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Photo REUTERS/Luke MacGregor via Daylife Nole’s red carpet game is on this week in London (check him and Jelena out at Thursday night’s Barclays ATP World Tour Finals Gala, an event that raised over £400,000 for a children’s charity), but his shoulder problems are shedding doubt on his upcoming on-court performance. The standard line seems [...]
Continue Reading →Photo DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images via Daylife Per the NYTimes, the US Open issued a rare, NFL-style injury report on Saturday due to the record number of retirements at this year’s tournament. As of today, there have been 14 player tap outs during matches – including Tomas Berdych (shoulder) and Marcel Granollers (abdominal) in Saturday’s third [...]
Continue Reading →Shirtless Tommy Robredo, cranky Dinara Safina, Coach Peter Lundgren nursing a (possible) frisbee injury – you just never know who or what you’ll run into at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Here are some random scenes from Sunday. Safina seemed to be working on an abbreviated service motion with her coach. He’d put a couple [...]
Continue Reading →For the first half of the first set, Novak Djokovic was holding up his side of the bargain in what was supposed to be a fantastic match vs. Rafael Nadal on Wednesday night in London. He was playing Rafa tough, hitting his spots on serve and down the line with power and confidence. Then Nole [...]
Continue Reading →And that was. . .relatively painless. Heck, it was a weekend at Canyon Ranch. At least for the grizzled Fed Fans amongst us, who have developed elephantine thick skin when it comes to Roger’s match-up vs. Andy Murray at a non-Major event. So it was with great surprise that I woke up Tuesday morning to [...]
Continue Reading →Nadal won his first-ever match in the O2 arena, cheered on by a bevy of celebrity beauties, including Kylie Minogue, January Jones and Rose Byrne. Oh, and Carlos Moya, of course. Swimsuit Model Brooklyn Decker did her best to compete: Otherwise, it was a fugly day two at the World Tour Finals, best summarized by [...]
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 →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 →I thought it was fitting that Rafael Nadal picked up some dirt stains as he somersaulted on the Centre Court lawn today. The best dirt baller in history had just beaten Tomas Berdych 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 for his second career Wimbledon title, his second Roland Garros-Wimby double, and his eighth Major title. Three of those [...]
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