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> <channel><title>GOTOTENNIS &#187; Required Reading</title> <atom:link href="http://gototennis.com/category/featured/required-reading/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://gototennis.com</link> <description>Tennis blog. Tennis news. Tennis gossip.</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:17:11 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>REQUIRED READING: TAKING MEASURE OF FEDERER VS. NADAL</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2010/11/30/required-reading-taking-measure-of-federer-vs-nadal/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2010/11/30/required-reading-taking-measure-of-federer-vs-nadal/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:39:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ATP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barclays ATP World Tour Finals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nadal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=22455</guid> <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s rare to read anything new and provocative when it comes to Federer vs. Nadal. That&#8217;s why I really enjoyed Carl Bialik&#8216;s recent piece in The Wall Street Journal: The Federer-Nadal Rivalry, Rekindled. It takes a close look at both player&#8217;s stats, in terms of the match-up and separately, and makes some points that have [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2010/11/30/required-reading-taking-measure-of-federer-vs-nadal/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>16</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>RAFAEL NADAL’S TOP SECRET TRAINING REGIMEN, CAKE</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2010/07/05/rafael-nadals-top-secret-training-regimen-cake/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2010/07/05/rafael-nadals-top-secret-training-regimen-cake/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:30:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Nadal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fitness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rafael nadal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[regiment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[secret]]></category> <category><![CDATA[training]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=20168</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article on Rafael Nadal&#8217;s training regimen and the philosophy of Team Nadal, which consists of his doctor Angel Ruiz Cortorro, Manacor based gym teacher (and Rafa&#8217;s fitness guru), Joan Forcades, and his physio Rafael Maymo. Click here to read more about Rafa&#8217;s stretches, hydrotherapy sessions, bosu balls, etc. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2010/07/05/rafael-nadals-top-secret-training-regimen-cake/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>11</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BOOK REVIEW: HARDCOURT CONFIDENTIAL BY &#8220;PERFECT&#8221; PATRICK MCENROE</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2010/06/08/book-review-hardcourt-confidential-by-perfect-patrick-mcenroe/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2010/06/08/book-review-hardcourt-confidential-by-perfect-patrick-mcenroe/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:48:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[book]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hardcourt Confidential]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John McEnroe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Patrick McEnroe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[review]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=19510</guid> <description><![CDATA[2009 was a golden year for the tennis book, giving us three fantastic reads: Jon Wertheim&#8217;s Fedal tribute,  Strokes of Genius; Marshall Jon Fisher&#8217;s illuminating tennis history A Terrible Splendor; and Andre Agassi&#8217;s blockbuster autobiography, Open. I read and loved all three, gave them as gifts and yakked about them until my friends&#8217; eyes glazed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2010/06/08/book-review-hardcourt-confidential-by-perfect-patrick-mcenroe/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>12</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>REQUIRED READING: THE CASE AGAINST WAYNE ODESNIK, THE ATP AND THE ITF</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2010/04/14/required-reading-the-case-against-wayne-odesnik-the-atp-and-the-itf/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2010/04/14/required-reading-the-case-against-wayne-odesnik-the-atp-and-the-itf/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:37:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ATP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Odesnik]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis doping]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=18304</guid> <description><![CDATA[American tennis player turned Human Growth Hormone smuggler, Wayne Odesnik, released a statement during last week&#8217;s U.S. Men&#8217;s Clay Court Championships in Houston denying that he ever used the banned drug. Just a few weeks earlier, he pleaded guilty to the Brisbane Magistrates Court, admitting that he had illegally brought the banned substance into Australia [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2010/04/14/required-reading-the-case-against-wayne-odesnik-the-atp-and-the-itf/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>REQUIRED READING: ROGER FEDERER WAS WORRIED, JUST FOR A SECOND</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2010/03/22/required-reading-roger-federer-was-worried-just-for-a-second/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2010/03/22/required-reading-roger-federer-was-worried-just-for-a-second/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:06:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ATP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Miami Open]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Roger That!]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mirka Federer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[roger federer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sony Ericsson Open]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=17692</guid> <description><![CDATA[Last year&#8217;s Miami tournament was a lowlight for Federer fans. Still smarting from that tough five set loss to Rafael Nadal in the 2009 Australian Open finals, we&#8217;d sat through Roger&#8217;s back injury layoff just to watch him flame out against rising nemesis, Andy Murray, at Indian Wells. Things couldn&#8217;t get worse, right? Wrong: &#8220;Thank [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2010/03/22/required-reading-roger-federer-was-worried-just-for-a-second/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>8</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>REQUIRED READING: THE UNTOUCHABLE MIRKA FEDERER?