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This is a week old. But blog totally worthy! The NY Times and Andy Samberg shoot an homage to the great legends of tennis. And he doesn’t dissapoint! Photographer Walter Iooss and Picturehouse did a phenomenal job! The McEnroe is genious. Click here for the rest of the pics. The full article with video as [...]
Continue Reading →“This rivalry is intense!” Roger Federer joked at Indian Wells on Friday night, after Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi engaged in some verbal (and in Pete’s case, non-verbal) crossfire during their Hit for Haiti charity doubles match. It was a valiant attempt to break the tension and a subtle reference to the more mellow relationship [...]
Continue Reading →Some nice behind the scenes photos from Hit for Haiti. I’m guessing that these were all taken before the guys played their match on Friday. I’m basing this on Rafa’s t-shirt, which he changed once he was on court. Also, everyone seems to be getting along! “I know my fabrics, Rafa, and this is not [...]
Continue Reading →I thought I was witnessing the most awkward part of Day Three at Indian Wells when Maria Sharapova went down 1-5 in the first set to Vera Dushevina on Stadium 2. The crowd was groaning and wincing as she hit serve after serve into the bottom of the net. But then I heard a collective [...]
Continue Reading →It’s great to see this exciting Hit for Haiti exhibition come together for the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Pete Sampras and Roger Federer will play doubles against Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal, all former champions in the desert. That’s a whopping 44 Major titles on the court at one time. They also added [...]
Continue Reading →Pete Sampras took to the court at the SAP Open in San Jose last night to play an exhibition match vs. Fernando Verdasco. Verdasco beat Pete 6-3, 7-6 (2), and the 38-year-old admitted afterwards that he felt “a little old” compared to the strapping 26-year-old Spaniard. (Via Guardian) Perhaps next time Nando should play in [...]
Continue Reading →Thanks to Judy for passing this story along to me! Sports Illustrated reports that Pete Sampras is not happy with the “shots” that Andre Agassi took at him in his newish autobiography, Open. Sampras told reporters via a recent conference call that he’d like to meet “man to man” with his rival and hash things [...]
Continue Reading →Some of the most entertaining passages in Andre Agassi’s new autobiography describe his intense dislike for Boris Becker. Andre calls his loss to Becker in the 1995 Wimbledon semifinals “the most devastating of my life” and is further enraged by the snarky comments Boris made to the press after the match (Becker described Agassi as [...]
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 →A lot of interesting stories continue to develop in Tennis Land, so I thought I’d put them all down in one place: Let’s start with some fun stuff. Reporter Matt Cronin via Twitter: “Sharapova recently began dating the Lakers’ Sasha Vujacic. Now if she can only help “The Machine” get his deadly jump shot back.” [...]
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