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GettyImages via Daylife Yay! Though the Bryan Brothers suffered a historic loss today in Austin – losing a first set in DC competition for the first time ever - they still managed to pull out the must-win victory against the very game pairing of Verdasco/Granollers: 6-7(3), 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. I got a lump in my [...]
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Richard Gasquet of France reacts after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland during their match at the Rome Masters tennis tournament May 12, 2011. REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY – Tags: SPORT TENNIS) Richard Gasquet of France reacts after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in their match at the Rome Masters tennis tournament May 12, 2011. REUTERS/Max Rossi [...]
Continue Reading →Behold, this weekend’s champions. For the first time in the 84-year history of what is now known as the Farmers Classic in Los Angeles, both the singles (Querrey) and doubles (Bryan Bros) champions were successful in defending their titles. Sam Querrey beat Andy Murray 5-7, 7-6, 6-3 in Sunday’s final. He saved a match point [...]
Continue Reading →Roger Federer was happy with his 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Peter Luczak on Monday: “It was like a perfect match to get off the French Open campaign, really.” he said after the match. Great! Richard Gasquet played a perfect two sets against Andy Murray later in the day, but – with painful predictability – [...]
Continue Reading →Five time Monte-Carlo titlist and defending champ Rafael Nadal was asked on Monday if he’s losing his aura of “invincibility” on clay. Q. Do you think psychologically it’s different now because the players, the other players, think maybe you are beatable on clay, when before they thought you were unbeatable? RAFAEL NADAL: You can ask [...]
Continue Reading →Sergio Tacchini confirms what many of us already suspected: Novak Djokovic is H-O-T. Why yes, Robin Soderling qualifies as a Tennis Hunk, in that pasty-faced Northern European kind of way. Speaking of. . .here’s Andy Murray! And bona fide Hunk Feliciano Lopez, looking more funky than hunky. (He was practicing with Murray today.)
Continue Reading →Yes, you are too sexy for that shirt. . .photo by REUTERS/Mick Tsikas via Daylife Well, we have the latest crop of weekend winners, (almost) the last before the Australian Open starts on Monday. Winning a warm up the weekend before a major is tricky – it gives a player loads of confidence but can [...]
Continue Reading →Yay! My first player party video post of 2010! I won’t say much about the Sydney soiree for the Medibank International, except that there are a few too many pervy camera pans and Tomas Berdych has good hair. Oh, and Sabine Lisicki radiates loveliness! And where’s Dinara? The song’s lyrics are weird in the context [...]
Continue Reading →It’s the most wonderful time of the year. . .if you’re a tennis player fighting a doping charge. Richard Gasquet was vindicated today by the Court of Arbitration of Sport, the tribunal throwing out a joint ITF/WADA appeal of the original tribunal’s decision to accept Gasquet’s “I kissed a girl” excuse. Some excerpts from the [...]
Continue Reading →Richard Gasquet appeared before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland on Tuesday to defend his contaminated-by-a-cocaine-kiss excuse before a panel of lawyers. The World Anti Doping Agency and the International Tennis Federation are appealing an independent tribunal’s decision that allowed Gasquet to return to tennis after being side-lined for just 2 1/2 months [...]
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