</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2010/03/02/required-reading-the-untouchable-mirka-federer/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2010/03/02/required-reading-the-untouchable-mirka-federer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:27:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ATP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Roger That!]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mirka Vavrinec]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=16842</guid> <description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve often chatted here at GTT about Mirka &#8211; her cardigans, her stamina in the players&#8217; box, her addiction to chewing gum. Today it was The Oregonian&#8216;s Douglas Perry, author of quite a few recent pieces on Roger Federer, who decided to take up the GOAT&#8217;s better half.  He correctly points out that she&#8217;s a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2010/03/02/required-reading-the-untouchable-mirka-federer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>31</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE GREAT FEDERER VS. NADAL DEBATE: ASTERISK AVERSE</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2010/02/12/the-great-federer-vs-nadal-debate-asterisk-averse/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2010/02/12/the-great-federer-vs-nadal-debate-asterisk-averse/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:41:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ATP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nadal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Australian Open]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=16377</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tennis.com&#8217;s Peter Bodo wrote a piece this week about the Federer vs. Nadal rivalry called &#8220;Homeless Rafa.&#8221; To summarize, Bodo thinks that Rafael Nadal&#8217;s ongoing injury issues have allowed Roger Federer to loosen up to his current dominating form, proving just how much the Spaniard was in Fed&#8217;s head before his knees gave out last [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2010/02/12/the-great-federer-vs-nadal-debate-asterisk-averse/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>39</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>REQUIRED READING: THE MARTINA HINGIS DEFENSE</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/09/30/required-reading-the-martina-hingis-defense/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2009/09/30/required-reading-the-martina-hingis-defense/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:46:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Gasquet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hingis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WTA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ATP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cocaine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[doping]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gasquet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ITF]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=12899</guid> <description><![CDATA[Today is Martina Hingis&#8217;s 29th birthday and the last day of her two-year drug suspension. Jon Wertheim has an interesting interview with her posted on the Sports Illustrated website. Click here to read it if you haven&#8217;t already (yes, she answers the comeback question.) Here&#8217;s what really got to me: The amount (of cocaine metabolite [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2009/09/30/required-reading-the-martina-hingis-defense/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>8</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>REQUIRED READING: HAS ROGER FEDERER BRAINWASHED THE ATP TOUR?</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/09/29/required-reading-has-roger-federer-brainwashed-the-atp-tour/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2009/09/29/required-reading-has-roger-federer-brainwashed-the-atp-tour/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:45:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[del Potro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Djokovic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[McEnroe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nadal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Connors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DelPotro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Open]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=12834</guid> <description><![CDATA[Steve Tignor wrote an interesting viewpoint piece at tennis.com with the title &#8220;Excessive civility muting the men&#8217;s game?&#8221; Have you read it already? If not, click here. If you have, can you please explain it to me? Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve figured so far. . . Tignor begins by comparing two US Open semifinal handshakes &#8211; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2009/09/29/required-reading-has-roger-federer-brainwashed-the-atp-tour/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>37</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>TWIN TALES: THE BRYAN BROTHERS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/08/24/twin-tales-the-bryan-brothers-in-the-new-york-times-magazine/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2009/08/24/twin-tales-the-bryan-brothers-in-the-new-york-times-magazine/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:42:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ATP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bryan Brothers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer babies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mirka]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Open]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=11709</guid> <description><![CDATA[Photo by Dewey Nicks for The New York Times The Bryan Brothers got the Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer treatment in the latest New York Times Magazine. The lengthy article by Eric Konigsberg is called Unseparated Since Birth and is filled with the kind of freaky/sweet identical twin anecdotes that will make this required reading [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2009/08/24/twin-tales-the-bryan-brothers-in-the-new-york-times-magazine/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ROGER FEDERER BABY NEWS: IDENTICAL TWINS, PRIVATE JETS AND EATING FOR TWO</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/08/07/roger-federer-baby-news-identical-twins-private-jets-and-eating-for-two/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2009/08/07/roger-federer-baby-news-identical-twins-private-jets-and-eating-for-two/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:05:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ATP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Roger That!]