Court. Roger was hitting with buddy Max Mirnyi, who is taking on the Bryan brothers with partner Mahesh Bupathi this evening after Roger vs. Nole. Assuming the [...]
Continue Reading →Hey GTT peeps, just a quick update with photos from the current semi-final match at Rogers Cup. Andy Murray seems to have come out with a solid game plan against Nadal. Current score is 3-3 in the 2nd. Enjoy! *Update* Andy Murray pulled off the rare straight set victory over Rafael Nadal, winning the match [...]
Continue Reading →Wow, what a freaking match! Roger Federer beat Tomas Berdych – just barely – in the the quarterfinals of Toronto’s Rogers Cup on Friday night: 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (5). I have to say it was majorly fun to watch live, in the bowl of the stadium, surrounded by a few thousand Fed fanatics. It wasn’t [...]
Continue Reading →] Hey guys, wanted to upload a few pics from the Federer vs Berdych match. Fed was lookin large and in charge the first set! Current score as of this post, 6-2, 5-6. This could go 3 sets! Enjoy! *UPDATE – Current score 6-2, 5-7…yikes! Big Berd Mad! Mirka and Paul Annacone looking on as [...]
Continue Reading →*Note* – sorry we pulled the trigger on this post before it was edited properly! It’s all better now. Thanks. Here are some action shots from today’s entertaining quarterfinal between Rafael Nadal and Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Rogers Cup. Rafa lost the first set to the aggressive German one-hander, but eventually righted the ship and [...]
Continue Reading →Roger Federer and his new coach Paul Annacone took to the Rogers Cup practice courts at around 4:30 pm this afternoon. Gael Monfils was a court away, playing a loosey goosey game of futbol tennis with a couple friends (Meanwhile, La Monf’s doubles partner, Philipp Kohlschreiber, was deep in the third set vs. Rafael Nadal [...]
Continue Reading →Just a little update from the Rogers Cup. Andy Murray took out David Nalbandian in a easy 6-2, 6-2 win. It’s his first win over the Argentine in three tries.
Continue Reading →Yay! We’re in Toronto! After getting over a killer red eye, we made our way to the Rexall Centre on the York University campus to get our first taste of the Rogers Masters. We had a chance to catch Novak Djokovic’s presser (he took out Victor Hanescu in straights) and the tail end of Rafael [...]
Continue Reading →We caught the tail end of Rafa’s 3rd round victory over South African Kevin Anderson Thursday night in Toronto, and sat in on his post-match presser. I thought this exchange was interesting, given the mythology that’s surrounds Rafa’s early years with his coach Uncle Toni: Q: When you were younger and you switched from hitting [...]
Continue Reading →Frites and I had a crazy late start today. The red-eye flight into Toronto proved to be too much for us. We crashed out as soon as we got to we were staying. Woke up bleary eyed at 3pm and shuffled over to the Rexall Center to check in and get a lay of the [...]
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