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Tennis Channel founder, Steve Bellamy, is busy promoting his latest venture – a mixed gender tournament where everyone serves underhand. Here’s the scoop: Imagine Roger Federer playing one of the Williams sisters. Or Rafael Nadal facing Maria Sharapova. Tennis promoter Steve Bellamy envisions such matchups one day, although he’ll go with less dynamic pairings for [...]
Continue Reading →I learned from today’s Tennis Mailbag that Roger has entered the Stockholm Open. The last time he played this tournament was in 2000, when he was ranked 29th in the world and lost to Andreas Vinciguerra (!?) in the Round of 16. The Stockholm Open starts on October 6 and will be Roger’s first tournament [...]
Continue Reading →So Spain just won the UEFA European Championship for the first time in 44 years (with a one-nil victory over Germany in Vienna). We all know Rafa’s football obsession rivals our’s with tennis (click here), so will this big win inspire the raging Mallorcan to end Spain’s other title drought on grass? It’s been almost [...]
Continue Reading →Please, someone, explain! This shocking report from the Sun-Sentinel (click here) is from a week ago, yet I just discovered it today: Jose Higueras, who squired Roger Federer through the clay court season, will not be coaching the world No. 1 at Wimbledon. Federer is back into no-coach mode and Higueras is back coaching Robby [...]
Continue Reading →What’s Wimby without plenty of fashion talk? Maria Sharapova: I’m just not feeling her self-described menswear look. First of all, Roger did the warm up blazer better for the past two years. Second, while Maria can pull off the Land’s End mommy shorts better than most (Venus could work them, too, I bet) they really [...]
Continue Reading →Am I the only one who is annoyed at Greg Rusedski and the rest of the Artois commentators for already proclaiming Nadal to be the presumed Wimbledon Champion? They have the right to their own opinions, of course, but here’s mine: give Roger his respect.
Continue Reading →Ana Ivanovic is no doubt a lovely person and she’s a great tennis player. But she has a very annoying habit of fist pumping whenever her opponent hits an error. Now if it’s a major point or it’s a forced error, a big “COME ON!” is totally understandable. A Maria-style “Kick her f#*king ASS!” is [...]
Continue Reading →So it was a tight straight set match for Federer today against Julien Benneteau, the most ho hum of French players. Roger could have made it easier on himself if he’d consolidated some of his breaks. This is becoming a terminal illness for him – I call it break back disorder. Commentators Cliff Drysdale and [...]
Continue Reading →Thank you, thank you Tennis Channel for showing some doubles (the all-American quartet of the Bryan bros., Sam Querrey and John Isner) instead of that boring Ivanovic v. Cetkovska match. And thank you Martina N. for providing thoughtful commentary and keeping your own reminiscences to a minimum and on-topic (take notes, John McEnroe!!!) Keep up [...]
Continue Reading →Hey, if you still have it on your DVR, check out some of the Radwanska/Cornet match. From the glimpses I got on Tennis Channel, there were some great rallys and thoughtful strategy on display. If this is the future of women’s tennis, I’m happy.
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