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rogers Cup]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer baby]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer twins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mirka Vavrinec]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rogers cup]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Open Series]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=11141</guid> <description><![CDATA[An amazing article in the New York Times reveals a number of intimate details about the newly formed Federer family. Obviously, click here and read the whole thing. This post is just an excuse to marvel, gush and worry (just a little bit.) Factoid #1: Myla and Charlene are identical. Random thought #1: Here&#8217;s hoping [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2009/08/07/roger-federer-baby-news-identical-twins-private-jets-and-eating-for-two/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>13</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>LOVE MATCHES: TENNIS PLAYER COUPLES HEATING UP OFF COURT</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/06/26/love-matches-tennis-player-couples-heating-up-off-court/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2009/06/26/love-matches-tennis-player-couples-heating-up-off-court/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:11:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Agassi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cibulkova]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graf]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hingis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stepanek]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andre Agassi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clijsters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hewitt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ivanovic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mirka Vavrinec]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Monfils]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Roddick]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Safin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steffi Graf]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis couples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis dating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis romance]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=9803</guid> <description><![CDATA[Roger &#38; Mirka and Steffi &#38; Andre may have formed the ultimate tennis love-matches, but there are many more tumultuous examples: Kim Clijsters &#38; Lleyton Hewitt, Jimmy Connors &#38; Chris Evert and Radek Stepanek &#38; Martina Hingis broke off their engagements, for example, while Verdasco &#38; Ivanovic, Pennetta &#38; Moya and Stepanek &#38; Vaidisova experienced [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2009/06/26/love-matches-tennis-player-couples-heating-up-off-court/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>22</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AMERICAN TWIST: THE AMAZING LIFE OF WIMBLEDON’S TRIPLE CROWN QUEEN</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/06/21/american-twist-the-amazing-life-of-wimbledon%e2%80%99s-triple-crown-queen/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2009/06/21/american-twist-the-amazing-life-of-wimbledon%e2%80%99s-triple-crown-queen/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:56:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alice Marble</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wimbledon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alice Marble]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Althea Gibson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis history]]></category> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=9292</guid> <description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t duck! Don&#8217;t take cover! A MAJOR Roger Bomb is about to explode!!! Winning his 14th Major has evidently put Roger Federer in a gregarious mood, judging from the extensive Q&#38;A he did for the Basel-based newspaper, Basler Zeitung. The 55 question interview was given at his parents&#8217; house in Switzerland, five days after V-day [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2009/06/15/roger-federer-tells-us-almost-everything/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>25</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE TIMES: ANDY RODDICK ISN&#8217;T ALL BAD</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/06/13/the-times-andy-roddick-isnt-all-bad/</link> <comments>http://gototennis.com/2009/06/13/the-times-andy-roddick-isnt-all-bad/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:16:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Queen's Club]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Required Reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Roddick]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AEGON Championships]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ATP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[James Blake]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Murray]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=9247</guid> <description><![CDATA[Andy Roddick retired from his semifinal match against James Blake at the Queen&#8217;s Club tournament on Saturday, after he rolled his ankle on court. It was bad news for tennis fans looking for an Andy vs. Andy final (and Roddick fans hoping he&#8217;d win his 5th title at Queen&#8217;s) but the good news is he [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://gototennis.com/2009/06/13/the-times-andy-roddick-isnt-all-bad/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
